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Reading Discussion on Monday Jan 30
by Sijia Wang 26 Jan '23

26 Jan '23

Hi guys, Welcome back! I hope you all enjoyed the first two weeks in the new semester. So, next week’s reading discussion will be on the paper DiffusionBERT: Improving Generative Masked Language Models with Diffusion Models <https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.15029>. The plan is to first revisit the basics in diffusion models and then dive into the designs of this work that makes it different from previous approaches. Here are some questions that might be helpful for reading this paper: - Is discrete diffusion possible? If so, what might be the challenges in doing so? - What are the major differences between image diffusion and text diffusion? - What are the key designs that addressed the discrete diffusion challenges for text generation? We will hold the discussion meeting in Torgersen 3160A, 4-5 pm on Jan 30. Zoom discussion is also accessible through the link https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/5961845863. Enjoy reading! -- Sijia Wang Graduate Student, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 Phone: +1 (314) 665 8146

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Reading Discussion at 4-5pm every Monday
by Lifu Huang 26 Jan '23

26 Jan '23

Hello everyone, We will resume our weekly reading discussion meeting from next week. It’s scheduled at 4-5pm every Monday. Everyone is more than welcome to join, either on Zoom (https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/5961845863) or in person (Torg 3160A). If you are interested in discussing any papers, please feel free to sign up for a time slot here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LSaUY8hHcK3QzUf0iWjQT1KHk-r4SXh8av8…. You can also check the papers that we will discuss in the spreadsheet. Each presenter will also announce the papers by the last Friday before each meeting. Look forward to seeing everyone next Monday! Best wishes, --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 22 Jan '23

22 Jan '23

I wish everyone a happy Lunar New Year, and congrats to the students who successfully submitted their ACL submissions. In this Spring, we have a new visit undergrad student - Pritika Ramu, who will be working with Sijia on the form-document information extraction. Below is the tentative meeting schedule for this Spring. Let me know if any time does not work. (Sijia and Jeet, I will schedule a meeting with you after you send me your availability). Xiaochu, I won’t schedule a meeting with you considering your situation, but we need to communicate on Zoom and try to complete the draft ASAP. Mingchen, I will also work on your papers draft in the following week so hopefully we can submit it to SIGIR or post it to arXiv. I’m also hoping we can submit Jingyuan’s paper to SIGIR, but you need to spend more time on improving your current draft. Monday: 4-5pm: SimBot/SocialBot (I will join on Zoom but the meeting room 3160A has been reserved for this meeting) Tuesday: 2-2:45pm: Pritika, Sijia Wednesday (on Zoom): 11-12pm: Ying 1:30-2:30pm: Barry with Meta 2:30-3:15pm: Zhiyang 3:15-4pm: Minqian 4-4:45pm: Jingyuan, Ying, Minqian, Zhiyang Thursday: 10:30-11:30am: Group meeting, Barry pls talk about your progress on multimodal entity linking (3160A has been reserved for this meeting) --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 15 Jan '23

15 Jan '23

We will mainly focus on ACL submissions next week. I will meet all ACL authors next Monday and have another peer review meeting next Wednesday. Monday: 2-2:30pm: Zhiyang, Ying 2:30-3pm: Minqian 3-3:30pm: Barry 3:30-4pm: Jingyuan, Minqian, Ying, Zhiyang 4-4:30pm: Sijia Wednesday: 4-6pm: ACL peer review For others who target on later conferences, pls try to update/Improve the draft. I will work on them after ACL. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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Re: [nlplab] Reminder: ARC maintenance next week, Cascades+Dragonstooth Decommission
by Lifu Huang 13 Jan '23

13 Jan '23

If you are using ARC, please make sure the maintenance period, and if you are running any experiments or have any data/results needed for ACL draft, pls move them to our own servers or AWS and backup all the data and experimental results. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech On Jan 13, 2023, 10:21 AM -0500, Advanced Research Computing <arc(a)vt.edu>, wrote: > Hello All, > > This is a quick reminder of next week's maintenance outage and the decommissioning of the Cascades and Dragonstooth clusters. > > Maintenance Outage: > All ARC systems will be offline and inaccessible January 17-19th, 2023 (first week of classes in Spring 2023 semester) for regular maintenance. Jobs which cannot complete before the start of the maintenance period will be held in queue during the maintenance and scheduling will resume immediate after the outage is completed. > > Cascades and Dragonstooth Decommission: > The Cascades and Dragonstooth clusters have now run beyond their intended lifecycle and will be removed from service during the January maintenance. The login nodes will remain accessible for a short period of time after the maintenance to coordinate any final data transfers needed from the attached storage targets. See the link above for more details and some instructions. > > Getting help with ARC: > - Documentation site: https://docs.arc.vt.edu > - Office Hours: https://arc.vt.edu/office-hours > - Submit a help request via 4HELP (mention ARC for fastest routing) > > Best regards, > > Advanced Research Computing > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ARC Huckleberry Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to arc_huckleberry_users-g+unsubscribe(a)vt.edu. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/vt.edu/d/msgid/arc_huckleberry_users-g/CAOOMDPU….

