Loved giving my second tutorial on steering vectors at #CardiffNLPWorkshop Lots of enthusiastic participants! @cardiffnlp.bsky.social
Zara Siddique
@zarasiddique.bsky.social
Working on ethics and bias in NLP @CardiffNLP #NLP #NLProc
#CardiffNLPWorkshop off to a flying start with talks from Jennifer Foster and Marianna Apidianaki @cardiffnlp.bsky.social
Pleased to say this has been accepted to ACL System Demos :)
Zara Siddique@zarasiddique.bsky.social · last yr.🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨 Dialz: A Python Toolkit for Steering Vectors ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.06262 Docs: cardiffnlp.github.io/dialz/ Repo: github.com/cardiffnlp/d... A Python package to help you create, apply and visualise steering vectors for anything you want - from sycophancy to bias.
🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨 Dialz: A Python Toolkit for Steering Vectors ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.06262 Docs: cardiffnlp.github.io/dialz/ Repo: github.com/cardiffnlp/d... A Python package to help you create, apply and visualise steering vectors for anything you want - from sycophancy to bias.
New friends! Old friends! Please register if you’d like 2 whole days packed with NLP fun
Cardiff NLP@cardiffnlp.bsky.social · last yr.The registration for the Cardiff #NLP Workshop is open forms.gle/dEE6xucksdsc... 📅Deadline: 6 June. Priority will be given to those who completed the EoI, but we have a few additional places available! Check out the list of amazing speakers and find out more on our website www.cardiffnlpworkshop.org
Love this take: "Society appears far more willing to critically examine and address bias in AI systems than confront human bias directly"
Could AI help us build a more racially just society? | Sanmi Koyejo
We have an opportunity to build systems that don’t just replicate our current inequities. Will we take them?
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I am still in need of emergency reviewers for ARR this cycle for the computational social science track, please DM me if you have capacity 🙏
NEW PAPER 📜 Shifting Perspectives: Steering Vector Ensembles for Robust Bias Mitigation in LLMs ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2503.05371 GitHub: github.com/groovychoons... Extremely Unofficial Blog Post: zarasiddique.com/blog/shiftin...
Shifting Perspectives: Steering Vector Ensembles for Robust Bias Mitigation in LLMs
We present a novel approach to bias mitigation in large language models (LLMs) by applying steering vectors to modify model activations in forward passes. We employ Bayesian optimization to systematic...
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Strongly encourage you to register for our free NLP workshop, previously had speakers from DeepMind, Microsoft, Amazon and top university NLP labs etc. and it’s looking like it’s going to be a great line up this year too. If you can’t make it, please share with others who may be interested!
Cardiff NLP@cardiffnlp.bsky.social · last yr.The 4th Cardiff #NLP Workshop will take place on the 14-15 July 2025! 📍 Cardiff (Wales, UK) ✨Free registration and some accommodation options!✨ ℹ️ For more information: www.cardiffnlpworkshop.org 📝 Join us by completing the expression of interest form: forms.gle/rY1YCDgcjFDt...
We've created a Cardiff NLP Starter Pack to make it easy to follow #NLP researchers at Cardiff Uni.
OpenAI furious DeepSeek might have stolen all the data OpenAI stole from us 🔗 www.404media.co/openai-furio...
Severance episode 2, Traitors final AND this It's a weekend of watching for me 🍿
Joy Buolamwini and Sam Altman: Unmasking the Future of AI
YouTube video by Commonwealth Club World Affairs (CCWA)
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Need to be spending less time on deepseek and more time on deep sleep 😴
Our paper on extraction of metaphoric analogies from literary texts will be presented in COLING ( Wed 11:00 , Atrium, poster) by @camachocollados.bsky.social and Luis Espinosa-Anke. Done with @zarasiddique.bsky.social , @hsuvas.bsky.social and @antypasd.bsky.social
If you ever find yourself getting worried about catastrophic AI risk, remember you can always just turn off the AI at the plug
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this but everything seems to be going down the tubes quite fast. And not fun tubes, like at…
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Wrote a little blog post on my favourite EMNLP papers :) zarasiddique.com/blog/my-favo...
Zara Siddique
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Had fun presenting my favourite #EMNLP2024 papers today at our secret reading group + bonus raccoon pics from Miami 🦝 Will follow up with favourite papers in blog post form soon!
