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 

 

 

 

 Date 

 Speaker 

 Paper 

 Slides 

 

 

 

 

 2/4/2025 

 

 No lab meeting due to faculty job presentation 

 

 

 

 2/11/2025 

 Salena Ashton 

 Argument analysis for writing research papers + causal reasoning -- part 1 

 In progress. UA Library Catalog link for "Introduction to Logic" by Copi and Cohen. 

 

 

 2/18/2025 

 Loren 

 All You Need is a Good Functional Prior for Bayesian Deep Learning (There's also a video presentation!) 

 slides 

 

 

 2/25/2025 

   

   

   

 

 

 3/4/2025 

 No talk - coincides with Game Dev/Design Faculty candidate Zoom research talk 

 

 

 3/11/2025 

 

 No talk -- Spring Break 

 

   

   

 

 

 3/18/2025 

   

   

 

 

 

 3/25/2025 

   

   

   

 

 

 4/1/2025 

   

   

   

 

 

 4/8/2025 

   

   

 

 

 

 4/15/2025 

 Deepsana Shahi 

 Comps Oral Exam Practice:

 Interdisciplinary AI-based learning for high-energy physics 

 

   

 

 

 4/22/2025 

 

 

 

 

 

 4/29/2025 

 Salena Ashton 

 Argument analysis for writing research papers + causal reasoning + bike Theft 

 

 

 

 5/6/2025 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 Fall 2024 

 

 

 

 Date 

 Speaker 

 Paper 

 Slides 

 

 

 

 

 9/27/24 

 Justin Lieffers 

 data2vec 

 

 

 

 10/4/24 

 Liang Zhang 

 Goal Inference + Pragmatic Instruction 

 

 

 

 10/11/24 

 Loren 

 Preference Transformers 

 Slides 

 

 

 10/18/24 

 Minglai Yang 

 Building Cooperative Embodied Agents Modularly with Large Language Models 

 Slides 

 

 

 10/25/24 

 None 

 InfoSci Colloquium from noon - 1:30 pm 

 

 

 

 11/1/24 

   

   

   

 

 

 11/8/24 

 Dharma 

 ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models 

 Slides 

 

 

 11/15/24 

   

   

   

 

 

 11/22/24 

 Alice Kwak 

 Information Extraction with Prompt Chaining 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 1/21/25 (or first day of meeting) 

 Salena Ashton 

 Inquisitive Semantics and its Connection to Causal Reasoning 

 TBD