Oliver Lemon
@oliverlemon
Academic Co-Lead of UK National Robotarium, Edinburgh Centre for Robotics; Professor, Director of Interaction Lab: generative AI and robotics
PhD position in Generative AI for Embodied Collaborative Agents: #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social -- please contact me ASAP if interested! sites.google.com/site/hwinterac…
Super cool opportunity to work with us on implementing novel Embodied #GenAI to enable human-robot collaboration! Reach out if you want to know more!
PhD position in Generative AI for Embodied Collaborative Agents: #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social -- please contact me ASAP if interested! sites.google.com/site/hwinterac…
Full Professor position in AI/CS -- deadline for application is 23rd June!
Hiring a CS/AI prof: Embodied AI, NLP, multimodal models, generative AI - all in scope -- DM me if you have questions . Apply here: linkedin.com/jobs/view/4233…
Hiring a CS/AI prof: Embodied AI, NLP, multimodal models, generative AI - all in scope -- DM me if you have questions . Apply here: linkedin.com/jobs/view/4233…
Job advert! Chair (full professor) in AI at Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh @EDINrobotics GenAI #NLProc #HRI #AI #ML Learn more & apply here: enzj.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…
"LLMs can play games" is a fashionable trend. As we demonstrate in our paper, training on a specific set of games yields higher performance on those games alone. However, this doesn't help models to play unseen games, showcasing their limitations in true instruction following! ↓
Excited to present PLAYPEN, an environment for learning through dialogue game self-play. Are you interested in LLM post-training techniques and how to make them better "language users"? Read this thread! #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #AI #ML
We find that imitation learning through SFT improves performance on unseen games, but negatively impacts other skills, while interactive learning with GRPO shows balanced improvements without loss of skills.
Excited to present PLAYPEN, an environment for learning through dialogue game self-play. Are you interested in LLM post-training techniques and how to make them better "language users"? Read this thread! #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #AI #ML
Job advert! Chair (full professor) in AI at Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh @EDINrobotics GenAI #NLProc #HRI #AI #ML Learn more & apply here: enzj.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…
It's an honour to be elected a Fellow of @ELLISforEurope in the Multimodal Learning Systems Program. Looking forward to contributing further to the thriving AI community in Europe @iLab_hwu @NRobotarium @EDINrobotics #GenAI #NLProc #HRI @HeriotWattUni ellis.eu/programs/multi…
Looking to do PhD in AI? Our CDT program AI for Robotics (CDT-D2AIR) offers funding & a supportive research environment @iLab_hwu @NRobotarium @EDINrobotics #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #Conversational_AI #AIResearch #PhD Learn more & apply here: edinburgh-robotics.org/apply
Look out for 8 papers from Interaction Lab at #EMNLP2024 this week
1) Shaking Up VLMs: Comparing Transformers and Structured State Space Models for Vision & Language Modeling (EMNLP 2024 main) @GeorgePantazop3 @MNikandrou @ale_suglia @arash_eshghi arxiv.org/abs/2409.05395
I am setting up a website with supporting material for my new book on NLG (ehudreiter.com/book/). This includes links to resources (surveys, code libraries, best practice guides, etc). I welcome suggestions for resources to include in the site, just message or email me
I'm looking for a postdoc to work on document-level natural language understanding and neurosymbolic reasoning. Deadline for applications: 25 November Full details: jobs.ac.uk/job/DKK088/res… @Cardiff_NLP @cardiff_krr
We are looking for an NLP Research Associate (KTP Associate) for 2.5 years #AI #NLProc #NLP #ML jobs.ac.uk/job/DKA671/nlp…
I see another area is getting the treatment. (I was there for dialogue systems being discovered (in the way America was discovered).)
It's funny to watch the stream of Google research/Deepmind papers that say they want to do automated game generation with 0 citations to anything in the area's 30+ year history.
Actually... make that 8 papers accepted 🤯at EMNLP 2024 from @iLab_hwu @HeriotWattUni @EDINrobotics : Voices in a Crowd: Searching for Clusters of Unique Perspectives (EMNLP 2024 main) by @NikVits @amitparekh_ @sinantie - congratulations! #EMNLP2024 arxiv.org/abs/2407.1425
Announcing 7 accepted papers from @ilab at EMNLP 2024, on generative AI, multimodality, language grounding to vision, robotics, and beyond! Huge congratulations to our students @EDINrobotics @HeriotWattUni @emnlpmeeting #GenAI #NLProc #EMNLP2024