What an excellent start to Day 1 of #ALTA2024!

In yesterday's #tutorial, Dr Nicholas I-Hsien Kuo took our participants through:

➡️ Implementing and evaluating #PEFT and quantisation techniques.
➡️ Fine-tuning and deploying #LLMs on hardware with limited resources.
➡️ Optimising workflows for real-world applications without sacrificing performance.

A huge thanks to Google Colab for our #compute requirements 👏

📷 by Taylor Liu, one of our incredible #ALTA2024 Volunteers

🌟 PANELLISTS ANNOUNCED 🌟

We're delighted to announce the panellists for our #ALTA2024 panel!

Professor Hanna Suominen is at the forefront of accelerating health impact from personalised precision medicine technology through the application of advanced data analytics and #ML #DL.

Kyla Quinn is the Technical Director of Data and Analytic Services Branch at the Australian Signals Directorate. In this role she provides strategic direction for staff.

https://alta2024.alta.asn.au/keynotes/#panel-discussion

Public Lecture, Keynotes & Panel Discussion

ALTA 2024 Keynote Speakers

ALTA 2024

🌟 TUTORIAL DETAILS - #LLMs, #LORA and #PEFT 🌟

Join us at #ALTA2024 for a tutorial led by Dr Nicholas I-Hsien Kuo from the UNSW Centre for Big Data Research in Health, #UNSW Sydney.

🌟 What You’ll Gain 🌟

➡️ Implement and evaluate PEFT and quantisation techniques.

➡️ Fine-tune and deploy LLMs on hardware with limited resources.

➡️ Optimise workflows for real-world applications without sacrificing performance.

🌟 Register now! 🌟
https://alta2024.alta.asn.au

The 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association

CanberraDecember 2 - 4, 2024

ALTA 2024

🌟 JUST 5 DAYS TO GO! 🌟
There's just 5 days to go until #ALTA2024 opens 🎉

We can't wait to share with you an incredible tutorial, courtesy of Nicholas I-Hsien Kuo, incredible keynotes in @stevenbird Jing Jiang and Kyla Quinn, and a brilliant panel discussion featuring Hanna Suominen and expertly facilitated by Gabriela Ferraro.

We'll also delighted to be hosting Eduard Hovy who will present a free public lecture on how #LLMs work and where they're heading.

https://alta2024.alta.asn.au

The 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association

CanberraDecember 2 - 4, 2024

ALTA 2024

ICYMI: Professor Eduard Hovy of Melbourne Connect at #UniMelb will deliver a free public #lecture as part of #ALTA2024.

Generative #LLMs: How they work and where they are heading

📆 5.30pm - 6.30pm AEDT,
Monday, 2nd Dec 2024

📍 Birch Building Innovation Space,
35 Science Road, #ANU, #Canberra

https://www.anu.edu.au/events/alta-2024-public-lecture-generative-llms-how-they-work-and-where-they-are-heading?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Huge thx to Defence Australia, Google, Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), Commonwealth Bank, UniMelb, #ANU School of Cybernetics, School Of Culture, History & Language

ALTA 2024 Public Lecture — Generative LLMs: How They Work and Where They are Heading

The 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association will be held in a hybrid format at The Australian National University from 2-4 December 2024. As part of the event, we will be hosting a public lecture:

Australian National University

🌟 KEYNOTE ANNOUNCEMENT 🌟
Kyla Quinn, Australian Signals Directorate

We're delighted to announce that Kyla Quinn will be one of the fantastic keynotes at the #ALTA2024 Workshop, affiliated with the @aclmeeting.

Kyla will speak to the issues we need to contend with when we put #LLMs and other #language technologies into an enterprise.

LLMs are great ... but

Learn more and register at:
https://alta2024.alta.asn.au

The 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association

CanberraDecember 2 - 4, 2024

ALTA 2024

🌟 KEYNOTE ANNOUNCEMENT 🌟

PROFESSOR Jing Jiang, #ANU

We're delighted to announce that Professor Jing Jiang of the ANU College of Engineering, Computing & Cybernetics at The Australian National University will be one of the incredible keynotes at the #ALTA2024 Workshop, affiliated with the @aclmeeting.

Professor Jiang will speak to the topic:

LLM Evaluation: Writing Styles, Role-playing, and Visual Comprehension

Learn more and register at:
https://alta2024.alta.asn.au/

The 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association

CanberraDecember 2 - 4, 2024

ALTA 2024

SELLING FAST: Registrations are selling fast for the #ALTA2024 conference affiliated with the @aclmeeting 🎉
📆 Monday 2nd Dec - Wed 4th Dec 2024
📍 Birch Building Innovation Space,
35 Science Road, #ANU

#Online and in-person options available.

We will feature 3 incredible keynotes - Dr @stevenbird, Kyla Quinn, Professor Jing Jiang, a panel of industry experts, including Professor Hanna Suominen and Anna Leontjeva expertly facilitated by Professor Eduard Hovy.

https://events.humanitix.com/alta-2024?hxchl=mkt-sch

ALTA 2024

The 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA2024) Canberra 2 - 4 December, 2024

ICYMI: Registrations are now open for the #ALTA2024 conference affiliated with @aclmeeting 🎉

📆 Monday 2nd Dec - Wed 4th Dec 2024
📍 Birch Building Innovation Space,
35 Science Road, #ANU, #Canberra, AU

#Online and in-person options available.

We will feature 3 incredible keynotes, a panel of industry experts and an outstanding range of paper presentations on topics like #LLMs, #RAG, #IR and #KnowledgeGraphs.

https://events.humanitix.com/alta-2024/tickets?hxchl=mkt-sch?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

ALTA 2024

The 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA2024) Canberra 2 - 4 December, 2024

Registrations are now open for the #ALTA2024 conference affiliated with @aclmeeting 🎉

📆 Monday 2nd Dec - Wed 4th Dec 2024
📍 Birch Building Innovation Space,
35 Science Road, #ANU, #Canberra, AU

#Online and in-person options available.

We will feature 3 incredible keynotes, a panel of industry experts and an outstanding range of paper presentations on topics like #LLMs, #RAG, #IR and #KnowledgeGraphs.

https://events.humanitix.com/alta-2024/tickets?hxchl=mkt-sch?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

ALTA 2024

The 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA2024) Canberra 2 - 4 December, 2024