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)

Age doesn't matter to pick up new word usages. The pronunciation may sound odd across generations but not the semantics 👴👵👨👩

Dallas Card@dallascard.bsky.social · last yr.

I am delighted to share our new #PNAS paper, with @grvkamath.bsky.social @msonderegger.bsky.social and @sivareddyg.bsky.social, on whether age matters for the adoption of new meanings. That is, as words change meaning, does the rate of adoption vary across generations? www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

🗓️ Save the date! It's official: The VLMs4All Workshop at #CVPR2025 will be held on June 12th! Get ready for a full day of speakers, posters, and a panel discussion on making VLMs more geo-diverse and culturally aware 🌐 Check out the schedule below!

Incredibly proud of my students @adadtur.bsky.social and Gaurav Kamath for winning a SAC award at #NAACL2025 for their work on assessing how LLMs model constituent shifts.

Language Models Largely Exhibit Human-like Constituent Ordering Preferences

Though English sentences are typically inflexible vis-à-vis word order, constituents often show far more variability in ordering. One prominent theory presents the notion that constituent ordering is ...

arxiv.org

Mila - Institut québécois d'IA@mila-quebec.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to Mila members @adadtur.bsky.social , Gaurav Kamath and @sivareddyg.bsky.social for their SAC award at NAACL! Check out Ada's talk in Session I: Oral/Poster 6. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.05670

Great work from labmates on LLMs vs humans regarding linguistic preferences: You know when a sentence kind of feels off e.g. "I met at the park the man". So in what ways do LLMs follow these human intuitions?

Mila - Institut québécois d'IA@mila-quebec.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to Mila members @adadtur.bsky.social , Gaurav Kamath and @sivareddyg.bsky.social for their SAC award at NAACL! Check out Ada's talk in Session I: Oral/Poster 6. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.05670

List of #SafetyGuaranteedLLMs talks on Monday Apr 14 2025 PDT. Speakers @rogergrosse.bsky.social Boaz Barak, Ethan Perez, Georgios Piliouras

Siva Reddy@sivareddyg.bsky.social · last yr.

The most exciting event on LLM safety is happening this week at @simonsinstitute.bsky.social with many excellent speakers. Organized by @yoshuabengio.bsky.social et al. Join us in person or virtual. In collaboration with @ivado.bsky.social. More details here: simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/sa...

The most exciting event on LLM safety is happening this week at @simonsinstitute.bsky.social with many excellent speakers. Organized by @yoshuabengio.bsky.social et al. Join us in person or virtual. In collaboration with @ivado.bsky.social. More details here: simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/sa...

Though in-person registration is now full, you can still register to view the private livestream for next week's workshop on Safety-Guaranteed LLMs, co-organized with @ivado.bsky.social. We'll be posting live here as well. simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/sa...

Never been part of a project like this before - it was a very rewarding+unique experience! Everyone in the lab contributed different chapters and it was much more exploratory than your average phd project. My chapter studied R1's reasoning on "image generation/editing" (via ASCII) 🧵👇 1/N

Sara Vera Marjanovic@saravera.bsky.social · last yr.

Models like DeepSeek-R1 🐋 mark a fundamental shift in how LLMs approach complex problems. In our preprint on R1 Thoughtology, we study R1’s reasoning chains across a variety of tasks; investigating its capabilities, limitations, and behaviour. 🔗: mcgill-nlp.github.io/thoughtology/

I will be giving a talk about this work @SimonsInstitute tomorrow (Apr 2nd 3PM PT). Join us, both in-person or virtually. simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/fu...

Siva Reddy@sivareddyg.bsky.social · last yr.

Introducing the DeepSeek-R1 Thoughtology -- the most comprehensive study of R1 reasoning chains/thoughts ✨. Probably everything you need to know about R1 thoughts. If we missed something, please let us know.

Introducing the DeepSeek-R1 Thoughtology -- the most comprehensive study of R1 reasoning chains/thoughts ✨. Probably everything you need to know about R1 thoughts. If we missed something, please let us know.

