Simon Baker's List

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AI Control

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User Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Neural likelihood-free inference

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User Yanzhi Chen, University of Cambridge.

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

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

User Mevan Babakar, Google .

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

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

Inverting Language Models

User Alexander (Sasha) Rush, Cornell and Hugging Face.

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

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

An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method

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User Jihao Andeas Lin, University of Cambridge.

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

Understanding Comparative Questions and Retrieving Argumentative Answers

User Alexander Bondarenko, University of Leipzig .

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

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

Large Language Models in Medicine: Opportunities and Challenges

User Mark Dredze, Johns Hopkins University.

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

LLMs: Everything’s Different and Nothing Has Changed

User Emma Strubell, CMU.

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

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

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

User Sebastian Pado, Stuttgart University.

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

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

An Introduction to Transformer Neural Processes

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User Matt Ashman and Cristiana Diaconu.

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

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

Consistent Validation for Predictive Methods in Spatial Settings

User David Burt, MIT.

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

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

Integrating Combinatorial Solvers and Neural Models

User Pasquale Minervi, University of Edinburgh.

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

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

User Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich.

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

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

Learning Symmetries in Neural Networks

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User James Allingham and Bruno Mlodozeniec .

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

Scaling Multilingual Generation for Low-Resource Languages

User Priyanka Agrawal, Google Deepmind.

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

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

Prosocial Language Models

User Soroush Vosoughi, Dartmouth College.

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

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

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

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User Andrew McDonald and Kenza Tazi, University of Cambridge.

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

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Employing Psycholinguistics to Understand Decoding in Probabilistic Language Generators

User Clara Meister, ETH Zurich.

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

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

Understanding LLMs via their Generative Successes and Shortcomings.

User Swabha Swayamdipta, University of Southern California.

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

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

Bayesian coresets

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User Tor Fjelde and Will Tebbutt, University of Cambridge.

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

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This talk is cancelled - Modeling Cognitive Complexity in NLP

User Lisa Beinborn, VU Amsterdam.

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

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

Geographically Grounded Language Models

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

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Revisiting the Optimality of Word Lengths

User Tiago Pimentel.

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

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

Replicating and auditing black-box Language Models.

User Tatsunori Hashimoto.

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

Faster Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding with Confidence-based Pruning

User Julius Cheng (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Can Language Models Learn Truthfulness?

User He He, New York University.

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

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

Can Language Models Learn Truthfulness?

User He He, New York University.

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

Fairness Evaluation in Generative NLP

User Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant (Cohere).

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

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

Assessing the Social Capacity of Large Language Models

User David Jurgens, University of Michigan.

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

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

Flow matching, stochastic interpolants and everything in between

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

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

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

Modern Bayesian Experimental Design

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

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

Efficiency by Construction

User Fermin Moscoso del Prado Martin (University of Cambridge).

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

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

A sanity check on emergent properties

User Anna Rogers, IT University of Copenhagen.

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

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

Challenges of Regulating Increasingly Complicated Human-AI Collaborative Systems

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User Dr Miri Zilka and Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

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Language Understanding for the Political Sciences

User Simone Paolo Ponzetto, University of Mannheim.

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

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

A Poisson Process Model for Monte Carlo

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User Greg Flamich, University of Cambridge.

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

Numerical Reasoning in Natural Language Processing

User Nafise Moosavi (University of Sheffield).

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

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

One Size Does Not Fit All: Towards AI For Everyone

User Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan.

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

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

Learning Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) With Continuous Optimization

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User Dr Pingfan Song, University of Cambridge.

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

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

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

User Sara Hooker (Cohere For AI).

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

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

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

User Dirk Hovy (Bocconi University in Milan, Italy).

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

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

Deep Learning for Medium-Range Global Weather Prediction

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

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

Natural Language Processing for Text-to-Speech Synthesis

User Gleb Mazovetskiy (Google).

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

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

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

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

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

Learning linear models in-context with transformers

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User Spencer Frei, UC Davis.

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

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

Collaborative Pretraining on Evolving Pretraining and Small Manageable Tasks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

User Isaac Reid, University of Cambridge.

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

Fighting Bad Information with AI

User David Corney (Full Fact).

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

House Computer Laboratory, room SS03.

Does Syntax Still Matter in the World of LLMs?

User Miloš Stanojević (DeepMind).

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

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

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

User Jay McClelland, Stanford University .

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

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

Compositional mathematics and automatic gradient descent

User Jeremy Bernstein, MIT.

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

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

Deciphering Batch Effects in Single-cell Transcriptomics with Concept Bottlenecks

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User Hanchen Wang, Stanford CS and Genentech gRED.

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

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

Schrödinger bridges, diffusion and SDEs

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User Stratis Markou and Shreyas Padhy.

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

Knowledge Issues and Language Models

User James Thorne (KAIST).

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

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

The LLM Tidal Wave

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User Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

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

The LLM Tidal Wave

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User Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

Investigating Reasons for Disagreement in Natural Language Inference

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

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

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

Mind the Data

User Noah Smith, University of Washington .

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

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

Game theory, distributional reinforcement learning, control and verification

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

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

Fighting Misinformation in Science Communication with NLP

User Dustin Wright (University of Copenhagen).

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

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

Towards Human-Centered Explanations of AI Predictions

User Chenhao Tan, University of Chicago.

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

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

On choosing the mass matrix for Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

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User Tor Fjelde and Tim Hargreaves, University of Cambridge.

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

Interpretable Multi-hop Question Answering

User Zhenyun Deng (University of Cambridge).

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

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

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

User Yao Fu, University of Edinburgh.

