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Parker Distinguished Professor, UNC Chapel Hill ( @unc ). Director ( @uncnlp ). Prev: @Berkeley_AI , @TTIC_Connect @IITKanpur #NLP , #CV , #AI , #ML

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Mohit Bansal

1 month

🚨 FYI, the #EMNLP2024 conference website & 1st CfP is up! We welcome everyone to submit their papers 🤗 Note: We'll also be requesting a lot of SAC+AC+reviewing help in the coming days, so please keep some time for this 🙏 Deadline: June 15 Special Theme: Efficiency in Model…

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EMNLP 2024

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EMNLP 2024 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research on empirical methods for Natural Language Processing. More info at: #EMNLP2024

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Mohit Bansal

4 years

A small thing given all that's going on...but rcvd this kind letter w. words "permanent tenure" has been approved, & hence wanted to say a big THANKS to my students+family+mentors+collab+unc & #nlproc community!🙏 ps. told parents I'm not assisting, but associating w profs now😀

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Mohit Bansal

5 years

🥳🎉🍾 Humbled+excited abt this NSF-CAREER award, & the research it will fund! All credit/thnx goes to my students, mentors, collabr, family! Disclaimer: I've had *several* rejections frm other NSF programs (it's important to share your rejctns & ackn challenges of the process)

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UNC Computer Science

5 years

Congrats to Prof. Mohit Bansal @mohitban47 (director of @uncnlp lab) for receiving the prestigious @NSF CAREER Award, for his research on knowledge-skilled natural language generation! @UNC @unccollege @UNCResearch @unccs

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Mohit Bansal

3 years

🎉Excited+humbled to help lead the foundational AI efforts for equitable learning (via multimodal narrative environments) in this new Engage @NSF -AI Institute, & collab with our expert partners at NCSU Indiana Vanderbilt DP (+awsm @uncnlp team @snigdhac25 @colinraffel @shsriva )🙏

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UNC-Chapel Hill

3 years

Researchers from @UNC , @NCState and other universities are forming a new $20M @NSF Artificial Intelligence Institute for Engaged Learning. Learn how Carolina’s @mohitban47 & @unccs faculty will create equitable educational experiences via advanced AI tools

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Mohit Bansal

7 months

Honored and humbled to receive the @IITKanpur Young Alumnus Award from my alma mater, which has been an amazing source of mentors+friends+memories and important foundation/values 🙏 All the credit for this award belongs to my mentors, students, collaborators, family/friends ❤️

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Abhay Karandikar

7 months

Young Alumnus Awards were decided long time back but I couldn't make them public. Here is a post about it- perhaps my last announcement about IITK as Director. The Young Alumnus Award (YAA) is an award that aims to recognise our alumni under the age of 40 who have distinguished…

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Mohit Bansal

4 years

Big thanks to @DARPA & @Microsoft for their fellowships (all credit to my awsm students)!😀 Imp: Multiple *POSTDOC positions* in @UNCNLP via these awards; pls apply/share -> @MSFTResearch @UNC @unccollege

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Microsoft Investigator Fellowship - Microsoft Research

Microsoft Investigator Fellowship is a two-year fellowship that recognizes higher education faculty in North America whose exceptional talent identifies them as distinguished scientists and teachers.

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UNC Computer Science

4 years

Congrats Prof. Mohit Bansal @mohitban47 ( @uncnlp lab) for the prestigious @DARPA Director’s Fellowship & @Microsoft Investigator Fellowship, recognizing his impact & contributions to the research community. @UNC @unccollege @UNCResearch @MSFTResearch

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Mohit Bansal

10 months

I'll be in Toronto for #ACL2023 , and looking forward to seeing everyone after a long time (I think this is my first in-person conference after 3.5 years)! Happy to chat about research, or faculty+postdoc+phd positions, or simply life/hanging out 🙂 #ACL2023nlp @aclmeeting

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Mohit Bansal

5 years

Big thanks to @GoogleAI for this award (esp. @jasonbaldridge , @dipanjand , @earnmyturns ) to push on spatial language understanding+generation (w/ @yoavartzi ). Multiple postdoc positions in @UNCNLP available thru this award, in close cooperation w/ google researchers. Apply asap!😀

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UNC Computer Science

5 years

Congrats to Mohit Bansal ( @mohitban47 ), assistant professor & director of @UNCNLP lab, for the $1.5M @GoogleAI Focused Research Award (divided evenly w/ @yoavartzi ), to work on spatial language understanding+generation. @unccollege @unc @UNCResearch

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Mohit Bansal

4 years

Life as an immigrant is already too much exhaustion+courage! Sad to see this new stress of visas...10yrs of my initial acad life (like sev others) were under constant anxiety to apply+maintain+renew multiple visa types, +also waste my short parent India visits in visa offices 1/N

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Ran Blekhman

4 years

Do US citizens understand how stressful it is to be an immigrant scientist in the US? Far from family/friends, never ending visa bureaucracy & payments, constant fear of not being allowed back in the US, or being forced to leave your home/job/PhD due to some ban

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Mohit Bansal

5 months

🚨 Exciting batch of #NeurIPS2023 papers/spotlights this week (11 students joining, say hi to them, some on job market🙂): -VPGen+VPEval -CoDi Any-to-Any -LMs Teach Weaker Agents -TIES-Merging -Localization vs Editing? -PanoGen -Self-Chained VidQA+Loc -Paxion -AdaptiveContext

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Mohit Bansal

4 years

Thanks @UNC , @UNCCollege , @UNCResearch , and @UNCCS (and ofc my amazing students)! Honored+humbled to share this Hettleman Prize with such pioneers in history/race studies, cancer studies, and music/sound political stakes: @william_sturkey , @angiesmith_uro , andrea_bohlman 🙂🙏

@UNCResearch

UNC Research

4 years

The annual Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement have been awarded to four promising faculty members who exemplify groundbreaking and innovative research along with future career promise. Congrats to this year's winners!

