iSchool Colloquium: 'Towards Enhancing the Utilization of Large Language Models for Humans'

Join us online for the next iSchool colloquium, featuring Ziyu Yao, assistant professor of computer science at George Mason University. 

Large language models, or LLMs, have rapidly transformed the landscape of language technologies. Today, they have become the backbones of various applications and been used by millions of users. In this talk, Ziyu Yao will present two projects in her group towards further enhancing the utilization of LLMs. In the first project, the group looks into the "cost efficiency" of LLMs, where they investigate how to save the monetary costs for users querying LLMs through APIs. In the second project, Yao's group turns to the "accessibility" of LLMs, where they study how to optimize the user prompts to LLMs in a zero-shot setting, so as to further democratize the human access to this advanced technique. Finally, Yao will conclude the talk by presenting other research in her group towards interpreting LLMs and applying them for social good.