I am once again asking you to consider sending your amazing papers to the "Studying Language Processing in the Era of LLMs" Special Issue!

Alona Fyshe@alonaf.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Submit an article to our SI "Studying Language Processing in the Era of LLMs" We're interested in papers using cognitive priors to improve LLM, using LLMs to understand the brain’s processing of language, or using theories/methods/tests inspired by cognitive science to understand LLMs, and more!

Submit an article to our SI "Studying Language Processing in the Era of LLMs" We're interested in papers using cognitive priors to improve LLM, using LLMs to understand the brain’s processing of language, or using theories/methods/tests inspired by cognitive science to understand LLMs, and more!

3/ 🌟 Joining us at Re-Align 2026 is a fantastic lineup of invited speakers covering ML, neuroscience, and cognitive science: David Bau, Arturo Deza, @judithfan.bsky.social, @alonaf.bsky.social, @phillipisola.bsky.social, and Danielle Perszyk!

I'm hiring (another) post doc, this time in collaboration with Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social at Columbia! We will be exploring some of the characteristics of human development using deep learning models. Email with questions! iaejup.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Postdoctoral Fellow - Large Language Models as Models for Human Development

This position is part of the Post Doctoral Fellows Association and has an initial appointment of two years. This position has a comprehensive benefits package. Location - This role is in-person at Nor...

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I am hiring a post doc at UAlberta, affiliated with Amii! We study language processing in the brain using LLMs and neuroimaging. Looking for someone with experience with ideally both neuroimaging and LLMs, or a willingness to learn. Email me with Qs apps.ualberta.ca/careers/post...

Alona Fyshe @alonaf.bsky.social on the BabyLM Challenge, a competition that trains language models (LMs) on smaller datasets, more akin to how a baby learns, in search of solutions to some of the major challenges of today’s LLMs. #NeuroAI #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/the-...

Can babies inspire more efficient learning algorithms?

A competition that trains language models on smaller datasets, more akin to how a baby learns, seeks solutions to some of LLM’s major challenges.

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Did you know the famous man -> woman king -> queen analogy geometry in Mikolov et al (2013) was actually described in a 1973 paper by Rumelhart and Abrahamson? Thanks to the @jurafsky.bsky.social and Martin book for the reference!

A model for analogical reasoning

A theory of analogical reasoning is proposed in which the elements of a set of concepts, e.g., animals, are represented as points in a multidimensiona…

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Every year at the end of the semester, I ask the students in my Psych of Language class to create memes about what they've learned. They then vote for their favorites. Here's the winner about how the idea of a universal grammar is no longer as compelling as it once seemed. 1/5

Our ICLR poster is Saturday Morning (Hall 3 + Hall 2B #63)! We (myself with Cory Efird, Alex Murphy and Joel Zylberberg) are excited to share our work searching for Shared Decodable Concepts in the human brain. We used the Natural Scenes Dataset to find the concepts that most drive brain activity…

Wonderful to see this recognition of Rich's contribution to AI and computing! Rich maintains the strong founding connections between cognition and AI, showing that studying intelligence can help us build intelligence. www.amii.ca/updates-insi...

Rich Sutton awarded A.M. Turing Award for Reinforcement Learning Research

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today named Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton as the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic founda...

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Friday 12th January is the deadline to apply for our Assistant Professor in AI + Biological Cognition. Details below: careers.ualberta.ca/Competition/...

We are hiring at UAlberta: Assistant professor in AI + Biological Cognition.  We are looking for a candidate who can play equally well in the AI and Neurosci fields, and contribute to our knowledge of how AI and neuroscience relate! www.careers.ualberta.ca/Competition/... Happy to field Qs by email