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05-26-2021Tianqi ZhaoLanguage Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learnershttps://d4mucfpksywv.cloudfront.net/better-language-models/language_models_are_unsupervised_multitask_learners.pdf4
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06-02-2021Greg KatsiosProgressive Generation of Long Text with Pretrained Language Modelshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2006.157205slides
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06-09-2021Abraham SandersKnowledge Graph Based Synthetic Corpus Generation for Knowledge-Enhanced Language Model Pre-traininghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2010.126886a
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06-16-2021Abraham SandersKnowledge Graph Based Synthetic Corpus Generation for Knowledge-Enhanced Language Model Pre-training - Part 26b
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06-23-2021no presentation
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06-30-2021Tianqi ZhaoLanguage Models are Few-Shot Learnershttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.141657
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07-07-2021kitStrategies for Structuring Story Generationhttps://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.01109.pdf8slides
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07-14-2021no presentation
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07-21-2021no meeting
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07-28-2021no meeting
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08-04-2021Abraham SandersSentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networkshttps://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.10084.pdf9
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08-11-2021Ning SaBuilding a Conversational Agent Overnight with Dialogue Self-Playhttps://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.04871.pdf 10
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08-18-2021Ning SaIncreasing Faithfulness in Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue with Controllable Featureshttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.06963.pdf11
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08-25-2021no meeting
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09-01-2021no presentation
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09-08-2021Ning SaDiscovering Dialogue Slots with Weak Supervisionhttps://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.189.pdf12
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09-15-2021Greg KatsiosAll That's 'Human' Is Not Gold: Evaluating Human Evaluation of Generated Texthttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.00061.pdf13slides
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09-22-2021no meeting
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09-29-2021no presentation
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10-06-2021Abraham SandersRetrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Taskshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2005.1140114
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10-13-2021Ankita BhaumikDynaSent: A Dynamic Benchmark for Sentiment Analysishttps://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.186.pdf15
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10-20-2021Abraham SandersA Temporal Variational Model for Story Generationhttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.06807v1.pdf16
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10-27-2021Deepanshu DeyBertGCN: Transductive Text Classification by Combining GCN and BERThttps://aclanthology.org/2021.findings-acl.126.pdf17
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11-03-2021no presentation
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11-10-2021Ning SaDelineating the Transnational Network Agenda- Setting Model of Mainstream Newspapers and Twitter: A Machine-Learning Approachhttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yan-Su-21/publication/343948778_Delineating_the_Transnational_Network_Agenda-_Setting_Model_of_Mainstream_Newspapers_and_Twitter_A_Machine-Learning_Approach/links/5f4954ac299bf13c504c0873/Delineating-the-Transnational-Network-Agenda-Setting-Model-of-Mainstream-Newspapers-and-Twitter-A-Machine-Learning-Approach.pdf18
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11-17-2021no meeting
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11-24-2021no meeting
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12-1-2021Ankita BhaumikRefining Word Embeddings for Sentiment Analysishttps://aclanthology.org/D17-1056.pdf19
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12-08-2021Greg KatsiosBARTScore: Evaluating Generated Text as Text Generationhttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.11520.pdf20slides
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12-15-2021Andy BernhardtWhen in Doubt: Improving Classification Performance with Alternating Normalizationhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2109.1344921slides
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01-12-2022no presentation
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01-19-2022no presentation
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01-26-2022Abraham SandersAutomatic Open-Domain Dialogue Response Evaluation - foundational works 2015-2019Multiple (survey presentation)22
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02-02-2022Greg KatsiosReciptor: An Effective Pretrained Model for Recipe Representation Learninghttps://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3394486.3403223?casa_token=Vztqj7bckNQAAAAA:60junSkClJRhS8ZfjixcVYXOX_NzSTb-vEuCooN7lx1kQ0SZ7crGc9GIUWES21VEqr2iU6Ljgn7x23slides
