Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

AI Control

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Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 17 April 2024, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural likelihood-free inference

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Yanzhi Chen, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 20 March 2024, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Misinformation: Will it get better or worse and what can we do about it?

Mevan Babakar, Google .

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09.

Friday 15 March 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Inverting Language Models

Alexander (Sasha) Rush, Cornell and Hugging Face.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method

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Jihao Andeas Lin, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Understanding Comparative Questions and Retrieving Argumentative Answers

Alexander Bondarenko, University of Leipzig .

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 08 March 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Large Language Models in Medicine: Opportunities and Challenges

Mark Dredze, Johns Hopkins University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

LLMs: Everything’s Different and Nothing Has Changed

Emma Strubell, CMU.

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 01 March 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

What do sentence transformers know, and how can we find out?

Sebastian Pado, Stuttgart University.

GR06/07 | Faculty of English, 9 West Road, CB3 9DP.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Transformer Neural Processes

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Matt Ashman and Cristiana Diaconu.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Consistent Validation for Predictive Methods in Spatial Settings

David Burt, MIT.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Friday 23 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Integrating Combinatorial Solvers and Neural Models

Pasquale Minervi, University of Edinburgh.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09.

Friday 23 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Making Better Use of (Large) Language and Translation Models with Simple Inference Improvements.

Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning Symmetries in Neural Networks

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James Allingham and Bruno Mlodozeniec .

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Scaling Multilingual Generation for Low-Resource Languages

Priyanka Agrawal, Google Deepmind.

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 16 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Prosocial Language Models

Soroush Vosoughi, Dartmouth College.

GR06/07 | Faculty of English, 9 West Road, CB3 9DP.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

GenCast: Diffusion-based ensemble forecasting for medium-range weather (or: How to ruin a numerical weather forecaster’s Christmas)

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Andrew McDonald and Kenza Tazi, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Employing Psycholinguistics to Understand Decoding in Probabilistic Language Generators

Clara Meister, ETH Zurich.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09.

Friday 09 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Understanding LLMs via their Generative Successes and Shortcomings.

Swabha Swayamdipta, University of Southern California.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian coresets

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Tor Fjelde and Will Tebbutt, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

This talk is cancelled - Modeling Cognitive Complexity in NLP

Lisa Beinborn, VU Amsterdam.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09..

Friday 02 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Geographically Grounded Language Models

Speaker to be confirmed.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Revisiting the Optimality of Word Lengths

Tiago Pimentel.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09.

Friday 26 January 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Replicating and auditing black-box Language Models.

Tatsunori Hashimoto.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Faster Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding with Confidence-based Pruning

Julius Cheng (University of Cambridge).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 19 January 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Can Language Models Learn Truthfulness?

He He, New York University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 18 January 2024, 15:00-16:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Can Language Models Learn Truthfulness?

He He, New York University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 18 January 2024, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Fairness Evaluation in Generative NLP

Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant (Cohere).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 01 December 2023, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Assessing the Social Capacity of Large Language Models

David Jurgens, University of Michigan.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 30 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Flow matching, stochastic interpolants and everything in between

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Emile Mathieu, Tor Fjelde and Vincent Dutordoir (Cambridge MLG).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Modern Bayesian Experimental Design

Dr Tom Rainforth, OxCSML Group in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Efficiency by Construction

Fermin Moscoso del Prado Martin (University of Cambridge).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 24 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

A sanity check on emergent properties

Anna Rogers, IT University of Copenhagen.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Challenges of Regulating Increasingly Complicated Human-AI Collaborative Systems

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Dr Miri Zilka and Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Language Understanding for the Political Sciences

Simone Paolo Ponzetto, University of Mannheim.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A Poisson Process Model for Monte Carlo

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Greg Flamich, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Numerical Reasoning in Natural Language Processing

Nafise Moosavi (University of Sheffield).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 10 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

One Size Does Not Fit All: Towards AI For Everyone

Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) With Continuous Optimization

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Dr Pingfan Song, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Avoiding AI's "Moore's Law": Why we are building a ladder to the moon

Sara Hooker (Cohere For AI).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09.

Friday 03 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Unhumanizing Models. Why we Need to Change how We Think about AI

Dirk Hovy (Bocconi University in Milan, Italy).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Learning for Medium-Range Global Weather Prediction

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Prof. Richard Turner and Stratis Markou, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Natural Language Processing for Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Gleb Mazovetskiy (Google).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 27 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

ViLMA: A Zero-Shot Benchmark for Linguistic and Temporal Grounding in Video-Language Models

Speaker to be confirmed.

GR05, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning linear models in-context with transformers

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Spencer Frei, UC Davis.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 25 October 2023, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Collaborative Pretraining on Evolving Pretraining and Small Manageable Tasks

Leshem Choshen (IBM AI research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09#success.

Friday 20 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

pf376's list

Learning disentangled representation for interpretable language model. / Interactive Narrative Understanding.

Lin Gui and Runcong Zhao, King's College London.

GR05, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Quasi-Monte Carlo: structure in the randomness for better sampling

Isaac Reid, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Fighting Bad Information with AI

David Corney (Full Fact).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 13 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Does Syntax Still Matter in the World of LLMs?

Miloš Stanojević (DeepMind).

Computer Laboratory, room SS03.

Friday 06 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Visit and talk by Jay McClelland: "Some thoughts on the differences between human and machine intelligence"

Jay McClelland, Stanford University .

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Thursday 14 September 2023, 15:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Compositional mathematics and automatic gradient descent

Jeremy Bernstein, MIT.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Friday 14 July 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deciphering Batch Effects in Single-cell Transcriptomics with Concept Bottlenecks

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Hanchen Wang, Stanford CS and Genentech gRED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 28 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Schrödinger bridges, diffusion and SDEs

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Stratis Markou and Shreyas Padhy.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 21 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Knowledge Issues and Language Models

James Thorne (KAIST).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 16 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The LLM Tidal Wave

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Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The LLM Tidal Wave

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Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Investigating Reasons for Disagreement in Natural Language Inference

Marie-Catherine de Marneffe (FNRS – UCLouvain – The Ohio State University).

Computer Lab, FW26.

Friday 09 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Mind the Data

Noah Smith, University of Washington .

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 08 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Game theory, distributional reinforcement learning, control and verification

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Prof. Alessandro Abate, Dr. Licio Romao, Dr. Yulong Gao and Dr. Jiarui Gan. University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Fighting Misinformation in Science Communication with NLP

Dustin Wright (University of Copenhagen).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 02 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Towards Human-Centered Explanations of AI Predictions

Chenhao Tan, University of Chicago.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 01 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

On choosing the mass matrix for Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

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Tor Fjelde and Tim Hargreaves, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Interpretable Multi-hop Question Answering

Zhenyun Deng (University of Cambridge).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 26 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Pretraining, Instruction Tuning, Alignment: Towards Building Large Language Models from First Principles

Yao Fu, University of Edinburgh.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Reward Modelling

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Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Challenges of Low-Resource Natural Language Processing: A Focus on Sentiment Analysis and Hate Speech Detection in Amharic

Seid Muhie Yimam (HCDS, University of Hamburg).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 19 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Probing Language Models for Paraphrastic Representations of Negation and Antonymy

Teemu Vahtola, University of Helsinki.

GR05, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Reality Check: NLP in the era of Large Language Models

Vered Shwartz (University of British Columbia).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 12 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Convergence bounds for the Random Walk Metropolis algorithm - Perspectives from Isoperimetry

Sam Power, University of Bristol.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Thursday 11 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Navigating the Future: Upcoming EU AI Regulation and its Potential Impact on the Field

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Miri Zilka, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Writing for the Public: Immigration Discourse and Language Ideology

Dallas Card, University of Michigan.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning-based multiscale modeling: computing, data science, and uncertainty quantification

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Burigede Liu.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Improving Model Robustness for Natural Language Inference

Joe Stacey (Imperial College London).

