ETHZ++ NLP Reading Group

Time: Tuesday 10:30-12:00 Hybrid

Reading List 2024

Date Presenter Title Slides
May 7 Mario On Measures of Information
April 30 Anej A Look at the Inductive Biases of RNN LMs
April 23 Tianyu Language Models and Distributions
April 23 Kevin Measuring LM Entity Susceptibility / Context Persuasiveness
April 16 Gianni Unambiguous Tokenization
April 9 Nik Localizing Memorization in LMs
March 26 Jiaoda Stack Attention
March 19 Gianni & Brian An Algorithm for Bijective WordPiece Tokenization
March 13 Alex UnImplicit - Workshop Keynote on Pragmatics
March 6 Eleftheria Surprisal Curves of Discourse
February 28 Lennart Interactive Learning (Master’s thesis)
February 21 Afra Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) and its extensions
January 24 Julian Looking for Meaning in Language Model Embedding Spaces (Master’s thesis)

Reading List 2023

Date Presenter Title Slides
December 6 Wayne Breaking the Watermark (Master’s thesis)
November 29 Ivan Complexity of deterministic automata
November 1 Franz Computational expressivity of RNN language models
October 30 Clara & Zeerak “Closing our eyes”: ethical responsibilities in NLP research
August 30 Lukas The Prosody Playbook
August 2 Theodor Acquiring Linguistic Knowledge from Multimodal Input (Thesis)
July 19 Luca Divergence functions for NLG (Thesis)
June 30 (@14:30) Clemente Towards Variable Free Semantics link
June 14 Clemente On the Intersection of Context-Free and Regular Languages
June 14 Everyone EMNLP Abstract Swap
June 7 Everyone Research introductions practice
May 24 Tom The Evolution of Automatic Metrics, From String Matching to Black-Box LLM link
May 17 Andreas A hitchhiker’s Guide to Earley’s Algorithm
May 10 Clara Modeling Uncertainty in Neural Networks link
May 3 Mario On the Alignment of Production Variability in Humans and Text Generator link
April 26 Alex RLHF and GPT
April 19 Kevin Concepts and Interpretability
April 5 Mitja Communicative Feedback in Language Acquisition link
March 29 Ethan & Nik Discussions on GPT-4
March 22 Ethan How to Write Reviews and Responses
March 15 Nik The Ordered Matrix Dirichlet for State-Space Models link
March 8 Tianyu Taggers: Modeling Text Structures in Linear Time and Space
March 1 Leonie Everything is a Construction: New Goals for Syntactic and Semantic Probing link
February 24 Eleftheria Learning Persona Representations of Film Characters
February 15 Zhijing & Yuxin Aligning the Representation Spaces of MultiBERTS
February 8 Anej
Vilém		 RNNs and Weighted Finite-State Automata
Poor Man’s Quality Estimation: Predicting Reference-Based MT Metrics Without the Reference
link
February 1 Everyone Research update

Reading List 2022

Date Presenter Topic Title Slides
November 4 Alex Pragmatics / RSA Pragmatic Language Interpretation as Probabilistic Inference
Pragmatically Informative Text Generation
October 28 Eleanor / Eric Malmi Generation / Decoding Text Generation with Text-Editing Models
October 21 Afra Generation / Decoding Diffusion-LM Improves Controllable Text Generation
October 14 Clara Generation / Decoding Structured Denoising Diffusion Models in Discrete State-Spaces
October 7 Vésteinn Generation / Decoding CoNT: Contrastive Neural Text Generation