Seminars relevant to Informatics

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DESCRIPTION;LANGUAGE=en-US:Dear all\,\n\nPlease attend our joint ILCC/ CDT 
 NLP seminar talk by Sam Lewis-Lim\, on November 6\, 2026 at 11:00-12:00.\n
 \nSpeaker: Sam Lewis-Lim<https://samlewislim.github.io/>\, University of S
 heffield\n\nhttps://airtable.com/appS4gTxm7BAJVK3b/tbl2FNoLdHQD7OdUx/reczh
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 le: Faithfulness and Monitorability in Multimodal and Efficient Reasoning 
 Models\n\nAbstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning provides a promising 
 opportunity to understand and explain how large language models make decis
 ions. Monitoring the CoT has been found to be an effective way of identify
 ing reasoning failures and catching unwanted behaviour. However\, the reli
 ability of this monitoring and the faithfulness of these explanations is n
 ot guaranteed. It is currently not well understood in which situations CoT
  monitoring can be trusted\, or how different training procedures influenc
 e this. This talk will outline work from two papers that deal with these i
 ssues. First\, I will discuss how suitable CoT monitoring is for detecting
  whether vision-language models rely on visual or textual inputs when the 
 two conflict. Second\, I will discuss how efficient reasoning training aff
 ects the faithfulness and monitorability of CoT. It has been suggested tha
 t training models to reason with fewer tokens may make their CoT less trus
 tworthy. While I show that CoT’s trustworthiness depends partly on this 
 training\, both papers highlight that trustworthiness of the CoT primarily
  depends on how it is defined and measured. Finally\, I will discuss this 
 research area as a whole and future directions I am excited about.\n\nBook
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SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-US:ILCC/ CDT NLP Seminar\, Sam Lewis-Lim - Faithfulness
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