Schedule
All events will be held in McKenna Hall 215/216.
A map of poster locations can be found here
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Time | Activity |
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08:00–09:00 | Breakfast (provided) and Registration |
09:00–09:05 | Welcome |
09:05–10:00 |
Keynote: Karen Livescu, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
On the (Co-)Evolution of Universal Written, Spoken, and Signed Language Processing |
10:00–10:15 | Break |
10:15–11:00 |
Talk Session 1 Chair: Bang Nguyen
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11:00–11:15 | Break |
11:15–12:00 |
Talk Session 2 Chair: Yining Lu
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12:00–13:00 | Lunch (provided) |
13:00–14:00 | Poster Session 1 Chair: Ken Sible |
14:00–14:45 |
Talk Session 3 Chair: Aarohi Srivastava
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14:45–15:00 | Break |
15:00–16:00 | Poster Session 2 Chair: Stephen Bothwell |
16:00–16:55 |
Keynote: Heng Ji, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
AI Plays Medicinal Chemist and Material Scientist |
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Time | Activity |
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08:00–09:00 | Breakfast (provided) and Registration |
09:00–09:05 | Announcements |
09:05–10:00 |
Keynote: David Mortensen, Carnegie Mellon University
The Reconstruction Will Not Be Supervised |
10:00–10:15 | Break |
10:15–11:00 |
Talk Session 4 Chair: Andy Yang
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11:15–12:00 |
Talk Session 5 Chair: Katsumi Ibaraki
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12:00–13:00 | Lunch (provided) |
13:00–14:00 | Poster Session 3 Chair: Ken Sible |
14:00–14:55 |
Keynote: Mohit Bansal, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Planning Agents for Collaborative Reasoning and Multimodal Generation |
14:55–15:00 | Closing |
Poster Session 1 (Tuesday 13:00–14:00)
No. | Authors | Title | Board No. |
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5 | Xiangyu Zhou, Yao Qiang, Saleh Zare Zade, Douglas Zytko, Prashant Khanduri, Dongxiao Zhu | Not All Tokens Are Meant to Be Forgotten | 1 |
72 | Binwei Yao, Zefan Cai, Yun-Shiuan Chuang, Shanglin Yang, Ming Jiang, Diyi Yang, Junjie Hu | No Preference Left Behind: Group Distributional Preference Optimization | 2 |
6 | Mohammad Amin Roshani, Xiangyu Zhou, Yao Qiang, Srinivasan Suresh, Steven Hicks, Usha Sethuraman, Dongxiao Zhu | Generative Large Language Model—Powered Conversational AI App for Personalized Risk Assessment: Case Study in COVID-19 | 3 |
13 | Chenghao Yang, Jibang Wu, Simon Mahns, Chaoqi Wang, Hao Zhu, Fei Fang, Haifeng Xu | Grounded Persuasive Language Generation for Automated Marketing | 4 |
46 | Mengxia Yu, Bang Nguyen, Olivia Zino, Meng Jiang | Context Selection and Rewriting for Video-based Educational Question Generation | 5 |
47 | Chan Hee Song, Valts Blukis, Jonathan Tremblay, Stephen Tyree, Yu Su, Stan Birchfield | RoboSpatial: Teaching Spatial Understanding to 2D and 3D Vision-Language Models for Robotics | 6 |
52 | Bang Nguyen, Tingting Du, Mengxia Yu, Lawrence Angrave, Meng Jiang | QG-SMS: Enhancing Test Item Analysis via Student Modeling and Simulation | 7 |
