Research Colloquium - Speaker: Denis Peskoff (UC Berkeley iSchool)

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Speaker: Denis Peskoff (UC Berkeley iSchool)
UTA 5.522 or Zoom

Title: Laws & LLMs

Abstract:  In a series of recent papers, we study LLM knowledge of the laws and create new datasets to improve it.  The results are surprising. I am omitting details from the abstract, so come to the talk to learn more (or how to spend 1.5 million tokens answering 500 yes/no questions).  In addition to this, I will touch upon past work of in-domain LLM evaluation, genAI detection, studying communications of the Fed, and the board game of Diplomacy. 

Bio: Denis Peskoff is a Bellwether Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Berkeley with Professor Diag Davenport working on legal NLP. Previously he was at Northwestern, Princeton, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and the University of Maryland.  His research interest is leveraging domain experts to create meaningful and accurate datasets for computational social science.

Lunch will be provided at noon

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Date and Time
Monday, May 18, 2026, 12:30 to 2 p.m. Google Outlook iCal
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