# Public

# Home

This is the lab home page.

[People](https://wiki.lab.pyarelal.xyz/books/public/page/people)

# News

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# People

## Faculty

- [Clayton T. Morrison](https://ml4ai.github.io/people/clayton) (Associate Professor, [School of Information](https://ischool.arizona.edu/))
- [Adarsh Pyarelal](http://adarsh.cc/) (Assistant Professor, [School of Information](https://ischool.arizona.edu/))

## Research Scientists

- [Enrique Noriega](https://enoriega.info/about) ([Computer Science](https://www.cs.arizona.edu/))
- [Liang Zhang](https://ualiangzhang.github.io/)

## Postdocs

- [Justin Lieffers](https://github.com/Free-Quarks)
- [Dharma Raj KC](https://infosci.arizona.edu/person/dharma-kc)

## Research Programmers

- [Tito Ferra](https://github.com/titomeister)
- [Joseph Astier](https://github.com/jastier)
- [Vincent Raymond](https://github.com/vincentraymond-ua)
- Rick Champlin

## Students

- [Loren Champlin](https://github.com/lchamp87x) (INFO PhD)
- [Salena Torres Ashton](https://github.com/SalenaAshton) (INFO PhD)
- [Gaurav Sharma](https://github.com/gauravsh0812) (INFO PhD)
- [Deepsana Shahi](https://github.com/deepsana) (INFO PhD)
- [Maria Alexeeva](https://linguistics.arizona.edu/user/maria-alexeeva) (Lingistics PhD)
- [Alice Kwak](https://linguistics.arizona.edu/user/alice-kwak) (Linguistics PhD)

## Affiliated Researchers

- [Sean M. Hendryx](https://smhendryx.github.io/)

## Alumni

- [Colin Dawson](http://colinreimerdawson.com/) (PhD Statisics 2016, currently Assistant Professor in the [Mathematics Department](https://www.oberlin.edu/arts-and-sciences/departments/mathematics) at [Oberlin College](https://www.oberlin.edu/))
- [Enrique Noriega](https://enoriega.info/about) (PhD School of Information 2020, now Research Scientist in UA [Computer Science](https://www.cs.arizona.edu/))
- [Paul Hein](https://github.com/pauldhein) (MS Computer Science 2019, now working for [Rock Central](https://www.rockcentraldetroit.com/))
- [Sayeh Peterson](https://www.math.arizona.edu/people/petersons) (MS Statistics 2022)
- [Matsuura](https://lingprefix.info/) (Linguistics BA)

# Reading Group

ML4AI Lab Reading Group Schedules.

These are weekly meetings held every Tuesday from 10:00 to 11:00 AM in Harvill 332b.

## Spring 2025

<table border="1" id="bkmrk-date-speaker-paper" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; border-width: 1px; height: 581.844px; border-style: hidden;"><colgroup><col style="width: 11.785714%;"></col><col style="width: 16.190476%;"></col><col style="width: 35.952381%;"></col><col style="width: 35.952381%;"></col></colgroup><thead><tr style="height: 29.75px;"><td style="height: 29.75px;">**Date**</td><td style="height: 29.75px;">**Speaker**</td><td style="height: 29.75px;">**Paper**</td><td style="height: 29.75px;">**Slides**</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr style="height: 50.375px;"><td style="height: 50.375px;">2/4/2025</td><td style="height: 50.375px;">  
</td><td style="height: 50.375px;">No lab meeting due to faculty job presentation</td><td style="height: 50.375px;">  
</td></tr><tr style="height: 35.375px;"><td style="height: 35.375px;">2/11/2025</td><td style="height: 35.375px;">Salena Ashton</td><td style="height: 35.375px;">Argument analysis for writing research papers + causal reasoning -- part 1</td><td style="height: 35.375px;">In progress. UA Library Catalog link for ["Introduction to Logic"](https://arizona-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/search?query=title,contains,Introduction%20to%20Logic,AND&query=creator,contains,copi,AND&tab=default_tab&search_scope=Everything&sortby=date&vid=01UA&facet=frbrgroupid,include,3208907431&lang=en_US&mode=advanced&offset=0) by Copi and Cohen.</td></tr><tr style="height: 35.375px;"><td style="height: 35.375px;">2/18/2025</td><td style="height: 35.375px;">Loren</td><td style="height: 35.375px;">[All You Need is a Good Functional Prior for Bayesian Deep Learning](https://jmlr.org/papers/v23/20-1340.html) (There's also a [video](https://youtu.be/xE7TaQeLAXE?si=ZLm9koY07BGvpWfE) presentation!)</td><td style="height: 35.375px;">[slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vmHU2HIGY-qn9l8X-hbDXxYQpM23ZmBD/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114597082947388223295&rtpof=true&sd=true)</td></tr><tr style="height: 39.7969px;"><td style="height: 39.7969px;">2/25/2025</td><td style="height: 39.7969px;"> </td><td style="height: 39.7969px;"> </td><td style="height: 39.7969px;"> </td></tr><tr style="height: 39.1875px;"><td style="height: 39.1875px;">3/4/2025</td><td colspan="3" style="height: 39.1875px;">No talk - coincides with Game Dev/Design Faculty candidate Zoom research talk</td></tr><tr style="height: 40.5938px;"><td style="height: 40.5938px;">3/11/2025</td><td style="height: 40.5938px;">No talk -- Spring Break

