Andy Liu

@andyliu.bsky.social

phd type things @ cmu lti andyjliu.github.io

🚀 Apply to CMU LTI’s Summer 2026 “Language Technology for All” internship! 🎓 Open to pre‑doctoral students new to language tech (non‑CS backgrounds welcome). 🔬 12–14 weeks in‑person in Pittsburgh — travel + stipend paid. 💸 Deadline: Feb 20, 11:59pm ET. Apply → forms.gle/cUu8g6wb27Hs...

CMU LTI Summer 2026 Internship Program Application

We are looking for applicants for the Carnegie Mellon University Language Technology Institute's Summer 2026 "Language Technology for All" internship program. The main goal of this internship is to pr...

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🚨New paper: Reward Models (RMs) are used to align LLMs, but can they be steered toward user-specific value/style preferences? With EVALUESTEER, we find even the best RMs we tested exhibit their own value/style biases, and are unable to align with a user >25% of the time. 🧵

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🚨New Paper: LLM developers aim to align models with values like helpfulness or harmlessness. But when these conflict, which values do models choose to support? We introduce ConflictScope, a fully-automated evaluation pipeline that reveals how models rank values under conflict. (📷 xkcd)

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looking for 2025 book recs! things i've previously liked, for reference - nonfiction: the structure of scientific revolutions, cybernetic revolutionaries, seeing like a state fiction: stories of your life and others, one hundred years of solitude, project hail mary, recursion