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Dear colleague,
We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language
Technology webinar series organized by the HiTZ Chair of
AI< (https://hitz.eus). This is the final webinar for
this academic year. We will return with another series of
webinars next fall, so be sure to stay tuned!
Next webinar:
Speaker: Mirella Lapata (The University of Edinburgh)
Title: Prompting is *not* all you need! Or why Multi-LLM
Collaboration Matters
Date: Thursday, June 5, 2025 - 15:00 CET
Summary: Recent years have witnessed the rise of increasingly
larger and more sophisticated language models (LMs) capable of
performing every task imaginable, sometimes at (super)human
level. In this talk, I will argue that in many realistic
scenarios solely relying on a single general-purpose LLM is
suboptimal. A single LLM is likely to under-represent
real-world data distributions, heterogeneous skills, and
task-specific requirements. Instead, I will discuss Multi-LLM
collaboration as an alternative for compositional generative
modeling. This approach leads to more effective
problem-solving while being more inclusive and explainable. I
will focus on narrative story generation tasks and demonstrate
how these can be tackled by orchestrating a society of agents
--- each pursuing individual goals while collectively working
toward the overall task objective. Additionally, I will
explore how these agent societies leverage reasoning to
improve performance.
Bio: Mirella Lapata is professor of natural language
processing in the School of Informatics at the University of
Edinburgh. Her research focuses on getting computers to
understand, reason with, and generate natural language. She is
the first recipient (2009) of the British Computer Society and
Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS/IRSG) Karen Sparck
Jones award and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,
the ACL, and Academia Europaea. Mirella has also received best
paper awards in leading NLP conferences and has served on the
editorial boards of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence
Research, the Transactions of the ACL, and Computational
Linguistics. She was president of SIGDAT (the group that
organizes EMNLP) in 2018. She has been awarded an ERC
consolidator grant, a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit
Award, and a UKRI Turing AI World-Leading Researcher
Fellowship.
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HiTZ Zentroa
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