Computer Lab, FW26.

Friday 28 April 2023, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Tangent Kernel

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Adrian Goldwaser and Lauro Langosco (University of Cambridge) .

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 19 April 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

No-regret Dynamics for Multi-agent Learning

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Alexander Terenin (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 12 April 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable Approaches to Self-Supervised Learning using Spectral Analysis

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Ross Viljoen and Vincent Dutordoir (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 05 April 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Physics-informed machine learning

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Pingfang Song (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 29 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Causal Machine Learning

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Wenlin Chen, Julien Horwood & Juyeon Heo (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 22 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Real-world task assistance with GRILLBot, the winning Amazon Alexa Prize TaskBot.

Carlos Gemmell, University of Glasgow.

SR 24.

Thursday 16 March 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

User Manipulation in Recommender Systems

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Micah Carroll (UC Berkeley).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Navigating the AI Hype: Building Natural Language Processing for Low Resource Languages

Asmelash Teka Hadgu (Lesan; DAIR).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 10 March 2023, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Towards a Responsible NLP: Walking the walk

Mona Diab, Meta AI.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Random Features for Kernel Approximation

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Isaac Reid (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

An Affordance Account of Value Embedding in Technology: Why Good Intentions are Not Enough

Fabio Tollon (Bielefeld University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 03 March 2023, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Efficient Transformers with Dynamic Token Pooling

Piotr Nawrot, University of Edinburgh.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Overview of Differential Privacy, Membership Inference Attacks, and Federated Learning

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Ali Shahin Shamsabadi (Alan Turing Institute) and John Bronskill (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Modular and Compositional Transfer Learning

Jonas Pfeiffer (Google Research).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 24 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

One-shot visual language understanding with cross-modal translation and LLMs

Fangyu LIU (University of Cambridge).

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 23 February 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian Neural Networks

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

James Allingham, Javier Antorán, Vincent Fortuin (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Narrative Summarization from Multiple Views

Pinelopi Papalampidi (DeepMind).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 17 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Offline Reinforcement Learning

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

Max Patacchiola (University of Cambridge), Stephen Chung (University of Cambridge), Adam Jelley (University of Edinburgh).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 11:00-12:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Challenges and Opportunities in NLP for Under-represented Languages

Sebastian Ruder, Google.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 09 February 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

{PF}^2ES: Parallel Feasible Pareto Frontier Entropy Search for Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization Under Unknown Constraints

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

Jixiang Qing, SUMO lab, Ghent University,.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Processing Multiword Expressions for Grammatical Error Correction

Shiva Taslimipoor (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, Room FW09.

Friday 03 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Narrative Summarization From Multiple Views

Pinelopi (Nelly) Papalampidi, DeepMind.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Calls to F the Algorithm: Lessons from the 2020 Exam Debacle

Roger Taylor, former Chair of Ofqual.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

Monday 30 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

GenBench -- State-of-the-art generalisation research in NLP

Dieuwke Hupkes (Facebook AI Research, ELLIS).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 27 January 2023, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

SafetyKit: First Aid for Measuring Safety in Open-domain Conversational Systems

Verena Rieser, Heriot-Watt University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Exploring and Controlling Social Values in Large Language Models through Role-Playing 

Paul Röttger (Oxford University).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 20 January 2023, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs

David Duvenaud (University of Toronto).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Thursday 15 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs

David Duvenaud (University of Toronto).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Thursday 15 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Rethinking the role of tokenization in the NLP pipeline

Kris Cao (DeepMind).

Computer Lab, FW26.

Friday 02 December 2022, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Revisiting Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning

Mikel Artetxe, Meta.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Dieuwke Hupkes (Facebook AI Research, ELLIS).

Computer Lab, TBD.

Friday 25 November 2022, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Measuring Alignment Between Perceptual Systems: An Analysis Through The Lens of Shared Invariances

Vedant Nanda, MPI-SWS + University of Maryland .

Hybrid meeting, CBL seminar room, and Zoom https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/edit/192845.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Information Geometry — Natural Gradient Descent

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

Andy Lin, MLG.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Gaussian processes, spectral analysis kernels and optimal transport

Felipe Tobar, Universidad de Chile.

CBL Seminar Room.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards Trustworthy Natural Language Processing

Jasmijn Bastings (Google Brain).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 18 November 2022, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent Interaction

Stefano Albrecht, Edinburgh.

Hybrid, CBL Seminar room, Department of Engineering, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

End-to-End Fine-grained Multi-modal Understanding

Aishwarya Kamath, New York University.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Predicting generalization of ML models.

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

Vihari Piratla and Shreyas Padhy.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Presenting Hawk-Eye’s Skeletrack: Our machine learning approach to building a real time skeletal tracking system for sports, and how we're using it to shape the future of fan engagement

Lachan Thorpe, Hawk-Eye Innovations.

Lecture Theatre 6 (LT6), Department of Engineering.

Monday 14 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Decoding is deciding under uncertainty — the case of NMT

Bryan Eikema (University of Amsterdam).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 11 November 2022, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Program Synthesis and Understanding with Pretrained Language Models

Ignacio Iacobacci, Huawei .

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A tutorial on diffusion models

Emile, Sasha from CBL.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Zoom link available upon request..

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

NLP for Science: Advances and Challenges

Tom Hope (Allen Institute for AI, Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

Computer Lab, FW11.

Monday 07 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Flamingo: a Visual Language Model for Few-Shot Learning

Antoine Miech, DeepMind.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Efficient Structured Prediction on Long Texts

Mrinmaya Sachan (ETH Zurich).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 28 October 2022, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Benchmarking and evaluation in contemporary machine learning

Austin Tripp and Shoaib Siddiqui, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

A study of recent techniques to estimate the difficulty of exam questions from text

Luca Benedetto (University of Cambridge).

FW09.

Friday 21 October 2022, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Contextualized embeddings for lexical semantics

Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 15:00-16:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Quantifying Linguistic Variation

Max Müller-Eberstein, IT University of Copenhagen.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Advanced artificial agents intervene in the provision of reward

Michael Cohen, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

The Aston Forensic Linguistic Databank (FoLD)

Martyn Petyko and Daniela Schneevogt (Aston University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 07 October 2022, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Detect – Verify – Communicate: Combating Misinformation with More Realistic NLP

Iryna Gurevych, TU Darmstadt.

English Faculty Building, second floor, SR24.

Thursday 29 September 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Theory and Practice of Infinitely Wide Neural Networks - Guest Talk

Roman Novak, Google Brain.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 28 September 2022, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Claim-Dissector: An Interpretable Fact-Checking System with Joint Re-ranking and Veracity Prediction

Martin Fajčík ( Brno University of Technology ).

Computer Lab, FW26.

Tuesday 12 July 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in large scale deep learning

Greg Yang, Microsoft Research.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 06 July 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The role of meta-learning for few-shot classification

Eleni Triantafillou, Google Brain.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 29 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Noise-Aware Differentially Private Synthetic Data

Antti Honkela, University of Helsinki.

Hybrid, CBL Seminar room, Department of Engineering, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/89002493651?pwd=B_2gKl7va_h0CQ9yoMPSbn2ifYLGi4.1.

