📢 On Nov 16, Thursday, we have Michael Saxon from UCSB giving us a talk USC ISI USC NLP on 'Cultural Knowledge and Cultural Biases: Analyzing the Multilingual Performance of Text-to-Image Models' from 11AM to 12PM PST!

The talk is open to the public and will be recorded.

Thrilled to announce that I'm joining USC NLP as a Ph.D. student! Huge thanks to my mentors and support network for helping me reach this milestone. Excited to start this new chapter and give back to the research community.

So fun to have Mohit Bansal over at USC NLP!, for his amazing talk on modelling, interpreting and planning in multimodal LMs. Loved chatting over a range of topics — reasoning, VLMs, academia and my favourite, GPU-rich vs. poor 😂

📢 This Thursday, we have Wenting Zhao from Cornell giving us a talk USC ISI USC NLP on 'What We Learned from 570K ChatGPT Interaction Logs in the Wild' from 11AM to 12PM PST!

The talk is open to the public. Join us in-person at ISI or via Zoom:
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📢ISI NL Seminar series announcement!📢
This Thursday, November 9th, we have Alexander Wan from UC Berkeley giving us a talk USC ISI USC NLP CUTELABNAME (NLP @ ISI) on 'Manipulating Large Language Model Predictions Through Data' from 11AM to 12PM PST!

Feeling hard generating challenging evaluation data for LLMs? Check our work👇!

Introducing LINK🔗, the first framework for systematically generating data in the long-tail distribution, guided by symbolic rules

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We're still inviting speakers! This is a great opportunity to publicize your work and to meet the rapidly growing presence of NLP research at USC NLP! Email us at [email protected].

Thrilled to announce that I will stay in USC NLP for my PhD program! Have been here for two years and USC becomes my fav place! Thanks for the help from my friends! And a huge thanks to Sean (Xiang) Ren for his mentoring! Very excited to start a new journey with Jieyu Zhao!

Honoured to be awarded the 2024 Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD Fellowship ✨

All because of my advisors Sean (Xiang) Ren and Swabha Swayamdipta for their encouragement and upliftment throughout, and USC NLP for being such an amazing place to do research and life! 🏝

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Honoured to be named an Amazon ML Fellow for 2023-24! 🥹

I cannot thank Sean (Xiang) Ren and Swabha Swayamdipta enough for their guidance and trust + the entire USC NLP group for providing an environment created for healthy and exciting discussions throughout! 🙌🏼

Our Mega paper has been accepted by ICLR 2024 2023! Congratulations to all my co-authors! Chunting Zhou Xiang Kong Junxian He Liangke Gui Graham Neubig Jon May Luke Zettlemoyer
USC NLP CUTELABNAME (NLP @ ISI) Language Technologies Institute | @CarnegieMellon @MetaAI

Throwback to when Sean (Xiang) Ren and our lab made our wishlist and dream research directions to discuss in our lab meeting — very helpful in contextualising our work in the age of LLMs!! 🙌🏼

USC NLP is such a great place to do research 🫶

Very excited to give my first invited talk on our ongoing research on multilinguality in text-to-image models!

Thanks for the opportunity Justin Cho 조현동 CUTELABNAME (NLP @ ISI) USC ISI USC NLP!

Also, stay tuned for a some exciting new results & analysis in this space in the coming weeks😉

Excited & honored to give the Distinguished Lecture at USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science today! Looking forward to meeting the awesome USC NLP group 🙂 -- thanks Swabha Swayamdipta + everyone for the kind invitation 🙏

PS. Details in the link below, feel free to stop by!

Looking forward to hosting you at USC NLP !

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Brihi Joshi Sean (Xiang) Ren Swabha Swayamdipta USC NLP Congrats 🥳

Brihi Joshi Sean (Xiang) Ren Swabha Swayamdipta USC NLP Congratulations 🎉

Brihi Joshi 🛫 ICLR’24 Sean (Xiang) Ren Swabha Swayamdipta USC NLP Congratulations 🎉🎉

Brihi Joshi Sean (Xiang) Ren Swabha Swayamdipta USC NLP Wow !! Huge Congratulations 🌻