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Mohit Bansal

8 months

Honored and excited to give a keynote at @aaclmeeting ! I'll be talking about various challenging aspects of Multimodal Generative LLMs: unification, faithfulness, interpretability+evaluation, efficiency. Looking forward to the conference + seeing everyone in Bali 🏖️🌊 #AACL2023

@aaclmeeting

IJCNLP-AACL 2023

8 months

Exciting news! 🎉 Meet our four wonderful Keynote Speakers for #AACL2023 ! 🌟 Don't miss insights from - Hinrich Schütze @ University of Munich - Julia Hockenmaier @ UIUC - Mohit Bansal @ UNC - Katherine Zacarian @ Earth Species Project #NLProc

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Mohit Bansal

4 years

Congrats to our awesome students+collaborators for their 6 long #acl2020nlp papers** ( #silverlining for students in these tough times)!🙂 +BIG thanks to PCs @natschluter , @Tetreault_NLP , Joyce, & the full reviewers+ACs+SACs @aclmeeting team for huge effort! #UNCNLP #ACL2020 1/2

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Mohit Bansal

3 years

How you/we can help --> a thread of threads on useful (live-updating) info/awareness/resources/oxygen/donating/volunteering/calling/service... #CovidIndiaHelp

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Mohit Bansal

4 years

Following up on this old thread: FYI if you haven't seen our updated webpage, @UNCCS removed the GRE requirement *permanently* for ALL future years! 🙂🎉 (+the dept continues to offer some additional app-fee waivers for inclusivity). Feel free to ping us!

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Mohit Bansal

4 years

Very important (& relatively easy to implement) steps we should ensure in our Grad-Admissions, for more accessibility/equitability to low-inc, first-gen, international, underrep applicants (pls fwd to your admissions chair +work on the points not already in place in your dept) 👉

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Mohit Bansal

5 years

Presenting LXMERT at @EMNLP2019 --> (prnc. 'leksmert'). Top3 in GQA & VQA challenges (May2019), Rank1 in VizWiz, & v.strong generalzn to NLVR2 (22% abs jump)! Awesome effort by @HaoTan5 ! CODE+MODELS all public: ; pls use+share! 1/2

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Mohit Bansal

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Wow, it's JULY already & half the year's already over?!😮🙄 Here's to hoping the 2nd half of this crazy year will be more positive+safe+healthy for everyone --be kind! (coincidentally, here's pics of 2 newly-born fawn in our backyard to timely represent new luck for us all)🦌🤞🙂

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Mohit Bansal

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🎉🎓Congrats to awesome new+old graduates: PhDs @lbauer119 @khsquared @jayleicn @easonnie (+ @haotan5 who graduated last yr w. @ramakanth1729 , but was able to join us at @unccs this summer) & undergrad @EvaHuyn ! Was fun to attend in-person hooding + celebration + photo sessions😀

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Mohit Bansal

6 years

Congrats to @UNCNLP team (w/ students @easonnie & haonan) for achieving 1st rank in the exciting @EMNLP2018 #FEVER (Fact Extraction and VERification) shared task: (paper+code coming soon) @vlachos_nlp #NLProc #UNCNLP #EMNLP2018

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Andreas Vlachos

6 years

Results for the FEVER shared tasks are out! Check them out on Grateful to all 23 participating teams for their efforts! The results are pending a manual annotation of the responses submitted, and the final results and improved dataset will be out soon!

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Mohit Bansal

3 years

🌸Mentorship-For-All🌸 Free & all year round (indep of conf timelines, reg-fees, etc)! Took more time* than we hoped but finally live! Plz apply/spread word to all countries/underrep communities🙏 Thanks to the awesome team's efforts +Abhay for the logo!

@aclmentorship

ACL Mentorship

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🎉 Glad to launch the ACL Year-Round Mentorship program, open to all students worldwide! You're welcome to apply as a mentor/mentee/volunteer, info at: (big thanks to our organizers @radamihalcea @mohitban47 @vinodkpg @ZhijingJin @ashkankazemi @lbauer119 )

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Mohit Bansal

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Congrats to @UNCNLP students for their 5 @EMNLP2019 papers on cross-modal BERT/LXMERT, self-assembling modular network for multihopQA, semantic-drift reducing QG for QA data-augm, semantic IR for MRQA/FEVER, & auto-data-augm for dialogue. All preprints coming soon! 😀 #EMNLP2019

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Mohit Bansal

3 years

Finally an official YIPPIE KI YAY!!! 🎉🥳 And a deep first real breath after looooong anxious 4 days and even 4 YEARS....Here's to HEALING, REUNITING, REBUILDING. But for now, we are enjoying this Carrboro+Chapel Hill parade with infinite honking, plates+spoons, celebrating 😄😃

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Mohit Bansal

4 years

Thanks all for joining yest's mentoring session🙏 We'll be posting summary asap. Ques: we had ~110 #acl2020nlp participants from so many places/stages🤯 but only 1 hour, so we shud set up a process to repeat these virtual sessions year-round irresp. of conferences & open-for-all?

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Mohit Bansal

4 years

Along with @HannaHajishirzi @RadaMihalcea Heng Ji @elgreco_winter , I am hosting a newly-added #acl2020nlp mentoring session today(Wed July8) 12-1pm PDT on "Long-term career planning+Becoming a research leader: building your professional identity" (DM for zoom link). Looking fwd🙂

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Mohit Bansal

4 years

Folks 'at' #acl2020nlp , check out these 10 presentations by @uncnlp students+collaborators! Videos+details at (+pics attached). We're also hiring postdocs/phds, ping us to chat (or any general topics/mentoring🙂) cc @snigdhac25 @shsriva @colinraffel 1/3

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Mohit Bansal

6 years

New @acl2018 paper by @YenChunChen4 on "Fast Abstractive Summarization with Reinforce-Selected Sentence Rewriting" is out on arxiv now: CODE+MODELS all publicly available at: #NLProc #UNCNLP #ACL2018

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GitHub - ChenRocks/fast_abs_rl: Code for ACL 2018 paper: "Fast Abstractive Summarization with...

