2/9/26: Ryan McDonald, Classification [Download slides]

3/9/26: Dong Nguyen, How language models work: From n-grams to instruction-tuned LLMs [Download slides]

3/9/26: Lingpeng Kong, Diffusion LMs [Download slides]

4/9/26: Julia Kreutzer, Post training, sequence prediction, reinforcement learning [Download slides]

4/9/26: Emine Yilmaz, LLM evaluation [Download slides]

5/9/26: Antonios Anastasopoulos, Multilinguality & Speech Translation [Download slides], Machine Translation and Multilinguality [Download slides]

5/9/26: Nizar Habash, Introduction to Arabic NLP [Download slides]

7/9/26: Anna Rogers, Large Language Models and Factuality, Part 1: Facts from LLMs [Download slides], Part 2: Impacts [Download slides].

8/9/26: Desmond Elliott, Vision and Language [Download slides]

8/9/26: Isabelle Augenstein, Understanding LLMs’ Utilisation of Parametric and Contextual Knowledge [Download slides]