With a high volume of submissions this year, we're recruiting additional reviewers for BlackboxNLP 2026! 🗓 Review deadline: August 17 (AoE) 🗓 Review load: 2-4 papers 📝 Sign up: forms.gle/tha166UQZYqX...

There are many things machine translation still can't do. Help us steer the next direction by contributing hard-to-translate inputs (and be on a cool paper).

Tomorrow (Monday, 6th), I am presenting Interpreto at ACL San Diego! 🛬 Interpreto is an open-source library for interpreting language models (attributions, probes, SAEs...). I will be in Demo Session E: Grand Hall from 11 am to 1 pm. 📺Look for the TVs, and you will find me!

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Guess which AI companies tend to make models that exhibit corporate loyalty

We (Lennart and Cas) started wondering a few months ago whether popular frontier AI models tend to exhibit corporate loyalties. In a pre-registered experiment, we elicited open-ended discussions from 21 models from 7 companies on 206 negative news stories using 25 prompt templates to assess how favorably each model discusses controversies from each company. The results: ---> Strong evidence (p<10^-5) that models from 4 companies tend to differentially downplay company controversies. ---> No evidence for models from 3 companies. Your task: Guess which

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Yesterday, with @fannyjrd.bsky.social we were delighted to share how explainability can be used for fairness in a @facct.bsky.social tutorial!! We loved the questions and interactions! Check Fanny's thread for the link. The conference is really fun thus far! Thanks to the organizers!

Fanny Jourdan@fannyjrd.bsky.social · last mo.

Today, with @antoninpoche.bsky.social, we had the pleasure of presenting a tutorial at @facct.bsky.social on how explainability can be used as a practical tool for fairness analysis. 1/4

I am currently in Quebec city, I will be in Montreal next week for FAccT and the week after in San Diego for ACL. Don't hesitate to reach out to meet and talk about interpretability & co 😀

NLP reviews suck! But why is not clear– @aclrollingreview.bsky.social provides *a lot* of guidance for how to review, but in that, first principles get lost. So @adamlopez.bsky.social and I have written down some of our thoughts on first principles.

The Missing First Principles of Reviewing for ACL

Zeerak Talat & Adam Lopez, University of Edinburgh

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I forgot to say that I am currently in Berlin till the end of the month. 🇩🇪 If you want to have a beer/tea, please send a message!🍻 I am visiting the XplaiNLP group (@nfel.bsky.social...) at @tuberlin.bsky.social 🤗 Next Thursday, I will talk about Concept-based explanations at @dfki.bsky.social

Can Persona Prompting function as a lens on social reasoning? In our #EACL2026 work (led by @jingyng.bsky.social), we investigate how it impacts the quality of model outputs and rationales. 🗞️ arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2601.20757 Come and find us (Jing, Moritz, Elisabeth, myself) in 🇲🇦 Rabat next week!

BlackboxNLP will be co-located with EMNLP 2026 in 🇭🇺 Budapest 🇭🇺 this October! This edition will feature a special reproducibility track, investigating generalization and robustness of established results from interpretability research 👷‍♂️ Stay tuned for more details!

🔥Super excited to share our new demo website for 🪄Interpreto! 🖼️It is basically an explanation gallery showcasing attribution and concept-based explanations for classification and generation. 🎮Play with it: for-sight-ai.github.io/interpreto-d... We will keep improving it, so stay tuned!

Pleasently surprised to see our blog post trending on HuggingFace 🤗 Well, @fannyjrd.bsky.social did a great job! 🚀 If you missed it, check it out: huggingface.co/blog/Fannyjr... It's a didactic presentation of our new library: 🪄 Interpreto: github.com/FOR-sight-ai...

It was an honor to be part of this awesome project! Interpreto is a great up-and-coming tool for concept-based interpretability analyses of NLP models, check it out!