Code for ACL 2018 paper: "Fast Abstractive Summarization with Reinforce-Selected Sentence Rewriting. Chen and Bansal" - ChenRocks/fast_abs_rl

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cs.CL Papers

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Fast Abstractive Summarization with Reinforce-Selected Sentence Rewriting. (arXiv:1805.11080v1 []) #NLProc

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Mohit Bansal

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🚨 Excited to announce the 'UNC Symposium on AI and Society'! 🙂 Excellent line-up of speakers (Apr25+26) across diverse disciplines/departments incl. computer science, philosophy, cognitive science, psychology, ethics, sociology, data science,…

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Mohit Bansal

5 years

Excited to co-chair #CoNLL2019 with @alinev3010 (& our awesome area-chairs/organizers)! Call-for-papers is out, please mark calendars for May31 & spread the word! 😀 We will have 2 best paper awards (a special one for human language learning). Invited speakers info coming soon!

@conll2019

CoNLL 2019

5 years

This is the official Twitter account for the SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) 2019, co-located w/ @emnlp2019 in Hong Kong. Paper submission deadline: May 31, 2019 Call for papers is up at: #NLProc #conll2019 #emnlp2019

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Mohit Bansal

5 months

Looking fwd to seeing everyone in Singapore & happy to chat abt research/jobs/life 🙂 Honored+excited to give the keynote at #CoNLL2023 (thanks for the invite 🙏), our @ACLmentorship BoF session, & students presenting #EMNLP2023 work on: --Reasoning Chain/CoT Evaluation ... 🧵

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CoNLL 2023

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#CoNLL2023 will feature not one, but TWO awesome keynote speakers! On December 6th, we have Preslav Nakov ! @preslav_nakov On December 7th, we have Mohit Bansal ! @mohitban47 The full program, including their talk abstracts is here: see you there!

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Mohit Bansal

4 years

Along with @HannaHajishirzi @RadaMihalcea Heng Ji @elgreco_winter , I am hosting a newly-added #acl2020nlp mentoring session today(Wed July8) 12-1pm PDT on "Long-term career planning+Becoming a research leader: building your professional identity" (DM for zoom link). Looking fwd🙂

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Mohit Bansal

4 months

Had a great time speaking at @indoml_sym & meeting students+faculty+researchers (overall, kudos to organizers+volunteers on an excellent program)! 🙂 Talked about our long journey on Multimodal Generative LLMs: (1) Unified/Universal Multimodal Learning for Generalizability,…

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IndoML Symposium, 2023

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Day 1: Session 1 Foundational and Generative Models Talk 3: Mohit Bansal Professor University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill We’re really excited to play around with his state-of-the-art any-to-any multimodal models CoDi and CoDi-2 ! #indoml #ml #iitbombay #aiml

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Mohit Bansal

3 months

🚨Scalable Oversight 👉 Can LLMs generalize from EASY to HARD problems (where we struggle to label data w.r.t. cost+noise)? Surprising result 👉 Supervision Gap Recovered is 70-100% across several ways of measuring data hardness (e.g., 3rd-grade to college-level tests)! 👇👇👇

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Peter Hase

4 months

Can LLMs generalize from easy to hard problems? Models actually solve college test questions when trained on 3rd grade questions! 🚨New paper: “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Easy Training Data for Hard Tasks” 🧵1/6

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Mohit Bansal

4 months

It was a pleasure to meet you @Director_IITK (thanks for your kind effort in setting up the YAA ceremony separately) & to relive old memories in my alma mater @IITKanpur + interact w/ wonderful students+faculty via the @DoRA_IITK #AlmaKonnect & @CSEatIITK mentorship session🙂🙏

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Director, IIT Kanpur

4 months

It was a pleasure to host our Young Alumnus Awardee-2023, Prof. Mohit Bansal (BT/CSE/2008) today, in my office! We also felicitated him with the Young Alumnus Award-2023 today, as he could not attend the award ceremony. - Prof. S. Ganesh, Director, #IITKanpur #IITKAlumni #iitk

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Mohit Bansal

2 years

See a glimpse👇of how beautiful @unc +research triangle fall colors are 😍 Come join our awesome group of @uncnlp @unccs students+staff+faculty (& great neighbors eg. @duke_nlp ). We are hiring at all levels (phd, postdocs, faculty); feel free to ping any of us with questions 🙏

@uncnlp

UNC NLP

2 years

Check out our @uncnlp 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:

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Mohit Bansal

4 years

Amazing effort by @avalmendoz + @haotan5 & @huggingface @LysandreJik @qlhoest @Thom_wolf on LXMERT demo+backend! Comes with flexible dataset generation via HF/datasets for feat+box predn from bottomup-FRCNN w ultra-fast access; allows extension to other mmodal tasks by community 🤗

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Hugging Face

4 years

🔥Transformers' first-ever end-2-end multimodal demo was just released, leveraging LXMERT, SOTA model for visual Q&A! Model by @HaoTan5 , @mohitban47 , with an impressive implementation in Transformers by @avalmendoz ( @UNCnlp ) Notebook available here: 🤗

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Mohit Bansal

4 years

Congratulations @BarzilayRegina for the first @RealAAAI Squirrel AI Award for the Benefit of Humanity! Extraordinarily inspiring and well-deserved 🙂

@MIT_CSAIL

MIT CSAIL

4 years

BREAKING: a new $1 million AI award will go to MIT professor Regina Barzilay, whose work uses ML to diagnose breast cancer & develop antibiotics. More about Prof. Barzilay & the award from @RealAAAI @SquirrelAI_Edu :

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Mohit Bansal

6 years

Congrats to our @UNCNLP students & collaborators for the 6 @EMNLP2018 papers, 1 @CoNLL2018 paper (and also 1 #TACL paper and a #FEVER shared task rank1 system to be presented at EMNLP). Details attached. We r excited to see u in Brussels!! 🙂 #EMNLP2018 #CoNLL2018 #NLProc #UNCNLP

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Mohit Bansal

4 years

Yay, this really makes all the recruiting time+effort spent last 2 spring semesters feel worthwhile/well-spent 😍🙏 Really excited about these new additions! Welcome again to @UNC , all! PS. NLP+ML folks applying for PostDocs/PhD this year, definitely apply to @UNCCS + @UNCNLP !!😀

@unccs

UNC Computer Science

4 years

2019/2020 brings a prestigious group of new faculty researchers, adding to our already accomplished and internationally recognized @unccs faculty team! Welcome Samarjit Chakraborty, @snigdhac25 , Bo Dai, @psduggirala , @colinraffel & @shsriva

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4 years

Found this one for harry potter fans...