Tuesday 28 June 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Benefits and Shortcomings of Assistance

Dmitrii Krasheninnikov and Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 22 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Pitfalls with ablation in neural network architectures

Christina Lioma (University of Copenhagen).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 17 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Gold Doesn't Always Glitter: Spectral Removal of Linear and Nonlinear Guarded Attribute Information

Yftah Ziser, University of Edinburgh.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Estimating RSV seasonality from pandemic disruptions: a modelling study

Fabienne Krauer, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Hybrid, CBL Seminar room, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84968458381?pwd=TWM5ZkF2bjdBM09jaVlJZHRUTFlFUT09.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussion: Pre-Train Your Loss: Easy Bayesian Transfer Learning with Informative Priors

Speaker to be confirmed.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

(Modeling) Morality? On Machine Learning and Phrenology

Zeerak Talat (Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Monday 13 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

An aperitivo of efforts against harming online contents: propaganda, hate speech, spam

Alberto Barrón-Cedeño (University of Bologna).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 10 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Cross-lingual Learning, and Applications in Dialog and Translation

Junjie Hu, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussion: Learning PAC-Bayes Priors for Probabilistic Neural Networks

Speaker to be confirmed.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 08 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

A Contrastive Framework for Neural Text Generation

Yixuan Su, University of Cambridge.

Board Room, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 02 June 2022, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Measuring Causal Effects of Data Statistics on Language Model Predictions

Yanai Elazar (Bar-Ilan University).

Computer Lab, FW26.

Wednesday 01 June 2022, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Rethinking evaluation for machine learning models

Adrian Goldwaser & Shoaib Siddiqui.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 01 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussion: Bayesian Model Selection, the Marginal Likelihood, and Generalization

Speaker to be confirmed.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Language (In)Equality in Parsing and Machine Translation: Data Size is Only One Term in the Equation

Arianna Bisazza (University of Groningen).

Virtual (Zoom).

Thursday 19 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Can we automatically anonymize text documents?

Pierre Lison, Norwegian Computing Center.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Neuro-Symbolic Deep Natural Language Understanding

Lili Mou (University of Alberta).

Computer Lab, FW26.

Tuesday 17 May 2022, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Beyond Conformal Prediction: Distribution-Free Uncertainty Quantification for Complex Machine Learning Tasks

Anastasios Angelopoulos, PhD student at UC Berkeley.

Hybrid meeting, CBL seminar room, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84829493214?pwd=HI3JJJ8nrt6O8AELEzbXvT8ZoBj51t.1.

Friday 13 May 2022, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

How close are these distributions? A brief introduction to statistical distances and divergences.

David Burt, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Diagnosing AI Explanation Methods with Folk Concepts of Behavior

Alon Jacovi (Bar-Ilan University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 06 May 2022, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

The acquisition and processing of grammatical structure: insights from deep learning

Roger Levy, MIT.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bests of ICLR

Speaker to be confirmed.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Interactive and decomposed approaches for NLP: the case of multi-text summarization

Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 29 April 2022, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Graph neural network approach for decentralized multi-robot coordination

University of Cambridge.

Hybrid meeting, CBL seminar room, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/87988930234?pwd=eHRGTHFtUE9UL0pJOWNtdDF2VDN2UT09.

Thursday 21 April 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Machine Learning with Quantum Computers

Amira Abbas and Maria Schuld.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 20 April 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Autoregressive Diffusion Models

Emiel Hoogeboom.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 30 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Overview of AI Alignment

Neel Alex, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 23 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Multilingual Autoregressive Entity Linking

Nicola De Cao (University of Amsterdam, Huggingface).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 18 March 2022, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Zero-Shot Cross-lingual Transfer for XNLU

Milan Gritta, Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab.

GR06/07, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 17 March 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The Bayesian Learning Rule for Adaptive AI

Emti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Hugging Face: a hub for the whole ML community to collaborate

Nate Raw and Ömer Faruk Özdemir (HuggingFace).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 11 March 2022, 12:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

IGLUE: A Benchmark for Transfer Learning across Modalities, Tasks, and Languages

Emanuele Bugliarello, University of Copenhagen.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Introduction to differential privacy

Talay Cheema & Ferenc Huszar (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Using NLP and graph theory to capture speech abnormalities in psychosis

Caroline Nettekoven (University of Cambridge).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 04 March 2022, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Spoken Language Understanding, with and without Pre-training

Karen Livescu, TTI-Chicago.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 03 March 2022, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning from Past: Bringing Planning Back to Neural Generators

Shashi Narayan (Google Research).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 25 February 2022, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Hierarchical Interpretation of Neural Text Classification

Prof. Yulan He, University of Warwick.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Retrieval Augmented NLP

Jiri Hron and Nitarshan Rajkumar (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

[POSTPONED] Parametric vs Nonparametric Knowledge, and what we can learn from Knowledge Bases

Sebastian Riedel (Facebook AI Research and UCL).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 18 February 2022, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Systematic Inequalities in Language Technology Performance across the World's Languages

Graham Neubig, Carnegie Mellon University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 17 February 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Circuits and Interpretability

Lauro Langosco, Elre Oldewage and Juyeon Heo(University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Learning the Difference that Makes a Difference with Counterfactually Augmented Data

Zachary Lipton, Carnegie Mellon University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 10 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Optimal Transport Metrics

Shreyas Padhy, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 09 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

When do languages use the same word for different meanings? The Goldilocks Principle that shapes the lexicon

Gemma Boleda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 04 February 2022, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Neural Search

Nils Reimers, HuggingFace.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 03 February 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learned Compression

Gergely Flamich and Stratis Markou (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 02 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards Out-of-distribution generalization in NLP

Prof. He He (New York Univeristy).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 28 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Expectations vs. Reality: Lessons learned from Working on Toxic Content Detection in NLP

Nedjma Ousidhoum (University of Cambridge).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 21 January 2022, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Diffusion and Score-based Generative Models

Vincent Dutordoir, Wenlin Chen, Tor Fjelde (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

Wednesday 19 January 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

AI Safety

Neel Alex.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 12 January 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

[Cancelled] Best of Neurips

Speaker to be confirmed.

Online-only.

Wednesday 15 December 2021, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Lotty Brand (University of Sheffield) .

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 03 December 2021, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Zero-shot learning and out-of-distribution generalization: two sides of the same coin

Jonathan Berant, Tel Aviv University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 02 December 2021, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Energy-Based Models

Stratis Markou and James Allingham (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 01 December 2021, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Sparse Latent Structure with Overlapping Constraints

Vlad Niculae (University of Amsterdam).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 26 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Clinical De-Identification and Semantic Relatedness

Mohamed Abdalla, University of Toronto.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Analyzing and Summarizing Movies using Turning Points

Frank Keller (University of Edinburgh).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 19 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Supervising Robot Learning with Language and Video from the Web

Suraj Nair, Stanford University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Kernels

Sebastian Ober and Austin Tripp (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

How language understanding unfolds in minds and machines

Roger Levy (MIT).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 12 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Document Summarisation: Modelling, Datasets and Verification of Content

Shay Cohen, University of Edinburgh.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Mean Field Theory of NN (postponed to March 2022)

Speaker to be confirmed.

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Integrating Human Cognition with Natural Language Processing

Yevgeni Berzak (Technion).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 05 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Representation Learning: A Causal Perspective

Yixin Wang.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86187336902?pwd=eUtxZGsvandXQ1dXKzJkWXdlTFpqQT09.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Ethics, Integrity and Good Practice in ML

Ross Clarke (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 11:00-12:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Measuring Factuality in Text Generation: When Language Models Are Twisting the Facts

Roee Aharoni, Google Research.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 28 October 2021, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Implicit Regularization in Deep Learning

Jezabel Garcia, Alberto Bernacchia (MediaTek Research).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 27 October 2021, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Toward Broad and Deep Language Understanding for Intelligent Systems

Marjorie McShane (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 22 October 2021, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Causal analysis of the syntactic representations of Transformers

Tal Linzen, New York University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Planning Meeting + PI Presentations

CBL and Computer Lab PIs.

