CLSP Spring 2025 Seminar Series: Igor Molybog

Description

Igor Molybog from the University of Hawaii at Manoa will present a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar talk titled "Development and Deployment of Large-Scale AI Systems and the Tasks They Still Struggle With."

Abstract:

In this talk, Igor will share the latest findings from his research group on the development, evaluation, and deployment of large language models (LLMs) and their multi-modal extensions. We will outline the end-to-end pipeline, with a particular focus on the challenges and costs associated with data generation in the later stages of training. Additionally, we will explore strategies for integrating multiple models into inference systems to enhance efficiency. Finally, we will highlight key tasks where even the most advanced multi-modal models face difficulties and discuss approaches that yield significantly better performance.