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841io.bsky.social
Associate Professor, CMU. Researcher, Google. Evaluation and design of information retrieval and recommendation systems, including their societal impacts.
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Did you know? Gestures used to express universal concepts—like wishing for luck—vary DRAMATICALLY across cultures? 🤞means luck in US but deeply offensive in Vietnam 🚨 📣 We introduce MC-SIGNS, a test bed to evaluate how LLMs/VLMs/T2I handle such nonverbal behavior! 📜: arxiv.org/abs/2502.17710

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🎉Microsoft Research New England is hiring a predoctoral research assistant to work with @nancybaym.bsky.social, Tarleton Gillespie, and @marylgray.bsky.social on issues related to the dynamics of technology and society. 🎉 socialmediacollective.org/2025/01/22/s...

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Join our team at Mila and help build trustworthy AI! We're hiring Postdocs & Interns to work on a cutting-edge project tackling misinformation. Combine LLMs, RAG, and temporal graphs to assess online credibility. PhD or strong CS/ML background needed. Apply here: forms.gle/ATdvNcZxYFcd...

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🎉students studying AI and culture🎉 if you had an audience with senior folks from computer science, social science, and the humanities studying AI and culture, what questions would you ask them about the field, careers, skill sets, etc? students only! forms.gle/tZY5tJW2gqVd...

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📢 We are hiring a postdoctoral fellow in ML and Environmental Data Science! 📈🌏 This interdisciplinary position is co-hosted by the CS department 💻 and the Environmental Data Science Innovation and Inclusion Lab (ESIIL) 🌱 at CU Boulder 🦬. Deadline coming up soon! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work with me at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for creative students with interests in #NLP and #CulturalAnalytics. Boulder is a lovely college town 30 minutes from Denver and 1 hour from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎 Apply by December 15th!

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same but retrieval and #SIGIR at #NeurIPS and #NLProc conferences.

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🎊 Excited to share the program for our Algorithmic Fairness through the lens of Metrics and Evaluation workshop at #NeurIPS2024! 📆 Join us Sat, Dec 14 for a day full of discussions on all things fairness and bias! We have a great program planned. To start, see our amazing list of speakers:👇

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

📆 AFME workshop: Sat, Dec 14 in room 111-112 Join our expert panellists* for a timely discussion on “Rethinking fairness in the era of large language models”!! * @jessicaschrouff.bsky.social, @sethlazar.org, Sanmi Koyejo, Hoda Heidari

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Heading to #NeurIPS2024 to present our ‘Fair RAG’ paper at the #AFME2024 workshop! Let's talk about RAG, Information Retrieval, and Fairness. Honored that our paper was selected as one of the Top 5 Spotlight Papers! 🎉 Let’s connect and chat! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2409.11598

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

Today we'll be presenting the Tutorial on Retrieval-Enhanced Machine Learning (REML). Come by to learn about the emerging design patterns in this space and see how to use retrieval beyond RAG. In collaboration w/ the amazing @841io.bsky.social @teknology.bsky.social Alireza Salemi and Hamed Zamani.

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

Mat is not on 🦋—posting on his behalf! It's time to revisit common assumptions in IR! Embeddings have improved drastically, but mainstream IR evals have stagnated since MSMARCO + BEIR. We ask: on private or tricky IR tasks, are rerankers better? Surely, reranking many docs is best?

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🎉folks at EMNLP🎉 check out @shaily99.bsky.social’s work on the extrinsic evaluation of cultural competence at today’s poster session.

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Our group is hiring a postdoc. Applications due Nov 22. It’s a sweetheart job, self-directed research, mentoring, great colleagues and so many opportunities to learn new things. socialmediacollective.org/2024/10/07/s...

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