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Exploring Feedback Comment Generation for Language Learners

Ryo Nagata (Konan University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 15 October 2021, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Unlikelihood-training and Back-training for robust natural language understanding

Siva Reddy, McGill University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 14 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Towards Neuro-Causality: Relating Graph Neural Networks to Structural Causal Models

Matej Zecevic, TU Darmstadt.

https://cuhk-edu-cn.zoom.us/j/91529611509?pwd=WFBqeFdVc3J1cE9rV2NaMXJtM2RQQT09.

Friday 24 September 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk - Task-specific routing of information in neural circuits via structured noise by Cristina Savin

Cristina Savin, New York University.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/85184505624?pwd=WnhWZWR1SjhxUXFDOWtPT2c2cG90Zz09.

Friday 09 July 2021, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk: Nonlinear filtering as a unifying principle in neuroscience by Jean-Pascal Pfister

Jean-Pascal Pfister, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84626937837?pwd=RC95RTdybkRlNHhOcThjclQzYUxkdz09.

Friday 02 July 2021, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

NMT Analysis: The Trade-Off Between Source and Target, and (a Bit of) the Training Process

Elena Voita (University of Edinburgh).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 18 June 2021, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk: Finale Doshi-Velez

Finale Doshi-Velez, Harvard University.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/89542469691?pwd=bVJjdXJGd3BkaDk1SHk3a1dLZzlZUT09.

Friday 11 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Challenges in evaluating natural language generation systems

Note unusual time

Mohit Iyyer (University of Massachusetts Amherst).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 11 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Towards Knowledge-Robust and Multimodally-Grounded NLP

Mohit Bansal, UNC Chapel Hill.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 10 June 2021, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Pseudo-Points and State-Space Gaussian Processes

Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk: Latent Stochastic Differential Equations: An Unexplored Model Class.

David Duvenaud, University of Toronto.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84495932262?pwd=MlFJL3Z3c1JmenFOY2xJQTNPSzdsQT09.

Friday 04 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Beyond Facts: The Problem of Framing in Assessing What is True

Note unusual time

Philip Resnik (University of Maryland).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 04 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The Statistical Finite Element Method

Mark Girolami (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 02 June 2021, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Interpretability in NLP: Moving Beyond Vision

Note unusual time

Shuoyang Ding (Johns Hopkins University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 28 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Learning across Adverse Conditions in Natural Language Processing

Barbara Plank, IT University of Copenhagen.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 27 May 2021, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Typological Feature Prediction and Blinding for Cross-Lingual NLP

Johannes Bjerva (Aalborg University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 21 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Training for Deployment: Methods for Small and Efficient NLP

Alexander Rush, Cornell Tech.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 20 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk - Our Power as Technical Designers

Shakir Mohamed, Deepmind.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84960287802?pwd=N1pTZGpKMjhhMTVVV1RNSS9Gc3Jqdz09.

Friday 14 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Incorporating Structure into NLP Models with Graph Neural Networks

Michael Schlichtkrull (University of Cambridge).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 14 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

NLP beyond English and mBERT's 100 languages

Antonios Anastasopoulos, George Mason University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 13 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Best of ICLR

Speaker to be confirmed.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Adaptation and Control in Enterprise Language Technology

Ryan McDonald (ASAPP).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 07 May 2021, 12:00-13:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

CausaLM: Causal Model Explanation Through Counterfactual Language Models

Amir Feder, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 06 May 2021, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk: Accurate Gaussian Processes and how they can help Deep Learning

Mark van der Wilk, Imperial College London.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82969702755?pwd=L0dIVnlwSHJHV2NGbUQ1cmxpYjIyUT09.

Friday 30 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Cross domain similarities and intra-person changes

Maria Liakata (University of Warwick).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 30 April 2021, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Domain Adaptation in NLP - Towards Adaptation to Any Domain

Eyal Ben-David, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 29 April 2021, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Transcending Dependencies

Martha Palmer, University of Colorado.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 22 April 2021, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to PAC-Bayes

Andrew Foong, David Burt and Javier Antoran (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 21 April 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Automated Augmented Conjugate Inference for Gaussian Processes

Théo Galy-Fajou (TU Berlin).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81961210430?pwd=cUZGbzU4NzJickd5THlsYzJ4cmlndz09.

Tuesday 20 April 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk: Examining Critiques in Bayesian Deep Learning

Andrew Gordon Wilson.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82969702755?pwd=L0dIVnlwSHJHV2NGbUQ1cmxpYjIyUT09.

Friday 16 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Online Learning and Online Convex Optimisation

Siddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 14 April 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Monte Carlo Gradient Estimation in Machine Learning

James Allingham (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 07 April 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Secondmind's research activities to make Gaussian Processes industry proof

Nicolas Durrande, Director of Research at Secondmind.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 31 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Failure Modes of Variational Autoencoders and Their Effects on Downstream Tasks

Yaniv Yacoby, Harvard University.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 24 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title TBD

Ryan McDonald (Google).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 19 March 2021, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Learning language by observing the world and learning about the world from language

Aida Nematzadeh, DeepMind.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Gaussian Processes I have Known

Anthony O'Hagan, University of Sheffield.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

🎈🎈🎈🥳 NLP Social Hour 🥳🎈🎈🎈

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Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 12 March 2021, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Representation Learning for Text Retrieval: Learning and Pretraining Strategies for Dense Retrieval

Unusual date and time

Chenyan Xiong (Microsoft Research).

Virtual (Zoom).

Thursday 11 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title TBD

Note unusual time

Chenyan Xiong (Microsoft Research AI).

Virtual (Zoom).

Thursday 11 March 2021, 15:00-16:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Achieving Universality in Machine Translation: M4 - Massively Multilingual, Massive MT Models for the Next 1000 Languages

Orhan Firat, Google Research.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Causal Representation Learning

Chaochao Lu, University of Cambridge.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

[RESCHEDULED] Typological Feature Prediction and Blinding for Cross-Lingual NLP

RESCHEDULED TBD

Johannes Bjerva (Aalborg University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 05 March 2021, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Rethinking Benchmarking in AI

Douwe Kiela, Facebook AI Research.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Long-Range Transformers

Valerii Likhosherstov, University of Cambridge.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 03 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Papers with Code and the automatic extraction of results from papers

Robert Stojnic (Facebook / Papers with Code).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 26 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Scalable Structural Inductive Biases in Neural Language Models

Adhiguna Kuncoro, DeepMind.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Inference in Stochastic Processes

Javier Antoran (University of Cambridge), Matthew Ashman (University of Cambridge), Stratis Markou (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title TBD

Mariam Redi (Wikimedia).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 19 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

The Science of Knowledge Equity - Research at Wikimedia

Miriam Redi, Diego Saez (Wikimedia Foundation).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 19 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Efficient sentence encoders for Conversational AI in the industry

Inigo Casanueva, PolyAI.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 18 February 2021, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Fairness in AI

Elre Oldewage (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 17 February 2021, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Detecting the "Fake News" Before It Was Even Written, Media Literacy, and Flattening the Curve of the COVID-19 Infodemic

Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), HBKU).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 12 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Adapters in Transformers. A New Paradigm for Transfer Learning…?

Jonas Pfeiffer, Technical University of Darmstadt.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 11 February 2021, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Variational Bayes as Surrogate Regression

Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

A Graph-Based Framework for Structured Prediction Tasks in Sanskrit

Note unusual time

Amrith Krishna (University of Cambridge).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 05 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

From Translation Divergences to Structure-aware Neural Machine Translation

Omri Abend, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 04 February 2021, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning with Graphs in Natural Language Generation and Relation Extraction

Zhijiang Guo (University of Cambridge).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 29 January 2021, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Towards explainable fact checking

Prof. Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 28 January 2021, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Revisiting and re-evaluating rumour stance classification

Carolina Scarton (University of Sheffield).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 22 January 2021, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Towards Perfect Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Translation

Prof. Dr. Alexander Fraser, CIS, LMU Munich.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 21 January 2021, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian optimization / Gaussian Process Bandits

Sattar Vakili (MediaTek Research).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 20 January 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Meta-reinforcement learning

Kris Jensen and Calvin Kao (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 13 January 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Best of NeurIPS

Speaker to be confirmed.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 16 December 2020, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Compositional Neural Meaning Representation Parsing

Weiwei Sun (University of Cambridge).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 04 December 2020, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Pitfalls in Evaluation of Multilingual Text Representations

Goran Glavaš.

