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Thrilled to share our paper with Aldo Lipani, "Don't Stop Pretraining? Make Prompt-based Fine-tuning Powerful Learner" is accepted at #NeurIPS2023. Our work melds the idea of instruction tuning with continued pre-training to improve the performance of prompt-based fine-tuning.

Less than 2 days to submit the abstract of your short paper to #ECIR2024, Oct 4 (11:59 PM AoE). For more details see: ecir2024.org/2023/05/22/cal…. Short papers are due by Oct 11 (11:59 PM AoE).

Short Paper Deadline Extended for One Week! New: Short Paper Abstract Submission: Oct 11, 2023, 11:59pm (AoE) New: Short Paper Submission: Oct 18, 2023, 11:59pm (AoE)

@EdoardoMoscaTUM is starting his talk at #WITalk at UCL AI Center #WITalk UCL UCL Computer Science UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence

This Friday, our PhD Student, @ZhengxiangShi Web Intelligence Group (WI) will give a talk entitled "Aligning Language Models with Downstream Tasks: Insights from a Language Modeling Perspective" based on his recent publication to Neurips 2023. Registration [tinyurl.com/uclwitalk-7]. #UCL

Come check our poster: “Don’t stop pretraining? Make prompt-based fine-tuning a powerful learner” hall B poster 419 #neurips #NeurIPS23 @ZhengxiangShi Web Intelligence Group (WI)

Good news before Christmas! Two full papers: "Simulated Task-Oriented Dialogues for Developing Versatile Conversational Agents" and "Self Contrastive Learning for Session-based Recommendation", have been just accepted to #ECIR2024 at Glasgow. 🎉🎉🥳🥳 Stay tuned for the details.

📢 #WITalk with Mark Stevenson (Mark Stevenson) 📕 Stopping Methods for Technology-Assisted Review 🗓️ 26 January, Friday, 2024 at 2 PM BST ✍️Do not forget to sign up: meetup.com/ucl-wi-meetup-… #WITalk Web Intelligence Group (WI) UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence UCL Computer Science

I am excited to speak at the UCL Web Intelligence seminars this Friday! I'll dive into the evaluation of systematic reviews' automation. Sign up and join us if you're interested: meetup.com/ucl-wi-meetup-…

Woot!!! Our AI4RE workshop is finally listed among all the AI UK Fringe events!! Thank you The Alan Turing Institute #AIUK Join us on 22MAR in London. Registration via ai4re.github.io

🎉 Huge congratulations to my PhD student on getting accepted at #ACL2024!🌟 This is a major milestone, and I'm so proud of his achievement. Ad maiora! 🚀 Curious about how to generate human-editable user profiles from user prefs? Read the paper!😉 #ProudAdvisor #PhDAchievement

Assessing Transparency and Scrutability in Recommendation via Controllable User Simulators Jerome Ramos, Hossein A. (Saeed) Rahmani, Xi Wang, XiaoFu, Aldo Lipani Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2402.05810

This week, Collaborative and Generative AI Summer School is happening at Aalto University with 50 participants learning about human modeling and collaborative & generative AI. Speakers incl. Samuel Kaski Andrew Antti Oulasvirta ConstantinRothkopf Mingfei Sun Aldo Lipani Check out the program fcai.fi/ellis-summer-s…

Very exicited to be an associate editor for this new journal w/Feminist Killjoy Negin Rahimi Bárbara Poblete Makoto P. Kato (加藤 誠) Haiming Liu et al. The inaugural Information Retrieval Research Journal call for papers is now online! 📄🔎🌍 irrj.org/call-for-papers

🌏 Calling PhD students in #ir & #recommendation from the US, UK, France, Germany, Canada, or Sweden! Spend two months next summer in Japan 🇯🇵 with a strong IR team at Tsukuba—application support available! 📚✈️ 📅 Deadline: Nov-Dec 2024 (Check your CFP👇)

Eloquent AI (Eloquent AI) automates complex, regulated customer operations for financial services. No dev cycles, no APIs required. Their AI Operator learns directly by observing your SOPs and team’s actions, securely navigating your existing systems. ycombinator.com/launches/NVL-e…

DataSci.Pro is building full-stack data science AI agents that turn raw data into insights and answers in minutes, not days. Putting the power of data-driven decisions into anyone's hands. ycombinator.com/launches/NVw-d… Congrats on the launch, matin and @whyispaper!

QFEX (QFEX (YC X25)) is building the 24/7 exchange for US equities, commodities, and FX. Trade with leverage without a middleman or broker fees. ycombinator.com/launches/NUj-q… Congrats on the launch, Annanay Kapila and Joshua!

Alexandr Wang Scale AI Our X25 batch is CRACKED. Watch out world. Eloquent AI Cascade Space Lucis (YC X25) ValueMate

We met Tugce Bulut and Aldo Lipani, working on Eloquent AI. Eloquent is the AI operator for financial services. Their AI operator learns by observing existing workflows and SOPs, securely controlling browser and desktop applications to automate up to 96% of tasks.