REAL Reading Group

REAL (Reliable, Efficient, and Autonomous Learning) is a machine learning paper reading group at Northwestern University, coordinated by Prof. Kaize Ding.

Regular Meeting

• Time: Every Friday, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CDT

Guidelines for Presenters

1. Upload your presentation slides to this GitHub repository.
2. Share the papers you plan to present at least two days before your presentation.
3. For Research Presentations:
   • Share one or two papers that you consider exceptional.
   • The papers can be from various fields related to machine learning.
4. For Open Talks:
   • Share interesting and useful tips relevant to academic life or research.
   • You can also present any content you'd like to share with the group.
   • Topics can range from life hacks to research methodologies or any engaging subject.

Upcoming Presentations

Date	Research Presentation	Open Talk
Feb 21, 2025	Ruiyao Xu	Jifan Zhang
Feb 28, 2025	Ruiyao Xu	Ruiyao Xu
March 07, 2025	Ziqing Wang	Ziqing Wang
March 14, 2025	Qingcheng Zeng	David
March 21, 2025	Ruiyao Xu	Oscar
April 18, 2025	Ziqing Wang	Qingcheng Zeng
April 25, 2025	Qingcheng Zeng
May 02, 2025	Ruiyao Xu	Ruiyao Xu
May 09, 2025	Ziqing Wang	Ziqing Wang
May 16, 2025	Qingcheng Zeng	David

Full Schedule

Research Presentations

Date	Presenter	Topic	Materials
Feb 14, 2025	Jifan Zhang	Time-LLM: Time Series Forecasting by Reprogramming Large Language Models	Paper
Feb 07, 2025	Ziqing Wang	DeepSeek-R1	Paper
Jan 31, 2025	Qingcheng Zeng	Promptriever: Instruction-Trained Retrievers Can Be Prompted Like Language Models	Paper
Jan 24, 2025	Chenghong Lin	HEALNet: Multimodal Fusion for Heterogeneous Biomedical Data	Paper
Jan 17, 2025	Ruiyao Xu	Is DPO Superior to PPO for LLM Alignment? A Comprehensive Study	Paper
Jan 10, 2025	Ziqing Wang	Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model	Paper
Jan 03, 2025	Qingcheng Zeng	AutoPSV: Automated Process-Supervised Verifier	Paper
Dec 12, 2024	Qijie Zhu	Score approximation, estimation and distribution recovery of diffusion models on low-dimensional data	Paper
Dec 05, 2024	Jifan Zhang	Conformal prediction for multi-dimensional time series by ellipsoidal sets	Paper
Nov 22, 2024	Ziqing Wang	DIGRESS: DISCRETE DENOISING DIFFUSION FOR GRAPH GENERATION	Paper
Nov 15, 2024	Sunny Li	Reflexion: Language Agents with Verbal Reinforcement Learning	Paper
Nov 08, 2024	Ruiyao Xu	Envisioning Outlier Exposure by Large Language Models for Out-of-Distribution Detection	Slide
Oct 25, 2024	Chenghong Lin	Enhancing Multimodal Knowledge Graph Representation Learning through Triple Contrastive Learning	Paper Slide
Oct 18, 2024	Qijie Zhu	Theoretical Analysis of Weak-to-Strong Generalization	Paper Slide
Oct 11, 2024	Jifan Zhang	Adaptive conformal inference	Paper
Oct 04, 2024	Sunny Li	InstructGraph: Boosting Large Language Models via Graph-centric Instruction Tuning and Preference Alignment	Paper Slide
Sep 20, 2024	Zeyu Zhang	EFFICIENT MODEL UPDATES FOR APPROXIMATE UNLEARNING OF GRAPH-STRUCTURED DATA	Paper
Sep 13, 2024	Ziqing Wang	BLIP-2: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training with Frozen Image Encoders and Large Language Models	Paper Slide
Sep 06, 2024	Ruiyao Xu	Large Language Models can Deliver Accurate and Interpretable Time Series Anomaly Detection	Paper Slide
Aug 23, 2024	Jifan Zhang	Language Models with Conformal Factuality Guarantees	Paper
Aug 16, 2024	Qingcheng Zeng	Uncertainty is Fragile: Manipulating Uncertainty in Large Language Models	Paper
Aug 09, 2024	Zeyu Zhang	Large Language Model Unlearning	Paper Slide
Aug 02, 2024	Ziqing Wang	The Evolution of Multimodal Learning: From ALBEF to BLIP-2	Paper Slide

Open Talks

Date	Presenter	Topic	Materials
Feb 14, 2025	Qingcheng Zeng	Internship Search
Feb 07, 2025	Chenghong Lin	How to write a paper?
Jan 31, 2025	Ziqing Wang	How to do a literature review?
Jan 24, 2025	Ruiyao Xu	Obisdian
Jan 17, 2025	Qingcheng Zeng	Scholar Inbox
Jan 10, 2025	Sunny Li	Quizlet: A Tool to Memorization
Jan 03, 2025	Qijie Zhu	How to write a good introduction?
Dec 19, 2024	Ziqing Wang	Tutorial of Sweeps
Dec 12, 2024	Ruiyao Xu	Paper Management with Paperlib
Dec 05, 2024	Ziqing Wang	Introduction of Notion
Nov 22, 2024	Jifan Zhang	Think outside of the box: interesting brain teasers
Nov 15, 2024	Chenghong Lin	How to form good habits?
Nov 08, 2024	Qijie Zhu	How to read a paper?
Oct 25, 2024	Ruiyao Xu	A Guide to Giving a Short Academic Talk	Slide
Oct 11, 2024	Ziqing Wang	The intro of Weights and Biases	Slide
Oct 04, 2024	Jifan Zhang	Build your first personal website	Slide
Sep 20, 2024	Ruiyao Xu	Writing AI Conference Papers	Slide
Sep 13, 2024	Zeyu Zhang	Deadline of Conferences	Slide
Sep 06, 2024	Sunny Li	Simple Steps to Better Public Speaking
Aug 23, 2024	Ziqing Wang	How to read and archive papers with ReadPaper	Link
Aug 16, 2024	Jifan Zhang	How to make a good resume/CV
Aug 09, 2024	Ruiyao Xu	Podcasts for PhD students	Slide
Aug 02, 2024	Zeyu Zhang	How can AI Transform the U.S. President Election	Slide