CEFSW Workshop will be held on June 30, 2025.

Location: Dorin Forum Main Hall D, Isadore & Sadie Dorin Forum, 725 W Roosevelt Rd, Chicago

This is a half-day workshop and the program outline is as follows: 

• 09.00 - 09.15 Opening Remarks

• 09.15 - 9.50 Invited Talk "Bridging Cognitive Foundation and Efficient Specialization: Visual Reasoning in Cultural Contexts" by Zhixin Ma at Singapore Management University

• 09.50 - 10.20 Paper Presentation (1 presentations)

  1. 1. 1. 1. Human vs. Generative AI in Content Creation Competition: Symbiosis or Conflict?, by Fan Yao at STOR at UNC

• 10.20 - 10.50  Coffee Break

• 10.50 - 11.25  Invited Talk "Large Language Models for Drug Discovery:  From Molecule Generation to Optimization", by Xuefeng Liu at University of Chicago

• 11.25 - 11.45 Paper Presentation (2 presentations)

  1. 1. 1. 1. Fine-Grained Guidance for Retrievers: Leveraging LLMs' Feedback in Retrieval-Augmented Generation, by Yuhang Liu at Zhejiang University (Proxy presenter: Yuqing Zhang)

           2. HyperCAT: Dynamic Hypernetwork-Driven Parameter Compression for Edge-Compatible LLM Fine-Tuning, by Kunxi Li at Alibaba Group (Proxy presenter: Yuqing Zhang)

• 11.45 - 12.00  Closing Remarks & General Discussions