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YmQyY2ViNDgtZDE1MC00MzZhLWFjZGItOWFmMjM2OTI1ZDQy%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2230bfe2fc-8896-487c-84f2-f4b8875a60b2%22%7d.

Thursday 03 December 2020, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Processes

Andrew Foong, Stratis Markou and Sebastian Ober (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Improving Speech Translation with Linguistically-Informed Representations

Elizabeth Salesky (Johns Hopkins University).

Zoom.

Friday 27 November 2020, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

From Sparse Modeling to Sparse Communication

André F. T. Martins.

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YmQyY2ViNDgtZDE1MC00MzZhLWFjZGItOWFmMjM2OTI1ZDQy%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2230bfe2fc-8896-487c-84f2-f4b8875a60b2%22%7d.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Large-scale sequential experimentation

Wessel Bruinsma and Jiri Hron (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 11:00-12:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Understanding Event Processes in Natural Language

Muhao Chen.

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NzU4Y2NiOTItYjE1My00ZDFhLWE3NTItOWVmMDU1MmNkNjU5%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%227c409a60-a41c-43c1-a95a-f00471773d03%22%7d.

Thursday 19 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Symmetries in Reinforcement Learning

Robert Pinsler and Adria Garriga Alonso (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Predicting Text Readability and Reading Comprehension from Reading Interactions

Sian Gooding (University of Cambridge).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 13 November 2020, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Semiparametric Language Models

Dani Yogatama.

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NjYzNzQyOWUtZWM0MC00YzI5LWEwMzMtOGU0ODM4ZDU1NDcw%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%227c409a60-a41c-43c1-a95a-f00471773d03%22%7d.

Thursday 12 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Gradient-based Hyperparameter Optimisation

Ross Clarke (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 11 November 2020, 11:05-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

How far have we come in giving our NLU systems common sense?

Note time change

Nasrin Mostafazadeh (Verneek).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 06 November 2020, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Best Papers from ICML 2020

Reading group participants.

https://meet.google.com/wdk-qnzb-iet.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Five Sources of Biases and Ethical Issues in NLP, and What to Do about Them

Dirk Hovy (Bocconi University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 23 October 2020, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

What are the Goals of Distributional Semantics?

Guy Emerson (University of Cambridge).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 16 October 2020, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Efficient and Structured Uncertainty: Challenges and Opportunities

Andrey Malinin, Yandex Research.

Virtual (see abstract for Zoom link).

Wednesday 22 July 2020, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Active Learning

Austin Tripp and Erik Daxberger (University of Cambridge).

https://meet.google.com/xom-namz-rzv.

Wednesday 24 June 2020, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards explainable fact checking

Isabelle Augenstein (University of Copenhagen).

https://meet.google.com/xkv-cako-arr.

Friday 19 June 2020, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Recent advances in the theory and applications of VAEs

Gergely Flamich and Alexandru Cioba.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 17 June 2020, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Achieving Verified Robustness to Adversarial NLP Inputs

Note later start

Johannes Welbl (UCL).

https://meet.google.com/tgv-vods-pdk.

Friday 12 June 2020, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Methodological advances in creating time sensitive sensors from language and heterogeneous user generated content

Rescheduled

Maria Liakata (Queen Mary University of London, University of Warwick, Alan Turing Institute).

https://meet.google.com/awc-wvbh-azc.

Friday 29 May 2020, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Best of ICLR 2020

(University of Cambridge).

https://meet.google.com/eqr-irxn-irx.

Wednesday 06 May 2020, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Reducing gender bias in neural machine translation as a domain adaptation problem

Online Seminar

Danielle Saunders (University of Cambridge).

https://meet.google.com/hhk-hmiz-mpt.

Friday 01 May 2020, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Differentiable Planning

Will Tebbutt, Robert Pinsler.

https://meet.google.com/zza-agyt-koa.

Wednesday 29 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Recent Developments in Bayesian Deep Learning

Andrew Foong, Siddharth Swaroop.

https://meet.google.com/hhq-zqtq-siq.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Strategic Classification

Jiri Hron (University of Cambridge).

https://meet.google.com/hmo-aaio-agh.

Wednesday 15 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Machine Learning on Sets

(University of Cambridge).

https://meet.google.com/qvg-knkr-nrg.

Wednesday 08 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Boltzmann Generators and Stochastic Normalizing Flows

Vincent Stimper, Michael Bromberg.

Hangouts Meet (Link provided via e-mail).

Wednesday 01 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

World Models

Dr Gregor Simm (University of Cambridge).

Hangouts Meet (Link provided via e-mail).

Wednesday 18 March 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Federated Learning

Siddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Evaluating Deep Generative Models on Out-of-Distribution Inputs

Eric Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 06 March 2020, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Game Playing Meets Game Theory: Strategic Learning from Simulated Play

wellman@umich.edu.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Thursday 05 March 2020, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning Tensors and Random Matrix Theory

Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (UCL).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 28 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Variational Smoothing in Recurrent Neural Network Language Models

Dr. Lingpeng Kong (DeepMind).

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 27 February 2020, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Self-Supervised Representation Learning

Javier Antoran (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Shaping Recommendations in a Marketplace via User & Content Understanding

Rishabh Mehrotra (Spotify).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 21 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Kernel Mean Embeddings

Elre Oldewage (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Beat the AI: Investigating Adversarial Human Annotations for Reading Comprehension

Max Bartolo (UCL).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 14 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Developing technologies for health, mental health and wellbeing

A joint Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) and Language Technology Lab (LTL) seminar on Human-Centric AI Technologies

Rafael A. Calvo, Imperial College London.

GR04, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 13 February 2020, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Tangent Kernel

Adria Garriga Alonso, Sebastian Ober.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Zero-shot Language Learning through Bayesian Neural Models

Edoardo Maria Ponti (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 07 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Computational Models of the Influence of Context on Sentence Acceptability

Shalom Lappin, University of Gothenburg.

GR04, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 06 February 2020, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Urban Dictionary Embeddings for Slang NLP Applications

Dr Barbara McGillivray (University of Cambridge and The Alan Turing Institute).

GR04, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 30 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Robust Deep Learning Under Distribution Shift

Zack Lipton, CMU.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Friday 24 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Hidden Biases. Ethical Issues in NLP, and What to Do about Them

A joint Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) and Language Technology Lab (LTL) seminar on Human-Centric AI Technologies

Dirk Hovy, Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.

GR04, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 23 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Can we optimise fashion ecommerce using NLG?

Note: earlier time of 11am

Rory Waite (Emotif.ai).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 17 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Correlations Between Word Vector Sets

A joint Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) and Language Technology Lab (LTL) seminar on Human-Centric AI Technologies

Aleksandar Savkov, Babylon.

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 16 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Long Form Question Answering

Angela Fan (Facebook).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 06 December 2019, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable Gaussian Processes

David Burt, Andrew Foong.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Probabilistic Programming

Hong Ge and John Bronskill.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Unsupervised cross-lingual representation learning

Room Change: LT1

Sebastian Ruder (DeepMind).

LT1, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 22 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Natural Language Understanding and Generation with Abstract Meaning Representation

Marco Damonte, the University of Edinburgh.

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 21 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Attention

Elre Oldewage, George Hron.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

CANCELLED Probabilistic models of graphs for meaning representations

Extra talk: note unusual day and time

Adam Lopez (University of Edinburgh).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 10:00-11:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Ethical considerations for responsible design

Room Change: LT1

Shauna Concannon (University of Cambridge).