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02-09-2022Ankita BhaumikPowerTransformer: Unsupervised Controllable Revision for Biased Language Correctionhttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.13816.pdf24
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02-23-2022Abraham SandersProactive Human-Machine Conversation with Explicit Conversation Goalshttps://aclanthology.org/P19-1369.pdf25
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03-02-2022Ning SaAutomatic detection of influential actors in disinformation networkshttps://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.201121611826
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03-09-2022no meeting
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03-16-2022Deepanshu DeyeMLM: A New Pre-training Objective for Emotion Related Taskshttps://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-short.38.pdf27
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03-23-2022Mauricio GruppiCommonsenseQA 2.0: Exposing the Limits of AI through Gamificationhttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.05320.pdf28
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03-30-2022Abraham SandersA Neural-Network-Based Approach to Identifying Speakers in Novelshttps://www.isca-speech.org/archive/pdfs/interspeech_2021/chen21s_interspeech.pdf29slides
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04-06-2022no presentation
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04-13-2022Greg KatsiosBenchmarking Zero-shot Text Classification: Datasets, Evaluation and Entailment Approachhttps://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.00161.pdf30slides
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04-20-2022Erfan Al-HossamiCompetition-Level Code Generation with AlphaCodehttps://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/AlphaCode/competition_level_code_generation_with_alphacode.pdf31slides
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04-27-2022Ankita BhaumikCOSMIC: COmmonSense knowledge for eMotion Identification in Conversationshttps://aclanthology.org/2020.findings-emnlp.224.pdf32
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05-04-2022Clare ArringtonWhen Time Makes Sense: A Historically-Aware Approach to Targeted Sense Disambiguationhttps://aclanthology.org/2021.findings-acl.243.pdf33
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05-11-2022Erfan Al-HossamiA Large-scale Analysis of Mixed Initiative in Information-Seeking Dialogues for Conversational Searchhttps://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/346679634slides
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05-25-2022no presentation
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06-08-2022Abraham SandersRecipes for Building an Open-Domain Chatbot (BlenderBot 1.0)
+ BlendedSkillTalk (BST)
+ ACUTE-EVAL: Improved Dialogue Evaluation with Optimized Questions and Multi-turn Comparisons		https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.183.pdf
https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.24.pdf
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.03087		35slides
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06-22-2022Ning SaNeurosymbolic Reinforcement Learning with Formally Verified Explorationhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2009.1261236
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07-06-2022no presentation
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07-20-2022Ankita BhaumikFantastically Ordered Prompts and Where to Find Them: Overcoming Few-Shot Prompt Order Sensitivityhttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.08786.pdf37slides
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08-03-2022Greg KatsiosRepresentation learning of writing stylehttps://aclanthology.org/2020.wnut-1.30.pdf38slides
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08-17-2022Andy BernhardtFairness-aware Class Imbalanced Learninghttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.10444.pdf39slides
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08-31-2022no meeting
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09-07-2022Ning SaComprehensive Viewpoint Representations for a Deeper Understanding of User Interactions With Debated Topicshttps://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3498366.350581240slides
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09-14-2022Ankita BhaumikSenticNet 7: A Commonsense-based Neurosymbolic AI Framework for Explainable Sentiment Analysishttps://sentic.net/senticnet-7.pdf41slides
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09-21-2022Abraham SandersMemorizing Transformershttps://arxiv.org/abs/2203.0891342slides (download pptx to see animations properly)
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09-28-2022no presentation
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10-05-2022Greg KatsiosTransformer-based Conditional Variational Autoencoder for Controllable Story Generationhttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.00828.pdf43slides
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10-12-2022Ning SaMoral Foundations Twitter Corpus: A Collection of 35k Tweets Annotated for Moral Sentimenthttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/194855061987662944slides
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10-19-2022Abraham SandersAudioLM: a Language Modeling Approach to Audio Generationhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2209.0314345slidesrecording
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10-26-2022Erfan Al-HossamiFusing task-oriented and open-domain dialogues in conversational agentshttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.04137.pdf46slidesrecording
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11-02-2022Ankita BhaumikEmotion Detection in Conversations: A Reviewmultiple papers47
