Over the past years, foundational models, including large-language models (LLMs) and multi-modal systems, have significantly advanced the possibilities for understanding, analyzing, and generating human language [1]. These models, based on artificial neural network computations trained on a large scale of documents, open the possibility of performing advanced tasks related to language, audio, video, and image processing.
However, these models are relatively novel and several crucial open issues need to be addressed. These issues are related both to the development and the impact of these models on society, especially on media and democracy.
The Posters track of the “Large Language Models for Media and Democracy: Wrecking or Saving Society?” workshop provides a unique forum for researchers to present artifacts, projects, and preliminary research results concerning risks and opportunities arising from the vast adoption of LLMs.
Posters
Presenting and demonstrating theoretical or practical work regarding the threats and opportunities that arise for Media and Democracy from the vast adoption of LLMs.
The Posters track invites researchers, practitioners, Ph.D. students, and others working in Computer Science, Social Sciences, and Humanities who want to present and demonstrate their theoretical or practical work, to submit a poster of their research. We solicit submissions of original research, as well as experience and vision posters.
Topics of interest (not exhaustively) include the following:
- Opportunities of Foundation Models
- Work automation
- Question answering
- Information items generation (news, documents, etc.)
- Risks of Foundation Models
- Hallucinations of LLMs
- Bias and Stereotypes in LLMs
- Transparency of LLMs
- Privacy
- Ownership
- Intellectual Property
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Fine-Tuning and Alignment
- Maintaining regional context and values
Submissions instructions
The submissions to the Poster track must include a description of the work (up to 500 words). Submissions are performed through the workshop registration page:
Registration is closed
Important dates
All dates are according to the time zone “Anywhere on Earth”, i.e., UTC-12.
- Poster proposal submission deadline: April 8, 2024
- Notification of acceptance: April 10, 2024
- Workshop dates: April 23-34, 2024
Contact
Any questions you may have should be emailed to davide.ceolin@cwi.nl