LT1, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 15 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

BioNLP Research at Google

Ryan McDonald, Google.

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 14 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Equivariance and Symmetries in CNNs

James Allingham, Omer Sella.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Models and inference for temporal Gaussian processes

William Wilkinson, Aalto University, Finland.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hyperparameter Optimisation

Ross Clarke, Erik Daxberger, Austin Tripp.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

A Mutual Information Maximization Perspective of Language Representation Learning

Lingpeng Kong (DeepMind).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 01 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Learning region based representations of categories

Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University.

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 31 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Meta-Learning or "Learning To Learn"

John Bronskill, Marton Havasi.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Reinforcement Learning at Huawei: Robustness, Safety, and Efficiency

Haitham Ammar, Huawei.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 10:00-11:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Constructing temporal latent spaces: Representation learning for clustering and imputation on time series

Vincent Fortuin, ETH Zurich.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Monday 28 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Automatic Analysis of Affect and Personality Analysis in Multiperson Settings

Hatice Gunes (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 25 October 2019, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Explaining Neural Networks: Post-hoc and Natural Language Explanations

Oana Camburu, University of Oxford.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Friday 25 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Unsupervised Question Answering

Patrick Lewis, UCL.

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 24 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for Hierarchical Models

Vidhi Lalchand.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 14:00-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Multimodal natural language processing: when text is not enough

Lucia Specia (Imperial College London).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 18 October 2019, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Tensor product representations for RNNs / Revisiting post-processing for word embeddings

Shuai Tang, University of California, San Diego.

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 17 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Latent Variable Models for Text Generation

Xiaoyu Shen, Saarland University / Max Planck Institute.

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 10 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning-Algorithms from Bayesian Principles

Emti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Tuesday 24 September 2019, 10:00-11:00

NLIP Seminar Series

‘Profit factory’ and ‘bathroom break’: How to analyse compounds and how to predict their emergence

Lonneke van der Plas (University of Malta).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 18 September 2019, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Rotation Invariant Householder Parameterization for Bayesian PCA

Rajbir Nirwan, Goethe University, Frankfurt.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Wednesday 04 September 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Two Approximate Sampling Methods for Bayesian Deep Learning

Wesley Maddox (New York University).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Friday 23 August 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Semi-Unsupervised Learning with Deep Generative Models / Disentangling Improves VAEs' Robustness to Adversarial Attacks

Matthew Willetts and Alexander Camuto, University of Oxford / Alan Turing Institute.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Wednesday 17 July 2019, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Efficiency and Transferability of Neural Networks

Amos Storkey, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Friday 12 July 2019, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Natural Language Generation in the Wild

Daniel Beck, University of Melbourne.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 05 July 2019, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning via Data Compression: Bayesian Coresets and Sparse Variational Inference

Trevor Campbell, University of British Columbia.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Wednesday 26 June 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Deep Neural Networks: A Nonparametric Bayesian Approach with Local Competition

Konstantinos P. Panousis.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Thursday 20 June 2019, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Duolingo: Improving Language Learning and Assessment with A.I.

Burr Settles, Duolingo.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 19 June 2019, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

An Operation Sequence Model for Explainable Neural Machine Translation

Felix Stahlberg, CUED, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 14 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Information Consumption on Social Media: Efficiency, Trust, and Divisiveness

Reza Babaei.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Tuesday 11 June 2019, 15:00-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Continuous feature structures: Can we learn structured representations with neural networks?

Guy Emerson, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 07 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Relational knowledge in vector spaces

Luis Espinosa-Anke (University of Cardiff).

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 06 June 2019, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards secure and efficient DNNs

Aaron Zhao, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 31 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Imitation learning, zero-shot learning and automated fact checking

Andreas Vlachos (University of Cambridge).

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 30 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Mitigating Gender Bias in Morphologically Rich Languages

Ryan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 24 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Predicting and Analysing Online User Behaviour with Natural Language Processing

Nikolaos Aletras (University of Sheffield).

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 23 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

AI Extenders: The Ethical and Societal Implications of Humans Cognitively Extended by AI

Karina Vold & José Hernández-Orallo, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 17 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Why Do We Need New Hardware & Software for Machine Intelligence?

Victoria Rege, Scott Griffiths.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Friday 17 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Particle MCMC

Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 14:00-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Factorising AMR generation through syntax

Kris Cao, DeepMind.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 10 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

How to Pay Attention: Learning to Transfer Knowledge between Sentences and Tokens

Marek Rei ( University of Cambridge).

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 09 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Stochastic Differential Equations

David Burt.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Nonparametric Generative Modeling via Optimal Transport and Diffusions with Provable Guarantees

Umut Şimşekli, Télécom Paristech.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Languages* in Formal Reasoning: Accessibility vs. Formality

Zohreh Shams, AI Group, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 03 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Generalisation in neural networks

Marton Havasi.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 14:00-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Word Sense Disambiguation and Other Systems in Japanese

Kanako Komiya, Ibaraki University, Japan.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 26 April 2019, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Overview of Normalizing Flows

Robert Pinsler.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

NeVAE: A Deep Generative Model for Molecular Graphs

Abir De, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Monday 08 April 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Global model explainability via aggregation

Umang Bhatt, CMU.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Thursday 04 April 2019, 16:00-16:45

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Finding translations in unordered text using multilingual sentence representations

Jenna Kanerva, University of Turku.

Board room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 04 April 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Sampling as Optimization

Eric Nalisnick, University of Cambridge.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 03 April 2019, 13:45-15:15

Machine Learning @ CUED

Robust machine learning for causal inference in health care

David Sontag, MIT.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

The K-FAC method for neural network optimization

James Martens, Google Deep Mind.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Thursday 14 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Disagreements in anaphoric interpretation

Massimo Poesio ( University of Essex).

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Implicit Variational Inference

Andrew Foong (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 13:45-15:15

NLIP Seminar Series

K.A.T.E.: Scaling personalised tech education for professionals

Raoul-Gabriel Urma, Kevin Lemagnen, Sahan Bulathwela, Cambridge Spark.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 08 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Improving Literature-based Discovery with Neural Networks

Gamal Crichton, Language Technology Lab.

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Continual Learning: Definitions, Benchmarks, and Approaches

Siddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:45-15:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning multi-domain dialogues

Paweł Budzianowski, CUED, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 01 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Causal Inference and Causal Reinforcement Learning

Chaochao Lu (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:45-15:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Large-scale analyses of language variation and change in social media

Dong Nguyen, University of Edinburgh & Alan Turing Institute.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 22 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Teaching Artificial Agents to Understand Language by Modelling Reward

Edward Grefenstette, Facebook AI Research.

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Generative models for few-shot prediction tasks

Marta Garnelo (Google DeepMind).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:45-15:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Understanding Source Code using Natural Language and Graph Neural Networks

Miltos Allamanis, Microsoft Research.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 15 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Do Deep Generative Models Know What They Don't Know?

Eric T Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Online Meta-Learning

Massimiliano Pontil, University College London.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Thursday 14 February 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Logical Uncertainty

Adrià Garriga Alonso (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:45-15:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning to navigate without a map (but with instructions)

Piotr Mirowski, DeepMind.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 08 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Probabilistic Typology

Ryan Cotterell ( University of Cambridge).

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

High-dimensional dynamics of generalization error in neural networks: implications for experience replay

Dr. Andrew Saxe, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Friday 01 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Topic-Aware Convolutional Neural Networks for Extreme Summarization

Shashi Narayan, University of Edinburgh / Google.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 01 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Gauge Equivariant Convolutional Networks on Manifolds

Taco Cohen.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:30-14:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Stein Discrepancy

Sebastian Ober (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Monday 28 January 2019, 14:00-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

**CANCELLED** Probabilistic Typology: Deep Generative Models of Vowel Inventories

Ryan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 25 January 2019, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Observation and Intervention Incentives in Causal Influence Diagrams: Towards an Understanding of Powerful Machine Learning Systems

Tom Everitt (DeepMind).

