Talk

Amin Sadri, Principal Data Scientist at ANZ, will discuss the latest in AI, including LLMs and their potential for “infinite intelligence”. He’ll also share his journey from a PhD in machine learning to industry, offering insights and advice for those looking to transition from academia to practical applications in data science.

Sebastiano Vigna presents a groundbreaking weighted generalization of Kendall’s $\tau$ that brilliantly handles tied ranks, powered by an $O(nlogn)$ algorithm and validated on massive social and web graphs.

Marwah Alaofi presents her paper on how Large Language Models can be fooled into labelling a document as relevant. The paper won the Best Paper Honorable Mention award at SIGIR-AP'24.

Alessandro Benedetti presents his talk on Dense Retrieval with Apache Solr Neural Search.