Schedule
This is the meeting schedule. If a paper title is blank, it’s still to be determined.
Fall 2025
Meeting 1 Sep 22, 2025 2:30–3:30 PM Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus) Completed Leader(s): Seth B
Gradient-based learning applied to document recognition.
Meeting 2 Oct 6, 2025 2:30–3:30 PM Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus) Completed Leader(s): MD Mahady Hassan
Attention is all you need. Advances in neural information processing systems
Meeting 3 Oct 20, 2025 2:30–3:30 PM Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus) Completed Leader(s): Brad Boswell
Bert: Pre-training of deep bidirectional transformers for language understanding.
Meeting 4 Nov 3, 2025 2:30–3:30 PM Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus) Completed
Paper TBD
Meeting 5 Nov 17, 2025 2:30–3:30 PM Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus) Completed Leader(s): Sharmen S
On the Power of Context-Enhanced Learning in LLMs
Spring 2026
Meeting 1 Jan 12, 2026 2:30–3:30 PM Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus) Completed Leader(s): All
Logistic Meeting for 2026
Meeting 2 Feb 2, 2026 2:00–3:00 PM Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus) Completed Leader(s): Rita
Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-Training
Meeting 3 Feb 16, 2026 2:00–3:00 PM Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus) Completed Leader(s): Sharmen
Which Attention Heads Matter for In-Context Learning?
Meeting 4 Mar 2, 2026 2:00–3:00 PM Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus) Upcoming Leader(s): Seth
Generalized brain-state modeling with KenazLBM
Meeting 5 Mar 16, 2026 2:00–3:00 PM Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus) Upcoming Leader(s): Shichen Gao
ChartGPT: Leveraging LLMs to Generate Charts From Abstract Natural Language
Meeting 6 Mar 30, 2026 2:00–3:00 PM Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus) Upcoming Leader(s): Dr. Lin Li
Paper on Multimodal LLM, detailed paper will be updated later
Meeting 7 Apr 13, 2026 2:00–3:00 PM Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus) Upcoming Leader(s): Salil
TBD
Meeting 7 Apr 27, 2026 2:00–3:00 PM Hybrid (Teams + RV2809, Riverfront campus) Upcoming Leader(s): TBD