Now out in BBS, as commentary on @futrell.bsky.social & @kmahowald.bsky.social's "How linguistics learned to stop worrying and love the language models"! Humans learn much of spoken language structure from speech (not text), & we can study models that do the same. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Grzegorz Chrupała
@grzegorz.chrupala.me
Speech • Language • Learning https://grzegorz.chrupala.me @ Tilburg University
TRUMP: Would you go to Moscow? ZELENSKYY: It is difficult. There are lots of Ukrainian drones there. It's dangerous.
reading through the actual plan now, and it is hard to overstate how incredible funny and insane it is to say "we are gonna threaten you with a fine of 3% of global revenue if you share your most powerful technology with us"
Some notes about my experience learning how to use coding agents for a small research project (still ongoing).
some amazing things happening over on threads — ever since they “shut down CERN”
Meet SpudCell, a synthetic cell made from lifeless ingredients that feeds, grows, divides, and experiences selection. If it doesn't have all the hallmarks of life, it has a lot! Here's my story. Gift link: nyti.ms/4vCbTih
New paper! w/ @cocoscilab.bsky.social🧵Can large language models reason flexibly, or have they learned what reasoning looks like? We introduce a new paradigm to test this question—the riddle riddle—and find that humans and LLMs show opposite patterns of performance. 📜
Human intelligence is fundamentally a collective intelligence. We solve complex problems by participating in a vast cultural network that builds upon ideas across generations. I believe the strongest AI systems will become a collective intelligence, too.
Introducing Sakana Fugu: A full multi-agent orchestration system accessible via a single model API. Our ‘Fugu Ultra’ model matches the performance of Fable and Mythos, delivering frontier capability without the risk of export controls. Try it: sakana.ai/fugu 🐡
It was a privilege to host the workshop on the Evaluation and Interpretability for Spoken Language Systems today at MindLabs in Tilburg. Keynote by @wzuidema.bsky.social and contributions from @gaofeishen.com, @yuanyuanzhang.bsky.social, @mdhk.net, @cpouw.bsky.social and @hmohebbi.bsky.social
We're looking for a new colleague at @amlab.bsky.social: Assistant Professor in AI for Science 🔬🤖 World-class ML research, Amsterdam's thriving AI ecosystem (ELLIS, startups, big tech), and some of the best academic labor conditions in Europe ❤️ Deadline: May 30 👉 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — Assistant Professor in AI for Science (AI4Science)
<p><span>Are you passionate about advancing Machine Learning by integrating insights from the natural sciences? Are you eager to bridge the 3rd (<em><span>computational</span></em>) and 4th (<em><span...
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On May 8, Stichting Open Spraaktechnologie organizes a workshop on evaluation and interpretability of spoken language systems. Featuring @wzuidema.bsky.social, @hmohebbi.bsky.social, @gaofeishen.com, @yuanyuanzhang.bsky.social, @mdhk.net & @cpouw.bsky.social openspraaktechnologie.org/nieuws/works...
Want to join the Multilingual Minds and Machines Meeting, June 22-23 in Nijmegen? Registration is open until 1 May! mmmm2026.github.io
🚀 #ALPS2026 is officially open in the French Alps! A unique winter school combining cutting-edge NLP research with an exceptional setting for collaboration and exchange: 🔹 55 participants from around the world 🔹 77% PhD students 🔹 7 international speakers from Canada, Denmark, France, and the UK
Proud of @chiaramanna.bsky.social and Argentina Anna Rescigno who had their papers accepted at #LREC2026: 👏Manna et al.: on gender bias in decoder-only arxiv.org/abs/2603.17952 👏Rescigno et al.: on ConGA - a framework for contextual gender annotation in MT arxiv.org/abs/2603.17962
Gender Disambiguation in Machine Translation: Diagnostic Evaluation in Decoder-Only Architectures
While Large Language Models achieve state-of-the-art results across a wide range of NLP tasks, they remain prone to systematic biases. Among these, gender bias is particularly salient in MT, due to sy...
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Opowiadanie napisane dla mojej córki, luźno oparte na prawdziwych wydarzeniach. pieszo.substack.com/p/tajemica-g...
Tajemica górskiego jeziora
English translation
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BlackboxNLP is back once again at EMNLP'26! Very happy to be part of the team again, and excited for our new reproducibility track! Check it out ⬇️
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!
📢 PhD position in Developmental Language Modelling (PLZ RT) What can human language acquisition teach us about training language models? Join us as a PhD! mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/fully-funded-4-year-phd-position-developmental-language @carorowland.bsky.social @mpi-nl.bsky.social
'Tis the season to preprint BBS commentaries; I'm happy to share ours too! 🎄✨ The textual basis of current LLMs causes trouble, but linguistically relevant insights *can* be found in systems modelling the more natural form of human spoken language: the speech signal itself. arxiv.org/abs/2512.14506
If you're in the Netherlands or nearby, check out the Fourth Dutch Speech Tech Day. I'll be there. www.eventbrite.com/e/4th-dutch-...
4th Dutch Speech Tech Day
We are thrilled to announce that the 4th Dutch Speech Tech Day will take place on Monday, February 2, 2026, at Beeld & Geluid in Hilversum!
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Big news! 🗞️ I defended my PhD thesis "From Insights to Impact: Actionable Interpretability for Neural Machine Translation" @rug.nl @gronlp.bsky.social I'm grateful to my advisors @arianna-bis.bsky.social @malvinanissim.bsky.social and to everyone who played a role in this journey! 🎉 #PhDone
Had such a great time presenting our tutorial on Interpretability Techniques for Speech Models at #Interspeech2025! 🔍 For anyone looking for an introduction to the topic, we've now uploaded all materials to the website: interpretingdl.github.io/speech-inter...
Interpretability Techniques for Speech Models — Tutorial @ Interspeech 2025
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And that's the whole team behind the tutorial on interpretability techniques for speech models at IS2025.
Roger Moore reminds Interspeech audience that speech is not audible text. Text is a technology.
And that's the whole team behind the tutorial on interpretability techniques for speech models at IS2025.
Come join our tutorial in Rotterdam!
The @interspeech.bsky.social early registration deadline is coming up in a few days! Want to learn how to analyze the inner workings of speech processing models? 🔍 Check out the programme for our tutorial: interpretingdl.github.io/speech-inter... & sign up through the conference registration form!
Feature attribution is always tricky. We show just how tricky it is for speech models.
I am excited to announce that my paper "On the reliability of feature attribution methods for speech classification" has been accepted to #Interspeech2025! Co-authors: @hmohebbi.bsky.social, Arianna Bisazza, Afra Alishahi, @grzegorz.chrupala.me Find the preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2505.16406
The notifications are out and we have accepted a record-breaking number of papers! Of the 2332 papers sent for review, 1163 were accepted! Acceptance rate: 49.87% ⚠️ Camera-ready deadline: May 31! 🗓️ Registration opens soon 📨 Subscribe to our newsletter www.interspeech2025.org/newsletter
Looking forward!
Happy to share that in a few weeks ill move to Tilburg University as an Associate Professor at the Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence www.tilburguniversity.edu/about/school... Super excited about this! I want to thank Donders/Radboud and many other people for their support!