Towards Open World Event Knowledge Extraction with Weak Supervision

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Lifu Huang, Virginia Tech

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Data-driven SARS-CoV-2 understanding and hunting

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Anna Bernasconi, Politecnico di Milano

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Keeping Research Organized with Tango

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Dirk Groeneveld, AI2

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How We Achieved Human Parity in CommonsenseQA — Fusing Knowledge into Language Models

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Chenguang Zhu, Microsoft Cognitive Services Research Group

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Symposium on the Future of Computing Research

9:00am - 5:30pm

ISI in Marina del Rey, CA; ISI in Arlington, VA; MIT in Cambridge, MA and online

The Dark Side of AI: Machine Learning and the Surveillance State

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Jennifer Lynch, Surveillance Litigation Director and a senior lawyer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Data-driven Security using PySpark

10:00am - 11:00am

Presented by Markus De Shon, Databricks

Conference Room 1135 - ISI MDR and online

The State of Space and Opportunities for AI – A First-Hand Perspective

2:30pm - 3:30pm

Presented by Dr. John D. Olivas, NASA Advisory Council

Conference Room 1135 and online

A Theoretical Framework for Deep Learning

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Tomaso Poggio, MIT

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1.) On Exploiting Context Usage in Document-Level Neural Machine Translation 2.) Improving Moderation of Online Discussions via Nonviolent Communication 3.) Heritage-aware language model adaptation for diasporic languages

11:00am - 12:30pm

Presented by 1.)Jacqueline He 2.) Taiwei Shi and 3.) Jonne Saleva, 2022 NLG Interns; USC/ISI

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Graph Learning with Geometric and Topological Structures

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Tengfei Ma, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

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Quantum Natural Language Processing

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Mitch Mithun, USC/ISI

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Building Robust and Explainable AI Agents for the Real World

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Filip Ilievski, USC Information Sciences Institute

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Improving Moderation of Online Discussions via Nonviolent Communication and Linguistic Heritage-Aware Language Model Adaptation for Diasporic Languages

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Taiwei Shi and Jonne Saleva

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Dissecting NLP models and Mending them with Logic

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Vivek Srikumar, University of Utah

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On Exploiting Context Usage in Document-Level Neural Machine Translation

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Jacqueline He (USC/ISI Summer Intern)

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Natural Language Generation with Planning

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Snigdha Chaturvedi, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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Anti-Queer Bias in Large Language Models

3:00pm - 4:00pm

Presented by Katy Felker (USC/ISI)

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Network Systems Research

10:00am - 11:00am

Presented by Dr. Deniz Gurkan, University of Houston

Conference Room 1135 - ISI MDR and online

Data Representation Learning from a Single Pass of the Data

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Alex Cloninger, UCSD

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Weighted Finite-State Transducers: The Later Years

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Kyle Gorman, CUNY

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Implicit Coordination in Multi-Agent-Pathfinding

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Bernhard Nebel, University of Freiburg

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Sources of Variance in Pretraining and Fine Tuning LLMs

2:00pm - 3:00pm

Presented by Naomi Saphra, NYU

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Combining Representation Learning and Logical Rule Reasoning for Knowledge Graph Inference

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Yizhou Sun

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Art at the Age of AI

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Ahmed Elgammal, Rutgers University

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Evolution of Multisite Neuroimaging Analyses: Advancements through the Enhancing Neuroimaging Genetics through Meta Analysis (ENIGMA) Consortium and the Laboratory of Brain eScience (LoBeS)

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Neda Jahanshad, University of Southern California

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Visual Intelligence And Multimedia Analytics Laboratory (VIMAL)

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Wael Abd-Almageed, Lida Dimitropoulou, Mohamed Hussein & Leonidas Spinoulas (USC/ISI)

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Dungeons and Discourse: Using Computational Storytelling to Look at Natural Language Use

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Lara Martin, University of Pennsylvania

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Does the Data Induce Capacity Control in Deep Learning?

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Pratik Chaudhari, University of Pennsylvania

Conference room #1016 in-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, and students only) Open to the public virtually via the zoom registration link and online

Geometric and Spectral Biases in Generative Adversarial Networks

9:00am - 10:00am

Presented by Mahyar Khayatkhoei, Rutgers University

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Understanding psychological traits using social media language

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania

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Structuring Massive Text Corpora via Extremely Weak Supervision

6:00pm - 7:00pm

Presented by Jingbo Shang (UCSD)

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Expanding Federated Learning to Reduce the Communication Cost

7:00am - 8:00am

Presented by Muhammad Asad

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Text Generation with No (Good) Data: Reinforcement Learning, Causal Inference, and Unified Evaluation

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Zhiting Hu, University of California San Diego

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Precision to Predictive Radiation Medicine – Past, Present and Future

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Professor Lijun Ma and Professor Eric Chang

ISI - For USC/ISI folks. Open to the public via zoom only. and online

Fixing the NLP Pipeline with Humans and Data

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Dongyeop Kang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UMN

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Chameleon: An Innovation Platform for Computer Science Research and Education

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Kate Keahey

MDR #1247 and online

Learning from the Data and the Lessons Learned: Towards Individually-Tailored Healthcare

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Alex Bui (UCLA)

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Autonomous Learning Agents and Multiagent Systems for Social Good

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Peter Stone (Univ of Texas)

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Autonomous Learning Through Prototypical Distributions

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Mohammad Rostami, USC Information Sciences Institute

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Negatively-Biased Beliefs and the 21st Century Information Environment: Intersections of Evolved Psychological Mechanisms, Cultural Evolution, & Individual Differences

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Daniel M.T. Fessler, UCLA Department of Anthropology

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Human-centered Explainable AI

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Yongfeng Zhang, Rutgers University

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Advances in Vision-and-Language Research Beyond Performance

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Xin (Eric) Wang, UC Santa Cruz

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How Operationally Impactful Malware Fundamentally Alters the Cyber Risk Paradigm: A Legal View

10:00am - 11:00am

Presented by John Woods, Baker McKenzie

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Fairness in Ranking under Uncertainty

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by David Kempe, USC Department of Computer Science

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Understanding Japanese Humanities through the Lens of Machine Intelligence

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Yingtao Tian, Google Brain Tokyo

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Modeling Key Narrative Elements for Automatic Story Generation

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Faeze Brahman (UCSC)

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Why natural language is the right vehicle for complex reasoning

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Greg Durrett, UT Austin

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Translating faster than a keystroke and dumpster diving for training data

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Kenneth Heafield (University of Edinburgh)

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Spectral Rank Monotonicity

11:00am - 12:00pm

Presented by Sebastiano Vigna, University of Milan

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