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

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

Reward Modelling

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User Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

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

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

User Seid Muhie Yimam (HCDS, University of Hamburg).

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

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

Probing Language Models for Paraphrastic Representations of Negation and Antonymy

User Teemu Vahtola, University of Helsinki.

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

Reality Check: NLP in the era of Large Language Models

User Vered Shwartz (University of British Columbia).

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

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

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

User Sam Power, University of Bristol.

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

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

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

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User Miri Zilka, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Writing for the Public: Immigration Discourse and Language Ideology

User Dallas Card, University of Michigan.

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

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

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

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User Burigede Liu.

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

Improving Model Robustness for Natural Language Inference

User Joe Stacey (Imperial College London).

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

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

Neural Tangent Kernel

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User Adrian Goldwaser and Lauro Langosco (University of Cambridge) .

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

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

No-regret Dynamics for Multi-agent Learning

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User Alexander Terenin (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Scalable Approaches to Self-Supervised Learning using Spectral Analysis

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User Ross Viljoen and Vincent Dutordoir (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Physics-informed machine learning

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User Pingfang Song (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Causal Machine Learning

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

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

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

User Carlos Gemmell, University of Glasgow.

House SR 24.

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

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

User Manipulation in Recommender Systems

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User Micah Carroll (UC Berkeley).

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

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

User Asmelash Teka Hadgu (Lesan; DAIR).

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

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

Towards a Responsible NLP: Walking the walk

User Mona Diab, Meta AI.

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

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

Random Features for Kernel Approximation

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User Isaac Reid (University of Cambridge).

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

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

User Fabio Tollon (Bielefeld University).

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

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

Efficient Transformers with Dynamic Token Pooling

User Piotr Nawrot, University of Edinburgh.

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

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

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

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

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

Modular and Compositional Transfer Learning

User Jonas Pfeiffer (Google Research).

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

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

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

User Fangyu LIU (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Bayesian Neural Networks

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

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

Narrative Summarization from Multiple Views

User Pinelopi Papalampidi (DeepMind).

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

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

Offline Reinforcement Learning

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

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

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Challenges and Opportunities in NLP for Under-represented Languages

User Sebastian Ruder, Google.

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

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

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

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User Jixiang Qing, SUMO lab, Ghent University,.

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

House Computer Laboratory, Room FW09.

Processing Multiword Expressions for Grammatical Error Correction

User Shiva Taslimipoor (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Narrative Summarization From Multiple Views

User Pinelopi (Nelly) Papalampidi, DeepMind.

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

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

User Roger Taylor, former Chair of Ofqual.

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

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

User Dieuwke Hupkes (Facebook AI Research, ELLIS).

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

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

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

User Verena Rieser, Heriot-Watt University.

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

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

User Paul Röttger (Oxford University).

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

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

Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs

User David Duvenaud (University of Toronto).

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

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

Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs

User David Duvenaud (University of Toronto).

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

Rethinking the role of tokenization in the NLP pipeline

User Kris Cao (DeepMind).

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

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

Revisiting Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning

User Mikel Artetxe, Meta.

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

CANCELLED

User Dieuwke Hupkes (Facebook AI Research, ELLIS).

House Computer Lab, TBD.

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

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

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

User Vedant Nanda, MPI-SWS + University of Maryland .

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

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

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.

User Andy Lin, MLG.

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

Gaussian processes, spectral analysis kernels and optimal transport

User Felipe Tobar, Universidad de Chile.

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

Towards Trustworthy Natural Language Processing

User Jasmijn Bastings (Google Brain).

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

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

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent Interaction

User Stefano Albrecht, Edinburgh.

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

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

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

User Aishwarya Kamath, New York University.

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

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

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.

User Vihari Piratla and Shreyas Padhy.

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

House Lecture Theatre 6 (LT6), Department of Engineering.

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

User Lachan Thorpe, Hawk-Eye Innovations.

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

Decoding is deciding under uncertainty — the case of NMT

User Bryan Eikema (University of Amsterdam).

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

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

Program Synthesis and Understanding with Pretrained Language Models

User Ignacio Iacobacci, Huawei .

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

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

A tutorial on diffusion models

User Emile, Sasha from CBL.

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

House Computer Lab, FW11.

NLP for Science: Advances and Challenges

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

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

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

Flamingo: a Visual Language Model for Few-Shot Learning

User Antoine Miech, DeepMind.

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

Efficient Structured Prediction on Long Texts

User Mrinmaya Sachan (ETH Zurich).

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

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

Benchmarking and evaluation in contemporary machine learning

User Austin Tripp and Shoaib Siddiqui, University of Cambridge.

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

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

User Luca Benedetto (University of Cambridge).

House FW09.

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

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

Contextualized embeddings for lexical semantics

User Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin.

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

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

Quantifying Linguistic Variation

User Max Müller-Eberstein, IT University of Copenhagen.

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

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

Advanced artificial agents intervene in the provision of reward

User Michael Cohen, University of Oxford.

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

The Aston Forensic Linguistic Databank (FoLD)

User Martyn Petyko and Daniela Schneevogt (Aston University).

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

House English Faculty Building, second floor, SR24.

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

User Iryna Gurevych, TU Darmstadt.

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

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

Theory and Practice of Infinitely Wide Neural Networks - Guest Talk

User Roman Novak, Google Brain.

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

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

User Martin Fajčík ( Brno University of Technology ).

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

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

The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in large scale deep learning

User Greg Yang, Microsoft Research.

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

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

The role of meta-learning for few-shot classification

User Eleni Triantafillou, Google Brain.

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

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

Noise-Aware Differentially Private Synthetic Data

User Antti Honkela, University of Helsinki.

