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2026
DatePresenterTopic

1 June

Wei Xiang

Transformative impact of convergence of artificial intelligence with IoT and medical applications

20 May

Longbing Cao

Humanoid AI with humanity modeling and human-virtual-physical alignment

5 May

Daoyi Dong

Reinforcement learning with applications in robotics, games and quantum engineering

2025
DatePresenterTopic

1 December

Cecile Paris

A new paradigm for the AI era: Collaborative intelligence

20 October

Mark Johnson

Large language models and the changing face of computational linguistics

2026
DatePresenterPaper

27 May

Pedro Faustini

Topics, authors, and institutions in large language model research: Trends from 17K arXiv papers

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13 May

Longbing Cao

Beyond discrepancy: A closer look at the theory of distribution shift

Download distribution shift paper

29 April

Mark Dras

SenseMath: Do LLMs have number sense? Evaluating shortcut use, judgment, and generation

Download SenseMath paper

15 April

Qiongkai Xu

Gated attention for large language models: Non-linearity, sparsity, and attention-sink-free

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18 March

Xuhui Fan

Flow map matching for inversion-free image editing

4 March

Mark Dras

Arithmetic without algorithms: Language models solve math with a bag of heuristics

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