diff --git a/ssllfm2026/index.md b/ssllfm2026/index.md index 0e580bd..fe52f3a 100644 --- a/ssllfm2026/index.md +++ b/ssllfm2026/index.md @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ description: Co-located with DSAA 2026 **Location**: Pride Plaza Hotel, Aerocity, New Delhi, India **Conference**: [DSAA 2026](https://dsaa2026.dsaa.co/) (IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics) -**Date**: October 6-9, 2026 (special session slot: TBA) +**Date**: October 6–9, 2026 (special session slot: TBA) Foundation models and large language systems have become indispensable technologies in data science and analysis, opening up powerful possibilities in the areas of text generation, knowledge extraction, and complex decision-making. @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ The topics of interest are, but not limited to: - Strategies to scale resources for training/fine-tuning foundational models - Instruction tuning including generation of instruction tuning data - Parallel training: data model tensor (attention and weights) - - Distributed workflows for data cleansing and model usage (Langchain) + - Distributed workflows for data cleansing and model usage (LangChain) - Principled AI - Investigating reasoning capabilities of LLMs - Retrieval Augmented Generation @@ -153,6 +153,13 @@ bridges fundamental research and real-world deployment, focusing on scalable mac co-organized the previous workshops on foundational and large language models at IEEE BigData as well as the special session at DSAA 2025. +**Dr. Linsey Pang** +PayPal Inc., USA · `panglinsey@gmail.com` +Linsey Pang is a Distinguished Scientist at PayPal. Previously she was a Principal Machine Learning Scientist at Salesforce. +Prior to this, she was a Principal Data Scientist at Walmart Lab. Prior to joining Walmart Lab, she worked as an applied +scientist at eBay Inc. She finished her PhD degree in machine learning research at the University of Sydney. She +co-organizes multiple workshops and tutorials at CIKM, KDD, and WSDM in top data mining conferences. + **Dr. Lorenz Sparrenberg** University of Bonn, Germany · `lsparren@uni-bonn.de` Dr. Lorenz Sparrenberg's research focuses on large language models and their evaluation, robustness, and limitations. @@ -172,8 +179,6 @@ recent publications focus on semantic segmentation for robot-assisted abdominal - Lucie Flek, *Lamarr Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning*, Germany - Christian Bauckhage, *Lamarr Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning*, Germany - Ozlem Uzuner, *George Mason University*, USA -- Lorenz Sparrenberg, *University of Bonn*, Germany - - Tobias Deußer, *University of Bonn*, Germany - Armin Berger, *University of Bonn*, Germany - Manuela Bergau, *Fraunhofer IAIS*, Germany