Schedule

Meetings run about an hour, hybrid on Teams and in person. A blank paper means it is still to be decided.

Fall 2025

• Sep 22, 2025 2:30–3:30 PM Meeting 1

  Gradient-based learning applied to document recognition.

  Led by Seth B · Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus)

  Completed
• Oct 6, 2025 2:30–3:30 PM Meeting 2

  Attention is all you need. Advances in neural information processing systems

  Led by MD Mahady Hassan · Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus)

  Completed
• Oct 20, 2025 2:30–3:30 PM Meeting 3

  Bert: Pre-training of deep bidirectional transformers for language understanding.

  Led by Brad Boswell · Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus)

  Completed
• Nov 3, 2025 2:30–3:30 PM Meeting 4

  Paper to be decided

  Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus)

  Completed
• Nov 17, 2025 2:30–3:30 PM Meeting 5

  On the Power of Context-Enhanced Learning in LLMs

  Led by Sharmen S · Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus)

  Completed
• Dec 1, 2025 2:30–3:30 PM Meeting 6

  Paper to be decided

  Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus)

  Completed

Spring 2026

• Jan 12, 2026 2:30–3:30 PM Meeting 1

  Logistic Meeting for Spring 2026

  Led by All · Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus)

  Completed
• Feb 2, 2026 2:00–3:00 PM Meeting 2

  Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-Training

  Led by Rita · Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus)

  Completed
• Feb 16, 2026 2:00–3:00 PM Meeting 3

  Which Attention Heads Matter for In-Context Learning?

  Led by Sharmen · Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus)

  Completed
• Mar 2, 2026 2:00–3:00 PM Meeting 4

  Generalized brain-state modeling with KenazLBM

  Led by Seth · Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus)

  Completed
• Mar 16, 2026 2:00–3:00 PM Meeting 5

  ChartGPT: Leveraging LLMs to Generate Charts From Abstract Natural Language

  Led by Shichen Gao · Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus)

  Completed
• Mar 30, 2026 2:00–3:00 PM Meeting 6

  Canceled

  Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus)

  Canceled
• Apr 13, 2026 2:00–3:00 PM Meeting 7

  A Multimodal Automated Interpretability Agent

  Led by Dr. Lin Li · Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus)

  Completed
• Apr 27, 2026 2:00–3:00 PM Meeting 8

  Covert Malicious Finetuning: Challenges in Safeguarding LLM Adaptation

  Led by Salil · Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus)

  Completed

Fall 2026

• Aug 25, 2026 Meeting 1

  Logistic Meeting for Fall 2026

  Led by All · Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus)

  Completed
• Sep 22, 2026 Meeting 2

  Paper to be decided

  Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus)

  Completed
• Oct 6, 2026 Meeting 3

  Conformal Prediction with Large Language Models for Multi-Choice Question Answering

  Led by Seth · Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus)

  Upcoming
• Oct 20, 2026 Meeting 4

  Attribute-Efficient PAC Learning of Sparse Halfspaces with Constant Malicious Noise Rate

  Led by Dr. Shiwei Zeng · Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus)

  Upcoming
• Nov 3, 2026 Meeting 5

  Paper to be decided

  Led by Rita · Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus)

  Upcoming
• Nov 17, 2026 Meeting 6

  Paper to be decided

  Led by Alireza · Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus)

  Upcoming
• Dec 1, 2026 Meeting 7

  Using Reinforcement Learning to Train Large Language Models to Explain Human Decisions

  Led by Sharmen S · Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus)

  Upcoming