| 22/01/25 | Jooyoung Lee | Are Large Language Models Capable of Generating Human-Level Narratives? | Analyses AI generated storylines through three discourse-level aspects: i) story arcs; ii) turning points; and iii) affective dimensions including arousal and valence | EMNLP'24 | | |
| 05/02/25 | Invited talk from international visitor Piotr Brodka | | | | | |
| 19/02/25 | Elaine Gong | DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning | DeepSeek's first-generation reasoning models DeepSeek-R1-Zero and DeepSeek-R1 | arxiv | | |
| 05/03/25 | Frankie Yuan | A primer on partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) | A (somewhat) gentle introduction to Partially Observed Markov Decision Processes (POMDP) | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | | |
| 19/03/25 | Emily Booth | Using thematic analysis in psychology | A basic introduction to one form of qualitative data analysis used widely by social science researchers | Qualitative Research in Psychology | | |
| 09/04/25 | Frankie Yuan | Behavioral Homophily in Social Media via Inverse Reinforcement Learning: A Reddit Case Study | Frankie will dry-run his WWW presentation. | The Web Conference (WWW’25) | | |
| 16/04/25 | Marian-Andrei Rizoiu | An overview of the thesis submission process, including Candidature assessments and selecting reviewers. | | | | |
| 30/04/25 | No reading group! Find us at WWW’25 | | | | | |
| 07/05/25 | Philipp Schneider | Reinforcement-Learning Based Covert Social Influence Operations | | WWW'25 | | |
| 14/05/25 | Philipp Schneider | The AI Economist: Taxation policy design via two-level deep multiagent reinforcement learning | | Science | | |
| 21/05/25 | Jooyoung Lee | Exposing Cross-Platform Coordinated Inauthentic Activity in the Run-Up to the 2024 U.S. Election | | WWW'25 | | |
| 04/06/25 | Rohit Ram | | Rohit will dry-run his ICWSM presentation | | | |
| 11/06/25 | Cancelled | | | | | |
| 25/06/25 | Huixian Fu | | | | | |
| 09/07/25 | Elaine Gong | | | | | |
| 23/07/25 | Frankie Yuan | | | | | |
| 06/08/25 | Lin Tian | | | | | |
| 20/08/25 | Emily Booth | | | | | |
| 03/09/25 | Huixian Fu | | | | | |
| 17/09/25 | Marian-Andrei Rizoiu | | | | | |
| 01/10/25 | Jooyoung Lee | | | | | |
| 15/10/25 | Elaine Gong | | | | | |
| 29/10/25 | Frankie Yuan | | | | | |
| 12/11/25 | Lin Tian | | | | | |
| 26/11/25 | Emily Booth | | | | | |
| 10/12/25 | Huixian Fu | | | | | |