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

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

Benefits and Shortcomings of Assistance

User Dmitrii Krasheninnikov and Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge.

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

Pitfalls with ablation in neural network architectures

User Christina Lioma (University of Copenhagen).

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

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

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

User Yftah Ziser, University of Edinburgh.

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

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

Estimating RSV seasonality from pandemic disruptions: a modelling study

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

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

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

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

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

(Modeling) Morality? On Machine Learning and Phrenology

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

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

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

User Alberto Barrón-Cedeño (University of Bologna).

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

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

Cross-lingual Learning, and Applications in Dialog and Translation

User Junjie Hu, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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

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

Discussion: Learning PAC-Bayes Priors for Probabilistic Neural Networks

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

A Contrastive Framework for Neural Text Generation

User Yixuan Su, University of Cambridge.

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

Measuring Causal Effects of Data Statistics on Language Model Predictions

User Yanai Elazar (Bar-Ilan University).

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

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

Rethinking evaluation for machine learning models

User Adrian Goldwaser & Shoaib Siddiqui.

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

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

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

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

User Arianna Bisazza (University of Groningen).

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

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

Can we automatically anonymize text documents?

User Pierre Lison, Norwegian Computing Center.

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

Neuro-Symbolic Deep Natural Language Understanding

User Lili Mou (University of Alberta).

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

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

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

User Anastasios Angelopoulos, PhD student at UC Berkeley.

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

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

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

User David Burt, University of Cambridge.

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

Diagnosing AI Explanation Methods with Folk Concepts of Behavior

User Alon Jacovi (Bar-Ilan University).

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

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

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

User Roger Levy, MIT.

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

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

Bests of ICLR

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

User Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan University).

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

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

Graph neural network approach for decentralized multi-robot coordination

User University of Cambridge.

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

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

Machine Learning with Quantum Computers

User Amira Abbas and Maria Schuld.

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

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

Autoregressive Diffusion Models

User Emiel Hoogeboom.

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

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

An Overview of AI Alignment

User Neel Alex, University of Cambridge.

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

Multilingual Autoregressive Entity Linking

User Nicola De Cao (University of Amsterdam, Huggingface).

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

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

Zero-Shot Cross-lingual Transfer for XNLU

User Milan Gritta, Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab.

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

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

The Bayesian Learning Rule for Adaptive AI

User Emti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project.

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

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

User Nate Raw and Ömer Faruk Özdemir (HuggingFace).

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

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

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

User Emanuele Bugliarello, University of Copenhagen.

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

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

Introduction to differential privacy

User Talay Cheema & Ferenc Huszar (University of Cambridge).

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

Using NLP and graph theory to capture speech abnormalities in psychosis

User Caroline Nettekoven (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Spoken Language Understanding, with and without Pre-training

User Karen Livescu, TTI-Chicago.

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

Learning from Past: Bringing Planning Back to Neural Generators

User Shashi Narayan (Google Research).

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

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

Hierarchical Interpretation of Neural Text Classification

User Prof. Yulan He, University of Warwick.

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Retrieval Augmented NLP

User Jiri Hron and Nitarshan Rajkumar (University of Cambridge).

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

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

User Sebastian Riedel (Facebook AI Research and UCL).

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

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

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

User Graham Neubig, Carnegie Mellon University.

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Circuits and Interpretability

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

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

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

Learning the Difference that Makes a Difference with Counterfactually Augmented Data

User Zachary Lipton, Carnegie Mellon University.

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Optimal Transport Metrics

User Shreyas Padhy, University of Cambridge.

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

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

User Gemma Boleda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).

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

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

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Neural Search

User Nils Reimers, HuggingFace.

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Learned Compression

User Gergely Flamich and Stratis Markou (University of Cambridge).

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

Towards Out-of-distribution generalization in NLP

User Prof. He He (New York Univeristy).

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

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

User Nedjma Ousidhoum (University of Cambridge).

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

Diffusion and Score-based Generative Models

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

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

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

AI Safety

User Neel Alex.

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

[Cancelled] Best of Neurips

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Online-only.

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

CANCELLED

User Lotty Brand (University of Sheffield) .

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

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

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

User Jonathan Berant, Tel Aviv University.

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Energy-Based Models

User Stratis Markou and James Allingham (University of Cambridge).

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

Sparse Latent Structure with Overlapping Constraints

User Vlad Niculae (University of Amsterdam).

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

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

Clinical De-Identification and Semantic Relatedness

User Mohamed Abdalla, University of Toronto.

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

Analyzing and Summarizing Movies using Turning Points

User Frank Keller (University of Edinburgh).

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

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

Supervising Robot Learning with Language and Video from the Web

User Suraj Nair, Stanford University.

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Deep Kernels

User Sebastian Ober and Austin Tripp (University of Cambridge).

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

How language understanding unfolds in minds and machines

User Roger Levy (MIT).

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

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

Document Summarisation: Modelling, Datasets and Verification of Content

User Shay Cohen, University of Edinburgh.

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Mean Field Theory of NN (postponed to March 2022)

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Integrating Human Cognition with Natural Language Processing

User Yevgeni Berzak (Technion).

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

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

Representation Learning: A Causal Perspective

User Yixin Wang.

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Ethics, Integrity and Good Practice in ML

User Ross Clarke (University of Cambridge).

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

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

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

User Roee Aharoni, Google Research.

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Implicit Regularization in Deep Learning

User Jezabel Garcia, Alberto Bernacchia (MediaTek Research).

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

Toward Broad and Deep Language Understanding for Intelligent Systems

User Marjorie McShane (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute).

