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👋Interested in #NLProc and #HCI and learning insights from Barbara Plank Saleema Amershi Amy Zhang and others? Help us bring back another successful "Workshops on Data Science with Human in the Loop: Language Advances" by voting in the survey forms.gle/oPdDEk2i4b2dsv… 🙏

Interested in grad school for CS? Come join UNC Computer Science, Duke CompSci, and @cscncsu for DECODING GRAD PROGRAMS IN CS (NOV 12) - a virtual event offering first hand POV from faculty and students. Register here: forms.gle/TRqumjTyZnhP5v… UNC Graduate School @UNCResearch @Rewriting_Code

Here is the full program from @UNCNLP+collaborators at #EMNLP2021 this week ➡️ nlp.cs.unc.edu/emnlp2021/ We're also 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘀+𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀! Plz spread the word & ping faculty Mohit Bansal Snigdha Chaturvedi Colin Raffel Shashank Srivastava +students for any questions😀

Check out our UNC NLP group for your PhD applications! We have no GRE requirements + continue our application-fee waivers! Please RT+apply (we have postdoc openings too) & ping us for any questions!🙂 We strongly encourage diversity. Direct FAQ page link: cs.unc.edu/graduate/gradu…

😀 Very excited to have DaSH back in #EMNLP2022! We've lined up a stellar list of speakers, including Barbara Plank Saleema Amershi Amy Zhang and more. More to come soon. Co-organized with Eduard Dragut Shashank Srivastava Lucian Popa and Slobodan Vucetic.

Interested in: - training image classifiers & robots using language? - using info from text corpora in other ML applications? - understanding the role of language in human concept learning? Join us for the Workshop on Learning with Natural Language Supervision (ACL 2025 '22)!

We're delighted to open registration for our 11th Duke Machine Learning School! This 5-day event, with both in-person & virtual attendance options, will introduce the foundational concepts, coding, and case studies at the heart of modern machine learning. aihealth.duke.edu/mlss2022/

Congratulations to assistant professor Colin Raffel (Colin Raffel) recipient of a U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award. The award will seek to enable community-developed and continually-improved machine learning models. cs.unc.edu/news-article/r…

Check out our #ACL2022 ACL 2025 paper: "ePiC: Employing Proverbs in Context as a Benchmark for Abstract Language Understanding" Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2109.06838 Website: epic-benchmark.github.io Joint work with advisor Shashank Srivastava UNC NLP (1/3)

Can we learn to classify purely from language explanations? Check out our #ACL2022 ACL 2025 paper: "CLUES: A Benchmark for Learning Classifiers from Language Explanations" arxiv.org/abs/2204.07142 Joint work w/ Sayan Ghosh and adv. Shashank Srivastava (1/6)

📢 #CFP for Workshop on Data Science with Human in the Loop at #EMNLP2022 Submit your best work on how to optimize human-computer cooperation and minimize human effort in NLP tasks and applications. ⏰ Submission deadline: Sept. 7, 2022 More details: dashworkshops.org/emnlp-2022/cal…

Join CS faculty member, Shashank Srivastava, alongside faculty from across campus on FRI, FEB 3 at 3PM ET, as the panel explores - "What is ChatGPT? Where did it come from? What does it mean for science, scholarship, and public life?" Event details here: citap.unc.edu/event-chatgpt-…

Carolina Science Cafe, Morehead Planetarium and Science Center's free science awareness program is right around the corner! We will be joined by Shashank Srivastava, an Assistant Professor of UNC Computer Science. The first session will be on April 4th from 6-8pm For more info ℹ️ -> ow.ly/rsQT50N3QWy UNC NLP

❓ Did you know you can fuse models to reduce unwanted knowledge like shortcuts and biases? 💡 Fused models keep shared knowledge and forget unshared. 🚨Fuse to Forget: Bias Reduction and Selective Memorization through Model Fusion 📄arxiv.org/abs/2311.07682 Leshem (Legend) Choshen 🤖🤗 Shashank Srivastava

🚨🎓 We have several PhD (and postdoc) openings in NLP+CV+ML+AI in beautiful Chapel Hill 👇 Please RT+apply & ping our faculty for any questions (application-fee waivers & no GRE requirement)! Mohit Bansal Gedas Bertasius Snigdha Chaturvedi Tianlong Chen Shashank Srivastava Huaxiu Yao + others 🧵

👋 5th DaSH is returning to NAACL HLT 2025 2024 at Mexico City in June. ⏰ Submission deadline: March 22, 2024 Look forward to your amazing work! Co-organized with Lucian Popa (IBM Research) Eduard Dragut Slobodan Vucetic (Temple University) and Shashank Srivastava (UNC-Chapel Hill).

We are excited to host our next UNC-Chapel Hill NLP/ML Colloquium by Dr. Siva Reddy (Siva Reddy) from Mila - Institut québécois d'IA @McGillU, talking about: "Paradoxes in Transformer Language Models: Masking, Positional Encodings, and Routing"! Happening this Wednesday April 10th, 2-3pm ET in FB141.

(1/3) Check out our latest EMNLP 2024 (Findings) work - “SocialGaze: Improving the Integration of Human Social Norms in Large Language Models”; also to be presented at the 6th WNU EMNLP 2025 ! with Rakesh R Menon Snigdha Chaturvedi Shashank Srivastava at UNC Computer Science UNC NLP UNC-Chapel Hill

EMNLP 2025 Rakesh R Menon Snigdha Chaturvedi Shashank Srivastava UNC Computer Science UNC NLP UNC-Chapel Hill (3/3) We also uncover interesting age and gender biases: for the same actions, models tend to judge Female narrators as more innocent ("NTA/Not-the-A**hole") compared to Male narrators. Code and Data: github.com/nvshrao/social…

Hi everyone, I am thrilled to share that our recent study “Optimization-Free Image Immunization Against Diffusion-Based Editing” is now available on ArXiv. ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2411.17957 Project Webpage: diffvax.github.io