How to Optimize a Language Model for Funniness

He He is an Assistant Professor at New York University. Her research focuses on enabling reliable communication in natural language between machine and humans, including topics in text generation, robust language understanding, and dialogue systems. Her PhD thesis is titled "Sequential Decisions and Predictions in NLP", which she completed in 2016 at the University of Maryland. We talk about the intersection of language with imitation learning and reinforcement learning, her work in the thesis on opponent modeling and simultaneous translation, and how it relates to recent work on generation and robustness. Episode notes: https://cs.nyu.edu/~welleck/episode8.html Follow the Thesis Review (@thesisreview) and Sean Welleck (@wellecks) on Twitter, and find out more info about the show at https://cs.nyu.edu/~welleck/podcast.html Support The Thesis Review at www.buymeacoffee.com/thesisreview