No.24-19 When LLMs Meet Recommendations: Scalable Hybrid Approaches to Enhance User Experiences

While LLMs offer powerful reasoning and generalization capabilities for user understanding and long-term planning in recommendation s...

From Deeping, Dec 09, 2024

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No.24-19 When LLMs Meet Recommendations: Scalable Hybrid Approaches to Enhance User Experiences

While LLMs offer powerful reasoning and generalization capabilities for user understanding and long-term planning in recommendation systems, their latency and cost hinder direct appli...

From Deeping, Dec 09, 2024

No.24-18 Developing Effective Long-Context Language Models

In this talk, I will share our journey behind developing an effective long-context language model. I’ll begin by introducing our initial approach of using parallel context encoding (C...

From Princeton, Dec 04, 2024

No.24-17 Mitigating Distribution Shifts in Using Pre-trained Vision-Language Models

Benefiting from large-scale image-text pair datasets, powerful pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs, such as CLIP) enable many real-world applications, e.g., zero-shot classificat...

From UniMelb, Dec 02, 2024

No.24-16 Towards Graph Machine Learning in the Wild

Learning on graphs is a long-standing and fundamental challenge in machine learning and recent works have demonstrated solid progress in this area. However, most existing models tacit...

From MIT, Nov 27, 2024

No.24-15 Evaluation and Reasoning in Real-world Scenarios

User queries in natural settings, such as “provide a design for a disk topology for a NAS built on TrueNAS Scale, as well as a dataset layout,” differ significantly from those produce...

From Cornell University, Nov 20, 2024

No.24-14 Long-Range Meets Scalability: Unveiling a Linear-Time Graph Neural Network for Recommendation at Scale

Recommender systems play a central role in shaping our daily digital experiences, yet achieving both scalability and expressive power remains a significant challenge. While Graph Neur...

From Pennsylvania State University, Nov 13, 2024

No.24-13 Contextual Document Embeddings

Dense document embeddings are central to neural retrieval. The dominant paradigm is to train and construct embeddings by running encoders directly on individual documents. In this wor...

From Cornell University, Nov 06, 2024

No.24-12 Graph Neural Networks in Epidemic Modeling: An In-Depth Review and Toolkit

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been growing interest in epidemic modeling. While traditional mechanistic models effectively describe the mathematical dynamics of ...

From Emory University, Oct 30, 2024

No.24-10 Recreating the Physical Natural World from Images

Today, generative AI models excel at creating visual worlds through pixels, but still often struggle with the comprehension of basic physical concepts such as 3D shape, motion, materi...

From Stanford University, Oct 09, 2024

No.24-09 Human-Computer Conversational Vision-and-Language Navigation

The dynamic realm of Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) has garnered significant multidisciplinary interest, resonating within the domains of computer vision, natural language proce...

From University of Adelaide, Oct 08, 2024

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