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Mohit Bansal

6 years

Our @UNCNLP group page is finally online: ! It contains several new code/model/data github repo's, student webpage links, fun group photos, colloquia info, etc. Thnx to @AlexGuoHan for leading the effort! (also we'll be using @UNCNLP handle actively now :-)

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Mohit Bansal

4 years

It's live!🥳 Excited to continue on the @DynabenchAI journey (w. @facebookai @ucl_nlp @stanfordnlp ) for human-model-in-loop benchmarks, & extend AdvNLI () to more diverse rounds (r4 coming soon) +related tasks! cc @EasonNie @uncnlp

Introducing Dynabench: Rethinking the way we benchmark AI

We’re sharing Dynabench, a first-of-its-kind platform for dynamic AI benchmarking. It uses humans and models together “in the loop” to create challenging new datasets…

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Douwe Kiela

4 years

I’m super excited to announce Dynabench - a new and ambitious research platform for dynamic data collection and benchmarking: 1/n

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Mohit Bansal

3 years

🎉🎉 Congratulations to @XiangZhou14 + co-authors @helfardy @c_christodoulop #tom_butler on the #EACL2021 Best Paper Award Honorable Mention (and to all the other papers' authors)! 🎉🎉

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Xiang Zhou

3 years

Very honored+grateful for receiving the best long paper award honorable mention at #EACL2021 😃 Huge thanks to all my mentors+coauthors @helfardy , @c_christodoulop , Tom, @mohitban47 Also thanks to @eaclmeeting pc/best paper committee & congrats to all winners/honorable mentions!

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Mohit Bansal

4 years

Welcome again to the research triangle, Sam+Bhuwan! Looking fwd to fun collaborations! #NLProc PhD applicants, apply to the awesome NLP hub of @duke_nlp + @uncnlp (w. several star new faculty incl. Sam, Bhuwan, @snigdhac25 , @shsriva , @colinraffel ) & just *10 miles* frm each other🙂

@duke_nlp

DukeNLP

4 years

We're very excited to be starting an #NLProc lab at Duke in Fall 2021, and we're looking for PhD students! We'd especially like to encourage applicants from nontraditional backgrounds and communities historically underrepresented in the field. Apply here:

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Mohit Bansal

4 years

Welcome again, @ColinRaffel ! Looking fwd to having u here soon 😀; & NLP folks applying for PhD this year, definitely apply to @UNCCS ! In addn to Colin doing exciting NLP (e.g., see recent T5 paper: ), the awesome @snigdhac25 + @shsriva have also joined us!

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Transfer learning, where a model is first pre-trained on a data-rich task before being fine-tuned on a downstream task, has emerged as a powerful technique in natural language processing (NLP)....

@colinraffel

Colin Raffel

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I'm starting a professorship in the CS department at UNC in fall 2020 (!!) and am hiring students! If you're interested in doing a PhD @unccs please get in touch. More info here:

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Mohit Bansal

6 years

Overflowing packed room for Triangle CS Distinguished Lecture by Chris Manning ( @chrmanning ) of Stanford NLP ( @stanfordnlp )!! @unccs #NLProc Title: Building Neural Network Models That Can Reason Details: PS. Video of his talk will be posted online soon!

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Mohit Bansal

3 years

😍 Super excited to officially welcome these awesome folks in vision, robotics/HRI, HCI/graphics/cogSci, ML/NLP, compBio, csEd, cryptography to the @unc , @unccs , @uncnlp family -- looking fwd to many fun collaborations! @gberta227 @dalbersszafir @natstann @onsmith13 @colinraffel

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UNC Computer Science

3 years

We are proud to welcome our new faculty cohort -all leading researchers in their areas - #vision #robotics #ML #compBio #csEd #security #HCI #datavisualization … @UNC @unccollege @UNCResearch @gberta227 @dalbersszafir @natstann @onsmith13 @colinraffel

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🚨 Important + fun collaboration on this new position paper ➡️➡️ "Rethinking Machine Unlearning for Large Language Models": ▪️ Eliminate undesirable data influence (e.g., sensitive/illegal info), while maintaining integrity of essential knowledge generation & not affecting…

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sijia.liu

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[1/3] 🌟 Excited to share our latest work "Rethinking Machine Unlearning for LLMs" on arXiv! 🚀 Check it out: 📢Our mission? To cleanse LLMs of harmful, sensitive, or illegal data influences and refine their capabilities.

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🤯 Wow, be KIND! Sharing #CovidIndia posts is a tiny effort to give info to family/frnds fighting for things as basic as OXYGEN! PS. I'll also be sharing many links these days (), feel free to unfollow OR u can help do your tiny part/ignore, "just saying"

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@rajammanabrolu

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I haven't been home in years. I stay up at night thinking of all the people I'll never see again. I'd like to have a home to go back to. All I can do is donate/RT so I'm boosting #CovidIndia posts that can help. If this bothers you, pls mute/unfollow. Don't send me DMs like this

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Congrats to @UNCNLP students for their 4 #AAAI2020 papers on multi-src domain adaptn bandits, QA on diverse modalities, dull response suppr, and modality-balanced visual dialogue. All preprints coming soon!🙂 FYI, @HanGuo97 is applying for PhD programs! ()

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Congrats to @UNCNLP students & collaborators for these new papers (6 ACL + 2 preprints) on lifelong learning, adversarial & interpretable multihopQA, visual relationships, VQA, paper-gener, video-QA/localization, HRI-commonsense. See u all @ACL2019_Italy ! 😀 #ACL2019nlp #NLProc

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Thanks @_KarenHao for this fun article in MIT @TechReview (with cats😺) covering @HaoTan5 's "Vokenization" work at @UNC , upcoming at #emnlp2020 ! (also features kind words from the awesome @Thom_Wolf / @huggingface 🤗) Paper: Try it:

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Karen Hao

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And we continue the distractions. My latest for @techreview covers a paper from @HaoTan5 & @mohitban47 that cracks how to train neural networks on language & images through mostly unsupervised learning. A promising direction for developing common sense AI.

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Thanks, @UNCResearch !! Grateful to the @USArmy Research Office / @ArmyResearchLab for this ARO-YIP award (and a big thanks to my awesome students and collaborators/colleagues)! :-) @unccs @unccollege @UNC

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UNC Research

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Congratulations to Mohit Bansal, a UNC #CompSci assistant professor, on receiving the prestigious Young Investigator Program Award from the U.S. Army Research Office! The award provides $360,000 to fund his research.

