Sebastian Schuster
@sebschu.bsky.social
Computational semantics and pragmatics, interpretability and occasionally some psycholinguistics. he/him. 🦝 https://sebschu.com
🚨New Paper!🚨 How do reasoning LLMs handle inferences that have no deterministic answer? We find that they diverge from humans in some significant ways, and fail to reflect human uncertainty… 🧵(1/10)
Our new paper in #PNAS (bit.ly/4fcWfma) presents a surprising finding—when words change meaning, older speakers rapidly adopt the new usage; inter-generational differences are often minor. w/ Michelle Yang, ‪@sivareddyg.bsky.social‬ , @msonderegger.bsky.social‬ and @dallascard.bsky.social‬👇(1/12)
👾 Full-time research assistant position (1 year) with @sebschu.bsky.social and me! 👾 We're looking for someone to join the research agent evaluation team, starting Fall 2025. Application link to be available soon, but feel free to send us your CV and/or come talk to us at #ACL2025. 🧵
Can coding agents autonomously implement AI research extensions? We introduce RExBench, a benchmark that tests if a coding agent can implement a novel experiment based on existing research and code. Finding: Most agents we tested had a low success rate, but there is promise!
