Jeff Dalton

Associate Professor in CS, lead of @grill_lab_ai. PhD from CIIR@UMass Amherst. Research on the future of digital assistants and IR. Formerly Google, Twitter.

[Jeff Dalton @JeffD]

I’ve spent my career studying the science of search. The new generation of LLM models asks us to fundamentally reimagine everything. Here's what it mean's for AI Coaching at Valence:
https://t.co/KLQldSnY7J

[Jeff Dalton @JeffD]

The next post in my #SWRL2025 series is up on Linkedin - https://t.co/tF3OY1aZqo

It covers the arrival to Melbourne and the opening gathering setting the stage for the week. Coffee pictures with @lauradietz99.

[Jeff Dalton @JeffD]

This week I’m in Australia for the 4th Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval (https://t.co/UEIB8vPvoS). I’ll be posting with some of the highlights, big questions, new breakthroughs, and more.

See post details on Linkedin - https://t.co/ltBW7Brbyw

[Greg Yang @TheGregYang]

The future belongs to those who do evals

[Sophie Fischer @sophie_fisch]

Come and chat about our #KDD2024 poster (#99) about lessons learned during the development of GRILLBot, our #AlexaPrize conversational task assistant ☀️

w/ @JeffD @carlos_gemmell @iain_with_2is @FedingoRoss91 @grill_lab_ai @EdinburghNLP

Preprint: https://t.co/iS1vsHnTy2

[Sophie Fischer @sophie_fisch]

Excited that our paper "GRILLBot In Practice: Lessons and Tradeoffs Deploying Large Language Models for Adaptable Conversational Task Assistants" will appear at #KDD2024 - including many @AmazonScience #AlexaPrize insights from @grill_lab_ai!

Preprint: https://t.co/HYsUhhsUzk

[Malted AI @Malted_AI]

We are thrilled to announce we have closed a £6m seed round led by @HoxtonVentures . To shrink AI models to solve the world’s hardest enterprise problems.
This follows our £1m pre-seed in August led by @CreatorFund
https://t.co/RgaxgyE0lF

[sridhar @RamaswmySridhar]

@SnowflakeDB is open sourcing the best embedding models in the world! 🚀🚀

They are now available open source in @huggingface We are releasing it under the Apache 2 license so that it is easy for the OSS community to experiment with them freely.🎁🎁

These impressive models are the result of @Neeva's
expertise in search, state-of-the-art research, and @SnowflakeDB ’s steadfast commitment to excellence in AI.

It’s incredible to see what the team has built, and even better to delight our customers day after day with our latest innovations.

[Jeff Dalton @JeffD]

Research rethinking a search pipeline leveraging passage-level feedback and entity representations. @grill_lab_ai. Also available on arxiv: https://t.co/vecvPAJPv0

[KEIR @keirworkshop]

Listening to @iain_with_2is presenting his very interesting work entitled: "Adaptive Latent Entity Expansion for Document Retrieval" at @keirworkshop .

[GRILL Lab @grill_lab_ai]

Congratulations 🎊🎉 to all members! More exciting work on LLMs and conversational search coming up. Finally, we are hiring PhD students and postdocs! Get in touch with PI Jeff Dalton ([email protected]) to discuss the positions. (6/6)

[Tech At Bloomberg @TechAtBloomberg]

Visiting Professor @JeffD of @InfAtEd & our #AI Group will discuss real-world challenges deploying generative LLMs in his #ECIR2024 Industry Day keynote (11 AM GMT): "Generative AI in Finance: Automatic, Topic-based Summaries for Earnings Call Transcripts"
https://t.co/ooOs5djAUH

[Jeff Dalton @JeffD]

And for a bit of throwback, my first talk at a research conference was at the first ECIR Industry Day in 2008. From my days working on search quality
@GlobalSpecLLC before starting a PhD
@manningcics later in the Fall.

From the Wayback Machine:
https://t.co/FxVvedR6s3

[Jeff Dalton @JeffD]

Today @ 11, I'm excited to speak at the #ecir2024 Industry Day giving a keynote on "Generative AI in Finance: Automatic, Topic-based Summaries for Earnings Call Transcripts" with @TechAtBloomberg.

[Jeff Dalton @JeffD]

My group, @grill_lab_ai at @InfAtEd has openings for multiple postdocs and PhD students to work on the future of interactive assistants, generative retrieval, and Large Language Models (LLMs). We're at #ecir2024, so please come chat.

[Jeff Dalton @JeffD]

Exciting new work on scaling creation of personalized search sessions with LLMs. Congrats team! @grill_lab_ai.

[Faegheh Hasibi @fhasibi]

Glad to share our accepted #SIGIR2024 full paper "Doing Personal LAPS: LLM-Augmented Dialogue Construction for Personalized Multi-Session Conversational Search" lead by @hideaki_joko w/ @ShubhamC526 @JeffD @arjenpdevries @fhasibi

[Jeff Dalton @JeffD]

@julia_kiseleva It was very tempting! Logistics didn't quite work this year. Sorry to miss it!

[Jeff Dalton @JeffD]

I look forward to seeing you at #ecir2024 in Glasgow soon! As my current base, I know it well. I'm happy to share two food maps:
- A top 50 Food & Drink list just for ECIR https://t.co/7KCaf965TL
- My full list https://t.co/r6jvUyARna

Research welcome!

[Iain Mackie @iain_with_2is]

A lot of fun being @cikm2023