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CIS Grace Hopper Distinguished Lecture: “AGI is Coming… Is HCI Ready?”

Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

We are at a transformational junction in computing, in the midst of an explosion in capabilities of foundational AI models that may soon match or exceed typical human abilities for a wide variety of cognitive tasks, a milestone often termed Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Achieving AGI (or even closely approaching it) will transform computing, with […]

ASSET Seminar: “Robust Machine Learning with Foundation Models” (Aditi Raghunathan, Carnegie Mellon University)

Levine 307 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

ABSTRACT: In recent years, foundation models—large pretrained models that can be adapted for a wide range of tasks—have achieved state-of-the-art performance on a variety of tasks. While the pretrained models are trained on broad data, the adaptation (or fine-tuning) process is often performed on limited data. As a result, the challenges of distribution shift, where […]

ASSET Seminar: “Scaling Your Large Language Models on a Budget” (Atlas Wang, University of Texas at Austin)

Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

ABSTRACT: As the sizes of Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to grow exponentially, it becomes imperative to explore novel computing paradigms that can address the dual challenge of scaling these models while adhering to constraints posed by compute and data resources. This presentation will delve into several strategies aimed at alleviating this dilemma: (1) refraining […]

ASSET Seminar: “Learning to Read X-Ray: Applications to Heart Failure Monitoring” (Polina Golland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

ABSTRACT: We propose and demonstrate a novel approach to training image classification models based on large collections of images with limited labels. We take advantage of availability of radiology reports to construct joint multimodal embedding that serves as a basis for classification. We demonstrate the advantages of this approach in application to assessment of pulmonary […]

ESE Grace Hopper Lecture – “Disrupting NextG”

Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology 3205 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

As 5G takes to the airwaves, we now turn our imagination to the next generation of wireless technology. The promise of this technology has created an international race to innovate, with significant investment by government as well as industry. And much innovation is needed as 6G aspires to not only support significantly higher data rates […]

CIS Seminar: “Obfuscation of Quantum Computation”

Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Protecting secrets within computer systems is a central mission of cryptography. Program obfuscation, which scrambles computer code without harming its functionality, is an immensely powerful and versatile tool for accomplishing this task that has been the subject of intense study in classical cryptography. Yet, the ability to obfuscate quantum computation had previously remained elusive to […]

ASSET Seminar: “Towards A New Frontier of Trustworthy AI: Interpretable Machine Learning Algorithms that Produce All Good Models” (Chudi Zhong, Duke University)

Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

ABSTRACT: Machine learning has been increasingly deployed for high-stakes decisions that deeply impact people’s lives. My research focuses on developing interpretable algorithms and pipelines to ensure the safe and efficient utilization of machine learning models in the decision-making process. In this talk, I will introduce a new paradigm, called learning the Rashomon set, which finds and stores […]

CIS Seminar: ” How Algorithms Can Support Deliberative Democracy”

Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Academics and political practitioners around the world are experimenting with a class of democratic innovations called deliberative mini-publics (DMs). In a DM, a panel of constituents convenes to deliberate about specific issues and make policy recommendations to traditional political decision-makers (e.g., legislators). Nearly all DMs rely on sortition – random selection – to choose the panelists. Sortition is often thought of as […]

ASSET Seminar: “Paths to AI Accountability” (Sarah Cen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Raisler Lounge (Room 225), Towne Building 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

ABSTRACT: In the past decade, we have begun grappling with difficult questions related to the rise of AI, including: What rights do individuals have in the age of AI? When should we regulate AI and when should we abstain? What degree of transparency is needed to monitor AI systems? These questions are all concerned with […]