Introducing SUQL (Structured and Unstructured Query Language), a novel method to power assistants on hybrid data corpus. It combines SQL relational operators with free text primitives based on retrievers and LLMs, complete with key optimizations

Code available on GitHub and PyPI

At @stanfordNLP, my students and I use LLMs to write full-length articles complete with correct references to trusted sources. Check out this post from the lead author, Yijia Shao. Thanks to Verdant Foundation, Microsoft Microsoft Azure, U.S. National Science Foundation, Sloan Foundation , and @stanfordhai.

We're at #acl2022 . Come see our work 'A Few-Shot Semantic Parser for Wizard-of-Oz Dialogues with the Precise ThingTalk Representation' (by Giovanni Campagna Sina Semnani Ryan Kearns, Lucas Sato, Silei Xu and Monica Lam ) - right now in the VPS2!

Two years in a row! The 1992 paper I wrote with Todd Mowry and Anoop Gupta, 'Design and Evaluation of a Compiler Algorithm for Prefetching', received an ACM SiGARCH/SIGPLAN/SIGOPS ASPLOS Influential Paper Award 30 years later, just like last time! asplos-conference.org

Thanks to U.S. National Science Foundation SloanPublic Stanford HAI and Verdant Foundation for supporting this @Stanford research project and making this demo possible. Great job, neil souza Giovanni Campagna.

Dinner following first world wide Voice web live demo of open-source, privacy-preserving virtual assistant by ⁦⁦Stanford OVAL⁩ at ⁦Stanford HAI⁩ w ⁦Monica Lam⁩ ⁦Christopher Manning⁩ Tony Espinoza, Jimmy Garcia-Meza, ⁦Giovanni Campagna⁩ Sloan proud to support!

ICYMI: last month's World-Wide Voice Web workshop, which showcased Monica Lam's Sloan Foundation-supported work to build and pilot the first open-source, privacy preserving virtual assistant, is available to view online!
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. @stanford Genie assistant in action at the Home Assistant State of the Open Home 2021. Retweet to show your support for open voice assistants! And thanks to @nsf SloanPublic @stanfordhai Picovoice.ai Baidu Research youtu.be/6ZMXE5PXPqU?t=… (2:41:33)

Getting ready to present the Genie voice assistant at Home Assistant 's State of the Open Home 2021. Come watch live at 11am PST (7pm UTC) at youtube.com/watch?v=6ZMXE5… #OpenSource #iot #voicefirst

This Wednesday, Stanford OVAL hosts a workshop featuring the first 'browser' to the World Wide Voice Web. Speakers include Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, Microsoft’s Xuedong Huang, and more. Register here: stanford.io/304pXqK

Join us at the First Workshop on the World Wide Voice Web at Stanford University on Nov 10. The research is sponsored by U.S. National Science Foundation, SloanPublic, Verdant Foundation, and Stanford UniversityHAI. #WWvW , #voicefirst

Welcome on board, Tony! What a rare opportunity for Stanford to have a successful entrepreneur help researchers make social impact!

#NAACL2021 paper #4: Grounding Open-Domain Instructions to Automate Web Support Tasks by @cnancyxu—Sam—Michael—Giovanni Campagna—Larry—James Landay—Monica Lam. A domain, dataset & system for being able to use human language to get a bot to perform web actions. #NLProc arxiv.org/abs/2103.16057

Yay! The 1991 ASPLOS paper I wrote with Ed Rothberg and Michael Wolf, 'The Cache Performance and Optimizations of Blocked Algorithms', received an influential paper award today. It sure stood the test of time -- 30 years!

Christmas party time! Happy holidays from the OVAL team, and stay safe everyone!

Move over, Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant — researchers at Stanford's Open Virtual Assistant Lab (OVAL) are hard at work on Almond, an open, privacy-focused virtual assistant.
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We're hiring! We're looking for a talented, self-motivated full-time contractor to join our team and work on our integration with Home Assistant, to build the best in class open-source IoT voice assistant. Learn more at oval.cs.stanford.edu/jobs/iot.html

Whither #Almond , the Stanford University open virtual assistant, will go?

My Interview with Giovanni Campagna, one of the Stanford OVAL principal developers

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#ConversationalAI #getRidOfIntents #OpenVirtualAssistants #PrivacyProtection #DistributedArchitecture

We are seeking corporate and individual collaborators and financial support to a create an open-source and privacy-preserving virtual assistant for consumers, based on our U.S. National Science Foundation/Sloan Foundation-funded research at Stanford University that cuts the cost of development by 100x.

Our second #emnlp2020 paper this year wonders, do we really need humans to build conversational agents? arxiv.org/abs/2010.04806 by Silei Xu (*) Sina Semnani (*) Giovanni Campagna Monica Lam (1/n)