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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:106%;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this
invitation]<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:106%;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:106%">The 2nd International Conference on Foundation
and Large Language Models (FLLM2024) <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:106%;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://fllm2024.fllm-conference.org/index.php" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:106%">https://fllm2024.fllm-conference.org/index.php</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:106%;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:106%;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:106%;color:black">26-29 November, 2024 | Dubai, UAE <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:106%;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:106%;color:red">Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE </span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:106%"> </span><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:106%;color:red">UAE Section </span><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:106%"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><u><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">FLLM 202<span style="color:black">4</span>
CFP:</span></u></b><span><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">With
the emergence of foundation models (FMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) that
are trained on large amounts of data at scale and adaptable to a wide range of
downstream applications, Artificial intelligence is experiencing a paradigm
revolution. BERT, T5, ChatGPT, GPT-4, Falcon 180B, Codex, DALL-E, Whisper, and
CLIP are now the foundation for new applications ranging from computer vision
to protein sequence study and from speech recognition to coding. Earlier models
had a reputation of starting from scratch with each new challenge. The capacity
to experiment with, examine, and comprehend the capabilities and potentials of
next-generation FMs is critical to undertaking this research and guiding its
path. Nevertheless, these models are currently inaccessible as the resources
required to train these models are highly concentrated in industry, and even
the assets (data, code) required to replicate their training are frequently not
released due to their demand in the real-time industry. At the moment, mostly large
tech companies such as OpenAI, Google, Facebook, and Baidu can afford to
construct FMs and LLMS. Despite the expected widely publicized use of FMs and
LLMS, we still lack a comprehensive knowledge of how they operate, why they
underperform, and what they are even capable of because of their emerging
global qualities. To deal with these problems, we believe that much critical
research on FMs and LLMS would necessitate extensive multidisciplinary
collaboration, given their essentially social and technical structure.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The
International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM)
addresses the architectures, applications, challenges, approaches, and future
directions. We invite the submission of original papers on all topics related
to FLLMs, with special interest in but not limited to:<span></span></span></p>

<ul style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>    </span><b>Architectures and Systems<span></span></b></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in" type="circle"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Transformers and Attention<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Bidirectional Encoding<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Autoregressive Models<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Massive GPU Systems<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Prompt Engineering<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Multimodal LLMs<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Fine-tuning<span></span></span></li></ul><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>    </span><b>Challenges</b><span></span></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in" type="circle"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hallucination<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Cost of Creation and Training<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Energy and Sustainability Issues<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Integration<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Safety and Trustworthiness<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Interpretability<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Fairness<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Social Impact<span></span></span></li></ul><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>    </span>Future Directions<span></span></span></b></li><ul style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in" type="circle"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Generative AI<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Explainability and EXplainable AI<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Federated Learning for FLLM<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Large Language Models Fine-Tuning on Graphs<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Data Augmentation<span></span></span></li></ul><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>    </span>Natural Language Processing
     Applications<span></span></span></b></li><ul style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in" type="circle"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Generation<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Summarization<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Rewrite<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Search<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Question Answering<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Language Comprehension and Complex Reasoning<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Clustering and Classification<span></span></span></li></ul><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>    </span>Applications<span></span></span></b></li><ul style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in" type="circle"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Natural Language Processing<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Communication Systems<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Security and Privacy<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Image Processing and Computer Vision<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Life Sciences<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Financial Systems<span></span></span></li></ul></ul>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Submissions
Guidelines and Proceedings</span></u></b><span><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;text-align:justify;line-height:106%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Manuscripts should be prepared in
10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format. All papers
should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link.
A full paper can be up to 8 pages (including all figures, tables and
references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that
is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not
following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions
received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately
structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair
for further information or clarification. All submissions are peer-reviewed by
at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the FLLM Proceeding,
and be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services
and be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Submitted papers must include
original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or
journal. Submission of regular papers up to 8 pages and must follow the IEEE
paper format. Please include up to 7 keywords, complete postal and email
address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. Authors of
accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Submitted
papers that are deemed of good quality but that could not be accepted as
regular papers will be accepted as short papers. <span></span></span></p>

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<ul style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"></span><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:red">Paper submission deadline: June 30, 2024</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:red"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Notification
     of acceptance: September 15, 2024 <span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Camera-ready
     Submission: October 10, 2024<span></span></span></li></ul>

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