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 |
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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 | Huixiang Fu | The susceptibility paradox in online social influence | The paper investigates susceptibility to influence within social networks focusing on the differential effects of influence-driven versus spontaneous behaviors on user content adoption | ICWSM'25 | ||
09/07/25 | Elaine Gong | Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings | An unsupervised approach translates any embedding to and from a universal latent representation | arXiv | ||
23/07/25 | Frankie Yuan | |||||
06/08/25 | Lin Tian | |||||
20/08/25 | Emily Booth | |||||
03/09/25 | Huixiang 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 | Huixiang Fu |