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Congrats to @peterbhase for 'Outstanding Area Chair' award at #ACL2023nlp 🙂 On a related note, he will be on the faculty market this year, so definitely look out for him 👉 #ProudAdvisor

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ACL 2024

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🏆ACL Reviewer and (Senior) Area Chair Awards 🔗 👏Outstanding SACs @caro__lawrence , @anmarasovic & @ChenhaoTan 🧵 (1/6)

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🚨 Are LLMs good at logical + strategic reasoning? Are they better/worse than traditional solvers like Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS)? ➡️ **GTBench: Uncovering the Strategic Reasoning Limitations of LLMs via Game-Theoretic Evaluations** A new framework+benchmark of 10 diverse…

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Tianlong Chen

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🚨How good is your LLM at game theory? Check out GTBench, to evaluate LLMs on logic+strategy games! LLM-vs-LLM competition in 10 board+card games e.g Kuhn Poker, Tic-Tac-Toe, Breakthrough etc ➡️ LLMs overall lag on GT tasks & code-pretraining helps. 🧵

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🎉🎉Congrats to @jayleicn + @linjiefun on the #CVPR2021 Best Paper Nomination for "Less is More: ClipBERT for Video-and-Language Learning via Sparse Sampling": efficient/democratized + sota end2end video&lang learning! w/ @luowei_zhou @zhegan4 tlberg jjliu

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Jie Lei

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ClipBERT is nominated for best paper! 😆

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2 years

🚨 We are hiring assistant+associate level faculty for the @unccs family, including areas broadly in DS/ML/AI+x. Please feel free to apply & reach out for any questions 🙏

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UNC Computer Science

2 years

We're hiring tenure-track faculty here at @unccs ! Areas include: Security, Data Science, Vision, Systems, Robotics, CompBio & AR/VR. Join a dept renowned for research collaboration and impact. @unccollege @UNCResearch @UNC

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Mohit Bansal

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Congrats Jie @jayleicn on being awarded the @AdobeResearch Fellowship!! 🥳 🎉 #ProudAdvisor PS. Jie works on diverse aspects of vision+language research (esp. videos) & will be on the job market next year 🙂 (cc tlberg; @uncnlp )

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UNC Computer Science

3 years

Congrats to Jie Lei ( @jayleicn ) on being named a 2021 @AdobeResearch Fellow!! One of only 10 awardees worldwide, Lei's research focuses on the intersection of NLP+computer vision (advised by @mohitban47 & tlberg, @uncnlp ) @UNCResearch @unccollege @UNC

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Mohit Bansal

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Reminder to self/others in current isolation situation: We are spending *way* more time online on screens than usual (due to all meetings --> virtual), so plz take v good care of ur eyes/health via regular screen/exercise breaks; u might even spot a backyard frnd in such breaks🙂

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Very proud of & heartiest congratulations to Ramakanth Pasunuru ( @ramakanth1729 ) for being awarded the prestigious Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship!! 😀😀 #NLProc #UNCNLP #MSR @MSFTResearch @unccs @unccollege @UNC @UNCResearch

Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship - Microsoft Research

The Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship is a global program that identifies and empowers the next generation of exceptional computing research talent.

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Microsoft Research

5 years

We're excited to announce the 2019 winners of the Microsoft Research Ada Lovelace Fellowship and PhD Fellowship! Explore inspiring projects from talented PhD students in computing-related fields:

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🎉🥳😍 Congratulations to @jayleicn + @linjiefun +the whole team on the @CVPR Best Student Paper Award Honorable Mention (and to all the other winners/papers' authors)!!

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Jie Lei

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Yay! We won the @CVPR 2021 Best Student Paper Honorable Mention! (Top 7 out of 7000 submissions 😍) @linjiefun @luowei_zhou @zhegan4 tlberg @mohitban47 jjliu @uncnlp @unccs @msftresearch

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Please RT: I am looking for a POSTDOC in NLP/ML for @UNCNLP !! Broad focus, freedom to create research agenda, advise students, collab w/ other AI faculty. More info: Ping me or happy to chat at @EMNLP2018 !

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🚨 "Evaluating Very Long-Term Conversational Memory of LLM Agents" ➡️ we evaluate 'very long + multimodal conversational memory' of LLMs on our LoCoMo dataset via 3 tasks: QA, Event Summarization, Multimodal Dialog Generation. ➡️ we show that LLMs (incl. long-context models)…

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Adyasha Maharana

2 months

Can LLMs keep track of very long conversations? We evaluate 'conversational memory' of LLMs via 3 tasks on our dataset of multi-session multimodal dialogs --> LLMs struggle to remember, reason over history, draw long-range temporal/causal connections 🧵

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🚨 #TMLR paper on exposing+addressing how large VL models show significant **Cross-Task Inconsistency** for the same image across different tasks! 😲 E.g. the model describes [captioning task] the image as a person 'skiing' BUT answers 'snowboarding' when asked [vqa task] the…

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Adyasha Maharana

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Are unified VL models consistent across predictions for different tasks on the same image? Thrilled to share our @TMLRorg paper where we find that VL models show significant cross-task inconsistency in their predictions for the same image across tasks. 🧵

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Mohit Bansal

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Excited & honored to give the Distinguished Lecture at @CSatUSC today! Looking forward to meeting the awesome @nlp_usc group 🙂 -- thanks @swabhz + everyone for the kind invitation 🙏 PS. Details in the link below, feel free to stop by!

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Swabha Swayamdipta

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Looking forward to welcome @mohitban47 as a distinguished lecturer to @CSatUSC tomorrow and learn about his latest work on Multimodal LLMs: It's going to be a good day at @nlp_usc

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Mohit Bansal

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Here are some new upcoming #NAACL2019 , #CVPR2019 , #ICRA2019 papers from our students & collaborators on {Navigation, Self-Learned-MTL, Summ-Eval, EQA, Attribute-Instruction-Following} + RANK-1 in popular Room-to-Room Vision-Lang-Navigation Leaderboard ()!

