Ollie Liu
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I’m a second-year Ph.D student in Computer Science at University of Southern California, fortunate to be co-advised by Prof. Dani Yogatama and Prof. Willie Neiswanger. In life, my friends call me Oliver 🫒
I’m passionate about designing multimodal foundation models that accelerate scientific discovery. Towards this, my research foci include foundation model pre-training, understanding and exploring their capabilities, as well as continual training to align them with human desiderata. By focusing on these areas, I aim to develop trustworthy models that not only advance artificial intelligence but also serve practical purposes in various scientific domains.
Before USC, I was a researcher in continuous optimization with Prof. Jorge Nocedal at Northwestern University. Even before that, I did my B.S+M.S at Carnegie Mellon University, majoring in machine learning.
At USC, I co-lead the AI Safety Club, a student-run organization that advocates for safety in advanced AI systems. We run semester-long curriculums in introductory topics and technical areas.
news
Jul 10, 2024 | IsoBench has been accepted to the inaugural Conference on Language Modeling. Dataset preview now available on Hugging Face 🤗 |
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May 20, 2024 | Started an internship at Microsoft Research with the AI Frontiers Team |
Apr 18, 2024 | I gave a talk DeLLMa at the Information Science Institute NLG Seminar. Check out the video here ✌️ |
Apr 1, 2024 | We introduce IsoBench🔥, an evaluation suite that benchmarks multimodal foundation models on isomorphic representations! |
Mar 13, 2024 | Our work, On Retrieval Augmentation and the Limitations of Language Model Training, has been accepted to NAACL 2024 🇲🇽 |