Research
Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Workshop: Module 5, Custom LLMs and Fine-Tuning
Learn how to build, fine-tune, and deploy custom AI models using UMass Amherst’s Unity Research Computing Platform’s infrastructure.
NLP Seminar: Akari Asai (University of Washington), Beyond Scaling: Frontiers of Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
In this talk, Asai will urge the necessity of moving beyond the traditional scaling of monolithic LMs and advocate for Augmented LMs.
Systems Lunch for Students
The Systems Lunch for Students series aims to create a dedicated forum for PhD students in systems to: (1) share their research and receive constructive...
NLP Seminar: Wenting Zhao (Cornell University), Reasoning in the Wild
In this talk, Wenting Zhao will discuss how to build natural language processing (NLP) systems that solve real-world problems requiring complex reasoning.
Book Launch: Dancing with Roomba by Joseph L. Jones
Join us to celebrate the publication of Dancing with Roomba by roboticist Joseph L. Jones—an inside look at the creation of everyone’s favorite robot.
Seminar: Haiying Shen (University of Virginia), Resource Optimization for ML Inference Serving
With the growing popularity of deep learning models, minimizing the monetary costs and maximizing the goodput of inference-serving systems has become critical.
UMass AI&Sec SP'25 Seminar: Harsh Chaudhari, Propagation of Adversarial Bias to Distilled Language Models
This talk investigates the vulnerability of distilled language models to adversarial injection of biased content during training.