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chenhaotan.bsky.social
Associate professor at the University of Chicago. Visiting scientist at Abridge. Working on human-centered AI, NLP, CSS. https://chenhaot.com, https://substack.com/@cichicago
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Congratulations to all best poster awards and honorable mentions!

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@chachachen.bsky.social @haokunliu.bsky.social @divingwithorcas.bsky.social present posters on human-AI decision making, hypothesis generation, interpretability and fairness at MMLS 2025!

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Live-blogging is tough, try to do a real live blogging session on the AI 2050 fellow panel session.

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Wei Hu talked about abrupt learning in transformers, what happens during the loss plateau?

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Since @elenal3ai.bsky.social cannot make it, I presented the poster on concept incongruence: arxiv.org/abs/2505.14905

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Han Zhao talked the scalarization problem in multitask learning

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Zahra Ghodsi talked about federated learning with confidence and argued that ML may need to satisfy different requirements that contradict with each other.

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Sijia Liu talks about machine unlearning

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First talk is from @ravenben.bsky.social on Societal Impact and the Ivory Tower: An Adversarial ML Perspective. Reflecting on how we do not ask Should we enough

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

MMLS is happening today at UChicago! @dsi-uchicago.bsky.social

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LLMs excel at finding surprising “needles” in very long documents, but can they detect when information is conspicuously missing? 🫥AbsenceBench🫥 shows that even SoTA LLMs struggle on this task, suggesting that LLMs have trouble perceiving “negative spaces”. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.11440 🧵[1/n]

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

A bit late to announce, but I’m excited to share that I'll be starting as an assistant professor at UMD CS @univofmaryland.bsky.social this August. I'll be recruiting PhD students this upcoming cycle for fall 2026. (And if you're a UMD grad student, sign up for my fall seminar!)

submitted 14 days ago • 13 comments

We are doing our best to encourage engagement during the discussion period. It's moving, even if we wish folks would engage more. 🫵🫵🫵Reviewers, please login, read author responses, consider them, write back! 🫵ACs🫵, we need your help too :)

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Hamilton, Tawn, Firth (2023) "The many routes to the ubiquitous Bradley-Terry model": arxiv.org/abs/2312.13619 Very cool! I've considered writing notes on how BT models can be motivated in myriad ways, with diff motivations leading to diff generalizations. This looks like a fantastic crack at that.

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UB is starting an AI and Society Department. The first job positing is for a postdoc position (F26 or S27 start). engineering.buffalo.edu/home/researc... Please reach out if you have questions!

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

News🗞️ I will return to UT Austin as an Assistant Professor of Linguistics this fall, and join its vibrant community of Computational Linguists, NLPers, and Cognitive Scientists!🤘 Excited to develop ideas about linguistic and conceptual generalization (recruitment details soon!)

submitted 26 days ago • 12 comments

Some interesting work suggesting that recent shocking RL+LLM results are due to incorrect baselines and most of the gains are from better format following: safe-lip-9a8.notion.site/Incorrect-Ba...

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments