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30
Jun
9:00 am PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Katherine Thai, Modeling Literary Interpretation: Benchmarks and Methods for Machine Understanding of Literature

This thesis argues that if LLMs are to engage meaningfully with the full spectrum of human language, they must also demonstrate proficiency in literary analysis
30
Jun
10:00 am PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Sandeep Polisetty, Abstractions to Eliminate Redundancy in Training Graph Neural Networks on GPUs

In the first part of my thesis, I introduce split parallelism, a novel  abstraction that addresses the limitations of traditional data parallelism on GPUs.
30
Jun
11:00 am Research

Seminar: Preslav Nakov, Factuality Challenges in the Era of Large Language Models

We will discuss the risks, the challenges, and the opportunities that Large Language Models (LLMs) bring regarding factuality.
01
Jul
8:00 am PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Hao Shi, Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Flexible Persistent Transactional WebAssembly Runtime System

This dissertation proposes integrating transactional memory directly into a WebAssembly runtime system for persistent memory programming.
02
Jul
8:30 pm PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense

PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense: Angela Upreti, Design and Implementation of optimizations for Web Assembly Extended with Transactions and Persistence

This thesis will explore optimizations related to these new opcodes and functionality.

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