Workshop Schedule

Monday, April 28, 2025
Location: C4.4
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81608851613?pwd=RZbL6jrzqQjbYnXEjaS3UTmtfntPm2.1
Meeting ID: 816 0885 1613 Passcode: 497024

Time Session Speaker/Details
Morning    
09:00 – 09:15 Opening  
09:10 – 09:50 Invited Talk 1 - Small Language Models in the Era of Large Language Models Fali Wang (Penn State)
09:50 – 10:30 Invited Talk 2 - On the Intersection of Language and Graph Models Chuxu Zhang (Uconn)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break  
11:00 – 11:40 Invited Talk 3 - Less is More: Data & Model Efficiency for RecSys and LLMs Derek Cheng (Google DeepMind)
11:30 – 12:30 Poster Session  
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch  
Afternoon    
13:40 – 14:20 Invited Talk 4 - Making LLM embedding the Swiss Army Knife for Recsys in the GenAI era Da Xu (Linkedin)
14:20 – 15:00 Invited Talk 5 - Personalization of Large Foundation Models and Applications Chua Tat Seng (NUS)
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break  
15:30 – 16:00 Panel Discussion Jian Pei (Duke), Da Xu (Linkedin), Derek Cheng (Google DeepMind), Chua Tat Seng (NUS)