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Events for October 20, 2022
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ServiceNow Open House (Virtual, External)
Thu, Oct 20, 2022 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
At ServiceNow, our technology makes the world work for everyone, and our people make it possible. Our diverse team is changing the world with products that make a meaningful impact on people and communities. The more of 'you' you bring to work, the better. When you join ServiceNow, the world works.
Who is ServiceNow?
ServiceNow creates digital experiences that help organizations work smarter, faster, and better. Our purpose is to make the world work better for everyone.
ServiceNow Open Houses:
We are excited to announce our new Open Houses this Fall! These Open Houses are
available to anyone that would like to learn more about ServiceNow, our culture, and opportunities. Each open house will consist of an info session about ServiceNow and breakout rooms with recruiters and ServiceNow professionals. Join us and do not miss out on all the fun!
ServiceNow Workshops:
We are excited to announce that we are bringing back our career development
workshop series. These are free, virtual, career development workshops aimed to help those looking to jumpstart their careers in the tech industry. We'll be covering valuable topics that you won't want to miss!
ServiceNow Virtual Events
- Open House September 7th | 10 to 11 am
- Stand Out at Career Fairs and Conferences
Workshop September 14th| 10 to 11 am
- Open House September 22nd | 10 to 11 am
- Open House October 5th | 10 to 11 am
- Build Your Personal Brand and Give Your LinkedIn a Makeover Workshop October 12th |10 to 11 am
- Open House October 20th | 10 to 11 am
- Open House November 2nd |10 to 11 am
- How to Ace your In-Person and Virtual Interview Workshop November 9th 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM PDT
- Open House November 17th |10 to 11 am
- Open House November 30th | 10 to 11 am
- Overcoming Imposter Syndrome Workshop December 14th | 10 to 11 am
- Open House December 15th | 10:00 to 11:00 am
Check out all of our events and RSVP here!
External employer-hosted events and activities are not affiliated with the USC Viterbi Career Connections Office. They are posted on Viterbi Career Connections because they may be of interest to members of the Viterbi community. Inclusion of any activity does not indicate USC sponsorship or endorsement of that activity or event. It is the participants responsibility to apply due diligence, exercise caution when participating, and report concerns to vcareers@usc.edu
Location: online
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
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NL Seminar- Understanding and Improving Learning through Inference with Large Language Models
Thu, Oct 20, 2022 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Sewon Min, University of Washington
Talk Title: Understanding and Improving Learning through Inference with Large Language Models
Series: NL Seminar
Abstract: THIS TALK WILL NOT BE RECORDED, IT WILL BE BROADCAST LIVE ONLY*
REMINDER:
Meeting hosts only admit guests that they know to the Zoom meeting. Hence, you are highly encouraged to use your USC account to sign into Zoom.
If you are an outside visitor, please inform us at nlg DASH seminar DASH host AT isi DOT edu beforehand so we will be aware of your attendance and let you in.
In person attendance will be permitted for USC ISI faculty, staff, students only. Open to the public virtually via the zoom link and online.
Language models are capable of learning at inference also referred to as in context learning, learning a new task by conditioning on k examples and making a prediction for a new input with no parameter updates. While impressive, models suffer from high variance and low worst case accuracy. Moreover, we do not understand how or why in context learning works. In the first part of the talk, I will introduce new methods that lead to significant performance gains by reducing variance and improving worst case accuracy. I will present a new inference method as well as a new training method, of which combination enables the model to outperform a 230x bigger language model. In the second part of the talk, I will show that in context learning in fact works very differently from conventional learning: the model does not benefit from the correctly paired training data, but rather benefit from the correct specification of the independent distribution of inputs and labels. Finally, I will conclude the talk with lessons learned, limitations and avenues for future work.
Biography: Sewon Min is a Ph.D. student in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, advised by Prof. Luke Zettlemoyer and Prof. Hannaneh Hajishirzi. She is also a part time visiting researcher at Meta AI. Her research is in the area of natural language processing and machine learning. Her work specifically focuses on question answering, natural language understanding, knowledge representation and building general purpose language understanding models. She is a recipient of the 2022 JP Morgan Ph.D. Fellowship. She has co organized multiple workshops and tutorials at ACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS and AKBC, including a workshop on Machine Reading for Question Answering, a competition on Efficient Open domain Question Answering, a workshop on Representation Learning for NLP, workshop on Semiparametric Methods in NLP, and a tutorial on Zero and Few shot Learning with Pretrained Language Models. Prior to UW, she obtained a B.S. degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Seoul National University.
Host: Jon May and Meryem M'hamdi
More Info: https://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/94452797669Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - Virtual and ISI-Conf Rm#689
WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/94452797669
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Pete Zamar
Event Link: https://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/
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Job/Internship Search Workshop
Thu, Oct 20, 2022 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
THIS EVENT WILL BE HOSTED HYBRID: IN-PERSON & ONLINE SIMULTANEOUSLY
Increase your knowledge on the job/internship search by attending this professional development Q&A moderated by Viterbi Career Connections staff or Viterbi employer partners.
To access this workshop, log into Viterbi Career Gateway>> Events>>Workshops: https://shibboleth-viterbi-usc-csm.symplicity.com/sso/
For more information about all workshops, please visit viterbicareers.usc.edu/workshops.
For In-Person: Attendance is limited to room capacity
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
