iDAKs LLM and Beyond Reading Group

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Topics

LLM + Interesting Topics iDAKs care about

Query Languages/ Data Cleaning/ Trustworthy Machine Learning/ Provenance/ Semantic Scholar/ Knowledge Graph/ Argumentation …

Schedule

Fall 2024

Every Thursday 11am-12pm CST

Sec	Date	Topic	Presenter	Paper
S1	Sep 19	LLM Agents	Meng Li	AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen LLM Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation
S2	Sep 26	Programming by Example	Yilin Xia	Is Programming by Example solved by LLMs?
S3	Oct 3	Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)	Yuanxi	Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Survey
S4	Oct 10	Uses in Cognitive Science / Psychology	Tre	CogBench: a large language model walks into a psychology lab
S5	Oct 24	Persona	Yiren	Bias Runs Deep: Implicit Reasoning Biases in Persona-Assigned LLMs
S6	Nov 7	Weakly-supervised Text Classification (Practice Talk)	Jerome	SciPrompt: Knowledge-augmented Prompting for Fine-grained Categorization of Scientific Topics
S7	Nov 14	Reasoning Capability	Lan	Chain-of-table: Evolving tables in the reasoning chain for table understanding

Spring 2024

For spring 2024, we meet every Wednesday 11am-12pm CST

Sec	Date	Topic	Presenter	Paper
S1	Feb 28	Chain-of-Thoughts	Yilin Xia	Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models (NeurIPS'22)
S2	Mar 06	Table-based Reasoning	Meng Li	Large language models are versatile decomposers: Decomposing evidence and questions for table-based reasoning (SIGIR'23)
S3	Mar 20	Vector Database	Lan Li	Milvus: A Purpose-Built Vector Data Management System (SIGMOD'21)
S4	Mar 27	LLM Geometry	Timothy McPhillips	The Information of Large Language Model Geometry
S5	Apr 03	LLM for Research Ideation	Yiren Liu	SciMON: Scientific Inspiration Machines Optimized for Novelty
S6	Apr 10	Argumentation	Yuanxi Fu	Exploring the Potential of Large Language Models in Computational Argumentation
S7	Apr 17	Polycontextural Logic	Johannes Falk	Collective patterns and stable misunderstandings in networks striving for consensus without a common value system
S8	Apr 24	Knowledge Injection	Zhiwen (Jerome) You	Fine-Tuning or Retrieval? Comparing Knowledge Injection in LLMs
S9	May 01	Evaluation	Vardhan Dongre	Towards Credible Human Evaluation of Open-Domain Dialog Systems Using Interactive Setup

Related Resources

• LLMDataHub: Awesome Datasets for LLM Training https://github.com/Zjh-819/LLMDataHub
• ai4db and db4ai work https://github.com/TsinghuaDatabaseGroup/AIDB