AI Seminar

Jan 18

4:00 pm

Information Extraction from Online Text — from Opinions to Arguments to Persuasion

Jan 22

4:00 pm

Computational Modeling in Human-Computer Interaction

Mar 13

10:30 am

Towards Generalization and Efficiency in Reinforcement Learning

Mar 21

10:30 am

Understanding and Improving Deep Neural Networks

Mar 26

1:30 pm

Efficient Training and Inference in Deep Learning

Apr 1

10:30 am

Towards Human-Level Recognition via Contextual, Dynamic, and Predictive Representations

Apr 4

10:30 am

The Role of Context in Natural Language Processing

Apr 8

10:30 am

Bridging Data, Design, and Domain Knowledge to Build Human-Centered Systems that Support Wellbeing

Apr 11

10:30 am

Learning Hierarchical Control Programs

Apr 17

10:30 am

Why Do Neural Networks Learn?

May 21

1:00 pm

Efficient Algorithms for Learning Combinatorial Structures from Limited Data

Sep 24

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm

Game Playing Meets Game Theory: Strategic Learning from Simulated Play

Oct 1

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm

Computational exercises of creative language

Oct 8

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm

Friends Don’t Let Friends Deploy Black-Box Models: The Importance of Intelligibility in Machine Learning for HealthCare

Nov 5

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm

Toward Human-Like AI: Cognitive Architecture, Common Model of Cognition & Interactive Task Learning

Nov 12

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm

Joint Models for Social, Behavioral and Textual Information

Nov 19

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm

From Recognition to Reasoning

Jan 7

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm

Applications of AI for Accessibility

Jan 14

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm

Software Engineering Intelligence

Jan 21

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm

Language Grounding in Situated Communication

Jan 30

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

NumPy: A look at the past, present, and future of array computation

Feb 25

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm

Distortion-based Analysis of Voting: Limited Communication, and an Analysis Framework based on LP Duality and Flows

May 5

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Efficient Belief Propagation for Perception and Manipulation in Clutter

May 5

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm

Learning sight from sound

Sep 22

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Semantic Scholar, NLP, and the Fight Against COVID-19

Oct 6

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Pascale Fung | Deeper Conversational AI

Oct 20

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Danielle Belgrave | ML for Personalized Mental Healthcare

Nov 3

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Jitendra Malik | Where Do We Come From, What Are We Doing, Where Are We Going

Mar 30

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Toward Broad and Deep Language Processing for Intelligent Systems

Apr 27

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Empathy in peer-to-peer mental health support

Sep 28

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Machine Learning and Causality: Building Efficient, Reliable Models for Decision-Making

Oct 1

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Me, AI; You, Human—Advances in Human-AI Cooperation

Oct 5

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Continual Language Learning through Collaborative Interaction with Users

Oct 12

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

The facebook files at training time: incentivizing discrimination in machine learning

Oct 19

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Knowledge-enhanced Text Generation: The Curious Case of Figurative Language and Argumentation

Oct 26

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Inference and the “Racial Drama” of AI

Nov 2

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Approaches to Grounded Language Acquisition from Human Interaction

Nov 9

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Neural Architecture

Dec 7

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Expanding the frontiers of AI – Applications in Environmental Conservation and Health

Jan 25

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Defining cellular identity from single-cell genomic data with machine learning

Feb 1

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Algorithmic Gaussianization in Machine Learning

Feb 8

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Human-Centered Explainable AI (XAI): From Algorithms to User Experiences

Mar 22

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Bringing Ethics and Justice into CS Courses: The Social and Political Factors at Play in Entry-Level CS Concepts

Sep 27

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

AI Seminar: Rada Mihalcea – The Ups and Downs of Word Embeddings

Oct 4

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

AI Seminar: Benjamin Kuipers – AI, Ethics, Trust, Cooperation & Society

Oct 11

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

AI Seminar: Con Slobodchikoff – Decoding Animal Languages: Possibilities and Challenges

Nov 8

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

AI Seminar: David Jurgens – Does chocolate really cure cancer? Modeling Information Change in Science Communication

Nov 29

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

AI Seminar: Iryna Gurevych – Comment – Link – Revise: Towards a General Framework for Modelling Interconnected Texts

