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That's me! 🙋 :) Mixture of excitement, nervousness, tiredness, and relief is hitting hard 😅

Behind the scenes of my recent PhD defence 🎓, recorded by my amazing wife! 🧡

Today at SCI-CHAT at #EACL24, I'll present our paper on user simulation for task-oriented dialogue systems. Come and say hi if you're around, we're on the 7th floor of Radisson! Check out the full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2402.13374

I look forward to seeing you at #ecir2024 in Glasgow soon! As my current base, I know it well. I'm happy to share two food maps: - A top 50 Food & Drink list just for ECIR maps.app.goo.gl/Ku8gGABAZfwVAL… - My full list maps.app.goo.gl/hTZRzVaHWam3CQ… Research welcome!

Youngest participant at last week's #EACL2024 eaclmeeting :D

My group, GRILL Lab at School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh has openings for multiple postdocs and PhD students to work on the future of interactive assistants, generative retrieval, and Large Language Models (LLMs). We're at #ecir2024, so please come chat.

Thanks, Weronika, for presenting our work! :) I gotta admit, I'm a bit jelly of y'all hanging out in Glasgow ECIR2024...enjoy and greetings to everyone! Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2401.11463

Happy Friday 😅

9 out of 10 RAG applications would be better off by establishing a simple baseline before introducing text embeddings.

RAG is 80% retrieval, 20% generation. The quality of retrieval dictates the quality of generation. If you do anything, please learn retrieval.

Interested in LLMs and recommender systems? We have a fully funded PhD position at IAI group #phd #vacancy