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

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

Causal analysis of the syntactic representations of Transformers

User Tal Linzen, New York University.

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Planning Meeting + PI Presentations

User CBL and Computer Lab PIs.

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

Exploring Feedback Comment Generation for Language Learners

User Ryo Nagata (Konan University).

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

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

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

User Siva Reddy, McGill University.

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

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

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

User Matej Zecevic, TU Darmstadt.

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

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

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

User Cristina Savin, New York University.

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

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

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

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

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

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

User Elena Voita (University of Edinburgh).

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

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

CBL Alumni Talk: Finale Doshi-Velez

User Finale Doshi-Velez, Harvard University.

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

Challenges in evaluating natural language generation systems

Note unusual time

User Mohit Iyyer (University of Massachusetts Amherst).

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

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

Towards Knowledge-Robust and Multimodally-Grounded NLP

User Mohit Bansal, UNC Chapel Hill.

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

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

Pseudo-Points and State-Space Gaussian Processes

User Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

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

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

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

User David Duvenaud, University of Toronto.

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

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

Note unusual time

User Philip Resnik (University of Maryland).

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

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

The Statistical Finite Element Method

User Mark Girolami (University of Cambridge).

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

Interpretability in NLP: Moving Beyond Vision

Note unusual time

User Shuoyang Ding (Johns Hopkins University).

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

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

Learning across Adverse Conditions in Natural Language Processing

User Barbara Plank, IT University of Copenhagen.

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

Typological Feature Prediction and Blinding for Cross-Lingual NLP

User Johannes Bjerva (Aalborg University).

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

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

Training for Deployment: Methods for Small and Efficient NLP

User Alexander Rush, Cornell Tech.

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

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

CBL Alumni Talk - Our Power as Technical Designers

User Shakir Mohamed, Deepmind.

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

Incorporating Structure into NLP Models with Graph Neural Networks

User Michael Schlichtkrull (University of Cambridge).

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

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

NLP beyond English and mBERT's 100 languages

User Antonios Anastasopoulos, George Mason University.

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

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

Best of ICLR

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Adaptation and Control in Enterprise Language Technology

User Ryan McDonald (ASAPP).

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

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

CausaLM: Causal Model Explanation Through Counterfactual Language Models

User Amir Feder, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

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

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

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

User Mark van der Wilk, Imperial College London.

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

Cross domain similarities and intra-person changes

User Maria Liakata (University of Warwick).

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

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

Domain Adaptation in NLP - Towards Adaptation to Any Domain

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

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

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

Transcending Dependencies

User Martha Palmer, University of Colorado.

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

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

An Introduction to PAC-Bayes

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

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

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

Automated Augmented Conjugate Inference for Gaussian Processes

User Théo Galy-Fajou (TU Berlin).

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

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

CBL Alumni Talk: Examining Critiques in Bayesian Deep Learning

User Andrew Gordon Wilson.

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

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

Online Learning and Online Convex Optimisation

User Siddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Monte Carlo Gradient Estimation in Machine Learning

User James Allingham (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Secondmind's research activities to make Gaussian Processes industry proof

User Nicolas Durrande, Director of Research at Secondmind.

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

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

Failure Modes of Variational Autoencoders and Their Effects on Downstream Tasks

User Yaniv Yacoby, Harvard University.

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

Title TBD

User Ryan McDonald (Google).

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

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

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

User Aida Nematzadeh, DeepMind.

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

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

Gaussian Processes I have Known

User Anthony O'Hagan, University of Sheffield.

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

🎈🎈🎈🥳 NLP Social Hour 🥳🎈🎈🎈

User -.

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

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

Unusual date and time

User Chenyan Xiong (Microsoft Research).

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

Title TBD

Note unusual time

User Chenyan Xiong (Microsoft Research AI).

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

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

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

User Orhan Firat, Google Research.

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

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

Causal Representation Learning

User Chaochao Lu, University of Cambridge.

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

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

RESCHEDULED TBD

User Johannes Bjerva (Aalborg University).

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

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

Rethinking Benchmarking in AI

User Douwe Kiela, Facebook AI Research.

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

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

Long-Range Transformers

User Valerii Likhosherstov, University of Cambridge.

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

Papers with Code and the automatic extraction of results from papers

User Robert Stojnic (Facebook / Papers with Code).

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

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

Scalable Structural Inductive Biases in Neural Language Models

User Adhiguna Kuncoro, DeepMind.

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

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

Inference in Stochastic Processes

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

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

Title TBD

User Mariam Redi (Wikimedia).

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

The Science of Knowledge Equity - Research at Wikimedia

User Miriam Redi, Diego Saez (Wikimedia Foundation).

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

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

Efficient sentence encoders for Conversational AI in the industry

User Inigo Casanueva, PolyAI.

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

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

Fairness in AI

User Elre Oldewage (University of Cambridge).

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

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

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

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

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

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

User Jonas Pfeiffer, Technical University of Darmstadt.

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

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

Variational Bayes as Surrogate Regression

User Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

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

A Graph-Based Framework for Structured Prediction Tasks in Sanskrit

Note unusual time

User Amrith Krishna (University of Cambridge).

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

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

From Translation Divergences to Structure-aware Neural Machine Translation

User Omri Abend, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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

Learning with Graphs in Natural Language Generation and Relation Extraction

User Zhijiang Guo (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Towards explainable fact checking

User Prof. Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen.

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

Revisiting and re-evaluating rumour stance classification

User Carolina Scarton (University of Sheffield).

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

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

Towards Perfect Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Translation

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

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

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

Bayesian optimization / Gaussian Process Bandits

User Sattar Vakili (MediaTek Research).

