{"681564":{"#nid":"681564","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Ph.D. Dissertation Defense - Christopher Richardson","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E:\u0026nbsp; Language Modeling with Few-shot Language Feedback\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECommittee:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Larry Heck, ECE, Chair, Advisor\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Mark Davenport, ECE\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Matthieu Bloch, ECE\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. David Anderson, ECE\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Zsolt Kira, IC\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003Ehe objective of the proposed research is to develop methods to leverage few-shot lan- guage feedback to improve language models on various tasks. The motivation for this work stems from the overarching goal in the artificial intelligence (AI) field of achieving align- ment - that is, AI that advances the intended objectives of its users. Recent progress with instruction-tuned language models has given rise to capable chatbot agents that can solve myriad tasks described in natural language and engage with users in a conversational set- ting. Despite these advances, language models still face fundamental challenges in aligning with human objectives. In particular, they must continuously adapt and learn from human users. Current models can respond to direct feedback conversationally, but have limited abilities to generalize from that feedback to new situations and unseen data. This is the problem of few-shot language feedback. We seek to better understand the capabilities and limits of current language models in generalizing from language feedback and to develop methods to improve responses in the few-shot language feedback scenario.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Language Modeling with Few-shot Language Feedback "}],"uid":"28475","created_gmt":"2025-04-03 17:50:08","changed_gmt":"2025-04-03 17:51:00","author":"Daniela Staiculescu","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2025-04-14T11:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2025-04-14T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2025-04-14T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2025-04-14 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2025-04-14 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2025-04-14 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Room 530, TSRB","extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"434381","name":"ECE Ph.D. Dissertation Defenses"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"100811","name":"Phd Defense"},{"id":"1808","name":"graduate students"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78771","name":"Public"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}