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Join us every Friday at Boston University Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences (CDS) for cutting-edge research presentations by CDS PhD students across data science, AI, and beyond.
What We Do
We are a student-run initiative within the PhD department of Boston University Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences, dedicated to fostering knowledge sharing and academic growth across our community.
Our Mission?
Create a space where students can explore, present, and discuss the research topics they're passionate about in a supportive, collaborative environment.
Every Friday from 12:00 to 1:00 PM in CDS 1646, CDS researchers present on work that excites them—whether it's their current research, an inspiring paper they've discovered, or a hands-on workshop in their area of expertise. From artificial intelligence to biological sciences, our seminars cover the full breadth of computer and data science.
Meet the Organizers
Freddy Reiber
PhD student in CDS studying how society influences technology and how technology influences society.
Lingyi Xu
PhD student in CDS addressing the challenge of modality missingness in multimodal learning across visual, tabular, and textual data.
COMING UP
Calibrated Information Extraction from Coastal Ecosystems Literature
by Kevin Quinn
A large portion of data for freshwater and coastal ecosystems exists within text, tables, and figures from PDF research papers. Generative AI is increasingly used as a tool for extracting such data, but is subject to high risk inaccuracies (e.g. 'hallucinations'). We propose to surmount this drawback through a novel technique: calibrated information extraction. We develop mechanistic interpretability tools for probing an LLM's internal activation patterns and producing confidence scores for extracted data points. In turn, we show that strong calibration among scores suggests a path for reliably supporting ecological research in downstream statistical models or analyses.
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