NLP Highlights

Feb 29 2024 145 ep. 33 mins 1.4k

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**The podcast is currently on hiatus. For more active NLP content, check out the Holistic Intelligence Podcast linked below.** Welcome to the NLP highlights podcast, where we invite researchers to talk about their work in various areas in natural language processing. All views expressed belong to the hosts/guests, and do not represent their employers.

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Are LLMs safe?

Feb 29 2024 42 mins

Curious about the safety of LLMs? 🤔 Join us for an insightful new episode featuring Suchin Gururangan, Young Investigator at Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Engineer at Appuri. 🚀 Don't miss out on expert insights into the world of LLMs!

"Imaginative AI" with Mohamed Elhoseiny

Jan 08 2024 23 mins

This podcast episode features Dr. Mohamed Elhoseiny, a true luminary in the realm of computer vision with over a decade of groundbreaking research. As an Assistant Professor at KAUST, Dr. Elhoseiny's work delves into the intersections of Computer Vision, Language & Vision, and Computational Creativity in Art, Fashion, and AI. Notably, he co-organized the 1st and 2nd Workshops on Cl

142 - Science Of Science, with Kyle Lo

Dec 27 2023 48 mins

Our first guest with this new format is Kyle Lo, the most senior lead scientist in the Semantic Scholar team at Allen Institute for AI (AI2), who kindly agreed to share his perspective on #Science of #Science (#scisci) on our podcast. SciSci is concerned with studying how people do science, and includes developing methods and tools to help people consume AND produce science. Kyle h

141 - Building an open source LM, with Iz Beltagy and Dirk Groeneveld

Jun 29 2023 29 mins

In this special episode of NLP Highlights, we discussed building and open sourcing language models. What is the usual recipe for building large language models? What does it mean to open source them? What new research questions can we answer by open sourcing them? We particularly focused on the ongoing Open Language Model (OLMo) project at AI2, and invited Iz Beltagy and Dirk Groen

140 - Generative AI and Copyright, with Chris Callison-Burch

Jun 05 2023 51 mins

In this special episode, we chatted with Chris Callison-Burch about his testimony in the recent U.S. Congress Hearing on the Interoperability of AI and Copyright Law. We started by asking Chris about the purpose and the structure of this hearing. Then we talked about the ongoing discussion on how the copyright law is applicable to content generated by AI systems, the potential risk

139 - Coherent Long Story Generation, with Kevin Yang

Mar 24 2023 45 mins

How can we generate coherent long stories from language models? Ensuring that the generated story has long range consistency and that it conforms to a high level plan is typically challenging. In this episode, Kevin Yang describes their system that prompts language models to first generate an outline, and iteratively generate the story while following the outline and reranking and

138 - Compositional Generalization in Neural Networks, with Najoung Kim

Jan 20 2023 48 mins

Compositional generalization refers to the capability of models to generalize to out-of-distribution instances by composing information obtained from the training data. In this episode we chatted with Najoung Kim, on how to explicitly evaluate specific kinds of compositional generalization in neural network models of language. Najoung described COGS, a dataset she built for this, s

137 - Nearest Neighbor Language Modeling and Machine Translation, with Urvashi Khandelwal

Jan 13 2023 35 mins

We invited Urvashi Khandelwal, a research scientist at Google Brain to talk about nearest neighbor language and machine translation models. These models interpolate parametric (conditional) language models with non-parametric distributions over the closest values in some data stores built from relevant data. Not only are these models shown to outperform the usual parametric languag

136 - Including Signed Languages in NLP, with Kayo Yin and Malihe Alikhani

May 19 2022 62 mins

In this episode, we talk with Kayo Yin, an incoming PhD at Berkeley, and Malihe Alikhani, an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh, about opportunities for the NLP community to contribute to Sign Language Processing (SLP). We talked about history and misconceptions about sign languages, high-level similarities and differences between spoken and sign languages, distinc

135 - PhD Application Series: After Submitting Applications

Mar 02 2022 36 mins

This episode is the third in our current series on PhD applications. We talk about what the PhD application process looks like after applications are submitted. We start with a general overview of the timeline, then talk about how to approach interviews and conversations with faculty, and finish by discussing the different factors to consider in deciding between programs. The gue