Please join us in welcoming two of our new Research Assistant Professors, Dr. Hongyuan Mei and Kartik Goyal! They will be joining TTIC's faculty in September. Follow the link to learn more: ow.ly/2MYa50Fl8Lm #ttic #faculty #computerscience

Huge congrats to Kartik for completing his thesis defense today!!! Happy and sad: Kartik was one of the very first PhD students to join my group when I started at CMU, co-advised by Chris Dyer. Sad to loose you Kartik! But excited for your future! Onwards to Chicago!!!

Belated congratulations to Harsh for successfully defending his PhD!!!!! Sad to loose you as a student, but thrilled to see you succeed so magnificently! Harsh Jhamtani

New work from my students Ivan Lee and Nan Jiang: empirical study of from-scratch ICL performance (including extrapolation to larger in-context datasets) for a wide range of architectures, including SSMs and other things that aren’t transformers. At ICLR 24, check it out!

Can ancient (logograhpic) languages from 5,000 years ago be processed like modern ones using NLP? We found visual representation-based system for NLP on ancient logographic languages outperforms conventional Latin transliteration! Join us at Poster s3 - Mon 4pm #ACL2024 #NLProc

Checkout our ACL poster today at 4pm! Transfer learning for low-resource logographic writing systems can be extremely challenging. We find that visual representations offer advantages! w/ Danlu Chen, Freda Shi, Aditi Agarwal, and Jacobo Myerston

Together with earlence and amazing students we demonstrated that obfuscated adversarial prompts can secretly exfiltrate Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from an LLM chat interface via tool misuse.

Excited for my 1st #ISMIR2024 this week! Happy to chat about controllable + fast music generation 🙂 I'll be presenting our part 2 of DITTO, where we accelerate control to near real-time! DITTO-2: Distilled Diffusion Inference Time T-Optimization 🎹:ditto-music.github.io/ditto2/ 🧵

So excited for Niloofar!!! she’s truly a force of nature — honored to have been along for part of the ride!!