Carnegie Mellon University

Leadership

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Zico Kolter

Robustness and AI Security, VLM training, few/zero-shot classifier evaluation, equilibrium models

Graham Neubig

Evaluation/verification of LLM outputs, LM training methods, retrieval-based LLMs, LLMs with external tools

Aditi-Raghunathan

Aditi Raghunathan

Algorithms for finetuning foundation models, robustness/reliability, understanding representation

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Chenyan Xiong

LLM pretraining, retrieval-augmentation, data-centric LLMs, embedding models

Members of the FLAME Center

Yonatan Bisk

Yonatan Bisk

Language for robots, LLM-based planning, other signals

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Beidi Chen

Hardware algorithms, long context generation, FMs for new material

Tianqi Chen

Tianqi Chen

System support for ML, LLMs on local devices, scaling open language models

Vincent Conitzer

Vince Conitzer

Multiagent systems, ethics, societal implication

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Chris Donahue

Foundation models for music

Matt Fredrikson

Matt Fredrikson

LLMs in safety/privacy risk situations, code verification, neuro-symbolic methods

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Daniel Fried

Pragmatics of language, context, generating/following instructions, code models, interfaces, multimodal dialog

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Gabe Gomes

Finetuning LLMs for neuro-symbolic reasoning, autonomous scientific research, robotics

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Albert Gu

State space models, network architectures, audio models

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Daphne Ippolito

Generative language models for coherent and engaging narratives, leveraging models as creative tools

Zhihao Jia

Zhihao Jia

Support for LLMs, computational efficiency, speculative execution, GPU memory

Gauri Joshi

Gauri Joshi

LLMs, efficient fine-tuning, inference

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Lei Li

Large Language Models, Multilingual NLP, AI for Science

Zack Chase Lipton

Zack Chase Lipton

NLP in medicine, decision support, evaluation outside labeled datasets, robustness

Jian Ma

Jian Ma

LLMs for molecular and cell biology, Single-cell genomics, AI for biomedicine

Pradeep-Ravikumar

Pradeep Ravikumar

LLM understanding, neuro-symbolic architectures, reliability

Aditi-Raghunathan

Aditi Raghunathan

Algorithms for finetuning foundation models, robustness/reliability, understanding representation

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Deva Ramanan

Vision language models, long-tailed recognition, image generation

Russ Salakhutdinov

Russ Salakhutdinov

Multimodal models, visual language reasoning

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Maarten Sap

Ethical risks, LLM limitations w.r.t. reasoning, social intelligence

Virginia Smith

Virginia Smith

Privacy, robustness, finetuning, LLM validation, federated learning

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Emma Strubell

Efficiency of LLMs, computation, data, applications outside CS

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Ameet Talwalkar

Multimodal learning, Human-AI Collaboration, LLM Evaluation

Shinji Watanabe

Shinji Watanabe

Foundation models for speech

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Sean Welleck

LLMs for math and theorem proving, inference algorithms

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Sherry Wu

Intersection of HCI and NLP, model mapping to use cases

Steven Wu

Steven Wu

Responsible AI, Interactive learning, Economic aspects of machine learning

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Eric Xing

System support for LLMs, pretraining, finetuning, federated learning, private inference, acceleration, Vicuna model, AI for science