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🚨 CoDi-2: In-Context, Interleaved, Interactive Any-to-Any Generation🚨 Interactive MLLM that can follow "multimodal-interleaved" instructions, conduct in-context learning, reason, chat, edit, compose, for any-to-any (text/vision/audio) input-output in a zero/few-shot way! 🧵👇

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Zineng Tang

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🔥Excited to introduce CoDi-2! It follows complex multimodal-interleaved in-context instructions to generate any modalities (text, vision, audio) in zero/few-shot interactive way! @yzy_ai @nlpyang @ChenguangZhu2 @mohitban47 🧵👇

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"Vokens" = Visually-grounded-tokens (contextual) to imprv lang-pretraining & engl NLU tasks (imp divergence/grounding ratio issues, extrapolates frm small dataset)! pdf: Full code: ➡️Hao is on job market🙂:

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Hao Tan

4 years

*Vokenization*: a visually-supervised language model attempt in our #emnlp2020 paper: (w. @mohitban47 ) To improve language pre-training, we extrapolate multimodal alignments to lang-only data by contextually mapping tokens to related images ("vokens") 1/4

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🚨SouthNLP🚨 Looking forward to this exciting regional symposium involving 10+ universities (& everyone welcome)! Thanks to Jinho+Emory+organizers for their effort on 1st version; hope to see many of you in Atlanta + check the CfP and submit your papers 👉

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Jinho Choi

6 months

We are delighted to announce that the First South NLP Symposium will take place on March 29, 2024, at Emory University: Here are the details regarding the call for papers: We look forward to seeing you at the symposium.

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☕️ CREMA ➡️➡️ multimodal+compositional+efficient video reasoning via modular adapters: ▪️ compositional: inject+balance new modalities (RGB+3D/Depth/Flow/Normals/Audio...) ▪️ flexible/universal: no complex architecture/backbone changes needed ▪️ efficiency: only ~3% trainable…

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Shoubin Yu

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How to efficiently & flexibly inject diverse new modalities (RGB+audio/3D/depth/flow/...) to improve Video Reasoning? Introducing ☕️ CREMA, a substantially efficient (~3% trainable params) & modular fusion framework (w/o complex architecture changes) 🧵

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It was great chatting with @samcharrington on this @twimlai podcast (in April), on various different aspects of Multimodality & Vision-Language LLMs, including Unification, Efficiency, Evaluation, and Explainability...(PS. don't mind my long hair 😄) -- thanks for having me!

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The TWIML AI Podcast

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Today we’re joined by Mohit Bansal ( @mohitban47 ), Professor at @unccs , to discuss his work on the unification of language and vision models, the advancement he’s seen in multimodal models, challenges of evaluation in generative AI, and much more! 🎧

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Mohit Bansal

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🎉🎉 Yay congrats Shiyue on being awarded the @Bloomberg PhD Fellowship, for her impactful work on low-resource NLG (eg. Cherokee revitalization) & summarization! #ProudAdvisor 🙂 PS. She'll be on job market in 1 year and is awesome, definitely get her ->

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Shiyue Zhang

2 years

I am very honored to receive a @Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship! Many thanks to my advisor @mohitban47 for all the support and guidance I received. I’d also like to thank all my labmates @uncnlp , collaborators, and mentors for their help all along!

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🎉🎉BIG congrats to @ZinengTang for the amazing achievement of being selected as Winner (out of 4 in North America) of the 2023 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award! #ProudAdvisor 🙂 🚨 Zineng is applying for a PhD this year 👉 @CRAtweets @unccs

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Computing Research

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2023 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award Recipients Announced

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Mohit Bansal

4 years

Thanks everyone for coming to @CoNLL2019 ! It was great to see so many strong presentations! Thanks to my awesome co-chair @alinev3010 + our invited speakers @chrmanning & @vigliocco_g + amazing orgnz team (incl @emnlp2019 org)! Looking fwd to CoNLL2020 in Dominican Republic! 🙏🙂

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CoNLL 2019

4 years

Big congrats to the winners of the #conll2019 paper awards: 1) Best Paper: by Gonen, Kementchedjhieva, Goldberg; 2) Best Paper for Research Inspired by Human Language Learning: by Rabinovich, Watson, Beekhuizen, Stevenson.

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Mohit Bansal

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Submit to our #neurips2020 "HAMLETS: Human And Machine in-the-Loop Evaluation and Learning Strategies" workshop! Deadline Oct9 --> And check out the (growing) list of exciting speakers: 🙂

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Divyansh Kaushik

4 years

Call for papers for the #neurips2020 HAMLETS workshop is live along with a great list of invited speakers including @jennwvaughan , @ajratner , @EmmaBrunskill , Sanjoy Dasgupta, Dan Weld, Kristen Grauman, and Finale Doshi-Velez. More to come. Submit!!!!

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Mohit Bansal

4 years

Wow, no time to catch one's breath between such news items ☹️ I was on F1 too. Making students choose between health safety vs visa safety?!! 🤯 (but pls don't panic, we'll work v hard with univs to extend in-progress hybrid solutions & distance-safe inperson indep-study courses)

@JeffDean

Jeff Dean (@🏡)

4 years

This ICE action against students on F-1 visas is incredibly damaging in many ways. It hurts U.S. competitiveness, damages our world-class universities, and, if enacted, will disrupt the scholarly study of millions of the brightest students from around the world.

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Mohit Bansal

3 years

Several tenure + teaching track faculty positions at @unccs ! Please apply/share at + & feel free to ping us with any questions that we can help with 🙏

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UNC Computer Science

3 years

Join the tradition of teaching excellence, innovative research, and collaboration at @unccs . We are HIRING for multiple faculty positions. Areas include: security, data science, vision, systems, robotics, compbio, & AR/VR. Apply: @unccollege @UNCResearch

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Mohit Bansal

3 years

VL-T5 / VL-BART 👇👇👇 (unified generative multimodal-pretraining framework)

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Jaemin Cho

3 years

Presenting our new V+L pretraining work: “Unifying Vision-and-Language Tasks via Text Generation”, a single unified generative framework (VL-T5 / VL-BART) for diverse multimodal tasks! Arxiv: Work done w/ @jayleicn @HaoTan5 @mohitban47 ( @uncnlp ) 🧵1/n

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Today, our old backyard friend came to visit on the front porch and even peaked into our window to say hello😀Also brought the family along!! Served as a good reminder to regularly take those important screen/exercise breaks for eyes/health and appreciate nature!