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

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

Meta-reinforcement learning

User Kris Jensen and Calvin Kao (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Best of NeurIPS

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Compositional Neural Meaning Representation Parsing

User Weiwei Sun (University of Cambridge).

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

House 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.

Pitfalls in Evaluation of Multilingual Text Representations

User Goran Glavaš.

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

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

Neural Processes

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

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

Improving Speech Translation with Linguistically-Informed Representations

User Elizabeth Salesky (Johns Hopkins University).

House Zoom.

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

From Sparse Modeling to Sparse Communication

User André F. T. Martins.

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

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

Large-scale sequential experimentation

User Wessel Bruinsma and Jiri Hron (University of Cambridge).

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

House 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.

Understanding Event Processes in Natural Language

User Muhao Chen.

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

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

Symmetries in Reinforcement Learning

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

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

Predicting Text Readability and Reading Comprehension from Reading Interactions

User Sian Gooding (University of Cambridge).

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

House 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.

Semiparametric Language Models

User Dani Yogatama.

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

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

Gradient-based Hyperparameter Optimisation

User Ross Clarke (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Note time change

User Nasrin Mostafazadeh (Verneek).

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

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

Best Papers from ICML 2020

User Reading group participants.

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

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

User Dirk Hovy (Bocconi University).

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

What are the Goals of Distributional Semantics?

User Guy Emerson (University of Cambridge).

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

House Virtual (see abstract for Zoom link).

Efficient and Structured Uncertainty: Challenges and Opportunities

User Andrey Malinin, Yandex Research.

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

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

Active Learning

User Austin Tripp and Erik Daxberger (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Towards explainable fact checking

User Isabelle Augenstein (University of Copenhagen).

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

House Venue to be confirmed.

Recent advances in the theory and applications of VAEs

User Gergely Flamich and Alexandru Cioba.

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

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

Achieving Verified Robustness to Adversarial NLP Inputs

Note later start

User Johannes Welbl (UCL).

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

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

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

Rescheduled

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

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

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

Best of ICLR 2020

User (University of Cambridge).

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

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

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

Online Seminar

User Danielle Saunders (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Differentiable Planning

User Will Tebbutt, Robert Pinsler.

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

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

Recent Developments in Bayesian Deep Learning

User Andrew Foong, Siddharth Swaroop.

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

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

Strategic Classification

User Jiri Hron (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Machine Learning on Sets

User (University of Cambridge).

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

House Hangouts Meet (Link provided via e-mail).

Boltzmann Generators and Stochastic Normalizing Flows

User Vincent Stimper, Michael Bromberg.

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

House Hangouts Meet (Link provided via e-mail).

World Models

User Dr Gregor Simm (University of Cambridge).

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

Federated Learning

User Siddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge).

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

Evaluating Deep Generative Models on Out-of-Distribution Inputs

User Eric Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

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

Game Playing Meets Game Theory: Strategic Learning from Simulated Play

User wellman@umich.edu.

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

Learning Tensors and Random Matrix Theory

User Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (UCL).

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

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

Variational Smoothing in Recurrent Neural Network Language Models

User Dr. Lingpeng Kong (DeepMind).

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

Self-Supervised Representation Learning

User Javier Antoran (University of Cambridge).

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

Shaping Recommendations in a Marketplace via User & Content Understanding

User Rishabh Mehrotra (Spotify).

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

Kernel Mean Embeddings

User Elre Oldewage (University of Cambridge).

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

Beat the AI: Investigating Adversarial Human Annotations for Reading Comprehension

User Max Bartolo (UCL).

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

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

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

User Rafael A. Calvo, Imperial College London.

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

Neural Tangent Kernel

User Adria Garriga Alonso, Sebastian Ober.

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

Zero-shot Language Learning through Bayesian Neural Models

User Edoardo Maria Ponti (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Computational Models of the Influence of Context on Sentence Acceptability

User Shalom Lappin, University of Gothenburg.

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

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

Urban Dictionary Embeddings for Slang NLP Applications

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

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

Robust Deep Learning Under Distribution Shift

User Zack Lipton, CMU.

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

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

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

User Dirk Hovy, Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.

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

Can we optimise fashion ecommerce using NLG?

Note: earlier time of 11am

User Rory Waite (Emotif.ai).

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

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

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

User Aleksandar Savkov, Babylon.

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

Long Form Question Answering

User Angela Fan (Facebook).

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

Scalable Gaussian Processes

User David Burt, Andrew Foong.

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

Probabilistic Programming

User Hong Ge and John Bronskill.

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

House LT1, Computer Laboratory.

Unsupervised cross-lingual representation learning

Room Change: LT1

User Sebastian Ruder (DeepMind).

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

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

Natural Language Understanding and Generation with Abstract Meaning Representation

User Marco Damonte, the University of Edinburgh.

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

Neural Attention

User Elre Oldewage, George Hron.

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

CANCELLED Probabilistic models of graphs for meaning representations

Extra talk: note unusual day and time

User Adam Lopez (University of Edinburgh).

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

House LT1, Computer Laboratory.

Ethical considerations for responsible design

Room Change: LT1

User Shauna Concannon (University of Cambridge).

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

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

BioNLP Research at Google

User Ryan McDonald, Google.

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

Equivariance and Symmetries in CNNs

User James Allingham, Omer Sella.

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

Models and inference for temporal Gaussian processes

User William Wilkinson, Aalto University, Finland.

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

Hyperparameter Optimisation

User Ross Clarke, Erik Daxberger, Austin Tripp.

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

A Mutual Information Maximization Perspective of Language Representation Learning

User Lingpeng Kong (DeepMind).