Engineering Department, LR5 (in front of library, 1st floor).

Friday 25 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Learning and testing compositionality

Elia Bruni, University of Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain).

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

What makes psychotherapy work? Using deep learning to quantify the relationship between therapy content and outcomes

Ronan Cummins & Michael Ewbank, Ieso Digital Health.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 18 January 2019, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Fairness for Sequential Decision Making Algorithms

Hoda Heidari.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Thursday 17 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Gaussian processes for inferring latent functions in complex data models

Martin Tegner.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Tuesday 18 December 2018, 10:30-11:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Graph Neural Networks for Knowledge Base Question Answering

Room changed

Daniil Sorokin, Technische Universität Darmstadt.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 30 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Linguistic Measures for the Detection of Clinical Conditions

Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, University of Essex).

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations

Eric T Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 14:00-15:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Emergence of (linguistic) communication through multi-agent interactions

Angeliki Lazaridou, DeepMind.

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Natural gradient in deep neural networks

Alberto Bernacchia (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 14:00-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

The Ethics of Artificially Intelligent Communications Technology

Room changed

Marcus Tomalin, CUED, University of Cambridge.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 16 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Learning with Explanations

Tim Rocktäschel, Facebook AI Research.

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Graph Neural Networks

Matej Balog (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 14:00-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Knowledge Representation and Extraction at Scale

Christos Christodoulopoulos, Amazon.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 09 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings in 60 Minutes

Ivan Vulić, LTL, University of Cambridge.

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Defending Against Adversarial Attacks

Ross Clarke (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 14:00-15:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

On KL divergence and beyond

Yingzhen Li, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Reinforcement Learning and Control as Probabilistic Inference

Robert Pinsler, Calvin Kao.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 14:00-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Deep learning for automatically assessing the pronunciation of non-native English speakers

Kostas Kyriakopoulos, CUED, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 26 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Representation Learning and Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning in Knowledge Graphs and Natural Language

Pasquale Minervini, University College London.

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning, Representing, and Understanding Language

Aida Nematzadeh, DeepMind.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 19 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

LTL Seminars 2018/2019

Practical Approaches to Conversational AI

Pei-Hao (Eddy) Su, PolyAI.

Board Room, 1st floor, English Faculty Building (Sidgwick site), 9 West Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Some lessons learned in Multimodal Representations and Transfer

Pranava Madhyastha, Imperial College London.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 12 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

LTL Seminars 2018/2019

LION-LBD: Literature-Based Discovery for Cancer Biology

Simon Baker, LTL.

Board Room, 1st floor, English Faculty Building (Sidgwick site), 9 West Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 11 October 2018, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Causal Inference for Treatment Effects: A Theory and Associated Learning Algorithms

Mihaela van der Schaar .

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Thursday 11 October 2018, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Imitation learning, zero-shot learning and automated fact checking

Andreas Vlachos, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 05 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Interpretability - the myth, questions, and some answers

Been Kim, Google Brain.

Engineering Department, Board Room on the 2nd Floor.

Monday 10 September 2018, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Constraint-based causal Discovery from NOnstationary/heterogeneous Data (CD-NOD)

Biwei Huang, CMU.

dyson teaching room (TBC).

Friday 24 August 2018, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Fast yet Simple Natural-Gradient Variational Inference in Complex Models

Emtiyaz Khan, team leader (equivalent to Full Professor) at the RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) in Tokyo.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Monday 16 July 2018, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Variance in Policy Gradient methods and Learning Sequential Latent Variable Models

George Tucker, Google Brain.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Wednesday 04 July 2018, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Structured deep models: Deep learning on graphs and beyond

Thomas Kipf (Uni of Amsterdam).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Thursday 21 June 2018, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Language Adaptation experiments: Cross-lingual embeddings for related languages

Serge Sharoff (Leeds).

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 14 June 2018, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness

Prof. Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

Thursday 14 June 2018, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Functional Distributional Semantics: Learning Linguistically Informed Representations from a Precisely Annotated Corpus

Guy Emerson, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 08 June 2018, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Methods and Interactive Tools for Exploring the Semantics of Essentially Contested Concepts

Paul Nulty (CRASSH-Cambridge).

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning hierarchical structure: strong learning of PCFGs

Alexander Clark, King's College London.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 01 June 2018, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Imitation learning for language generation

Gerasimos Lampouras (Sheffield).

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 31 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

NAACL practice talks

Simon Baker (LTL) & Marek Rei (NLIP), University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 25 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Semi-Generative Modelling: Domain Adaptation with Cause and Effect Features

Julius von Kugelgen.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 11:30-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

The potential of synthetic data for more informative evaluation in Visual Question Answering

Alexander Kuhnle, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 18 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Emergent Communication through Negotiation

Kris Cao, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 11 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social Networks

Ana Stoica, Columbia University.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Predictive Uncertainty in Deep Learning

Andrey Malinin, CUED, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 04 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Scalable Non-Markovian Language Modelling

Ehsan Shareghi.

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Multilingual NLP via Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings

Ivan Vulic, LTL, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 27 April 2018, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

A Bayesian Perspective on Generalization and SGD

Dr. Samuel L. Smith, Google Brain.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 11.

Tuesday 17 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social Networks

Ana Stoica, Columbia University.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Sunday 15 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

** cancelled **

Julian Perez, Naver Labs Europe.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 23 March 2018, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Knowledge Acquisition from Corpora and the Wisdom of Crowds

Daisuke Kawahara (Kyoto University).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 22 March 2018, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Virtual bargaining as a micro-foundation for communication

Note unusual time

Professor Nick Chater, University of Warwick.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 09 March 2018, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Networks and Natural Language Processing

Matej Balog (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Structure in tensor-variate data: a trivial byproduct of simpler phenomena?

John P. Cunningham.

CBL Seminar Room.

Tuesday 06 March 2018, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Jointly Learning Syntax and Semantics

Jean Maillard, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 02 March 2018, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Information Theory, Codes, and Compression

Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 13:30-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

NLP in the clinical domain - data, approaches and considerations

Sumithra Velupillai (King's College).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 01 March 2018, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Constructing datasets for multi-hop reading comprehension across documents

Johannes Welbl, University College London.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 23 February 2018, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Deep reinforcement learning for dialogue policy optimisation

Dr Milica Gasic, Dept. Engineering, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 16 February 2018, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Lipschitz Global Optimization

Professor Yaroslav D Sergeyev, Universita della Calabria.

CBL Seminar Room.

Friday 16 February 2018, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Statistical Learning Theory

Maria Lomeli.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 13:30-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Predicting Judicial Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights

Nikos Aletras (Sheffield).

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Pruning and grafting syntactic trees for cross-lingual transfer tasks

Edoardo Ponti, TAL, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 09 February 2018, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Graph Convolutional Networks for Natural Language Processing and Relational Modeling

Ivan Titov (Edinburgh).

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Generative Models

Jonathan Gordon; Alexander Matthews.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Minimum Description Length

Carl E. Rasmussen; Niki Kilbertus.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 13:30-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Interdisciplinarity: The art of unsettling multiple disciplines

Petar Milin (Sheffield).

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Context Sensitive Distributional Semantics

Stephen McGregor (TCIDA, Goldsmiths).

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 18 January 2018, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Machine Learning for Sounds

Akisato Kimura.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 11 January 2018, 13:30-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Senses can help vector space models of lexical substitution

Marianna Apidianaki (LIMSI).

