I’ll be in San Diego for #ACL2026 and presenting this work at @conll-conf.bsky.social #CoNLL2026 on July 3rd! Feel free to reach out if you want to chat!

James Michaelov @ ACL 🌴@jamichaelov.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Excited to announce that I’ll be presenting a paper at #NeurIPS this year! Reach out if you’re interested in chatting about LM training dynamics, architectural differences, shortcuts/heuristics, or anything at the CogSci/NLP/AI interface in general! #Neurips2025

Seems like a good time to share our new preprint about model openness! (with @catherinearnett.bsky.social @tylerachang.bsky.social Pamela D. Rivière, Samuel M. Taylor @camrobjones.bsky.social @seantrott.bsky.social @rplevy.bsky.social Ben Bergen, and Micah Altman): arxiv.org/abs/2603.26539

Had a great first day at #HSP2026 yesterday! Looking forward to presenting on the relationship between reading time, n-grams, and language model scaling at the 12.10-2pm poster session today!

Presenting this at the poster session this morning (11-2pm) at #5109

James Michaelov @ ACL 🌴@jamichaelov.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Looking forward to #NeurIPS25 this week 🏝️! I'll be presenting at Poster Session 3 (11-2 on Thursday). Feel free to reach out!

Looking forward to #NeurIPS25 this week 🏝️! I'll be presenting at Poster Session 3 (11-2 on Thursday). Feel free to reach out!

James Michaelov @ ACL 🌴@jamichaelov.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Excited to announce that I’ll be presenting a paper at #NeurIPS this year! Reach out if you’re interested in chatting about LM training dynamics, architectural differences, shortcuts/heuristics, or anything at the CogSci/NLP/AI interface in general! #Neurips2025

Excited to announce that I’ll be presenting a paper at #NeurIPS this year! Reach out if you’re interested in chatting about LM training dynamics, architectural differences, shortcuts/heuristics, or anything at the CogSci/NLP/AI interface in general! #Neurips2025

I’m in Vienna all week for @aclmeeting.bsky.social and I’ll be presenting this paper on Wednesday at 11am (Poster Session 4 in HALL X4 X5)! Reach out if you want to chat about multilingual NLP, tokenizers, and open models!

Catherine Arnett@catherinearnett.bsky.social · last yr.

✨New pre-print✨ Crosslingual transfer allows models to leverage their representations for one language to improve performance on another language. We characterize the acquisition of shared representations in order to better understand how and when crosslingual transfer happens.

New paper accepted at ACL Findings! TL;DR: While language models generally predict sentences describing possible events to have a higher probability than impossible (animacy-violating) ones, this is not robust for generally unlikely events and is impacted by semantic relatedness. 1/3

My paper with @tylerachang.bsky.social and @jamichaelov.bsky.social will appear at #ACL2025NLP! The updated preprint is available on arxiv. I look forward to chatting about bilingual models in Vienna!

Catherine Arnett@catherinearnett.bsky.social · last yr.

✨New pre-print✨ Crosslingual transfer allows models to leverage their representations for one language to improve performance on another language. We characterize the acquisition of shared representations in order to better understand how and when crosslingual transfer happens.

✨New pre-print✨ Crosslingual transfer allows models to leverage their representations for one language to improve performance on another language. We characterize the acquisition of shared representations in order to better understand how and when crosslingual transfer happens.

With all the new people here on Bluesky, I think it’s a good time to (re-)introduce myself. I’m a postdoc at MIT carrying out research at the intersection of the cognitive science of language and AI. Here are some of the things I’ve worked on in the last year 🧵:

Excited to be at #EMNLP #EMNLP2024 this year! Especially interested in chatting about the intersection of cognitive science/psycholinguistics and AI/NLP, training dynamics, robustness/reliability, meaning, and evaluation

James Michaelov @ ACL 🌴@jamichaelov.bsky.social · 2y ago

Also, I’m going to be attending EMNLP next week - reach out if you want to meet/chat

With all the new people here on Bluesky, I think it’s a good time to (re-)introduce myself. I’m a postdoc at MIT carrying out research at the intersection of the cognitive science of language and AI. Here are some of the things I’ve worked on in the last year 🧵:

In the interest of actually posting about my research on here: We know that the predictions that language models make are similar to those that humans make as we process language, but how similar? aclanthology.org/2022.conll-1... 🧵:

Looking forward to the final day of EMMLP! Let me know if you want to chat about our Findings paper: “Emergent inabilities? Inverse scaling over the course of pretraining” arxiv.org/abs/2305.14681 #EMNLP #EMNLP2023

Presenting this at the 2pm poster session today! #EMNLP #EMNLP2023

James Michaelov @ ACL 🌴@jamichaelov.bsky.social · 3y ago

Excited to present our paper "Structural Priming Demonstrates Abstract Grammatical Representations in Multilingual Language Models" at EMNLP next week! arxiv.org/abs/2311.09194

Excited to present our paper "Structural Priming Demonstrates Abstract Grammatical Representations in Multilingual Language Models" at EMNLP next week! arxiv.org/abs/2311.09194

Structural Priming Demonstrates Abstract Grammatical...

Abstract grammatical knowledge - of parts of speech and grammatical patterns - is key to the capacity for linguistic generalization in humans. But how abstract is grammatical knowledge in large...

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