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This is weekly meeting on Fridays at 1pm in Harvill 332b.

## Fall 2024

<table border="1" id="bkmrk-date-speaker-paper-s" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; border-width: 1px; height: 607.015px; border-style: hidden;"><colgroup><col style="width: 11.785714%;"></col><col style="width: 16.190476%;"></col><col style="width: 35.952381%;"></col><col style="width: 35.952381%;"></col></colgroup><thead><tr style="height: 29.7656px;"><td style="height: 29.7656px;">**Date**</td><td style="height: 29.7656px;">**Speaker**</td><td style="height: 29.7656px;">**Paper**</td><td style="height: 29.7656px;">**Slides**</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr style="height: 35.3984px;"><td style="height: 35.3984px;">9/27/24</td><td style="height: 35.3984px;">Justin Lieffers</td><td style="height: 35.3984px;">[data2vec](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.03555)</td><td style="height: 35.3984px;"></td></tr><tr style="height: 35.3984px;"><td style="height: 35.3984px;">10/4/24</td><td style="height: 35.3984px;">Liang Zhang</td><td style="height: 35.3984px;">[Goal Inference + Pragmatic Instruction](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.17930)</td><td style="height: 35.3984px;"></td></tr><tr style="height: 35.3984px;"><td style="height: 35.3984px;">10/11/24</td><td style="height: 35.3984px;">Loren</td><td style="height: 35.3984px;">[Preference Transformers](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.00957)</td><td style="height: 35.3984px;">[Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mcpPf_-zk_o3qGDy9p8UAa2bCDYEBOwT/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114597082947388223295&rtpof=true&sd=true)</td></tr><tr style="height: 57.7969px;"><td style="height: 57.7969px;">10/18/24</td><td style="height: 57.7969px;">Minglai Yang</td><td style="height: 57.7969px;">[Building Cooperative Embodied Agents Modularly with Large Language Models](https://openreview.net/pdf?id=EnXJfQqy0K)</td><td style="height: 57.7969px;">[Slides](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o1MaMyI3fckpBjt9ai-l-DgGuIJkftfY/view?usp=drive_linktarget=)</td></tr><tr style="height: 35.3984px;"><td style="height: 35.3984px;">10/25/24</td><td style="height: 35.3984px;">None</td><td style="height: 35.3984px;">[InfoSci Colloquium](https://infosci.arizona.edu/events/2024/colloquium/jonas-miklavcic) from noon - 1:30 pm</td><td style="height: 35.3984px;"></td></tr><tr style="height: 46.5938px;"><td style="height: 46.5938px;">11/1/24</td><td style="height: 46.5938px;"> </td><td style="height: 46.5938px;"> </td><td style="height: 46.5938px;"> </td></tr><tr style="height: 57.7969px;"><td style="height: 57.7969px;">11/8/24</td><td style="height: 57.7969px;">Dharma</td><td style="height: 57.7969px;">[ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.03629)</td><td style="height: 57.7969px;">[Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XdGR9YxRK1wvBMUa2T49JzVgnDfEzk6m9viRP64Vkq8/edit?usp=sharing)</td></tr><tr style="height: 35.3906px;"><td style="height: 35.3906px;">11/15/24</td><td style="height: 35.3906px;"> </td><td style="height: 35.3906px;"> </td><td style="height: 35.3906px;"> </td></tr><tr style="height: 35.3984px;"><td style="height: 35.3984px;">11/22/24</td><td style="height: 35.3984px;">Alice Kwak</td><td style="height: 35.3984px;">[Information Extraction with Prompt Chaining](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Hgl7T2-Q8cUjxOtewDSc6201hk2idaq/view?usp=share_link)</td><td style="height: 35.3984px;">  
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