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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Hallo allerseits!<br /><br />Das MPI-SP was hier am Campus sitzt lädt euch alle ganz herzlich zu einer Lecture-Series ein!<br /><br />Hier alle infos:<br /><br />Dear all,<br /><br />You are cordially invited to the MPI Distinguished Lecture Series on Thursday 12th December, 15:30 in MB-1 Seminar Room and on Zoom.<br /><br />Guest: Prof. Kyomin Jung<br />Host: Meeyoung (Mia) Cha<br />Zoom link: <a href="https://eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/98748482558?pwd=QUFJNWU4dHFlSytOZG5OSmtKanpWUT09" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/98748482558?pwd=QUFJNWU4dHFlSytOZG5OSmtKanpWUT09</a> <br />Title: BERT, GPT and their applications to Natural Language Processing<br /><br />Abstract: Since the introduction of the Transformer architecture in 2017, many deep learning models based on it, including BERT and GPT, have revolutionized artificial intelligence especially in natural language processing domains. Specifically, the pretraining and fine-tuning paradigm of BERT, the generative model approach and the reinforcement learning from human feedback method in GPT models have been very successful. In this talk, I will present the main ideas, structures, and the training methods of BERT and GPT, along with their applications to natural language processing and data analysis problems. Then I will present my recent work in language processing and related areas.<br /><br />Kyomin Jung is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University (SNU) and an adjunct Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at SNU. He received a B.S. degree in Mathematics from SNU in 2003 and a Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from MIT in 2009. Before joining SNU in 2013, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at KAIST. He is a recipient of the 2021 IEEE ICDM 10-Year Highest-Impact Paper Award and the 2023 Sinyang Academic Award for Engineering from SNU College of Engineering. In 1995, he won a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). He served as an Associate Editor for Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), and has been Senior TPC and TPC members for leading conferences in machine learning and natural language processing including ICML, ACL, AAAI, and EMNLP. His research interests include language models, dialog systems, and multimodal data analysis. He is currently visiting the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP) in Bochum during his sabbatical year.<br /><br /><a href="http://milab.snu.ac.kr/kjung/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://milab.snu.ac.kr/kjung/</a> <br /><br />Best wishes,<br />Maria<br /><br />Dr. Maria-Bianca Leonte (she/her) <br />PR and Communications <br /><br />Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP) <br />Universitätsstraße 140 <br />44799 Bochum, Germany <br /><br />Phone: +49 (0)234 90498125 <br /><br /><a href="https://www.mpi-sp.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.mpi-sp.org</a> <br /><br /></div>
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