Sara Vera Marjanovic@saravera.bsky.social · last yr.

Models like DeepSeek-R1 🐋 mark a fundamental shift in how LLMs approach complex problems. In our preprint on R1 Thoughtology, we study R1’s reasoning chains across a variety of tasks; investigating its capabilities, limitations, and behaviour. 🔗: mcgill-nlp.github.io/thoughtology/

A bit of a mess around the conflict of COLM with the ARR (and to lesser degree ICML) reviews release. We feel this is creating a lot of pressure and uncertainty. So, we are pushing our deadlines: Abstracts due March 22 AoE (+48hr) Full papers due March 28 AoE (+24hr) Plz RT 🙏

As someone who has tried to make even basic image editing work in my research (e.g. "move cup to left of table"): Gemini's new editing capabilities are seriously impressive! Playing around with it is quite fun... Edit 1: "edit the image to contain 3 more people"

Why do LLMs have a hard time aligning, while humans are better at it? 🌟The answer lies in the lack of a societal alignment framework for LLMs 🌍. Incredible effort by @karstanczak.bsky.social in pulling views from multiple disciplines and experts in these fields. arxiv.org/abs/2503.00069

Karolina Stańczak@karstanczak.bsky.social · last yr.

📢New Paper Alert!🚀 Human alignment balances social expectations, economic incentives, and legal frameworks. What if LLM alignment worked the same way?🤔 Our latest work explores how social, economic, and contractual alignment can address incomplete contracts in LLM alignment🧵

How to Get Your LLM to Generate Challenging Problems for Evaluation? 🤔 Check out our CHASE recipe. A highly relevant problem given that most human-curated datasets are crushed within days.

Arkil Patel@arkil.bsky.social · last yr.

Presenting ✨ 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐒𝐄: 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 ✨ Work w/ fantastic advisors Dima Bahdanau and @sivareddyg.bsky.social Thread 🧵:

Finally it's handy that all my twitter posts got migrated here to bsky: I'll be presenting AURORA at @neuripsconf.bsky.social on Wednesday! Come by to discuss text-guided editing (and why imo it is more interesting than image generation), world modeling, evals and vision-and-language reasoning

Benno Krojer@bennokrojer.bsky.social · 2y ago

AURORA 🌌 is now accepted as a Spotlight at NeurIPS 🥂 We wondered if a model can do *controlled* video generation but in a *single* step? So we built a dataset+model for “taking actions” on images via editing, or what you could call single-step controlled video gen

Congratulations @andreasmadsen.bsky.social on successfully defending your PhD ⚔️ 🎉🎉 Grateful to you for stretching my interests into interpretability and engaging me with exciting deas. Good luck with your mission on building faithfully interpretable models.

Andreas Madsen@andreasmadsen.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’m thrilled to share that I’ve finished my Ph.D. at Mila and Polytechnique Montreal. For the last 4.5 years, I have worked on creating new faithfulness-centric paradigms for NLP Interpretability. Read my vision for the future of interpretability in our new position paper: arxiv.org/abs/2405.05386

Stages of #ICLR reviewing: Stage 1: 😍 I hope I learn something new Stage 2: 🤗 I hope I am constructive enough while being critical. Submits review Stage 3: 🤯 Receives 5 page response + revision with many new pages Stage 4: 😱 Crap, how do I get out of this? Stage 5: 😵‍💫 What year is it?

I wrote some thoughts on how to build good LM benchmarks: ofir.io/How-to-Build...

@sivareddyg.bsky.social Which platforms? Maybe consider @buffer.com

It's beautiful to start from scratch sometimes 😇

Creating a 🦋 starter pack for people working in IR/RAG: go.bsky.app/88ULgwY I can’t seem to find everyone though, help definitely appreciated to fill this out (DM or comment)!

I find it unintuitive that user handles have to be appended with bsky.social? Can we get rid of it?

Bluesky

Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.

bsky.social

This space has good vibes and clear skies 🌞. Any tips on how to crosspost across platforms for the time being without manually copy pasting?