21 | Jinu Lee | Coupling Formal Logic and Natural Language Reasoning | 8 |
34 | Aliakbar Nafar, K. Brent Venable, Zijun Cui, Parisa Kordjamshidi | Extracting Probabilistic Expert Knowledge from Large Language Models for Bayesian Network Parameterization | 9 |
83 | Xinting Huang, Andy Yang, Satwik Bhattamishra, Yash Sarrof, Andreas Krebs, Hattie Zhou, Preetum Nakkiran, Michael Hahn | A Formal Framework for Understanding Length Generalization in Transformers | 10 |
2 | Patrick Queiroz Da Silva, Hari Sethuraman, Dheeraj Rajagopal, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Sachin Kumar | Steering off Course: Reliability Challenges in Steering Language Models | 11 |
7 | Saleh Zare Zade, Yao Qiang, Xiangyu Zhou, Hui Zhu, Mohammad Amin Roshani, Prashant Khanduri, Dongxiao Zhu | Automatic Calibration for Membership Inference Attack on Large Language Models | 12 |
28 | Achyutarama R Ganti, Steven R Wilson | Framing the bigger picture: Discovery, Generation and impact of social media user framing of current events | 13 |
39 | Zhewei Sun | Natural Language Processing for Slang | 14 |
41 | Timothy Ossowski, Jixuan Chen, Danyal Maqbool, Zefan Cai, Tyler J. Bradshaw, Junjie Hu | A Benchmark for Multimodal Multi-Agent Communication | 15 |
68 | Tunazzina Islam | Post-hoc Study of Climate Microtargeting on Social Media Ads with LLMs: Thematic Insights and Fairness Evaluation | 16 |
1 | Saptarshi Ghosh, Tianyu Jiang | ConMeC: A Dataset for Metonymy Resolution with Common Nouns | 17 |
10 | Zihan Wang, Rui Pan, Lu Yin, Manling Li, Shiwei Liu | Chain-of-Experts: Unlocking the Communication Power of Mixture-of-Experts LLMs | 18 |
22 | Yining Lu, Noah Ziems, Hy Dang, Meng Jiang | Optimizing Decomposition for Optimal Claim Verification | 19 |
30 | Ibrahim Al Azher, Hamed Alhoori | Automated Generation and Extraction of Limitations from Scholarly Text | 20 |
31 | Hy Dang, Mengxia Yu, Meng Jiang | Improving Diversity of Query Expansion in Document Retrieval | 21 |
35 | Bernal Jimenez Gutierrez, Yiheng Shu, Weijian Qi, Sizhe Zhou, Yu Su | From RAG to Memory: Non-Parametric Continual Learning for Large Language Models | 22 |
57 | Takyoung Kim, Dilek Hakkani-Tür | Embodied Multi-agent Planning in Conflicting Scenarios | 23 |
Poster Session 2 (Tuesday 15:00–16:00)
No. | Authors | Title | Board No. |
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11 | Mansi Sakarvadia, Aswathy Ajith, Arham Mushtaq Khan, Nathaniel Hudson, Caleb Geniesse, Kyle Chard, Yaoqing Yang, Ian Foster, Michael W. Mahoney | Mitigating Memorization in Language Models | 1 |
43 | Simret A Gebreegziabher, Kuangshi Ai, Zheng Zhang, Elena Glassman, Toby Jia-Jun Li | Leveraging Variation Theory in Counterfactual Data Augmentation for Optimized Active Learning | 2 |
33 | Ananth Karkala Pai, Damir Cavar | A Voice-based Detection of Parkinson's Disease: Feature Selection and Classification Results | 3 |
62 | Aylin Ece Gunal, Bowen Yi, John D. Piette, Rada Mihalcea, Veronica Perez-Rosas | Examining Spanish Counseling with MIDAS: a Motivational Interviewing Dataset in Spanish | 4 |
69 | Siyang Liu, Bianca Brie, Wenda Li, Laura Biester, Andrew Lee, James Pennebaker, Rada Mihalcea | Eeyore: Realistic Depression Simulation via Supervised and Preference Optimization | 5 |
