Wednesday Seminars

Not too long ago most headlines talked about our fear of AI. Today, AI is ubiquitous, and the conversation has moved on from whether we should use AI to how we can make the AI systems that we use in our daily lives trustworthy. In this talk I look at some key technical ingredients that help us build confidence and trust in...

What is a causal effect, and where can we find them? This talk will start from randomized controlled trials, why this (often) gives the quantity we want, and how the randomization aspect is important. This leads to a discussion about the difference between seeing versus doing, and the general problem of confounding, which...

This talk presents an exploration into Multilingual Masked Language Models (MMLMs) as an emerging asset for cross-lingual transfer learning. The focus will be on introducing the mechanisms and applications that position MMLMs at the forefront of advancing multilingual capabilities in NLP. We'll dissect the transformer...

Abstract: Industry is moving towards large-scale hardware systems which bundle processor cores, memories, accelerators, etc. via 2.5D integration. These components are fabricated separately as chiplets and then integrated using an interconnect carrier, i.e., an interposer. This new design style is beneficial in terms of...

Path planning for multiple agents is the backbone of many interesting applications, ranging from video games to warehouse automation. The underlying problem is typically formulated as finding collision-free paths on graphs, called multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF). This talk dives deep into an important challenge for MAPF...