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 11 January 2018, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

NIPS 2017 Highlights

Speaker to be confirmed.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 14 December 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Variational inference for some models with Polya-Gamma latent variables and Gaussian process priors

Manfred Opper, TU Berlin.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Wednesday 13 December 2017, 13:30-14:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian Generative Adversarial Networks

Professor Andrew Wilson, Cornell University.

CBL Seminar Room.

Wednesday 13 December 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

AI for Inclusive Finance

Alan Qi and Le Song.

CBL Seminar Room.

Friday 01 December 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hardware Efficient Machine Learning

Robert Peharz; Marton Havasi.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 30 November 2017, 13:30-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Sentence Generation using a Dynamic Canvas

David Barber (University College London).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 30 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Backprop through the Void: Optimizing Control Variates for Black-Box Gradient Estimation.

Geoff Roeder (University of Toronto).

CBL Seminar Room.

Monday 27 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Imitation learning for structured prediction and automated fact checking

Dr Andreas Vlachos, University of Sheffield.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 24 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning to Learn without Gradient Descent by Gradient Descent

Yutian Chen, DeepMind.

CBL Seminar Room.

Friday 24 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning to Learn

Siddharth Swaroop; Will Tebbutt.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 13:30-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Learning to Create and Reuse Words in Open-Vocabulary Language Modeling

Kazuya Kawakami (DeepMind).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 23 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Internal seminar - new PhD students

New NLIP PhDs.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 17 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Towards true end-to-end learning & optimization

Dr Frank Hutter.

CBL Seminar Room.

Friday 17 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

WGAN and Optimal Transport

Mark Rowland; Wenbo Gong.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 13:30-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Labelling Topics Using Neural Networks

Nikolaos Aletras, Amazon Research Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 10 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Interpretability in Machine Learning

Adrian Weller; Tameem Adel Hesham.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 13:30-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

What can online collaborative dictionaries tell us about language and social dynamics?

Barbara McGillivray (The Alan Turing Institute/University of Cambridge).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 09 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Structured Prediction for Handwriting Recognition

Juan Murillo Fuentes.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 13:30-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Corpus-Based Analysis of the Canonical Word Order of Japanese Double Object Constructions

Ryohei Sasano (Nagoya University).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 02 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Targeted Disclosure to Support Auditing and Accountability for Automated Decision-making

Joshua Kroll.

CBL Seminar Room.

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Grounded language learning in simulated worlds

Felix Hill, DeepMind.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 27 October 2017, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Cooperative Inverse RL

Robert Pinsler; Adria Garriga Alonso.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 26 October 2017, 13:30-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards More Robust and Interpretable Models for Structured Prediction and Language Generation

Adhiguna Kuncoro, DeepMind.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 20 October 2017, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Infer.NET

John F. Bronskill.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 13:30-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Internal LTL Seminar

Speaker to be confirmed.

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 19 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Nonlinear ICA using temporal structure: a principled framework for unsupervised deep learning

Prof. Aapo Hyvarinen.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Transfer Learning for NLP

Sebastian Ruder, INSIGHT Centre.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 13 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Neural Models for Information Retrieval

Bhaskar Mitra, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 13 October 2017, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Internal LTL Seminar

Speaker to be confirmed.

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 12 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Detecting Semantic Change Using LDA in Historical Texts: a Case Study on Dutch

Simon Hengchen (Université libre de Bruxelles).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Text-to-text Generation Beyond Machine Translation

Shashi Narayan, University of Edinburgh.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 06 October 2017, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Detecting Text Reuse in Large Historical Corpora and Authorship Attribution of Premodern Documents

Aleksi Vesanto (University of Turku).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Tuesday 03 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

A Bayesian Treatment for Uncertainty -- and its application in health care

Dr Cheng Zhang.

CBL Seminar Room.

Tuesday 26 September 2017, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Finite-State Transducers as a Theory of Dependency Structured Natural Language

Anssi Yli-Jyrä, University of Helsinki.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 22 September 2017, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Natural Language Processing to Bridge Heterogeneous Data

Yusuke Miyao (National Institute of Informatics, Japan).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Tuesday 19 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Unbiased Estimation of the Eigenvalues of Large Implicit Matrices

Professor Ryan Adams, Princeton.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 14 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

The Grammar Variational Autoencoder & Counterfactual Fairness

Dr Matt Kusner.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Tuesday 12 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Accelerating computation of SVM and DNN by binary approximation

Hironobu Fujiyoshi (Chubu University) .

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Friday 08 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Towards User-Friendly Image Inpainting: Learning-to-Rank based Image Quality Assessment for Image Inpainting

Mariko Isogawa (NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories) .

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Friday 08 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Deep learning for autonomous driving

Takayoshi Yamashita (Chubu University) .

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Friday 08 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Modeling Context-sensitive Selectional Preference with Distributed Representations

Naoya Inoue (Tohoku University, Japan).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 31 August 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Understanding Black-box Predictions via Influence Functions

Pang Wei Koh, Stanford University.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 20 July 2017, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

A simple neural network module for relational reasoning

David Barrett, DeepMind.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 06 July 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Future technology: machine learning using memristors networks

Francesco Caravelli (LANL).

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Monday 03 July 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Future technology: machine learning using memristors networks

Francesco Caravelli (LANL).

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Monday 03 July 2017, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Deep NLP in language tutoring

Francis Bond, Associate Professor at the Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 16 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Linguists-defined and Machine-induced Natural Language Structures to Executable Logical Forms

Siva Reddy (Stanford University).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 15 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Predicting Rich Linguistic Structure with Neural Networks

Jan Buys, University of Oxford.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Tuesday 13 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Vanishing laws of semantic change - studying semantic change using distributional word representations and proper control condition

Haim Dubossarsky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Monday 12 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Functional Distributional Semantics

Guy Edward Toh Emerson (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 09 June 2017, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

NLP, the perfect social (media) science?

Dirk Hovy, University of Copenhagen.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Sentence-level Topic Models

Kris Cao (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 02 June 2017, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Statistical Properties and Applications of Word Tensors

Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary University of London).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 01 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Text Simplification: Where are we now, and where are we headed?

Gustavo Henrique Paetzold, University of Sheffield.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 26 May 2017, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Location Resolution in Language Processing

Milan Gritta (University of Cambridge).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 25 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

On Different Distances Between Distributions and Generative Adversarial Networks

Martin Arjovsky.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Neural Architectures for Sequence Labelling

Marek Rei, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 19 May 2017, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Reading and Reasoning with Vector Representations

Sebastian Riedel (UCL).

Lecture Block, room 2, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Neural Belief Tracker: Data-Driven Dialogue State Tracking using Semantically Specialised Vector Spaces

Nikola Mrskic, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 12 May 2017, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Building a True Semantic World: Generalizing set-theoretic semantics in vector spaces

Eva Maria Vecchi.

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 11 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Cross-lingual Learning 2.0

Anders Søgaard (University of Copenhagen).

GR06-7, English Faculty.

Thursday 27 April 2017, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Semantic (Vector) Representations of Word Senses, Concepts and Entities and their Applications

Jose Camacho-Collados (Sapienza University of Rome).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 20 April 2017, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Internal LTL meeting

Speaker to be confirmed.

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 13 April 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 9 - Representation Learning

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

Tuesday 11 April 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 8 - Autoencoders

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

Tuesday 04 April 2017, 13:30-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Scientific Paper Analysis: JST CREST Project of Big Data Application

Prof. Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Tuesday 28 March 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 7 - Neural Turing Machines & Conditional Random Fields as RNNs

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

Tuesday 21 March 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Kernel Mean Embeddings

Jiri Hron; Adam Scibior.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 16 March 2017, 13:30-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Internal LTL meeting

Speaker to be confirmed.

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 16 March 2017, 11:00-12:00