AI Seminar - Fall 2026

The UNT Artificial Intelligence (AI) seminar aims to cover a broad variety of AI topics, such as computer vision, natural language processing, machine learning, AI fairness & ethics, multimodal learning, etc. The goal is to facilitate research discussion and collaboration in AI.

Time: Unless otherwise noted, the events are on Fridays (every week).

Room: Unless otherwise noted, we will meet at Discovery Park F219 in person.

Who can attend? All students (PhD/MS/Undergraduate/K-12 students) who are interested in AI are welcome to attend our seminar.

Schedule


ZipLoRA: Any Subject in Any Style by Effectively Merging LoRAs
Speaker: Md Abdullah Al Forhad, PhD student
Time: 09/04/2026 | 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Room: F219, Discovery Park, UNT

MixLLM: LLM Quantization with Global Mixed-precision between Output-features and Highly-efficient System Design
Speaker: Hanzhi Zhang, PhD student
Time: 09/11/2026 | 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Room: F219, Discovery Park, UNT

A multimodal large language model for materials science
Speaker: Thanh Le, PhD student
Time: 09/18/2026 | 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Room: F219, Discovery Park, UNT

SPELL: Self-Play Reinforcement Learning for Evolving Long-Context Language Models
Speaker: Chenyang Yu, PhD student
Time: 09/25/2026 | 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Room: F219, Discovery Park, UNT

Ask a Strong LLM Judge when Your Reward Model is Uncertain
Speaker: Sumera Anjum, PhD student
Time: 10/02/2026 | 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Room: F219, Discovery Park, UNT

CellPLM: Pre-training of Cell Language Model Beyond Single Cells
Speaker: Dawei Gao, PhD student
Time: 10/09/2026 | 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Room: F219, Discovery Park, UNT

Coevolving Representations in Joint Image-Feature Diffusion
Speaker: Xiaoqiong Liu, PhD student
Time: 10/16/2026 | 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Room: F219, Discovery Park, UNT

Calibrating LLMs with Information-Theoretic Evidential Deep Learning
Speaker: Minghao Li, PhD student
Time: 10/23/2026 | 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Room: F219, Discovery Park, UNT

EPSVec: Efficient and Private Synthetic Data Generation via Dataset Vectors
Speaker: Mingchen Li, PhD student
Time: 10/30/2026 | 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Room: F219, Discovery Park, UNT


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