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11-09-2022Jeremy MacksFeature-based detection of automated language models: tackling GPT-2, GPT-3 and Groverhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8049133/48
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11-16-2022no meeting
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11-23-2022no meeting
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11-30-2022no meeting
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12-07-2022Greg KatsiosThe GEM Benchmark: Natural Language Generation, its Evaluation and Metricshttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.01672.pdf49slides
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12-14-2022Peter LyZero-Shot Text-to-Image Generationhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2102.1209250
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winter breakno meeting
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1-11-2023no presentation
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1-18-2023Greg KatsiosGEDI: GENERATIVE DISCRIMINATOR GUIDED SEQUENCE GENERATIONhttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.06367.pdf51slides
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1-25-2023Ning SaWhat makes a metaphor literary? Answers from two computational studieshttps://doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2018.143494352
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2-1-2023Presentation Cancelled - will rescheduleSelf-play for Dialogue Evaluation (overview of recent work)https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2019/file/fc9812127bf09c7bd29ad6723c683fb5-Paper.pdf
https://aclanthology.org/W19-8654.pdf
https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.522.pdf
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2-8-2023Ankita BhaumikGenerated Knowledge Prompting for Commonsense Reasoninghttps://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.225.pdf53slides
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2-15-2023Abraham SandersA Contrastive Framework for Neural Text Generationhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2202.0641754Original NeurIPS author slides: https://neurips.cc/media/neurips-2022/Slides/64801.pdf
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2-22-2023 - 12pmAbraham SandersChallenges in Building a Human-like Dialogue AgentAbraham's RQE material - multiple papers55slidesrecording (part 1)
recording (part 2)
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3-1-2023Greg KatsiosLearning Folktale Plot RepresentationsSubmitted paper56
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spring breakno meeting
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3-15-2023Peter LyAnalyzing the Stance of Neural Dialogue Generation in Offensive Contextshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2108.1183057recording
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3-22-2023Abraham Sanders + Erfan Al-HossamiFinetuned Language Models Are Zero-Shot Learners (Flan) + FlanT5 paperhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2109.01652
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.11416.pdf		58slides
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3-29-2023no meeting
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4-5-2023Mauricio GruppiThe Authors Matter: Understanding and Mitigating Implicit Bias in Deep Text Classificationhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2105.0277859
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4-12-2023Abraham SandersNeural Codec Language Models are Zero-Shot Text to Speech Synthesizers (VALL-E)https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.0211160slides (contains animations - download pptx)recording
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4-19-2023Ankita BhaumikTowards Teachable Reasoning Systems: Using a Dynamic Memory of
User Feedback for Continual System Improvement		https://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.13074.pdf61recording
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4-26-2023Jeremy MacksTextAttack: A Framework for Adversarial Attacks, Data
Augmentation, and Adversarial Training in NLP		https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.05909.pdf62
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5-3-2023no meeting
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5-10-2023no presentation
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5-17-2023Greg KatsiosProposal Presentation Dry Run63
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5-24-2023Erfan Al HossamiInstructGPT Part 1https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.02155.pdf64slides
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6-7-2023Erfan Al Hossami + Abraham SandersRLHF / ChatGPThttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.02155.pdf65slides
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6-21-2023Ankita BhaumikEmpathetic Persuasion: Reinforcing Empathy and Persuasiveness in Dialogue Systemshttps://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-naacl.63.pdf66
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7-5-2023Abraham SandersLoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models (Part 1)https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.0968567slides
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7-19-2023HIATUS teamHIATUS project
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8-2-2023Abraham SandersLoRA (Part 2) + QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMshttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.14314.pdf68slides
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8-16-2023Prof. Tomek
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9-6-2023Prof. Tomekquantum computing69
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9-13-2023no reading group