SoCal NLP Symposium

☀️🏝️Annual symposium with students and faculty to promote NLP research in the (Southern) California region 👩‍💻 #SoCalNLP2023 🔜 @ucla, posts by @BrihiJ

[Michael Saxon @m2saxon]

@socalnlp Thank you organizers! Especially @qinyuan_ye @christinachanc @MMonajatipoor @BrihiJ @Wade_Yin9712

Behind-the-scenes student organizers don't get as much time to enjoy the amazing networking, sharing, and learning opportunities that their own volunteering enables!

Thank you all!

[SoCal NLP Symposium @socalnlp]

Thank you to everyone who attended SoCal NLP 2023 at UCLA today. We are thrilled to have over 250 participants and 151 posters from universities across Southern California and beyond. A special shout-out to all the volunteers who made this possible!

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🏝️And that’s a wrap! Thank you everyone for travelling or driving to Los Angeles/@ucla and #SoCalNLP2023! It was a fun day with great discussions, networking and some gossip strewn in from recent news 🤭

See you all next year!!!

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Lastly, the #SoCalNLP2023 theme track award went to @Erf_Shayegani et. al 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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Next, we have @Ber18791531 et. al’s amazing work, that also won an award at #SoCalNLP2023! 👏🏼

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Our first award winner at #SoCalNLP2023 - this amazing work by @DeqingFu et. al 🙌🏼

[UC Santa Cruz Natural Language Processing MS @UCSC_NLP_MS]

That concludes #SoCalNLP2023! Thank you to everyone who stopped by our posters, and great job to the organizers @socalnlp! We are honored to have had this opportunity to share our work.

#NLProc #MachineLearning

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Our last speaker, Dan Roth, talked about understanding how LLMs *reason* (+ how defining reasoning in this age is very complex!)

Fun Part? 😂 Dan shows how LLMs are still not able to plan and reason, by showing how LLMs are not able to address LA’s parking situation 🚨

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Next, we have the amazing @tatsu_hashimoto, talking about how to probe and understand black-box LMs better! 🙌🏼

What we loved? How @tatsu_hashimoto highlighted that we know *very* little about these LLMs that we love and use 🤔

#SoCalNLP2023 #NLProc

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Hey @sama we hear your afternoon’s freed up now, wanna come hang with us at #SoCalNLP2023?

(Special invitation from @Tejas__S__ )

[Sam Altman @sama]

i loved my time at openai. it was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. most of all i loved working with such talented people.

will have more to say about what’s next later.

🫡

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Our amazing next speaker @alsuhr talked about continual learning in language grounded scenarios 🤖👶🏽

Best part? The amazing demo with @alsuhr collaborating with an agent to play CerealBar 🤝

[William Wang @WilliamWangNLP]

Next up is Berkeley NLP’s Alane Suhr, who is talking about continual learning of language grounding from situated human agent interactions. #NLProc

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Our next speaker @xiangrenNLP talked about how models and humans are good are different tasks, and we can try to get the best out of them! 🤖🦾🙆🏼

What we loved? How @xiangrenNLP added his research wishlist to the talk!

[Avijit Thawani (Avi) @thawani_avijit]

According to https://t.co/WfQAW31jTP, this is the most concentrated NLP summit ever!

SoCal NLP publications easily outnumber any other university by a factor of two!

[William Wang @WilliamWangNLP]

Just as we heard the OpenAI news, @xiangrenNLP got on the stage to talk about using common sense logic to probe LLMs. #SoCalNLP2023

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See a poster with giant text? It’s got to be @m2saxon!

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The 2nd Poster Session is underway!

[Michael Saxon @m2saxon]

First "I do have results on that but sorry I can't talk about them because of the anonymity period" of #SoCalNLP happened during a Q&A 😂

[UC Santa Cruz Natural Language Processing MS @UCSC_NLP_MS]

Presentations in progress at @socalnlp. Come and check out our papers!

#NLProc #baskinengineering #ucsantacruz

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Poster Session #1 is ongoing!! Don’t forget to get a cup of coffee people ☕️

#SoCalNLP2023 #NLProc