While I’m attending @eaclmeeting.bsky.social virtually, be sure to catch Pedro's presentation at the 11:30–13:00 session this Wednesday in S. Le Riad! He’ll be discussing our recent collaboration: 📄 "Persistent Personas? Role-Playing, Instruction Following, and Safety in Extended Interactions"

CIS, LMU Munich@cislmu.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Persistent Personas? Role-Playing, Instruction Following, and Safety in Extended Interactions [Oral]: Wed. 25 Mar - S. Le Riad @ 11:30-13:00 @pedrohluzaraujo.bsky.social , @mhedderich.bsky.social , @amodarressi.bsky.social , Hinrich Schütze, Benjamin Roth bsky.app/profile/pedr...

Going to Rabat for #EACL2026? So are we! 🇲🇦 We are bringing a packed schedule of papers, talks, and workshops. Check out our lineup below and come say hi! 👋 🧵 #NLProc @eaclmeeting.bsky.social

📢 New paper accepted at @eaclmeeting.bsky.social 2026: Persistent Personas? Role-Playing, Instruction Following, and Safety in Extended Interactions with @mhedderich.bsky.social @amodarressi.bsky.social Hinrich Schuetze & Benjamin Roth. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2512.12775

Principled Personas: Defining and Measuring the Intended Effects of Persona Prompting on Task Performance

Expert persona prompting -- assigning roles such as expert in math to language models -- is widely used for task improvement. However, prior work shows mixed results on its effectiveness, and does not...

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🧑‍🔬I’m recruiting PhD students in Natural Language Processing @unileipzig.bsky.social Computer Science, together with @scadsai.bsky.social! Topics include, but aren’t limited to: 🔎Linguistic Interpretability 🌍Multilingual Evaluation 📖Computational Typology Please share! #NLProc #NLP

CIS & MaiNLP Group picture at EMNLP 2025! 🤩 🤗 (1/3) While I sadly 🥲 won't be at EMNLP this year myself, please do reach out to any of our members for a chat if you are interested in our research! We also co-organize and participate in some great workshops at EMNLP:

Excited to be here in Suzhou for #EMNLP2025! I’ll be presenting “ImpliRet”, check out our poster on Friday Nov. 7th at 14:00. If you’re into long-context, IR, or just want to chat, come *Pay Ali* a visit 😁 Link to thread: x.com/zeinabtaghav...

Leaving Vancouver after ICML’s closing fireworks 😁🎆 Heading to Toronto for a few days, then off to @aclmeeting.bsky.social to present: "Collapse of Dense Retrievers" A work by @mohsen-fayyaz.bsky.social that I was fortunate to collaborate on. Also co-presenting two other papers…🧵 [1/4]

Ali Modarressi@amodarressi.bsky.social · last yr.

📄 Collapse of Dense Retrievers Accepted to #ACL2025 main conference 🎉🎉 In this paper we uncover major vulnerabilities in dense retrievers like Contriever, showing they favor: 📌 Shorter docs 📌 Early positions 📌 Repeated entities 📌 Literal matches ...all while ignoring the answer's presence!

I’ll be at @icmlconf.bsky.social next week presenting NoLiMa! Poster on Tue July 15, 4:30–7pm (E-2312). Happy to grab a coffee and chat about long-context, memory, research, or just to catch up. I’ll be in Toronto for a couple of days after the conference, let me know if you’re around!

MemLLM: Finetuning LLMs to Use Explicit Read-Write Memory Ali Modarressi, Abdullatif Köksal, Ayyoob Imani, Mohsen Fayyaz, Hinrich Schuetze Action editor: Greg Durrett https://openreview.net/forum?id=dghM7sOudh #memory #memorizing #memllm

📄 Collapse of Dense Retrievers Accepted to #ACL2025 main conference 🎉🎉 In this paper we uncover major vulnerabilities in dense retrievers like Contriever, showing they favor: 📌 Shorter docs 📌 Early positions 📌 Repeated entities 📌 Literal matches ...all while ignoring the answer's presence!