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meeting next Monday
by Lifu Huang 08 Jan '23

08 Jan '23

I will only meet with authors or ACL/IJCAI submissions. Please put all the updates into your overleaf draft and fix my comments before the meeting. Monday: 2-2:30pm: Zhiyang, Ying 2:30-3pm: Minqian 3-3:30pm: Barry 3:30-4pm: Mingchen 4-4:30pm: Sijia 4:30-5pm: Jingyuan, Minqian, Ying, Zhiyang --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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Fwd: GPU node needs a reboot
by Lifu Huang 03 Jan '23

03 Jan '23

Is anyone using the nlpgpu1 server? Let me know when we can reboot. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rob Hunter <rhunter(a)vt.edu> Date: Jan 3, 2023 at 4:17 PM -0500 To: Chandan Reddy <reddy(a)cs.vt.edu>, Lifu Huang <lifuh(a)vt.edu> Subject: GPU node needs a reboot > Hello, > > The host machine GPU-09 needs a storage upgrade and a reboot. I need to > shutdown the following GPU VMs: > > - code > - dhruv > - topic > - nlpgpu1 > > I hope the shutdown will not take too long (Less than an hour once > everything is prepped). I show almost no load on these VMs and no GPU > usage currently. Please let me know when I can proceed with the > shutdown. I will try to coordinate a time to make everything go smooth. > > -- > Thanks, > Rob > > Rob Hunter > Computer Science Department > Virginia Tech > Room 2233 KW II > 2202 Kraft Drive > Phone: 540-231-6470 > Email: rhunter(a)vt.edu

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ACL/IJCAI submissions
by Lifu Huang 31 Dec '22

31 Dec '22

Wish everyone a happy and productive new year! I will be traveling from Jan. 1 - Jan. 6. Everyone please try your best to make progress on the paper submissions and get a complete draft as early as possible. We will have a peer review meeting for all the following ACL/IJCAI submissions on Jan. 9: 1. Self-training event extraction - Zhiyang 2. Multimodal instruction tuning - Zhiyang/Ying 3. Continual learning - Minqian 4. Event extraction with prompt - Sijia 5. Multimodal entity linking - Barry 6. Multimodal fact checking - Barry 7. Multimodal task planning - Jingyuan 8. Entity state tracking - Mingchen Please send me any questions on Slack. I will check the status and work on the overleaf draft everyday. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 25 Dec '22

25 Dec '22

I hope everyone have a happy Christmas. I will mainly meet with the authors of ACL/IJCAI submissions. Jeet, please keep pushing the performance of TTBERT on the three tasks and let me know if there are any updates. Tuesday: 9:30-10:30am: Zhiyang, Ying 10:30-11am: Minqian 11-11:30am: Sijia 11:30-12am: Jingyuan, Minqian, Ying, Zhiyang 1:30-2:30pm: Barry 2:30-3pm: Mingchen 3-3:30pm: Zoe 3:30-4:30pm: SimBot/SocialBot meeting I will work on Zhiyang’s event extraction and Mingchen’s drafts from today-Tuesday, and have one pass of the drafts from Minqian, Barry, and Zoe from Wed.-Fri.. Xiaochu, I won’t schedule a meeting with you given your busy schedule, but I will try to work on your draft next Friday and Saturday. Thanks everyone’s hardwork. Let’s try our best to get these submitted. --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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next week meeting schedule
by Lifu Huang 18 Dec '22

18 Dec '22

Monday: 2-3pm: Sijia with Intuit, pls prepare several slides to talk about our solution to each doubt. 4-5pm: paper peer review for Zhiyang/Ying and Minqian’s drafts. All PhD pls attend. Authors pls send your drafts to others before the noon of Monday Wednesday: 9:30-10am: Zhiyang, Ying 10-10:30am: Minqian 10:30-11am: Sijia 11-11:30am: Jingyuan, Minqian, Ying, Zhiyang 1:30-2:30pm: Barry 2:30-3pm: Mingchen 3-3:30pm: Zoe 3:30-4pm: Ying 4-4:30pm: Jeet --------------------------------- Lifu Huang Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech

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