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Talks & Lectures

Twed 23 Apr 2025
TWed Talk: "ChatBS-NexGen: A Platform for Automated KG-based LLM Fact Checking" (4p, Weds, 23 Apr, Winslow 1140)

WHAT: TWed Talk: "ChatBS-NexGen: A Platform for Automated KG-based LLM Fact Checking"
WHEN: 4p, Weds, 23 Apr
WHERE: Winslow 1140
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/DiXwEkfUw0o
EVENT PAGE: https://bit.ly/44t21MX

TWC grad students Nipun Deelaka and Devin De Silva discuss and demonstrate ChatBS-NexGen, their impressive evolution of TWC's ChatBS LLM experimentation sandbox.

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TWed: Thilanka Munasinghe
TWed Talk: Thilanka Munasinghe on "Evaluating the Feasibility of Quantum Machine Learning Application Development Using NASA Earth Observational Data and US Census Bureau's Socioeconomic Datasets" (4p Weds 26 Mar)

WHAT: TWed Talk: Thilanka Munasinghe on "Evaluating the Feasibility of Quantum Machine Learning Application Development Using NASA Earth Observational Data and US Census Bureau's Socioeconomic Datasets"
WHEN: 4p, Weds, 26 Mar 2025 (pizza et.al. 3:30p)
WHERE: Winslow 1140

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TWed Paper Discussion (19 Feb 2025)
TWed Paper Discussion: Danielle Villa on "DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning" (4p Weds 19 Feb)

WHAT: TWed Paper Discussion: Danielle Villa on "DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning"
WHEN: 4p, Weds, 19 Feb 2025 (pizza et.al. 3:30p)
WHERE: Winslow 1140
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/bZf82ukgpgU
SLIDES: TBD
EVENT PAGE: https://bit.ly/4hWQ4Ts

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ESIP Semantic Technologies Committee
John Erickson on "LLM Experimentation through Knowledge Graphs: Towards Improved Management, Repeatability, and Verification" ( 11 Feb 2025)

In this talk John Erickson discusses work related to ChatBS-NexGen, as presented in the recent Journal of Web Semantics article, "LLM Experimentation through Knowledge Graphs: Towards Improved Management, Repeatability, and Verification." John reviews the experiment described in JoWS and discusses current work to extend ChatBS to more precisely implement the  ChatBS-NexGen architecture described. 

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TWed Talk (05 Feb 2025)
TWed Paper Discussion: Abraham Sanders on "Training Large Language Models to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space" (4p, Weds, 5 Feb)
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TWed Lightning Talks
TWed Lightning Talks: Spring 2025 (4p, 22 Jan, Winslow 1140)

TWed Lightning Talks (Spring 2025)
WHEN: Weds, 22 Jan (4p)
IN-PERSON: Winslow 1140
WEBEX: https://rensselaer.webex.com/meet/erickj4
EVENT PAGE: https://bit.ly/4gY4ToC
PIZZA, salads, etc.: Starting at 3:30p
WHO: "ALL HANDS" for TWC grad students; this means ALL students of Hendler/McGuinness/Strzalkowski!

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TWed 13 Nov 2024
TWed Talk: Intro to Quantum Fourier Transforms on the RPI Quantum One (4p, 13 Nov, Winslow 1140)
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TWed 23 Oct 2024
TWed Talk: Jamie McCusker on "Getting Started with Knowledge Graphs using Whyis" (23 Oct 2024)

WHAT: Jamie McCusker on "Getting Started with Knowledge Graphs using Whyis"
WHEN: 4p, Weds, 23 Oct 
IN-PERSON: Winslow 1140
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/LpjwFrBUSG8
EVENT PAGE: https://tw.rpi.edu/media/twed-getting-started-knowledge-graphs-using-whyis

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TWed Talk (25 Sep 2024)
TWed Talk: Danielle Villa on "Explanation Cross-Examination: Testing Faithfulness of Language Model-Generated Explanations" (25 Sep 2024)

WHAT: Danielle Villa on "Explanation Cross-Examination: Testing Faithfulness of Language Model-Generated Explanations"
WHEN: 4p, Weds, 25 Sep (NEW TIME!)
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/U7qwedwKvAo
EVENT PAGE: https://bit.ly/3ZsPI0R

Please join us as TWC's Danielle Villa leads us in a discussion of her fascinating work developing a framework for evaluating the faithfulness of explainations generated by language models.

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FOCI GenAI/LLM Users Group
FOCI GenAI/LLM Users Group
FOCI GenAI/LLM Users Group: "LLMs for Audio Applications" (01 May 2024)

WHAT: "LLMs for Audio Applications"
LEADER: Abraham Sanders
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/GcwauiJI_Ck
EVENT PAGE:  https://bit.ly/foci_llm_users_01may2024
WHEN: 6p, 1 May 2024
WHERE: AE 214
CONTACT: Aaron Green <greena12@rpi.edu>

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