Abubakar

Assistant Professor Uni of Kentucky
NLP | AI | ML | DL | Data Science
Zero-shot Learning | Unsupervised Learning
Conversational AI | Natural Language Interfaces

[Abubakar @abu_bakar]

Anyone attending #CIKM2022 in-person or virtually? You might find this session interesting. BTW, I am also presenting.

[Abubakar @abu_bakar]

The core component of the work.

[Abubakar @abu_bakar]

After a long wait... Finally, the decision is out for Full papers #CIKM2022
Fortunately, one of my papers also got #accepted. Details to follow soon.

[javinpaul @javinpaul]

6 System Design Questions
1. Youtube Design - https://t.co/vVxyRk44za
2. Instagram Design - https://t.co/n6j5ITbGV4
3. Design an LMS - https://t.co/Bp1LdUWOsU
4. WhatsApp - https://t.co/kmXFPpNEvg
5. Parking Lot - https://t.co/yQ6r3jjWLi
6. URL Shortner - https://t.co/LuBDso8QFu

[labml.ai @labmlai]

Implementation of Transformer with side-by-side notes

📝 Multi-head attention: https://t.co/UVn96sfApP
📝 Positional encoding: https://t.co/4QExkoavLs
📝 Encoder/Decoder: https://t.co/v0hUEkHnYF

👇

[Gabriel Preda @PredaGabi]

Transformers from scratch

A step by step, incredibly detailed, introduction to Transformers.
https://t.co/xYKPeTUMTn

[Papers with Code @paperswithcode]

10 Recent Trends in Language Models

In this thread, we summarize ten recent trends and insights in language models. ↓

[Nathan Jacobs @jacobsn]

Please pass this along to anyone you think might be interested in working with me!

[Christopher Manning @chrmanning]

@daveojeda There isn’t a good new textbook (versus the ~3 good books on how things were around a decade ago). But there are some good new tutorials: @craig_macdonald et al.’s Terrier team for neural IR https://t.co/Llz0ReCbAo and @danqi_chen and @scottyih’s for QA https://t.co/W6PC3V17T1 .

[Abubakar @abu_bakar]

Our zero-label approach for anaphora resolution at #icsc2022 #nlp

[Nasrin Mostafazadeh @nasrinmmm]

I'm sick of opening my NLU talks with the same exact classic motivating example for 10 years now!! (and I am sure others are too). Someone at @stanfordnlp should just fix this one-off so that I can't use it anymore and we can all assume the state has changed!😄

[ACL Mentorship @aclmentorship]

How to successfully build collaborations, reach out, expand your network, build trust? Our mentors @mohitban47 @barbara_plank & jian_su have many useful suggestions! Check out the 2nd @ACLmentorship session🙂

📃 Blog: https://t.co/1qD7JCHTpf
🎦 Recording: https://t.co/2EDFUhedVx

[Abubakar @abu_bakar]

Proud family moment. Welcome to the #PhD club @_UmarFarooq; 3rd in the family. You made us all proud once more. Even #COVID19 could not slow you down. #PhDone #Computer_Science @UCR_CSE #ucr #phdlife

[Siddharth Mohan @siddharthm83]

I had a panic attack during my first ever presentation due to stage fright.

It crushed my self-confidence.

Today, I can deliver a great presentation even at 2 a.m.

Here are 7 steps that I took (and you can too!) to present with confidence 🧵...

[Abubakar @abu_bakar]

@chrmanning Without considering repute of authors and that of Institutes, it is hard to make such claims.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Ego4D: 2200 hours of first-person videos collected from 700 persons around the world going about their daily activities.
Labels provided for a number of tasks relevant to AI assistants, robotics, etc.
A collaboration between Facebook AI, FRL Labs, and 13 universities worldwide.

[The Web Conference @TheWebConf]

Proceedings from #TheWebConf 2021 are available on the @ACMDL ACM Digital Library and in full open access from the following links
Main: https://t.co/a4DMt2wV9F
Companion: https://t.co/6K2IgaKfps
Thank you to all the authors and contributors!
#proceedings #www21 #web

[University of Kentucky @universityofky]

“Records are meant to be broken.”

Starting off this Monday recognizing our Wildcats' 12 Olympic Medals — a new school-record! 🏅

https://t.co/VpzvoT9nPd

[Abubakar @abu_bakar]

Super excited to start a new position this fall at @universityofky as Assistant Professor. #NLProc
Looking forward to have an exciting and fruitful time here.