Simon Shaolei Du
@SimonShaoleiDu
Assistant Professor @uwcse. Postdoc @the_IAS. PhD in machine learning @mldcmu.
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Honored to become a 2024 #SloanFellow . Thanks to Sloan Foundation and to all my students and collaborators for their amazing work!
āThe problem with large language models is that theyāre large!ā In this UW-IT News story, #UWAllen ās Tim Dettmers explains QLora, the Madrona prize-winning tool from UW NLP researchers that enables you to take an LLM and 'make it your ownā: itconnect.uw.edu/making-languagā¦ 1/2
New paper on label-efficient supervised finetuning of LLMs.
We address the expensive prompt annotation cost by humans/proprietary LLMs, saving as much as 50% on FLAN V2.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2401.06692
Work led by: Jifan Zhang Yifang Chen Gantavya Bhatt Arnav Das
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I'm recruiting PhD students Allen School UW NLP (bdata.uw.edu). Focus areas include Human-AI collaboration, language agents, LLM safety & applications to mental health, social sciences, education.
Apply here: cs.washington.edu/academics/phd/ā¦
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#UWAllen is hiring! Join our outstanding scholarly community at University of Washington shaping the future of computingāand having fun while doing it! Priority will be given to faculty applications received by Nov. 13 (teaching track) & Nov. 15 (tenure track). Please share! cs.washington.edu/faculty_candidā¦
Want to get model-based RL to work in diverse, dynamic scenes? Check out Chuning Zhu's latest work (RePo) on model-based reinforcement learning without reconstruction, where we show how to learn world models that scale to dynamic, multi-task environments. A š§µ(1/6)
Super exciting work by Allen School's Sheng Wang's lab published in Nature Machine Intelligence Nature Machine Intelligence! š
nature.com/articles/s4225ā¦