Cong Shen

Associate Professor at ECE@UVA. UCLA Bruin.

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If you are at #NeurIPS2024, please stop by our two posters on in-context learning and LLM on Friday. The prompt optimization work will be in East Exhibit Hall A-C #2800 11:00 - 2:00, and the transformer as game player work will be in East Exhibit Hall A-C #2704 16:30 - 19:30.

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@WenxiWang4 @UVA Welcome to UVA!

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What’s the connection between bandits and LLMs? We found a surprisingly effective approach using best arm identification for prompt learning. Led by two of my amazing students @chengshuai_shi and Kun Yang. Check out the paper & code!

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🚨New Paper Available!🚨

🧵1/4 Having trouble efficiently finding a good prompt for your task?
Exploring applications of multi-armed bandits in the era of LLM?
Check out our work on “Best Arm Identification for Prompt Learning Under a Limited Budget”!
https://t.co/oc6uyyYaNL

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@yumeng0818 Welcome!!

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@yangfeng_ji Jealous!

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@thegautamkamath Eh, KDD starts at 8am but luckily in the west coast this time…

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@Burghoff @utexasece Congratulations!

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@YiMaTweets Always the best motivation for writing a new book!

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Proud advisor moment!

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Such an honor to receive the Louis T. Rader Graduate Research Award from @uvaece!

Many thanks to my parents and friends for supporting me all along, to my amazing advisor @congshen for generous guidance, and to @uvaece @UVAEngineers for recognizing my work!

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We collected 409 pairs of shoes in our annual shoe drive! Thank you kindergarten for organizing.

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@ProfStuder @Asilomar_SSC Wish I were there

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@yangfeng_ji @AmazonScience Congratulations!!

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Come and join us, either in person or virtually!

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The @SpectrumXCenter meeting has kicked off this morning at the University of Virginia. Take a look at the sessions, agenda, and join the virtual option:

https://t.co/wCf60zNqY1
#NSFfunded #spectrum @UVAEngineers

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@IoanaBica95 @DeepMind Congratulations!

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First in person group meeting in a long time!

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@c_brinton congrats!

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@Dr_S_Zhang @UVA_College Congratulations!

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@bigflywth @UVA Welcome to UVA!

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Join Vince Poor’s April 30 UVA ECE webinar about enabling technologies for 6G wireless networks. Poor will outline four paradigm shifts driving innovation: global coverage; enhanced efficiency; greater intelligence; and network security. https://t.co/WOHbV77uov

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A note to myself