NL+ (Natural Language Processing Lunch Seminar) is a weekly event at the University of Notre Dame to build community among faculty and students doing research related to NLP and to build ties with NLP researchers at other universities.
Our faculty sponsors are David Chiang, Meng Jiang, Collin McMillan, John Lalor, Toby Li, Walter Scheirer, and Tim Weninger. Our amazing student organizers are Abigail Swenor, Chihiro Taguchi, Kezia Oketch, Ningzhi Tang, and Noah Ziems.
Meetings are usually on Mondays at 12:30pm over lunch. Roughly once a month, we host outstanding researchers from other universities (faculty and grad students) and industry to present their work. Other weeks, a speaker from our own community presents a short and informal talk followed by extended Q&A and discussion.
Calendar
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Meng Chen
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Aarohi Srivastava
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 252 Nieuwland Hall of Science
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Georgina Curto Rex
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Ruyuan Wan
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Annalisa Szymanski
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Zhihan Zhang
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
Title: Lessons We Learned Towards Instruction Tuning - Data, Training & Evaluation
Abstract: Instruction-tuned language models have become popular recently due to their ability to solve any NLP task given a natural language instruction. Since the release of Llama and Alpaca models, a lot of research approaches have explored various key aspects of instruction tuning language models, including the data design, the training procedure and the evaluation protocol. In this presentation, I will briefly summarize some lessons we learned from instruction tuning papers in the past few months - what factors do researchers consider critical for tuning instruction-following models?
Bio: Zhihan Zhang is a third-year PhD student from the DM2 lab at Notre Dame, under the supervision of Dr. Meng Jiang. His recent research mainly focuses on large language models and instruction tuning, and he also has research experience in knowledge-augmented NLP and text retrieval. He has published multiple papers at top-tier NLP venues like ACL, EMNLP and TACL.
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Kezia Oketch
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Noah Ziems
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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David Chiang
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Aarohi Srivastava
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Diego Gómez-Zará
Lunch at 12:30, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Kevin Scannell
Lunch at 12:30pm, (virtual) talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Kai Zhang
Lunch at 12:30pm, (virtual) talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Shuohang Wang
Lunch at 12:30pm, (virtual) talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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John Lalor
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Sam Grieggs
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Shirley Anugrah Hayati
Lunch at 12:30pm, (virtual) talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Simret Gebreegziabher
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Wenhao Yu
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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David Chiang
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Aakash Bansal
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Akiko Eriguchi (Microsoft)
Lunch at 12:30pm, (in-person) talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Ruyuan Wan
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Joachim De Beule (Qualtrics)
Lunch at 12:30pm, (remote) talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Sophie Hao (Yale + NYU)
Lunch at 12:30pm, (in-person) talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Zhihan Zhang
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Mingxuan Ju
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Zheng Zhang
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Ken Sible
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Hua Shen (Penn State)
Lunch at 12:30pm, (virtual) talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Chihiro Taguchi
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Stephen Bothwell
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Noah Ziems
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Meng Jiang
Lunch at 12:30pm, (virtual) talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Allyson Ettinger
Lunch at 12:30pm, (virtual) talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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David Chiang
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Yichong Xu
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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John Lalor
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Aakash Bansal
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Lingbo Tong
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Darcey Riley
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Manling Li (UIUC)
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Collin McMillan
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Mengxia Yu
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Lingfei Wu (JD.COM) - POSTPONED
Lunch at 12:30pm, (virtual) talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Chenhao Tan (Univ. of Chicago)
Lunch at 12:30pm, (virtual) talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Brian DuSell
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Sam Grieggs
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Ryan Cotterell (ETH Zurich)
Lunch at 12:30pm, (virtual) talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Zack Eberhart
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Darcey Riley
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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He He (New York University)
Lunch at 12:30pm, (virtual) talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Wenhao Yu
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Lu Wang (University of Michigan)
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in Hesburgh Library, Scholars Lounge
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Stephen Bothwell
Lunch at 12:30pm, talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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Alan Ritter (Georgia Tech)
Lunch at 12:30pm, (virtual) talk at 1pm, in 148 Fitzpatrick
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