Dec 6

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

AI Seminar: Stella Yu – Unsupervised Data-Driven Learning of Visual Hierarchy

Jan 24

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

AI Seminar: Cynthia Rudin – Understanding How Dimension Reduction Tools Work

Jan 31

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Confounding-Robust Policy Learning under Sequentially Exogenous Unobserved Confounders

Mar 23

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

A Defense of (Empirical) Neural Tangent Kernels

Apr 4

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Exploiting Domain Knowledge and Modular Semantics in Deep Learning for Natural Language Comprehension and Grounding

May 11

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Preparing for Your Industrial Job Search

Jul 17

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Effective and Efficient Knowledge-Intensive NLP

Sep 1

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Measuring and Improving the Internal Conceptual Representations of Deep Learning

Sep 19

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Postcards from the Future

Sep 26

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Learning to Re-create Reality in 3D

Sep 29

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Answering Why Questions about Narrative Text

Oct 10

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Task Planning with Large Language Models

Oct 18

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Recent Advancements in Quantization, Pruning and Knowledge Distillation

Oct 24

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Learning Syntactic Structures from Visually Grounded Text and Speech

Nov 7

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Interaction Design Challenges for AI in Medicine

Nov 14

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at Howard University

Nov 16

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Automatically Capturing and Reflecting Latent Label Dependencies in Machine Learning Models

Nov 28

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Bridging AI, Data, and Epidemiological Models

Dec 5

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Data-driven Solutions for Blood Glucose Management

Jan 16

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Code Representation Learning at Scale

Jan 17

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Strategic Reasoning in Machine Learning, with Implications for Security and Fairness

Jan 30

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Realizing AI for Impact: Uncertainty and Human-Agent Collaboration in Multi-Agent Systems for Public Health and Conservation

Feb 13

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

From Autonomy to Synergy: Envisioning Next Generation Human-AI Partnerships

Mar 5

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Towards a Science of Human-AI Decision Making: Empirical Understandings, Computational Models, and Intervention Designs

Mar 26

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

On Building General-Purpose Home Robots

Mar 27

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Ethical AI in Healthcare

Apr 3

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Leveraging Formal Methods for Trustworthy AI-assisted Software Development

Apr 23

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Sparse Feature Circuits: Discovering and Editing Interpretable Causal Graphs in Language Models

Jun 11

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Scalable Real-time Abnormal Event Detection

Sep 10

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

AI Lab Idea Snippets

Sep 17

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

The Future is Hear: Innovations from the Interactive Audio Lab

Sep 24

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Weight Space Learning: Learning Representations of Populations of Neural Networks

Oct 1

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Broadening Perspectives on African Governance in the Age of AI

Oct 11

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Knowledge-guided Machine Learning

Oct 25

3:45 pm - 4:45 pm

Building a Unicorn Startup and Accelerating Innovation with AI Physics

Oct 29

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

The Next Big Thing in A.I.

Oct 30

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Web Agents: A New Frontier for Embodied Agents

Nov 21

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Leveraging AI to Address Poverty-related Issues

Nov 25

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Small Hybrid Language Model

Dec 10

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Benchmarking LLMs’ Judgments with No Gold Standard

Jan 21

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Personal Assistive Technology

Jan 28

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Harnessing collaborative intelligence in the Post-LLM world

Jan 31

9:30 am - 10:30 am

Understanding LLMs: How They Function and How They Have Changed

Mar 17

1:30 am - 2:30 pm

The Computational Gauntlet of Human-Like Learning

Mar 18

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Executable and Trustworthy Planning with Large Language Models

Mar 21

9:30 am - 10:50 am

Optimizing for Long-Term Vision in a Fast-Paced Research World

Apr 4

9:30 am - 10:50 am

Generative Models of Video

Apr 11

9:30 am - 10:50 am

AI for Social Impact: Deployed Resource Optimization and Future Acceleration with Foundation Models

May 2

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Data Attribution: A Principled Approach for Data-Centric AI

May 5

10:00 am - 11:30 am

Rethinking Online Content Ecosystems through the Lens of Computational Economics

May 8

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

NLP is Dead, Long Live NLP