The Natural Language Learning (NLL) reading group is a student-run group at UT Austin and part of the
UT Austin NLP and Computational Linguistics community.
We discuss recent papers in NLP, ML, and Computational Linguistics, and occasionally host invited talks.
All students, postdocs, and faculty interested in
language technologies are welcome to join!
The group is currently organized by Juan Diego Rodriguez.
August 28, . Reasoning over Sets: Toward Consistent LLM Systems. (In-person invited talk)
September 4, Meet and greet
September 18, Looped Transformers (general introduction). Universal Transformers, Looped Transformers as Programmable Computers, Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach, and more.
October 2, LLM Introspection. Training Language Models to Explain Their Own Computations, Introspective Coupling: Self-Explanation Training Tracks Behavioral Change Despite Fixed Supervision, Looking Inward: Language Models Can Learn About Themselves by Introspection.
October 9, . (In-person invited talk)
October 16, . Evaluating LLM and multimodal judges. (In-person invited talk, confirmed) (pdf) (pdf 2)
October 30, post-EMNLP?
November 13, TBD
December 4, TBD