75 | Anna Hart, Jeonghwan Kim, Chi Han, Huimin Zhao, Heng Ji | Adapting NLP to Proteins: Comparative Insights into Protein Language Models and Large Language Models | 6 |
17 | Christian Clark, Byung-Doh Oh, William Schuler | Linear Recency Bias During Training Improves Transformers’ Fit to Reading Times | 7 |
29 | Ishika Agarwal, Nimet Beyza Bozdag, Dilek Hakkani-Tür | Multilingual Knowledge Representation in LLMs | 8 |
56 | Danial Kamali, Elham J. Barezi, Parisa Kordjamshidi | NeSyCoCo: A Neuro-Symbolic Concept Composer for Compositional Generalization | 9 |
12 | Abigail Swenor, Neil Coffee, Walter Scheirer | Story Grammar Semantic Matching for Literary Study | 10 |
3 | Yao Qiang, Xiangyu Zhou, Saleh Zare Zade, Prashant Khanduri, Dongxiao Zhu | Hijacking Large Language Models via Adversarial In-Context Learning | 11 |
23 | Tunazzina Islam | Understanding Vegan Discourse on Social Media by Leveraging LLMs | 12 |
25 | Michelle YoungJin Kim, Kristen Johnson | Korean Stereotype Content Model: Translating Stereotypes Across Cultures | 13 |
49 | Adiba Ibnat Hossain, Hamed Alhoori | From Pre-LLM to Post-LLM: A Quantitative Study of Hallucination in Research Papers Before and After the LLM Era | 14 |
50 | Hyeonjeong Ha, Qiusi Zhan, Jeonghwan Kim, Dimitrios Bralios, Saikrishna Sanniboina, Nanyun Peng, Kai-Wei Chang, Daniel Kang, Heng Ji | MM-PoisonRAG: Disrupting Multimodal RAG with Local and Global Poisoning Attacks | 15 |
65 | Asma Arrak, Steven R Wilson | AI in Online Dating: Where do Redditors Draw the Line? | 16 |
14 | Sagnik Mukherjee, Abhinav Chinta, Takyoung Kim, Tarun Anoop Sharma, Dilek Hakkani-Tür | Premise-Augmented Reasoning Chains Improve Error Identification in Math Reasoning with LLMs | 17 |
40 | Ananth Hariharan, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Gokhan Tur | Plan Verification for LLM-Based Embodied Task Completion Agents | 18 |
44 | Stephen Bothwell, Brian DuSell, David Chiang, Brian Krostenko | PILA: A Historical-Linguistic Dataset of Proto-Italic and Latin | 19 |
48 | Priyanka Kargupta, Ishika Agarwal, Tal August, Jiawei Han | Tree-of-Debate: Multi-Persona Debate Trees Elicit Critical Thinking for Scientific Comparative Analysis | 20 |
58 | Ryan A. Cook, John P. Lalor | CADE: Classification with Automatic Difficulty Estimation | 21 |
66 | Priyanka Kargupta, Runchu Tian, Jiawei Han | Beyond True or False: Retrieval-Augmented Hierarchical Analysis of Nuanced Claims | 22 |
73 | Nupoor Gandhi, Emma Strubell | Example Selection for Efficient Entity Extraction Annotation | 23 |
79 | Chi Han, Heng Ji | Computation Mechanism Behind LLM Position Generalization | 24 |
Poster Session 3 (Wednesday 13:00–14:00)
No. | Authors | Title | Board No. |
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37 | Rheeya Uppaal, Apratim Dey, Yiting He, Yiqiao Zhong, Junjie Hu | Model Editing as a Robust and Denoised variant of DPO: A Case Study on Toxicity | 1 |
53 | Tianyi Ma, Yue Zhang, Parisa Kordjamshidi | Breaking Down and Building Up: Skill-Based Transfer Learning for Vision-and-Language Navigation | 2 |
64 | Anuja Tayal, Devika Salunke, Barbara Di Eugenio, Paula Allen-Meares, Eulalia Puig Abril, Olga Garcia, Carolyn Dickens, Andrew Boyd | Conversational Assistants to support Heart Failure Patients: comparing a Neurosymbolic Architecture with ChatGPT | 3 |
