Apple is presenting new research at the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) conference, which takes place in person in Miami, Florida, from November 12 - 16. We are proud to again sponsor the conference, which brings together the scientific and industrial research communities around natural language processing and artificial intelligence. Below is an overview of Apple’s participation at EMNLP 2024.
Schedule
Stop by the Apple booth # D1, in the Riverfront Hall during exhibition hours (all times EST):
- Tuesday, November 12 — Wednesday, November 13: 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
- Thursday, November 14: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday, November 12
- Divide-or-Conquer? Which Part Should You Distill Your LLM?
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM, Findings,, Session 11, Sub-session: Efficiency in Model Algorithms, Training, and Inference
- Yizhe Zhang, Zhuofeng Wu, Richard Bai, Aonan Zhang, Jiatao Gu, VG Vinod Vydiswaran, Navdeep Jaitly
- Towards Cross-Cultural Machine Translation with Retrieval-Augmented Generation from Multilingual Knowledge Graphs
- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Session 2, Sub-session: Machine Translation 1
- Simone Conia, Daniel Lee, Min Li, Umar Farooq Minhas, Saloni Potdar, Yunyao Li
Wednesday, November 13
- MUSCLE: A Model Update Strategy for Compatible LLM Evolution
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM, Session 6, Sub-session: Human-centered NLP 2
- Jessica Echterhoff, Fartash Faghri, Raviteja Vemulapalli, Ting-Yao Hu, Chun-Liang Li, Oncel Tuzel, Hadi Pour Ansari
- AGRaME: Any Granularity Ranking with Multi-Vector Embeddings
- 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Session 9, Sub-session: Information Retrieval and Text Mining 3
- Revanth Gangi Reddy, Omar Attia, Yunyao Li, Heng Ji, Saloni Potdar
- ConvKGYarn: Spinning Configurable and Scalable Conversational Knowledge Graph QA Datasets with Large Language Models
- 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Industry Track, Poster 2
- Ronak Pradeep, Daniel Lee, Ali Mousavi, Jeff Pound, Yisi Sang, Jimmy Lin, Ihab Ilyas, Mostafa Arefiyan Khalilabad, Yunyao Li, Saloni Potdar
- On the Limited Generalization Capability of the Implicit Reward Model Induced by Direct Preference Optimization
- 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Session 9
- Yong Lin, Skyler Seto, Maartje ter Hoeve, Rin Metcalf Susa, Barry Theobald, Xuan Wang, Yizhe Zhang, Chen Huang, Tong Zhang
Friday, November 15
- BlackboxNLP 2024
- 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Room Jasmine
- Widening NLP (WiNLP)
- 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Room Merrick 1
- Maureen de Seyssel, Maartje ter Hoeve will be representing Apple
Saturday, November 16
- Workshop on Customizable NLP (CustomNLP4U)
- 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM, Room Merrick 1
- Maartje ter Hoeve will be giving an invited talk, and participating in a panel discussion during the workshop.
Accepted Papers
AGRaME: Any Granularity Ranking with Multi-Vector Embeddings
Saloni Potdar, Revanth Gangi Reddy, Omar Attia, Yunyao Li, Heng Ji
Saloni Potdar, Ronak Pradeep, Daniel Lee, Ali Mousavi, Jeff Pound, Yisi Sang, Jimmy Lin, Ihab Ilyas, Mostafa Arefiyan Khalilabad, Yunyao Li
Divide-or-Conquer? Which Part Should You Distill Your LLM?
Yizhe Zhang, Zhuofeng Wu, Richard Bai, Aonan Zhang, Jiatao Gu, VG Vinod Vydiswaran, Navdeep Jaitly
MUSCLE: A Model Update Strategy for Compatible LLM Evolution
Hadi Pour Ansari, Jessica Echterhoff, Fartash Faghri, Raviteja Vemulapalli, Ting-Yao Hu, Chun-Liang Li, Oncel Tuzel
Yong Lin, Skyler Seto, Maartje ter Hoeve, Rin Metcalf Susa, Barry Theobald, Xuan Wang, Yizhe Zhang, Chen Huang, Tong Zhang
Saloni Potdar, Simone Conia, Daniel Lee, Min Li, Umar Farooq Minhas, Yunyao Li
Acknowledgements
Natalie Schluter is a Senior Area Chair.
Maartje ter Hoeve, Richard Bai, Saloni Potdar, and Sid Patwardhan are main conference area chairs.
Behrang Mohit, Hugh Ge, Kun Qian, Robin Schmidt, and Saloni Potdar are main conference reviewers.
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