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  • Feb
    8

    CS Seminar: Controlling Large Language Models: Generating (Useful) Text from Models We Don't Fully Understand (Ari Holtzman)

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    10:00 AM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    Wednesday / CS Seminar
    February 8th / 10:00 AM
    Hybrid / Mudd 3514

    Title: Controlling Large Language Models: Generating (Useful) Text from Models We Don’t Fully Understand
    Speaker: Ari Holtzman

    Abstract:
    Generative language models have recently exploded in popularity, with services such as ChatGPT deployed to millions of users. These neural models are fascinating, useful, and incredibly mysterious: rather than designing what we want them to do, we nudge them in the right direction and must discover what they are capable of. But how can we rely on such inscrutable systems?

    This talk will describe a number of key characteristics we want from generative models of text, such as coherence and correctness, and show how we can design algorithms to more reliably generate text with these properties. We will also highlight some of the challenges of using such models, including the need to discover and name new and often unexpected emergent behavior. Finally, we will discuss the implications this has for the grand challenge of understanding models at a level where we can safely control their behavior.

    Biography:
    Ari Holtzman is a PhD student at the University of Washington. His research has focused broadly on generative models of text: how we can use them and how can we understand them better. His research interests have spanned everything from dialogue, including winning the first Amazon Alexa Prize in 2017, to fundamental research on text generation, such as proposing Nucleus Sampling, a decoding algorithm used broadly in deployed systems such as the GPT-3 API and academic research. Ari completed an interdisciplinary degree at NYU combining Computer Science and the Philosophy of Language.

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    TIME Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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  • Mar
    27

    Spring Break Ends

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    TIME Monday, March 27, 2023

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  • Mar
    27

    CS Seminar: Designing Formally Correct Intermittent Systems (Milijana Surbatovich)

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Monday, March 27, 2023 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Mar
    28

    Spring Classes begin 8 a.m. (Northwestern Monday: Classes scheduled to meet on Mondays meet on this day)

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    TIME Tuesday, March 28, 2023

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  • Apr
    3

    CS Seminar: AI for Scientists: Accelerating Discovery through Knowledge, Data & Learning (Jennifer J. Sun)

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    10:00 AM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Monday, April 3, 2023 at 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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  • Apr
    21

    How ChatGPT and Generative AI Will Change Legal Services

    McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

    9:00 AM Levy Mayer Hall

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    TIME Friday, April 21, 2023 at 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

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    CONTACT Daniel W. Linna Jr.    daniel.linna@law.northwestern.edu EMAIL

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  • Apr
    28

    Bagel Friday

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    9:30 AM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    TIME Friday, April 28, 2023 at 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

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  • May
    29

    No classes - Memorial Day

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    TIME Monday, May 29, 2023

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  • Jun
    1

    CS End of Year Ice Cream Social

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    1:00 PM

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    TIME Thursday, June 1, 2023 at 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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  • Jun
    3

    Spring classes end

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    TIME Saturday, June 3, 2023

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  • Jun
    11

    Northwestern Engineering PhD Hooding and Master's Degree Recognition Ceremony

    McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

    1:30 PM Welsh-Ryan Arena/McGaw Memorial Hall

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    TIME Sunday, June 11, 2023 at 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

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