Talks
From Language Models to Native Multimodal Intelligence 📹
Guest lecture · Stanford CS25: Transformers United · 2026
Mixture-of-Transformers: Building Multimodal Foundation Models with Modality-Aware Sparsity
Invited talk · BAIR Workshop: Open Research in Understanding and Advancing LLMs · 2025
Large Language Models for Knowledge Intensive Problem Solving
Invited talk · Oxford Machine Learning Summer School (OxML) - Representation Learning & GenAI · 2024
Retrieval-Augmented Dual Instruction Tuning 📹
Invited talk · Google NLP Reading Group 2024 · Cohere for AI Interactive Reading Group 2023 · LlamaIndex Webinar 2023
Aligning Semi-Parametric Language Models
Guest lecture · NYU DS-GA.1011 NLP calendar · Course page · 2023
Knowledge and Skill Acquisition through LLM Pre-training and Instruction-tuning
Invited talk · KLR @ICML speaker page · Workshop page · 2023
LLMs as Instructable Task Solvers: Lessons Learned and Future Possibilities
Invited talk · Stanford NLP Seminar 2023
Creating The Future Of AI: How Salesforce Research Advances AI For CRM
Keynote (co-presenter) · Dreamforce · 2019