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DEN@Viterbi - 'Limited Status: How to Get Started' Virtual Info Session
Thu, Aug 13, 2020 @ 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
DEN@Viterbi, Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Join USC Viterbi for our upcoming Limited Status: How to Get Started Virtual Information Session via WebEx to learn about the Limited Status enrollment option. The Limited Status enrollment option allows individuals with an undergraduate degree in engineering or related field, with a 3.0 GPA or above to take courses before applying for formal admission into a Viterbi graduate degree program.
USC Viterbi representatives will provide a step-by-step guide for how to get started as a Limited Status student and enroll in courses online via DEN@Viterbi as early as the Fall 2020 semester.
Register Now!WebCast Link: https://uscviterbi.webex.com/uscviterbi/onstage/g.php?MTID=e7962d044e71c7c2bd25503581ed1edef
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Corporate & Professional Programs
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M.S. Group AdvisementThu, Aug 13, 2020 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Workshops & Infosessions
This optional group advisement session is for new and continuing M.S. Computer Science students and M.S. students in our Data Science Programs. Access instructions will be emailed to students prior to the session.
Location: Zoom
WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/92220006953
Audiences: Graduate
Contact: Ryan Rozan
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NL SEMINAR Improving Dialogue Agents with a Social Dimension and Understanding Monolingual Pre-Training for Bilingual Models
Thu, Aug 13, 2020 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Naitian Zhou and Omar Shaikh , ISI interns
Talk Title: Improving Dialogue Agents with a Social Dimension and Understanding Monolingual Pre-Training for Bilingual Models
Abstract: Naitian Zhou
TITLE Improving Dialogue Agents with a Social Dimension
The dialogue problem is challenging because a proper response must be conditioned on many different factors: knowledge about the language, knowledge about the world, knowledge about self, and knowledge about the speaker, to name a few. Prior research has focused on language modeling and "persona" modeling, encoding facts about the dialogue agent. In this project, I try to focus on an alternative dimension to dialogue: how do we condition the way we converse, based on our understanding of ourselves and our social relationship with our dialogue partner?
Omar Shaikh
TITLE Understanding Monolingual Pre Training for Bilingual Models
Monolingual embeddings from models like BERT are known to help on a variety of downstream tasks in a straightforward way. Usually, these embeddings are plug and play initializing models with BERT embeddings or using them as input representations result in increased model performance. However, supervised NMT tasks do not appear to benefit equally from traditional pretraining methods. We explore what makes NMT bilingual and BERT LM monolingual representations different on several probing tasks, and why certain training methods succeed in extracting performance from BERT embeddings from NMT tasks.
Biography: 1. Naitian Zhou is a rising junior at the University of Michigan studying computer science and data science. His interests include computational social science and natural language processing.
2. Omar is a Summer 2020 intern with Dr. Jon May. He is also a rising junior at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Host: Jon May and Emily Sheng
More Info: https://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Webcast: https://youtu.be/QS3NVSbunt8Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - Virtual Only
WebCast Link: https://youtu.be/QS3NVSbunt8
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Petet Zamar
Event Link: https://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
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Viterbi Undergraduate New Student Welcome
Thu, Aug 13, 2020 @ 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Receptions & Special Events
The annual Viterbi Undergraduate New Student Welcome will be held on August 13th. We welcome Viterbi's incoming first-years and transfer students with an opportunity to meet faculty, staff, and students. This year the Welcome will continue on Friday, August 14th with virtual Welcome Receptions hosted by each academic department.
For more information: http://viterbiundergrad.usc.edu/welcome-viterbi/Audiences: Undergrad
Contact: Viterbi Undergraduate Programs
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Virtual First-Year Admission Information Session
Thu, Aug 13, 2020 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Our virtual information session is a live presentation from a USC Viterbi admission counselor designed for high school students and their family members to learn more about the USC Viterbi undergraduate experience.Our session will cover an overview of our undergraduate engineering programs, the application process, and more on student life.Guests will be able to ask questions and engage in further discussion toward the end of the session.
Please register here!Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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DEN@Viterbi - 'Limited Status: How to Get Started' Virtual Info Session
Thu, Aug 13, 2020 @ 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
DEN@Viterbi, Viterbi School of Engineering Graduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
Join USC Viterbi for our upcoming Limited Status: How to Get Started Virtual Information Session via WebEx to learn about the Limited Status enrollment option. The Limited Status enrollment option allows individuals with an undergraduate degree in engineering or related field, with a 3.0 GPA or above to take courses before applying for formal admission into a Viterbi graduate degree program.
USC Viterbi representatives will provide a step-by-step guide for how to get started as a Limited Status student and enroll in courses online via DEN@Viterbi as early as the Fall 2020 semester.
Register Now!WebCast Link: https://uscviterbi.webex.com/uscviterbi/onstage/g.php?MTID=e14e9b06563c9bac7ff83603f42fd3445
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Corporate & Professional Programs
