Human language technologies
Researching software and systems that bridge the linguistic divide between people and machines to make communicating with computers as natural as speaking with family and friends.
Podcast
Abstracts: October 9, 2023
Researcher Dr. Sheng Zhang joins “Abstracts”—your source for cutting-edge research in brief—to discuss a recent paper on distilling large language models into smaller, more efficient ones capable of excelling in broad application classes.
Publication
MEGA: Multilingual Evaluation of Generative AI
Publication
On Surgical Fine-tuning for Language Encoder
Project
LLaVA: Large Language and Vision Assistant
LLaVA is an open-source project, collaborating with research community to advance the state-of-the-art in AI. LLaVA represents the first end-to-end trained large multimodal model (LMM) that achieves impressive chat capabilities mimicking spirits of the multimodal…
Project
Agent AI
Agent-based multimodal AI systems are becoming a ubiquitous presence in our everyday lives. A promising direction for making these systems more interactive is to embody them as agents within specific environments. The grounding of large…
Video
End-to-End Encrypted Group Chats with MLS: Design, Implementation and Verification
MLS is a new IETF standard that deals with secure, end-to-end encrypted group messaging. In this work, recently awarded the Internet Defense Prize and a Distinguished Paper Award at USENIX, Théophile will describe how the…
