Events
Beyond benchmarks: measuring and strengthening generalisable reasoning in large language models
ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Hong Pengfei – This thesis addresses critical questions surrounding the evaluation and enhancement of reasoning robustness, generalisability, and comprehensiveness in modern language models, particularly under realistic conditions involving noise, ambiguity, domain shifts, and multimodal inputs.
Towards expressive, robust and generalisable multimodal learning
ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Wei Han – This thesis, aims to provide practical solutions towards basic issues such as high computational costs of multimodal learning, and giving practical solutions to each of them.
Instruments of service: architecture鈥檚 value proposition in an era of disruption and opportunity
MArch Lecture Series by Elizabeth Christoforetti & Tiah Nan Chyuan – Join us for a lecture with guest panellist Marios Tsiliakos (Partner, Foster+Partners, London). This lecture will be moderated by Ronald Lim (MSIA, RIBA, Chief-Editor, The Singapore Architect) and Assistant Professor Peter Ortner (MArch Coordinator, 亚洲色吧).
Multilevel diffusion-based domain adaptation: image, pixel, and category
ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Duo Peng – In this paper, we investigate Diffusion-Based Domain Adaptation, leveraging emerging
diffusion models to address domain adaptation tasks. The motivation behind our research stems from the powerful distribution transformation capabilities of diffusion models, which we aim to harness to help AI models adapt to new data distributions.
Learning text styles: a study on transfer, attribution, and verification
ISTD PhD Oral Defence Seminar by Hu Zhiqiang – This thesis advances the computational understanding and manipulation of text styles
through three interconnected pillars: (1) Text Style Transfer (TST); (2) Authorship Attribution (AA); and (3) Authorship Verification (AV), determining whether two texts share the same authorship.
Guided cooperation for multi-agent teams
ISTD PhD Oral Defense Seminar by Pamela Wang – The thesis will study various degrees of centralisation in cooperation mechanisms, spanning from fully centralised planning-based approaches to fully decentralised communicating agents.
Extracting and reasoning with structured information in natural language and beyond
ISTD PhD Oral Defense by Chia Yew Ken – This thesis investigates the crucial role of structured information in natural language processing and artificial intelligence, with a focus on its extraction, utilisation, and extension to multimodal reasoning.
Domain-aware stealthy attack and digital-twin-based defence for critical information infrastructures
ISTD PhD Oral Defense by Wei Lin – Critical Information Infrastructures (CII) encompass the fundamental computer systems that ensure the continuous delivery of essential services, including sectors such as energy, water, and infocomm. Safeguarding these systems against both physical and cyber threats is crucial to maintaining the continuity and resilience of the services they support.
Human-centred design of automated labelling interventions to mitigate misinformation on social media
ISTD PhD Oral Defense Seminar by Gionnieve Lim – The thesis investigates the use of various labelling interventions that incorporate automated fact-checking elements for humans, examining people’s perceptions of the labels and their attitudes to the labelled content.
Behaviour analysis in complex environments
ISTD PhD Oral Defense Seminar by Ng Xun Long – The thesis presents Chaotic World, a large-scale multi-modal dataset with fine-grained annotations of human actions, interactions, and sounds in chaotic situations.