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

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

Learning region based representations of categories

User Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University.

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

Meta-Learning or "Learning To Learn"

User John Bronskill, Marton Havasi.

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

Reinforcement Learning at Huawei: Robustness, Safety, and Efficiency

User Haitham Ammar, Huawei.

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

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

User Vincent Fortuin, ETH Zurich.

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

Automatic Analysis of Affect and Personality Analysis in Multiperson Settings

User Hatice Gunes (University of Cambridge).

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

Explaining Neural Networks: Post-hoc and Natural Language Explanations

User Oana Camburu, University of Oxford.

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

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

Unsupervised Question Answering

User Patrick Lewis, UCL.

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

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for Hierarchical Models

User Vidhi Lalchand.

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

Multimodal natural language processing: when text is not enough

User Lucia Specia (Imperial College London).

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

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

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

User Shuai Tang, University of California, San Diego.

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

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

Latent Variable Models for Text Generation

User Xiaoyu Shen, Saarland University / Max Planck Institute.

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

Learning-Algorithms from Bayesian Principles

User Emti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project.

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

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

User Lonneke van der Plas (University of Malta).

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

Rotation Invariant Householder Parameterization for Bayesian PCA

User Rajbir Nirwan, Goethe University, Frankfurt.

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

Two Approximate Sampling Methods for Bayesian Deep Learning

User Wesley Maddox (New York University).

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

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

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

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

Efficiency and Transferability of Neural Networks

User Amos Storkey, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

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

Natural Language Generation in the Wild

User Daniel Beck, University of Melbourne.

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

Learning via Data Compression: Bayesian Coresets and Sparse Variational Inference

User Trevor Campbell, University of British Columbia.

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

Deep Neural Networks: A Nonparametric Bayesian Approach with Local Competition

User Konstantinos P. Panousis.

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

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

User Burr Settles, Duolingo.

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

An Operation Sequence Model for Explainable Neural Machine Translation

User Felix Stahlberg, CUED, University of Cambridge.

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

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

User Reza Babaei.

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

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

User Guy Emerson, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Relational knowledge in vector spaces

User Luis Espinosa-Anke (University of Cardiff).

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

Towards secure and efficient DNNs

User Aaron Zhao, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Imitation learning, zero-shot learning and automated fact checking

User Andreas Vlachos (University of Cambridge).

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

Mitigating Gender Bias in Morphologically Rich Languages

User Ryan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Predicting and Analysing Online User Behaviour with Natural Language Processing

User Nikolaos Aletras (University of Sheffield).

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

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

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

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

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

User Victoria Rege, Scott Griffiths.

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

Particle MCMC

User Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

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

Factorising AMR generation through syntax

User Kris Cao, DeepMind.

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

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

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

User Marek Rei ( University of Cambridge).

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

Stochastic Differential Equations

User David Burt.

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

Nonparametric Generative Modeling via Optimal Transport and Diffusions with Provable Guarantees

User Umut Şimşekli, Télécom Paristech.

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

Languages* in Formal Reasoning: Accessibility vs. Formality

User Zohreh Shams, AI Group, University of Cambridge.

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

Generalisation in neural networks

User Marton Havasi.

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

Word Sense Disambiguation and Other Systems in Japanese

User Kanako Komiya, Ibaraki University, Japan.

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

An Overview of Normalizing Flows

User Robert Pinsler.

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

NeVAE: A Deep Generative Model for Molecular Graphs

User Abir De, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems.

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

Global model explainability via aggregation

User Umang Bhatt, CMU.

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

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

Finding translations in unordered text using multilingual sentence representations

User Jenna Kanerva, University of Turku.

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

Sampling as Optimization

User Eric Nalisnick, University of Cambridge.

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

Robust machine learning for causal inference in health care

User David Sontag, MIT.

Computational Neuroscience

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

The K-FAC method for neural network optimization

User James Martens, Google Deep Mind.

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

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

Disagreements in anaphoric interpretation

User Massimo Poesio ( University of Essex).

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

Implicit Variational Inference

User Andrew Foong (University of Cambridge).

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

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

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

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

Improving Literature-based Discovery with Neural Networks

User Gamal Crichton, Language Technology Lab.

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

Continual Learning: Definitions, Benchmarks, and Approaches

User Siddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge).

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

Learning multi-domain dialogues

User Paweł Budzianowski, CUED, University of Cambridge.

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

Causal Inference and Causal Reinforcement Learning

User Chaochao Lu (University of Cambridge).

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

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

User Dong Nguyen, University of Edinburgh & Alan Turing Institute.

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

Teaching Artificial Agents to Understand Language by Modelling Reward

User Edward Grefenstette, Facebook AI Research.

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

Generative models for few-shot prediction tasks

User Marta Garnelo (Google DeepMind).

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

Understanding Source Code using Natural Language and Graph Neural Networks

User Miltos Allamanis, Microsoft Research.

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

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

User Eric T Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

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

Online Meta-Learning

User Massimiliano Pontil, University College London.

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

Logical Uncertainty

User Adrià Garriga Alonso (University of Cambridge).

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

Learning to navigate without a map (but with instructions)

User Piotr Mirowski, DeepMind.

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

Probabilistic Typology

User Ryan Cotterell ( University of Cambridge).

Computational Neuroscience

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

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

User Dr. Andrew Saxe, University of Oxford.

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

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

Topic-Aware Convolutional Neural Networks for Extreme Summarization

User Shashi Narayan, University of Edinburgh / Google.

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

Gauge Equivariant Convolutional Networks on Manifolds

User Taco Cohen.

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

Stein Discrepancy

User Sebastian Ober (University of Cambridge).

