[LOGOS] Tomorrow 2pm, Yue Dong, Exploring Political, Social, and Cultural Biases in Pretrained Language Models

[Emiliano De Cristofaro]

Reminder


On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM Emiliano De Cristofaro <
emilianodc at cs.ucr.edu> wrote:

> Dear LOGOrithms,
>
> First of all, Happy New Year! To start the year strong, we will have a
> talk by Yue on Friday, January 17th, at 2pm in WCH 203. Please see details
> below.
>
> If you can't join in person, here's the Zoom link
> <https://ucr.zoom.us/j/98664053204?pwd=quPIPmylgJjHap4VkzPnaaVKk1ndi6.1>.
>
> Cheers,
> Emiliano
>
>
> TITLE
> Exploring Political, Social, and Cultural Biases in Pretrained Language
> Models
>
> ABSTRACT
> In this talk, I will discuss two interesting papers in NLP that examine
> the political, social, and cultural biases inherent in pretrained large
> language models. These biases raise important questions about potential
> harms and safety implications, which I hope to brainstorm with the group.
> The focus will be on the following works:
> 1. "From Pretraining Data to Language Models to Downstream Tasks: Tracking
> the Trails of Political Biases Leading to Unfair NLP Models" (ACL 2023 Best
> Paper)
> 2. "Whose Opinions Do Language Models Reflect?"  (Santurkar, Shibani, Esin
> Durmus, Faisal Ladhak, Cinoo Lee, Percy Liang, and Tatsunori Hashimoto.
> ICML 2023)
>
> BIO
> Yue Dong (yuedong.us) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of
> Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California,
> Riverside. Her primary research interests lie in trustworthy NLP, with a
> focus on LLM safety, hallucination reduction, and AI detection in
> conditional text generation tasks such as summarization. Her recent work
> targets red teaming of Large Language Models (LLMs) through adversarial
> attacks, safety alignment, and in-context vulnerabilities across generative
> models, including LLMs, Vision-Language Models (VLMs), and Stable
> Diffusion. Her recent research on VLM adversarial attacks earned the Best
> Paper Award at the SoCal NLP Symposium and was spotlighted at ICLR 2024.
> Additionally, she has served as a Senior Area Chair for top-tier NLP
> conferences such as NAACL 2025 & 2024, and EMNLP 2024, as well as Area
> Chair for ICLR 2025, ACL 2024 & 2023 and EMNLP 2022 & 2023. She has also
> co-organized workshops and tutorials at prestigious conferences, including
> EMNLP 2021 and 2023 (Summarization), NeurIPS 2021–2024 (LLM Efficiency),
> and NAACL 2022 (Text editing).
>
>
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