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Mohit Bansal

4 years

Reminder to self/others in current isolation situation: We are spending *way* more time online on screens than usual (due to all meetings --> virtual), so plz take v good care of ur eyes/health via regular screen/exercise breaks; u might even spot a backyard frnd in such breaks🙂

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🎬+🎥->🎞️🎞️ (1) LLM creates detailed “video plan” to describe entities/layouts/background + their “consistency-groups” ➡️ (2) plan guides “layout2vid” to generate long multi-scene videos w/ layout+movement control & temporal cross-scene consistency! 🧵👇

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Han Lin

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🎬🎥Can LLMs create a detailed “video plan” that describes entities/background/layouts/consistency-groups for long video generation? VideoDirectorGPT: Consistent Multi-scene Video Generation via LLM-Guided Planning @AbhayZala7 @jmin__cho @mohitban47 🧵

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Check out this new #AAAI2020 paper "Multi-Source Domain Adaptation for Text Classification via DistanceNet-Bandits" by @HanGuo97 @Ramakanth1729 --> PS. Han is on the PhD admissions market! @RealAAAI @UNCNLP

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Han Guo

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Our @RealAAAI paper "Multi-Source Domain Adaptation for Text Classification via DistanceNet-Bandits" (w/ @ramakanth1729 , @mohitban47 ): we analyze distance measures for NLP domain adaptn; DistanceNet using a mixture of distances; & bandit that dynamically switches btw src domains

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🚨 EnvGen --> LLM iteratively decides+generates visual/embodied environments that are most effective to let the RL game agent play+learn in --> so as to automatically target/focus on progressively/adaptively improving the agent's weaker skills --> and hence very efficient…

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Jaemin Cho

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Can we adaptively generate training environments with LLMs to help small embodied RL game agents learn useful skills that they are weak at? 🤔 👉 Check out EnvGen, an effective+efficient framework in which an LLM progressively generates and adapts training environments based on…

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Mohit Bansal

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Inspiring article on @UNC univ page abt our awsm undergrad @SwetaKarlekar ! Proud of her impact: CRA Outstanding UG Award fr NAACL+EMNLP+WiNLP papers on Alzheimers+SexualHarassment+ #MeToo , & AI+ethics work at FB,Google,Disney,Yelp! Best wishes fr @Facebook job, & Go class #UNC20 🙂

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UNC-Chapel Hill

4 years

Sweta Karlekar had some extraordinary experiences at #UNC , but she'll miss little things — like studying at Davis Library until 2 a.m. — most of all. As she heads to work at @Facebook , the new #UNCgrad urges her classmates not to give up on their dreams

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Mohit Bansal

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Exciting work by @EasonNie (+ @adinamwilliams @em_dinan @jaseweston @douwekiela )! Adversarial NLI, a large dataset collected via a multi-round adversarial (weakness-finding) human-&-model-in-the-loop process; allows moving/lifelong-learning target for NLU😀

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Douwe Kiela

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Excited (in my 1st tweet ever!) to announce Adversarial NLI: a new large-scale benchmark dataset for NLU, and a challenge to the community. Great job by @EasonNie , together with @adinamwilliams @em_dinan @mohitban47 and @jaseweston .

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➡️➡️How to improve multiple skills in Text-to-Image (T2I) models via self-training? 👉 SELMA 👉 -- Generates multiple skill-specific image-text pairs using LLM+T2I. -- Learns skill-specific LoRA experts in parallel (to minimize "knowledge interference" between skills). --…

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Jialu Li

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Can we teach multiple skills to a text-to-image (T2I) model (w/o expensive annotations), while minimizing knowledge conflicts between skills? 🤔 👉SELMA improves T2I models by fine-tuning on automatically generated multi-skill image-text datasets, with skill-specific LoRA expert…

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Mohit Bansal

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🚨Exciting new work on reliable Text-to-Image Evaluation led by @jmin__cho (after his prev works on DALL-Eval, VPEval, LayoutBench, etc.) with a great group of collaborators🙂 based on Davidsonian Scene Graphs for atomic + unique + semantic coverage + valid dependency questions👇

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Jaemin Cho

6 months

🚨New T2I Evaluation!🚨 We introduce Davidsonian Scene Graph (DSG) for reliable T2I evaluation with questions that: - are atomic and unique - cover full text prompt semantics (w/o hallucination) - and have valid consistencies @GoogleAI @uncnlp @uwnlp 🧵

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Mohit Bansal

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Folks applying for O1/greencard style visas, check your updated citations because the jumps are large (& no email notification)! Thanks again @annargrs + @earnmyturns : this also really helps intl immigrants because O1/GC type apps (unfortunately) put high weight on citations...1/2

@aclanthology

ACL Anthology

4 years

This long-standing issue seems to have been resolved. Thanks to @annargrs for raising this issue, @earnmyturns for raising this issue internally, and also to Google Scholar for the fix!

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Mohit Bansal

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Diagrammer ➡️ Diagram Programmer+Generator! -Plans for fine-grained, dense layouts+relationships/connections for open-domain/platform diagram gen (on which sota T2I models struggle). -Visualization of complex concepts & human-in-the-loop diagram layout editing via ppt/inkscape.

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Jaemin Cho

6 months

🎨DiagrammerGPT: a novel 2-stage text-to-diagram generation framework leveraging LLMs (e.g., GPT-4) to create fine-grained layouts for open-domain, open-platform diagrams (w/ dense objects+complex relations)! @AbhayZala7 @hanlin_hl @mohitban47 @uncnlp 🧵

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Mohit Bansal

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🤩 YAY we are super excited @EliasEskin to have you join us as a postdoc!! 🥳 Welcome to the MURGe-Lab + @uncnlp + @unccs family & the beautiful Chapel Hill + Research Triangle area!! Looking forward to the many fun collaborations 🙂

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Elias Stengel-Eskin

11 months

After an amazing 5 years as a PhD student at @jhuclsp , I'm incredibly excited to announce that I'm joining @mohitban47 's lab @uncnlp and @unccs as a Postdoctoral Research Associate! Looking forward to many exciting collaborations with the amazing students and faculty there 1/2

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Mohit Bansal

5 years

For me, it was Lillian Lee & Claire Cardie ( @clairecardie ), who were my co-mentors for an undergrad summer fellowship from India to Cornell. As I told them recently (was lucky enough to host both of them for colloquia at UNC), my interest in NLP started strongly because of them!!