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

CANCELLED Probabilistic Typology: Deep Generative Models of Vowel Inventories

User Ryan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

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

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

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

User Tom Everitt (DeepMind).

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

Learning and testing compositionality

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

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

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

User Ronan Cummins & Michael Ewbank, Ieso Digital Health.

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

Fairness for Sequential Decision Making Algorithms

User Hoda Heidari.

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

Gaussian processes for inferring latent functions in complex data models

User Martin Tegner.

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

House FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Graph Neural Networks for Knowledge Base Question Answering

Room changed

User Daniil Sorokin, Technische Universität Darmstadt.

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

Linguistic Measures for the Detection of Clinical Conditions

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

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

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations

User Eric T Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

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

Emergence of (linguistic) communication through multi-agent interactions

User Angeliki Lazaridou, DeepMind.

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

Natural gradient in deep neural networks

User Alberto Bernacchia (University of Cambridge).

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

House FW11, Computer Laboratory.

The Ethics of Artificially Intelligent Communications Technology

Room changed

User Marcus Tomalin, CUED, University of Cambridge.

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

Learning with Explanations

User Tim Rocktäschel, Facebook AI Research.

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

Graph Neural Networks

User Matej Balog (University of Cambridge).

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

Knowledge Representation and Extraction at Scale

User Christos Christodoulopoulos, Amazon.

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

Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings in 60 Minutes

User Ivan Vulić, LTL, University of Cambridge.

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

Defending Against Adversarial Attacks

User Ross Clarke (University of Cambridge).

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

On KL divergence and beyond

User Yingzhen Li, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

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

Reinforcement Learning and Control as Probabilistic Inference

User Robert Pinsler, Calvin Kao.

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

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

User Kostas Kyriakopoulos, CUED, University of Cambridge.

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

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

User Pasquale Minervini, University College London.

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

Learning, Representing, and Understanding Language

User Aida Nematzadeh, DeepMind.

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

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

LTL Seminars 2018/2019

Practical Approaches to Conversational AI

User Pei-Hao (Eddy) Su, PolyAI.

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

Some lessons learned in Multimodal Representations and Transfer

User Pranava Madhyastha, Imperial College London.

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

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

LTL Seminars 2018/2019

LION-LBD: Literature-Based Discovery for Cancer Biology

User Simon Baker, LTL.

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

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

User Mihaela van der Schaar .

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

Imitation learning, zero-shot learning and automated fact checking

User Andreas Vlachos, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

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

House Engineering Department, Board Room on the 2nd Floor.

Interpretability - the myth, questions, and some answers

User Been Kim, Google Brain.

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

House dyson teaching room (TBC).

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

User Biwei Huang, CMU.

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

Fast yet Simple Natural-Gradient Variational Inference in Complex Models

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

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

Variance in Policy Gradient methods and Learning Sequential Latent Variable Models

User George Tucker, Google Brain.

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

Structured deep models: Deep learning on graphs and beyond

User Thomas Kipf (Uni of Amsterdam).

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

Language Adaptation experiments: Cross-lingual embeddings for related languages

User Serge Sharoff (Leeds).

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness

User Prof. Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania).

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

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

User Guy Emerson, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

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

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

User Paul Nulty (CRASSH-Cambridge).

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

Learning hierarchical structure: strong learning of PCFGs

User Alexander Clark, King's College London.

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

Imitation learning for language generation

User Gerasimos Lampouras (Sheffield).

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

NAACL practice talks

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

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

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

User Julius von Kugelgen.

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

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

User Alexander Kuhnle, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

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

Emergent Communication through Negotiation

User Kris Cao, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

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

Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social Networks

User Ana Stoica, Columbia University.

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

Predictive Uncertainty in Deep Learning

User Andrey Malinin, CUED, University of Cambridge.

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

Scalable Non-Markovian Language Modelling

User Ehsan Shareghi.

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

Multilingual NLP via Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings

User Ivan Vulic, LTL, University of Cambridge.

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

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 11.

A Bayesian Perspective on Generalization and SGD

User Dr. Samuel L. Smith, Google Brain.

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

Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social Networks

User Ana Stoica, Columbia University.

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

cancelled

User Julian Perez, Naver Labs Europe.

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

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

Knowledge Acquisition from Corpora and the Wisdom of Crowds

User Daisuke Kawahara (Kyoto University).

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

Virtual bargaining as a micro-foundation for communication

Note unusual time

User Professor Nick Chater, University of Warwick.

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

Neural Networks and Natural Language Processing

User Matej Balog (University of Cambridge).

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

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

User John P. Cunningham.

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

Jointly Learning Syntax and Semantics

User Jean Maillard, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

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

Information Theory, Codes, and Compression

User Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

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

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

NLP in the clinical domain - data, approaches and considerations

User Sumithra Velupillai (King's College).

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

Constructing datasets for multi-hop reading comprehension across documents

User Johannes Welbl, University College London.

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

Deep reinforcement learning for dialogue policy optimisation

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

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

Lipschitz Global Optimization

User Professor Yaroslav D Sergeyev, Universita della Calabria.

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

House Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Statistical Learning Theory

User Maria Lomeli.

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

Predicting Judicial Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights

User Nikos Aletras (Sheffield).

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

Pruning and grafting syntactic trees for cross-lingual transfer tasks

User Edoardo Ponti, TAL, University of Cambridge.

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

Graph Convolutional Networks for Natural Language Processing and Relational Modeling

User Ivan Titov (Edinburgh).

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

House Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Deep Generative Models

User Jonathan Gordon; Alexander Matthews.

