USC Information Sciences Institute Courses

Functional Tokens for On-device Multimodal Models - Nexa AI

Explore innovative functional tokens for on-device multimodal AI models, enhancing accuracy and efficiency in function calling tasks while achieving remarkable performance across languages and modalities.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

On Robustness and Generative Modeling

Explore adversarial training's impact on AI robustness and generative modeling. Gain insights into energy dynamics, robust overfitting, and the connection between robust classifiers and generative capabilities.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Human-AI Interaction: From Supporting Surgical Training to Inspecting Social Bias in LLMs

Explore AI applications in surgical education and social bias detection. Learn about multimodal deep-learning for surgical feedback analysis and a framework for inspecting stereotypes in generative AI.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 11 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

AI for Fostering Constructive Online Conversations

Explore AI's role in promoting constructive online discussions about race, addressing content moderation biases, and developing NLP systems for social good across various domains.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Causal Inference to Inform Curation Practices in Online Platforms

Explore causal inference methods for improving content curation on digital platforms. Examine case studies on Reddit, discuss implications for policy, and consider future research directions in the era of generative AI.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Event Extraction for Epidemic Prediction

Explore event extraction techniques for early epidemic prediction using social media data. Learn about epidemic event ontology, cross-lingual models, and innovative label projection methods.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Understanding LLMs through Generative Behavior, Successes and Shortcomings

Explore LLM generative behavior, successes, and shortcomings. Gain insights into model design, inference algorithms, and performance across diverse tasks requiring varied knowledge and capabilities.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Staring into the Abyss and Eating Glass - From Academia to Startup

Explore the journey from academia to entrepreneurship with insights on building a sports analytics startup. Gain valuable perspectives on challenges, similarities, and differences between academic and business worlds.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 7 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How to Steal ChatGPT's Embedding Size and Other Low-rank Logit Tricks

Uncover hidden information about API-protected LLMs through low-rank logit analysis. Learn to estimate embedding sizes, audit model updates, and identify source models efficiently.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

AI in Structural Biology: Roots of Success

Explore the history and impact of AI in protein structure prediction, focusing on AlphaFold 2's breakthrough and its implications for structural and cell biology research.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

DeLLMa: A Framework for Decision Making Under Uncertainty with Large Language Models

Enhance decision-making accuracy in uncertain environments using DeLLMa, a multi-step scaffolding framework based on decision and utility theory principles. Improve LLM performance by up to 40% in complex scenarios.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 5 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Multimodal Machine Intelligence and Health

Explore multimodal machine intelligence applications in medical sciences and health research, addressing challenges in creating trustworthy, inclusive AI for clinical and quality of life domains.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Informative Example Selection for In-Context Learning

Explore efficient approaches for selecting informative examples in In-Context Learning, enhancing large language model performance without additional training.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Data Provenance Initiative: A Large Scale Audit of Dataset Licensing and Attribution in AI

Explore a comprehensive audit of 1800+ text datasets, examining legal and ethical risks in AI data practices. Gain insights into dataset lineage, licensing, and the divide between open and closed datasets.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Do Androids Know They're Only Dreaming of Electric Sheep?

Explore transformer language models' internal representations to detect and analyze hallucinatory behavior in AI-generated content, with insights on task-dependent patterns and evaluation methods.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video