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Jeff Dean (@🏡)

5 years

In honor of #InternationalWomansDay tomorrow, I'd like to start a thread about women who have inspired us, taught us, and mentored us in our careers. Please comment with someone who has inspired you! (cont)

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Mohit Bansal

4 years

Very important (& relatively easy to implement) steps we should ensure in our Grad-Admissions, for more accessibility/equitability to low-inc, first-gen, international, underrep applicants (pls fwd to your admissions chair +work on the points not already in place in your dept) 👉

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Mohit Bansal

4 years

Hear Hear!! Please read again, reviewers (esp. omnipresent reviewer #2 🙂), & also ACs+SACs when writing/revising/discussing reviews in upcoming weeks. And a big thanks again to #emnlp2020 team and #nlproc community for leading the way in helping inculcate these important values

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emnlp2020

4 years

Seems like a lot of people are working on their EMNLP reviews at the moment! Please remember that the following are NOT valid primary reasons for rejection, and the authors will be able to appeal to these guidelines in the rebuttal:

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Mohit Bansal

4 years

Congrats to @PeterBHase 's for 1st PhD work at #ACL2020nlp on "Evaluating Explainable-AI". Important take-aways from comprehensive fwd+counterfactual simuln tests on text+tabular data for 5 XAI methods(inc. prev 'prototype' work w Cynthia Rudin) via *many* in-person user studies🙂

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Peter Hase

4 years

My first PhD paper!😀 (at #acl2020nlp , w. @mohitban47 @uncnlp ) "Evaluating Explainable AI: Which Algorithmic Explanations Help Users Predict Model Behavior?" We measure how 5 explanation methods (LIME, Anchor, Prototype, Decision Boundary, Composite) improve simulatability...1/5

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Mohit Bansal

11 months

🤩A BIG WELCOME to Dr. @jaeh0ng_yoon (), who is joining @uncnlp @unccs as a Postdoc this fall from KAIST! Looking forward to the many exciting collaborations with our students+faculty, Jaehong! 🙂

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Postdoctoral Research Associate, UNC Chapel Hill

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Jaehong Yoon

11 months

😍I'm super excited to announce my next journey! After a great time at KAIST, I'll be working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at UNC Chapel Hill ( @UNC ) this fall, working with Prof. Mohit Bansal ( @mohitban47 ) and faculty+students in the awesome @uncnlp and @unccs groups! 1/3

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Mohit Bansal

3 years

🥳 🎉 Big congrats @peterbhase on being awarded the @GoogleAI PhD Fellowship in #NLProc , for extensive work on diverse aspects of explainability!! #ProudAdvisor 🙂 (and congrats to all the other winners too!)

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Peter Hase

3 years

I am honored to receive a @GoogleAI PhD Fellowship this year! This could have never happened without the support of my advisor @mohitban47 and @uncnlp , great co-authors, and many prior mentors. Looking forward to more work on NLP and AI Safety

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Mohit Bansal

4 years

Very important to explicitly list these out for inculcating their importance in both reviewers+authors, esp w. drastic conference+reviewer pool size increase these days. So everyone please read this v carefully & spread the word! Great job #NLProc community, in leading the way!🙂

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emnlp2020

4 years

New blog post on reviewing policies! Special focus on spurious reviews: this time no paper should be rejected primarily for not beating SOTA, for non-English work, for being a resource paper, etc. /1

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Mohit Bansal

5 years

Congrats to @HaoTan5 for being awarded the @Bloomberg Data Science PhD Fellowship!! And great meeting you, @MikeBloomberg !! 😀😀 (also, thanks to everyone at @TechAtBloomberg for organizing the fun event) #NLProc #UNCNLP @UNCNLP

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5 years

(1/3) While visiting our #datascience team @Bloomberg HQ in NY, recipients of our Data Science Ph.D. Fellowships got to talk with our founder, @MikeBloomberg . Our newest Fellows are @UMassCS ' @katakeith , @Cornell 's @aklamun , @CornellDSDS 's Yi Su, & @UNCnlp 's @haotan5 . Congrats!

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Mohit Bansal

1 year

Join our next timely @ACLmentorship session on HCI+NLP, with experts @Diyi_Yang @TongshuangWu @XuWangHCI ! We'll start w/ short talks abt their work & then Q&A/advice (remember to send us questions; zoom+slack👉) PS. Also help sign up as future mentors! 🙂

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ACL YEAR-ROUND MENTORSHIP

We are a mentorship network that helps and supports junior researchers in natural language processing (NLP). Our aim is to promote equal access to advice on NLP career choices, initiating research in...

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ACL Mentorship

1 year

📢Join us for the next ACL Mentorship session: "An HCI Perspective for NLP" ⏲️Thu Apr20, 4:30-5:30pm UTC / 12:30-1:30pm EST Panelists: @Diyi_Yang ( @StanfordNLP / @StanfordAILab ), @TongshuangWu ( @LTIatCMU / @cmuHCII ), @XuWangHCI ( @Michigan_AI ) Host: @mohitban47 Join us next week!

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Mohit Bansal

4 years

Very excited to host Prof. Kathy McKeown of @ColumbiaCompSci for her Triangle CS Distinguished Lecture this Mon Feb3 (4pm SN011; recorded) -- join us & ping me for any meeting requests!😀 "Where Natural Language Processing Meets Societal Needs" Details:

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UNC Computer Science

4 years

Join us for the latest Triangle Distinguished Lecture from @Columbia 's Prof. Kathleen R. McKeown (Henry & Gertrude Rothschild Professor of @ColumbiaCompSci and the Founding Director of @DSI_Columbia .) on Feb. 3 (Monday) at 4 PM, SN011. For appts. please contact host @mohitban47

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Mohit Bansal

5 years

Our #UNCNLP Group Outing and New Year Welcome Celebration at @VecinoBrewing !! 😀

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