Language and Learning

Apr 26th, Thu 10:00 , Idan Schwartz (webpage). Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (PhD Student). Location: Gonda Building (901), Room 101. High-Order Attention Models for Visual Question Answering Abstract: The quest for algorithms that enable cognitive abilities is an important part of machine learning. A common trait in many recently investigated cognitive-like tasks is ... Read more

On Thursday, May 3rd, we are hosting Jonathan Berant from TAU.   Title: Talking to your Virtual Assistant about anything When: May 3rd, Thu 10:15. Light refreshments at 10:00. Where: Gonda Building 901, Room 101 Abstract: Conversational interfaces and virtual assistants are now part of our lives due to services such as Amazon Alexa, Google Voice, Microsoft Cortana, etc. Thus, translating natural language queries and commands ... Read more

May 31st, Thu 10:00 , Or Sharir (webpage). The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (PhD Student) Location: Gonda Building (901), Room 101. On the Expressive Power of ConvNets and RNNs as a Function of their Architecture Abstract: The driving force behind convolutional and recurrent networks — two of the most successful deep learning architectures to date ... Read more

June 7th, Thu 10:00 , Uri Shalit (webpage). Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Faculty). Location: Gonda Building (901), Room 101. Learning to Act from Observational Data: Machine Learning and Causal Inference in Healthcare Abstract: The proliferation of data collection in the health, commercial, and economic spheres, brings with it opportunities for extracting new knowledge ... Read more

Details & Registration:  https://ard.amazon-ml.com/haifa/ PAssword: HaifaARD

Invited talk, as part of "Language of lies: recent advances in research and future prospects" Workshop 

תשתיות לניתוח טקסטים רועשים (נגיד מטוויטר) בעברית ובצרפתית

Title: GPT-3 and its Few-shot Learning Capabilities Abstract: A recent paper by OpenAI, "Language Models are Few-Shot Learners", introduced GPT-3, a huge pre-trained language model, and a claim that it acts as a very effective few-shot learner. While I was skeptic at first, I got access to the GPT-3 model, and after playing with it ... Read more

The recording of Amnon's talk: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/TxC7tgud-XyP-h577Pa-EwhLt9Bi4P7BCurUbafwRuW_-UiCxJDG8L9gAJylLiU4.OMMHDUVzuEc4ZVnE?startTime=1636279531000 Title: Marginal Contribution Feature Importance - an Axiomatic Approach for Explaining Data Abstract: In recent years, methods were proposed for assigning feature importance scores to measure the contribution of individual features. While in some cases the goal is to understand a specific model, in many cases the goal is ... Read more

Keynote Yoav Goldberg ,  Research Director of AI2 Israel; Professor at the Computer Science Department, Bar-Ilan University 11:05 - 11:25  Calendar 1  Calendar Beyond End-to-End: the Case of Multi-text Summarization Ido Dagan ,  Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University; Director, Bar-Ilan Data Science Institute

On the 21st of June Marius Mosbach, from Saarland University will give a talk at the lab. He's here for a visit of about 2.5 weeks (starting from June 7th), so be nice to him and say hi =) If you'd like to chat with him (and you should!), add your name in the attached ... Read more

דוקטורנטית מאת״א תבוא להרצות על מודלי שפה לגנומים בקטריאלים. מוזמנים להגיע ולהפיץ לסטודנטים ולחברי סגל נוספים. ההרצאה תתקיים בשעה 14:00 ביום ב׳ 12.12 בחדר 212 בניין 212. כמו כן, אני מתכנן לשדר אותה בזום: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5509052372 Title:  Genomic language model for function prediction of microbial genes Abstract: Revealing the function of uncharacterized genes is a fundamental challenge in an era of ever-increasing ... Read more

Hi everyone, You are invited to attend the talk of Santiago Miret at the NLP group seminar that will be held on Thursday 9.3.23, at 11 am. The talk will last approximately 1.5 hours including Q&A. See more details below. Best Regards, Idan Location: Building 605, room 11 Title: Advanced Machine Learning Methods to Accelerate Materials ... Read more