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

House Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Minimum Description Length

User Carl E. Rasmussen; Niki Kilbertus.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 13:30-15:00

Interdisciplinarity: The art of unsettling multiple disciplines

User Petar Milin (Sheffield).

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

Context Sensitive Distributional Semantics

User Stephen McGregor (TCIDA, Goldsmiths).

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

House Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Machine Learning for Sounds

User Akisato Kimura.

Thursday 11 January 2018, 13:30-15:00

Senses can help vector space models of lexical substitution

User Marianna Apidianaki (LIMSI).

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

House Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

NIPS 2017 Highlights

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Thursday 14 December 2017, 13:30-15:00

Variational inference for some models with Polya-Gamma latent variables and Gaussian process priors

User Manfred Opper, TU Berlin.

Wednesday 13 December 2017, 13:30-14:30

Bayesian Generative Adversarial Networks

User Professor Andrew Wilson, Cornell University.

Wednesday 13 December 2017, 11:00-12:00

AI for Inclusive Finance

User Alan Qi and Le Song.

Friday 01 December 2017, 11:00-12:00

House Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Hardware Efficient Machine Learning

User Robert Peharz; Marton Havasi.

Thursday 30 November 2017, 13:30-15:00

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

Sentence Generation using a Dynamic Canvas

User David Barber (University College London).

Thursday 30 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Backprop through the Void: Optimizing Control Variates for Black-Box Gradient Estimation.

User Geoff Roeder (University of Toronto).

Monday 27 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Imitation learning for structured prediction and automated fact checking

User Dr Andreas Vlachos, University of Sheffield.

Friday 24 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Learning to Learn without Gradient Descent by Gradient Descent

User Yutian Chen, DeepMind.

Friday 24 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

House Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Learning to Learn

User Siddharth Swaroop; Will Tebbutt.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 13:30-15:00

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

Learning to Create and Reuse Words in Open-Vocabulary Language Modeling

User Kazuya Kawakami (DeepMind).

Thursday 23 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

House FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Internal seminar - new PhD students

User New NLIP PhDs.

Friday 17 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Towards true end-to-end learning & optimization

User Dr Frank Hutter.

Friday 17 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

House Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

WGAN and Optimal Transport

User Mark Rowland; Wenbo Gong.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 13:30-15:00

Labelling Topics Using Neural Networks

User Nikolaos Aletras, Amazon Research Cambridge.

Friday 10 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

House Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Interpretability in Machine Learning

User Adrian Weller; Tameem Adel Hesham.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 13:30-15:00

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

What can online collaborative dictionaries tell us about language and social dynamics?

User Barbara McGillivray (The Alan Turing Institute/University of Cambridge).

Thursday 09 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

House Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Deep Structured Prediction for Handwriting Recognition

User Juan Murillo Fuentes.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 13:30-15:00

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

Corpus-Based Analysis of the Canonical Word Order of Japanese Double Object Constructions

User Ryohei Sasano (Nagoya University).

Thursday 02 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Targeted Disclosure to Support Auditing and Accountability for Automated Decision-making

User Joshua Kroll.

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Grounded language learning in simulated worlds

User Felix Hill, DeepMind.

Friday 27 October 2017, 12:00-13:00

House Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Cooperative Inverse RL

User Robert Pinsler; Adria Garriga Alonso.

Thursday 26 October 2017, 13:30-15:00

Towards More Robust and Interpretable Models for Structured Prediction and Language Generation

User Adhiguna Kuncoro, DeepMind.

Friday 20 October 2017, 12:00-13:00

House Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Infer.NET

User John F. Bronskill.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 13:30-15:00

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

Internal LTL Seminar

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

Nonlinear ICA using temporal structure: a principled framework for unsupervised deep learning

User Prof. Aapo Hyvarinen.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

House JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Transfer Learning for NLP

User Sebastian Ruder, INSIGHT Centre.

Friday 13 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Neural Models for Information Retrieval

User Bhaskar Mitra, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Friday 13 October 2017, 12:00-13:00

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

Internal LTL Seminar

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

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

Detecting Semantic Change Using LDA in Historical Texts: a Case Study on Dutch

User Simon Hengchen (Université libre de Bruxelles).

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Text-to-text Generation Beyond Machine Translation

User Shashi Narayan, University of Edinburgh.

Friday 06 October 2017, 12:00-13:00

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

Detecting Text Reuse in Large Historical Corpora and Authorship Attribution of Premodern Documents

User Aleksi Vesanto (University of Turku).

Tuesday 03 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

A Bayesian Treatment for Uncertainty -- and its application in health care

User Dr Cheng Zhang.

Tuesday 26 September 2017, 15:00-16:00

Finite-State Transducers as a Theory of Dependency Structured Natural Language

User Anssi Yli-Jyrä, University of Helsinki.

Friday 22 September 2017, 12:00-13:00

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

Natural Language Processing to Bridge Heterogeneous Data

User Yusuke Miyao (National Institute of Informatics, Japan).

Tuesday 19 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

Unbiased Estimation of the Eigenvalues of Large Implicit Matrices

User Professor Ryan Adams, Princeton.

Thursday 14 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

The Grammar Variational Autoencoder & Counterfactual Fairness

User Dr Matt Kusner.

Tuesday 12 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

Accelerating computation of SVM and DNN by binary approximation

User Hironobu Fujiyoshi (Chubu University) .

Friday 08 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

Towards User-Friendly Image Inpainting: Learning-to-Rank based Image Quality Assessment for Image Inpainting

User Mariko Isogawa (NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories) .

Friday 08 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

Deep learning for autonomous driving

User Takayoshi Yamashita (Chubu University) .

Friday 08 September 2017, 11:00-12:00