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University of Georgia
Athens, GA
University of Georgia
Athens, GA
The AI Weekly Seminar@KIND is a weekly seminar held every Friday, open to everyone interested in cutting-edge AI and machine learning research. Presenters may cover trendy topics in AI/ML, including agentic AI, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, reasoning, and more, as well as domain-specialized research such as social network analysis, personalization, and natural disaster informatics. We welcome participants not only from within the KIND Lab but from any group or background who share a passion for advancing AI research.
🍕 Snacks and food will be provided from time to time!
In-person: Boyd 815
Online: Online Meeting Link
| Date | Time | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-28 | 3:30–5:30 PM PST | Yifan Zhang | On/Off Policy Distillation for LLM Post-Training |
| 2026-08-21 | 3:30–5:30 PM PST | Jiaxi Li | From Noisy Traces to Root Causes: Structural Trajectory Analysis and Causal Extraction for Agent Optimization |
| 2026-08-14 | 3:30–5:30 PM PST | Zhisheng Qi | Semantic-guided Diverse Decoding for LLM |
| 2026-08-07 | 3:30–5:30 PM PST | — | Skipped due to transition to UGA |
| 2026-07-31 | 3:30–5:30 PM PST | — | Skipped due to transition to UGA |
| 2026-07-24 | 3:30–5:30 PM PST | Jiaxi Li | Who&When Pro: Can LLMs Really Attribute Failures in AI Agents? |
| 2026-07-17 | 3:30–5:30 PM PST | Li Zhu | When Evidence is Sparse: Weakly Supervised Early Failure Alerting in Dialogs and LLM-Agent Trajectories |
| 2026-07-10 | 3:30–5:30 PM PST | Zhisheng Qi | CORAL: Towards Autonomous Multi-Agent Evolution for Open-Ended Discovery |
| 2026-07-03 | 3:30–5:30 PM PST | Jiaxi Li | Scaling Long-Horizon LLM Agent via Context-Folding |
| 2026-06-26 | 3:30–5:30 PM PST | Li Zhu | GRADE: Graph Representation of LLM Agent Dependency and Execution |
| 2026-06-19 | 3:30–5:30 PM PST | Zhisheng Qi | Beyond Semantic Similarity: Rethinking Retrieval for Agentic Search via Direct Corpus Interaction |
| 2026-06-12 | 3:30–5:30 PM PST | Jiaxi Li | Online Skill Learning for Web Agents via State-Grounded Dynamic Retrieval |
| 2026-06-05 | 3:30–5:30 PM PST | Li Zhu | Agentic Confidence Calibration |
| 2026-05-29 | 3:30–5:30 PM PST | Zhisheng Qi | ParamMem: Augmenting Language Agents with Parametric Reflective Memory |
| 2026-05-22 | 3:30–5:30 PM PST | Utkarsh Sahu | Watch Out for Your Agents! Investigating Backdoor Threats to LLM-Based Agents |
| 2026-05-15 | 3:30–5:30 PM PST | Zhisheng Qi | Reforming the Mechanism: Editing Reasoning Patterns in LLMs with Circuit Reshaping |
| 2026-04-04 | 3:30–5:30 PM PST | Yu Wang | Agentic Harness Engineering for Research |
| 2026-03-28 | 3:30–5:30 PM PST | Utkarsh Sahu | Evaluating Long-Horizon Memory for Multi-Party Collaborative Dialogues |
| 2026-03-28 | 3:30–5:30 PM PST | Zhisheng Qi | Generalizable End-to-End Tool-Use RL with Synthetic CodeGym |
| 2026-03-20 | 3:30–5:30 PM PST | Utkarsh Sahu | MetaMind: Modeling Human Social Thoughts with Metacognitive Multi-Agent Systems |
| 2026-03-20 | 3:30–5:30 PM PST | Zhisheng Qi | LLM-SR: Scientific Equation Discovery via Programming with Large Language Models |
| 2026-03-13 | 3:30–5:30 PM PST | — | No meeting — Yu and Utkarsh are at a meeting in DC |
| 2026-03-06 | 3:30–5:30 PM PST | Zhisheng Qi | Shoot First, Ask Questions Later? Building Rational Agents that Explore and Act Like People |
| 2026-03-06 | 3:30–5:30 PM PST | Utkarsh Sahu | Evoking User Memory: Personalizing LLM via Recollection-Familiarity Adaptive Retrieval |
| 2026-02-27 | 3:30–5:30 PM PST | — | Skipped (whole group at conference) |
| 2026-02-20 | 3:30–5:30 PM PST | Zhisheng Qi | Security and Privacy-Preserving Retrieval-Augmented Generation |
| 2026-02-20 | 3:30–5:30 PM PST | Utkarsh Sahu | Agentic RAG for Social Networks and Personalization |
| 2026-02-13 | 3:30–5:30 PM PST | Zhisheng Qi | Defending Against Knowledge Poisoning Attacks in RAG |
| 2026-02-13 | 3:30–5:30 PM PST | Utkarsh Sahu | General Introduction to OpenClaw and Moltbook |