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
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
  • Bernal Jimenez Gutierrez, Yiheng Shu, Weijian Qi, Sizhe Zhou, Yu Su
    From RAG to Memory: Non-Parametric Continual Learning for Large Language Models
  • Rasika Muralidharan, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An
    Towards Diverse Agentic Teams
  • Kenneth Sible, David Chiang
    Using Source-Side Confidence Estimation for Reliable Translation into Unfamiliar Languages
11:00–11:15 Break
11:15–12:00 Talk Session 2
Chair: Yining Lu
  • Simret A Gebreegziabher, Kuangshi Ai, Zheng Zhang, Elena Glassman, Toby Jia-Jun Li
    Leveraging Variation Theory in Counterfactual Data Augmentation for Optimized Active Learning
  • Yao Qiang, Xiangyu Zhou, Saleh Zare Zade, Mohammad Amin Roshani, Prashant Khanduri, Douglas Zytko, Dongxiao Zhu
    Learning to Poison Large Language Models for Downstream Manipulation
  • 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
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
  • Ananth Karkala Pai, Damir Cavar
    A Voice-based Detection of Parkinson's Disease: Feature Selection and Classification Results
  • Shester Gueuwou, Xiaodan Du, Greg Shakhnarovich, Karen Livescu, Alexander H. Liu
    SHuBERT: Self-Supervised Sign Language Representation Learning via Multi-Stream Cluster Prediction
  • Damir Cavar, Koushik Reddy Parukola, Shane Sparks
    Old Wine in New Bottles: Using Classical Word Embeddings in Quantum NLP Systems
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
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
  • Yanhong Li, Karen Livescu, Jiawei Zhou
    Chunk-Distilled Language Modeling
  • Ishika Agarwal, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
    Cheap Neural Networks for Learnable and Scalable Influence Estimation of Instruction Fine-Tuning Data
  • Danial Kamali, Elham J. Barezi, Parisa Kordjamshidi:
    NeSyCoCo: A Neuro-Symbolic Concept Composer for Compositional Generalization
11:15–12:00 Talk Session 5
Chair: Katsumi Ibaraki
  • Kezia Oketch, John P. Lalor, Ahmed Abbasi
    Modeling Linguistic Diversity in Swahili for Health-related NLP: Testbed Construction and Evaluation on Swahili
  • Angana Borah, Marwa Houalla, Rada Mihalcea
    Mind the (Belief) Gap: Group Identity in the World of LLMs
  • 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
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.
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.
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.
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