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====== EPIC Retreat, April 2024 ======


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===== April 15th, 2024 - Monday =====
==== Morning  ====

  * 9:00-10:00: [Keynote] Bjoern Hartmann, Associate Prof. UC Berkeley,  “Interacting With LLMs and Interacting Through LLMs: Emerging Patterns and Principles
Abstract: We are in the midst of a Cambrian explosion of generative AI-enabled user experiences in research and industry. Much of the user interaction with such models has arguably focused on straightforward wrappers for interacting *with* powerful models: UIs collect text prompts for large language models and show text results; or take text input and return images for text-to-image models; etc. We introduce a complementary perspective of interacting *through* generative AI models, by introducing systems that translate information useful for user interaction to (and from) a format appropriate for these models. We call these systems UI Transducers. I will provide an initial characterization of the space of such applications based on a number of examples from our research group.
Afterwards, I will raise a more fundamental question about the role of generative AI in interactive computing systems: Do we even know what we want from these systems? A key implicit assumption of many tools is that the user knows what they want, and they just need appropriate software at the right level of abstraction to specify their goal. However, we know from studying various creative domains that people often don't know what they want a priori. They have a vague, ambiguous idea and it's only through iterative engagement with a medium that they clarify their goal. Taking this perspective has implications for what our generative AI-powered assistants should do for us and how they should engage with us.
  * 10:00-10:25 Shreya Shankar (20min) {{ :retreats:2024spring:evaluationassistants.pdf |“Scaling up “Vibe Checks” for Large Language Models”}}
  * 10:25-10.50 - coffee break
  * 10:50-12:05 (3 talks)
    * Chanwut (Mick) Kittivorawong (20min) {{ :retreats:2024spring:spatialyze-chanwut-kittivorawong.pdf |“Spatialyze: A Geospatial Video Analytics System with Spatial-Aware Optimizations”}}
    * Sarah Wooders/Charles Packer (20min) “MemGPT: An OS for LLMs”
    * Madelon Hulsebos (15min) - “Revisiting Dataset Search Systems"
  * 12:05 pm - 1:30 pm: Lunch + Discussion Tables

==== Afternoon  ====

  * 1:30-2:45 (3 talks)
    * Shishir Patil (20min) - “Gorilla: Connecting LLMs to apps and services”
    * Gabriel Matute (20min) - “Supporting syntactic code search with incomplete code fragments"
    * Yiming Lin (20min) -  {{ :retreats:2024spring:zendb-yiming_lin.pdf |“ZenDB: Towards A Data Management System for Free Text”}}
  * 2:45-3:00 - coffee
  * 3.00-3.50: [Keynote] Eugene Wu - Associate Prof., Columbia, “Systems for Human Data Interaction”
Abstract: The rapid democratization of data has placed its access and analysis in the hands of the entire population. While the advances in rapid and large-scale data processing continue to reduce runtimes and costs, the interfaces and tools for end-users to interact with, and work with, data is still lacking.  It is still too difficult to translate a user’s data needs into the appropriate interfaces, too difficult to develop data intensive interfaces that are responsive and scalable, and too difficult for users to understand and interpret the data they see.   In this talk, I will provide an overview of our lab's recent work on systems for human data interaction that go towards addressing these challenges.
  * 3.50-4:00 - break
  * 4:00-5:30 (4 talks)
    * Tristan Chambers (20 min) “Evolving knowledge: LLM-powered data extraction from unstructured police violence and misconduct records”
    * Tianjun Zhang (20 min) - “RAFT: teaching LLMs how to RAG”
    * Sabriya Alam (20 min) “SAGE: System for Accessible Guided Exploration of Health Information”
    * Parth Asawa (15 min) “Revisiting Prompt Engineering via Declarative Crowdsourcing”
  * 6:00 pm: Dinner

===== April 16th, 2024 - Tuesday =====
==== Morning  ====
===(Location: 510 Soda Hall)===
  * 9:00 am: Breakfast
  * 10:00 am - 12:00 pm: Poster session & Breakout Session with Sponsors
  * 12:00 pm: Lunch
  * 1:30 Conclusion
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