67 | Micah Helzerman, Steven R Wilson | Automating Criteria-based Evaluation of USMLE-style Questions | 4 |
84 | Pingjing Yang, Ly Dinh, Alex Stratton, Jana Diesner | Detection and Categorization of Needs during Crises Based on Twitter Data | 5 |
20 | Lihui Liu | Neural-Symbolic Logic Query Answering in Non-Euclidean Space | 6 |
27 | Ishika Agarwal, Dilek Hakkani-Tür | Cheap Neural Networks for Learnable and Scalable Influence Estimation of Instruction Fine-Tuning Data | 7 |
81 | Ju-Chieh Chou, Karen Livescu | Textless Speech LM with continuous tokens | 8 |
82 | Chung-Ming Chien, Karen Livescu | Joint speech-text generation with collaborative spoken and written language models | 9 |
9 | Angana Borah, Marwa Houalla, Rada Mihalcea | Mind the (Belief) Gap: Group Identity in the World of LLMs | 10 |
26 | Nimet Beyza Bozdag, Shuhaib Mehri, Gokhan Tur, Dilek Hakkani-Tür | Persuade Me if You Can: A Framework for Evaluating Persuasion Effectiveness and Susceptibility Among Large Language Models | 11 |
36 | Chaoran Chen, Zhiping Zhang, Ibrahim Khalilov, Bingcan Guo, Simret A Gebreegziabher, Yanfang Ye, Ziang Xiao, Yaxing Yao, Tianshi Li, Toby Jia-Jun Li | Toward a Human-centered Evaluation Framework for Trustworthy LLM-powered GUI Agents | 12 |
38 | Shuhaib Mehri, Dilek Hakkani-Tür | Evaluating Goal Adherence in LLM-Based User Simulators for Conversational Systems | 13 |
45 | Souha Ben Hassine, Asma Arrak, Marouene Addhoum, Steven R Wilson | TounsiBench: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Tunisian Arabic | 14 |
54 | Kezia Oketch, John P. Lalor, Ahmed Abbasi | Modeling Linguistic Diversity in Swahili for Health-related NLP: Testbed Construction and Evaluation on Swahili | 15 |
70 | Yuzhou Wang, Esther Goldberg, Sophia North | Measuring the Helpfulness of AI Generated Text | 16 |
77 | Yanhong Li, Tianyang Xu, Kenan Tang, Karen Livescu, David McAllester, Jiawei Zhou | Democratizing LLM Benchmarking for Automated Dynamic Knowledge Evaluation | 17 |
16 | Yanhong Li, David Yunis, David McAllester, Jiawei Zhou | Context-Efficient Retrieval with Factual Decomposition | 18 |
24 | Artem Abzaliev, Katsumi Ibaraki, Kohei Shibata, Rada Mihalcea | Vocalizations of the Parus minor Bird: Taxonomy and Automatic Classification | 19 |
32 | Ritika Shrivastava, Srilalitha Lakshmi Anusha Chebolu, Manikanta Kodandapani Naidu, Theyaneshwaran Jayaprakash, James Decatur, Tianyu Sun, Anshika Bajpai, Damir Cavar, Ruhan Wang | Improving LLM Reasoning Through Ontology-driven Knowledge Graphs: A Comparative Study of Generating Ontologies for Medical RAGs | 20 |
42 | Aarohi Srivastava, David Chiang | BERTwich: Extending BERT’s Capabilities to Model Dialectal and Noisy Text | 21 |
61 | Simret A Gebreegziabher, Charles Chiang, Zichu Wang, Zahra Ashktorab, Michelle Brachman, Werner Geyer, Toby Jia-Jun Li, Diego Gomez-Zara | MetricMate: An Interactive Tool for Generating Evaluation Criteria for LLM-as-a-Judge Workflow | 22 |
51 | Jinu Lee, Sagnik Mukherjee | Structure of Reasoning-focused Large Language Models | 23 |
76 | Mosab Rezaei, Miguel Williams, Reva Freedman, Lei Zhang | Differentiating U.S. Presidential Written Texts from Transcribed Speeches Using Word Dependencies in Graph Neural Networks | 24 |