Antonin Poché@antoninpoche.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🔥I am super excited for the official release of an open-source library we've been working on for about a year! 🪄interpreto is an interpretability toolbox for HF language models🤗. In both generation and classification! Why do you need it, and for what? 1/8 (links at the end)

🎉 I’m thrilled to announce the release of Interpreto: a user-friendly, open-source toolbox to make NLP model interpretability accessible, practical, and rigorous. github.com/FOR-sight-ai... 🧵1/5

🔥I am super excited for the official release of an open-source library we've been working on for about a year! 🪄interpreto is an interpretability toolbox for HF language models🤗. In both generation and classification! Why do you need it, and for what? 1/8 (links at the end)

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🕳️🐇 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙖𝙗𝙗𝙞𝙩 𝙃𝙪𝙡𝙡 – 𝙋𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙄 (𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝐼𝐼 𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑤) 𝗔𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗢𝘃𝟮, one of vision’s most important foundation models. And today is Part I, buckle up, we're exploring some of its most charming features. :)

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🔥 I am super excited to be presenting a poster at #ACL2025 in Vienna next week! 🌏 This is my first big conference! 📅 Tuesday morning, 10:30–12:00, during Poster Session 2. 💬 If you're around, feel free to message me. I would be happy to connect, chat, or have a drink!

🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Everyone loves causal interp. It’s coherently defined! It makes testable predictions about mechanistic interventions! But what if we had a different objective: predicting model behavior not under mechanistic interventions, but on unseen input data?

🔥ConSim has been accepted to the #ACL2025 main conference! 🙏 Thanks again to my amazing co-authors: @alon_jacovi, Agustin Picard, @VictorBoutin, and @Fannyjrd_. Work done in DEEL and FOR from IRT St Exupéry and @ANITI_Toulouse. See you in Vienna 📅 For more information, check out my last post:

Antonin Poché@antoninpoche.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚀 Thrilled to share our new paper (the first of my PhD)! How can we compare concept-based #XAI methods in #NLProc? ConSim (arxiv.org/abs/2501.05855) provides the answer. Read the thread to find out which method is the most interpretable! 🧵1/7

BlackboxNLP is back! 💥 Happy to be part of the organizing team for this year, and super excited for our new shared task using the excellent MIB Benchmark, check it out! blackboxnlp.github.io/2025/task/

BlackboxNLP@blackboxnlp.bsky.social · last yr.

BlackboxNLP, the leading workshop on interpretability and analysis of language models, will be co-located with EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou this November! 📆 This edition will feature a new shared task on circuits/causal variable localization in LMs, details here: blackboxnlp.github.io/2025/task

🎉 Our Actionable Interpretability workshop has been accepted to #ICML2025! 🎉 > Follow @actinterp.bsky.social > Website actionable-interpretability.github.io @talhaklay.bsky.social @anja.re @mariusmosbach.bsky.social @sarah-nlp.bsky.social @iftenney.bsky.social Paper submission deadline: May 9th!

Hundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked. The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...

Can we understand the mechanisms of a frontier AI model? 📝 Blog post: www.anthropic.com/research/tra... 🧪 "Biology" paper: transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribu... ⚙️ Methods paper: transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribu... Featuring basic multi-step reasoning, planning, introspection and more!

Jawdropping. You would expect this in a dictatorship, not the United States. This country is unrecognizable.

What will be the linchpin for AI dominance? Read our NSF/OSTP recommendations written with Goodfire's Tom McGrath tommcgrath.github.io, Transluce's Sarah Schwettmann cogconfluence.com, MIT's Dylan Hadfield-Menell @dhadfieldmenell.bsky.social TLDR; Dominance comes from **interpretability** 🧵 ↘️

An assembly of 18 European companies, labs, and universities have banded together to launch 🇪🇺 EuroBERT! It's a state-of-the-art multilingual encoder for 15 European languages, designed to be finetuned for retrieval, classification, etc. Details in 🧵

Super excited to welcome @gsarti.com in Toulouse with @fannyjrd.bsky.social and Thomas Mullor ! We will be working on a new library for interpretability 😀

Gabriele Sarti@gsarti.com · last yr.

Finally in Toulouse 🇫🇷 where I'll collaborate with @fannyjrd.bsky.social @antoninpoche.bsky.social and the DEEL/FOR teams at IRT & ANITI on an exciting interpretability project. Stay tuned! 🔍

🚀 Thrilled to share our new paper (the first of my PhD)! How can we compare concept-based #XAI methods in #NLProc? ConSim (arxiv.org/abs/2501.05855) provides the answer. Read the thread to find out which method is the most interpretable! 🧵1/7