A reference document used to keep track of the reading group meetings. Pull requests are welcome. Meeting Link
| Date | Presenter | Paper | Why should we care | Appear in | Repo | Blogs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22/01/24 | Marian-Andrei Rizoiu | Causally estimating the effect of YouTube's recommender system using counterfactual bots | One of the first studies to estimate the effects of the YouTube recommender system on radicalisation using counterfactual viewing series, using bots. | arXiv | ||
| 05/02/24 | Rohit Ram | CA3 Dry Run | ||||
| 19/02/24 | Elaine Gong | E-BERT: Efficient-Yet-Effective Entity Embeddings for BERT | It introduces E-BERT, which aligns Wikipedia2Vec entity vectors with BERT's wordpiece vector space, enabling the use of entity vectors as if they were wordpiece vectors. | Association for Computational Linguistics | 2020 | |
| 04/03/24 | Pio Calderon | Inference for Mark-Censored Temporal Point Processes | The paper introduces a marginalization technique to performance inference at prediction time for a trained marked temporal point process when presented with mark censoring. | UAI | 2023 | |
| 18/03/24 | Frankie Yuan | Causality Guided Disentanglement for Cross-Platform Hate Speech Detection | The paper introduces a hate speech detection model that uses a VAE to extract causal embeddings separated into platform independent features useful for predicting presence of hate, and platform dependent features useful for predicting the target of hate. | WSDM 2024 | ||
| 01/04/24 | – | No reading due to public holiday | ||||
| 15/04/24 | Matthew Ghannoum | Auto-RPL Early Research Feedback | ||||
| 29/04/24 | Marian-Andrei Rizoiu | |||||
| 13/05/24 | Elaine Gong | |||||
| 27/05/24 | Pio Calderon | |||||
| 10/06/24 | – | No reading due to public holiday | ||||
| 24/06/24 | Frankie Yuan | |||||
| 08/07/24 | Jooyoung Lee | |||||
| 22/07/24 | Marian-Andrei Rizoiu | |||||
| 05/08/24 | – | No reading due to public holiday | ||||
| 19/08/24 | Elaine Gong | |||||
| 02/09/24 | Pio Calderon | |||||
| 16/09/24 | Frankie Yuan | |||||
| 30/09/24 | Jooyoung Lee | |||||
| 14/10/24 | Elaine Gong | |||||
| 28/10/24 | Marian-Andrei Rizoiu | |||||
| 11/11/24 | Elaine Gong | |||||
| 25/11/24 | Pio Calderon | |||||
| 09/12/24 | Frankie Yuan |