EPIC Advance Fall 2024

October 8th, 2024 - Tuesday

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM: Breakfast
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM: Intro Talk
9:10 AM - 9:35 AM: Beyond Code Generation: LLM-supported Exploration of the Program Design Space (J.D. Zamfirescu-Pereira) Slides
9:35 AM - 10:00 AM: Writing as a Tool in Visualization Design (Chase Stokes) Slides
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM: On Data Meets Journalism - Keynote Talk (David Barstow)
11:00 AM - 11:25 AM:NUDGE: Lightweight Non-Parametric Fine-Tuning of Embeddings for Retrieval (Sepanta Zeighami) Slides
11:25 AM - 11:50 AM:LOTUS: Enabling Bulk Semantic Processing with LLMs (Liana Patel) Slides
11:50 AM - 12:15 PM:Retrieval Systems for Structured Data: The Critical Missing Piece for Grounding LLM-Powered Query Interfaces in Domain-Specific Data (Madelon Hulsebos) Slides

12:15 PM - 1:35 PM: Lunch
1:35 PM - 2:00 PM: Pagebreaks: Multi-Cell Scopes in Computational Notebooks (Eric Rawn) Slides
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM: On The Future Of Data-Centric Computation With LLMs - Keynote Talk (Joseph Gonzalez) Slides
3:00 PM - 3:10 PM: Break
3:10 PM - 3:35 PM: On Building Human-In-The-Loop Data Transformation Tools (Sora Kanosue) Slides
3:35 PM - 4:00 PM: Complex Document Processing with DocETL: An Agent-Based Query Rewriting and Evaluation System (Shreya Shankar) Slides
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM - Poster Session + light refreshments (Soda 5th floor atrium); on topics including reverse-engineering structure from PDFs, LLM-powered data discovery, demonstration/output-based program synthesis, low-resource languages, explanations for auto-generated programs.
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Dinner at Comal Restaurant