A few months ago, Apple hosted a two-day event that featured talks and publications on the latest advancements in natural language processing (NLP). Today, the company published a post with multiple highlights, and all the studies presented. Here’s the roundup.
The Workshop on Natural Language and Interactive Systems 2025 took place on May 15-16, and the talks and publications focused on three key research areas related to NLP:
Spoken Language Interactive Systems
LLM Training and Alignment
Language Agents
During the event, multiple researchers from universities, institutes, labs, and research groups, including Allen Institute for AI, Imperial College of London, MIT, Harvard University, Stanford University, and Princeton University, presented their latest work.
Some of these researchers also work in the industry, at companies including Microsoft, Amazon, Sony, Google, Tencent, Cohere, and, of course, Apple.
Here are a few highlights of the talks, and a link to the full list of videos and papers presented at the event.
These were two studies presented by Yarin Gal, an associate professor at the University of Oxford, and the UK AI Security Institute Director of Research.
The first, AI Model Collapse, explored how there is a limit to how much longer the web will serve as a viable source of data for LLM training, since increased use of these models will lead to more model-generated content being published online.
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