See defun for relevant background. You may find it helpful to use a lexicographic order, the idea being to have a measure that returns a list of two arguments, where the first takes priority over the ...

This class is a graduate-level introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP), the study of computing systems that can process, understand, or communicate in human language. The course covers ...

Sumaya M Al-Bedaiwi, [email protected], Office hours: Mon 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, Wed 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM in the GDC Basement.

In reinforcement learning (RL), a reward function that aligns exactly with a task's true performance metric is often sparse. For example, a true task metric might encode a reward of 1 upon success and ...

The Robot Perception and Learning Lab launched DexMimicGen, a new data generation system to improve training for humanoid robots. It builds on the lab’s earlier system, MimicGen, to predict humanoid ...

Our students and faculty are changing the world through their contributions to computing education, research, and industry. These awards received by members of the UT Computer Science community make ...

Four undergraduates were honored by the Computer Research Association in the 2025 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award — the largest recognition of the department’s undergraduate research ...

Traditional methods of collecting translation and paraphrase data can be prohibitively expensive, making construction of large, new corpora difficult. While crowdsourcing offers a cheap alternative, ...

E. Allen Emerson has a longstanding interest in formal methods for establishing program correctness. This was inspired in part by reading in the mid-1970's a CACM paper by Tony Hoare "Proof of Program ...

My research interests are in the area of machine learning for speech, language, and sound processing. I am particularly interested in multimodality and unsupervised ...

For almost a decade, the need for a non-profit professional society to run the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) has been recognized at the editorial board meetings of the Machine ...