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There is a postdoctoral position for research on adversarial robustness at UBC, supervised by Mathias Lecuyer (@mathias-lecuyer.bsky.social), Geoff Pleiss, and Nidhi Hegde. Please spread the word! 🇨🇦 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Customizing ggplot for yourself or your organization - slides and #RStats code from @pewresearch.org 's #NICAR25 presentation github.com/pewresearch/...

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Another common suggestion I gave to almost all ICML papers I reviewed this time: whenever you write (CS/ML style) theory, please ensure all variables are defined. Although I can complete it with educated guess for most times, it's not always the case.

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It's frustrating to see increasingly many false references in papers I'm reviewing. The authors write "claim about X (Y et al., 2019)" in the paper---as someone who has carefully read Y et al. (2019) and has done follow-up work, I'm confident there's no claim about X at all in it. #AmReviewing

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The experiment I'm most excited about in this work is the disentanglement between language and domain. Even adding a semantically irrelevant sentence in another language to the demonstration---which just simply increases linguistic diversity---helps improve the performance!

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Somewhat surprisingly, high-resource languages with non-Latin alphabets serve as better demonstrations than English. Increasing linguistic diversity in LLMs is not only about linguistic diversity itself---it's also about performance!

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

📜New analysis paper on the surprising effectiveness of multilingual chain of thought. Linguistic diversity in prompts helps solve problems in low-resource languages, even if there's no alphabetical overlap between the demonstrations and the target language.

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[Update & Hiring] Last month, I joined Search and Recommendation Science team at Yahoo! as a Research Scientist🚀 Our team is hiring another Research Scientist🚀🚀 Send me a DM if you have strong research background in deep learning and NLP and want to be considered for the position🙋🙋🙋

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ACL Rolling Review and the EMNLP PCs are seeking input on the current state of reviewing for *CL conferences. We would love to get your feedback on the current process and how it could be improved. To contribute your ideas and opinions, please follow this link! forms.office.com/r/P68uvwXYqfemn

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This reminds me of the (rare) failure cases of training/finetuning NNs. Sometimes we got quite poor results without much reason. Restarting with another random seed magically works. Ideas of this work could be the key to understanding what's going on.

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Ever looked at LLM skill emergence and thought 70B parameters was a magic number? Our new paper shows sudden breakthroughs are samples from bimodal performance distributions across seeds. Observed accuracy jumps abruptly while the underlying accuracy DISTRIBUTION changes slowly!

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ARR February Authors: If you keep receiving confusing reminder emails about volunteer qualifications, please ask your nominated volunteer to update the OpenReview profile with either ACL Anthology or DBLP. This is how PCs verify qualification. RT appreciated!

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I am looking for a postdoc. A serious-looking call coming soon, but this is to get it going. Topics include (but not limited to): LLMs (🫢!), multimodal LLMs, interaction+learning, RL, intersection with cogsci, ... see our work to get an idea: yoavartzi.com/pubs Plz RT 🙏

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Excited that this got accepted at naacl/@naaclmeeting.bsky.social 2025! Massive kudos to Juan Diego and Aaron for being the best co-authors and colleagues one could ask for! 🙏

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RepL4NLP (collocated with NAACL 2025) is inviting submissions!

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We invite nominations to join the ACL2025 PC as reviewer or area chair(AC). Review process through ARR Feb cycle. Tentative timeline: Review 1-20 Mar 2025, Rebuttal is 26-31 Mar 2025. ACs must be available throughout the Feb cycle. Nominations by 20 Dec 2024: shorturl.at/TaUh9 #NLProc #ACL2025NLP

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I will be at NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver Dec 9-13. Please let me know if you'd like to learn more about r2llab.com or discuss potential collaborations. We will present 3 works around evaluating and building general-purpose language agents:

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I'll be in Vancouver for NeurIPS from Dec 10 to 14. Happy to chat with people! Find me at - Dec 10: Future NLP Workshop with UBC NLP - Dec 12: Vector Luncheon - Dec 14: Pluralistic Alignment Workshop, presenting the VLM frame of reference analysis work with the amazing @marstin.bsky.social

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I’m on the academic job market this year! I’m completing my @uwcse.bsky.social @uwnlp.bsky.social Ph.D. (2025), focusing on overcoming LLM limitations like hallucinations, by building new LMs. My Ph.D. work focuses on Retrieval-Augmented LMs to create more reliable AI systems 🧵

submitted 99 days ago • 3 comments

#rant #ARR Reviewer: Read this paper first. Me: Read my paper first. Or even better, use a better LLM.

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

First time submitting reference letters to MILA, and I LOVE the system: single button for uploading a pdf letter or click on "I decline to offer recommendation." Nothing else required, as all other information will be provided in letters. Other grad schools, please do consider learning from MILA.

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If you claim your method offers 8% improvement over method X, based on a sample of size 12, I think you should consider taking a Statistic 101 class!

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New thought after teaching CS486 Intro to AI at the beginning of my career, which might be obviously true to some people and completely wrong to others: - AI is about and only about planning.

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

easy first #booksky #nlp

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( #NLP ) 😤

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🚨New dataset + challenge🚨 We release ASL STEM Wiki: the first signing dataset of STEM articles! 📰 254 Wikipedia articles 📹 ~300 hours of ASL interpretations 👋 New task: automatic sign suggestion to make STEM education more accessible microsoft.com/en-us/resear... 🧵 #EMNLP2024

submitted 114 days ago • 1 comment

I'm sharing materials from my academic job search last year! Includes research, teaching, and diversity statements, plus my UMD cover letter and job talk slides. I applied for a mix of iSchool, data sci, CS, and linguistics positions). Feel free to share! juliamendelsohn.github.io/resources/

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If you are interested in applying to grad school in ML/NLP, and are interested in our work in feedback learning, semantic evaluation, and test-time adaptation, please consider applying at r2llab.com/opening. DDL Dec 1! I'll also be presenting recent works on language agents at NeurIPS in Vancouver.

submitted 115 days ago • 1 comment

Anyone on here been attending virtual EMNLP ? I'm presenting a workshop paper today in the poster session and wonder if i can expect anyone to attend 😅

submitted 117 days ago • 2 comments

Well, this cyber migration from X is in full swing, and honestly, it feels like moving from a chaotic street market to a cozy coffee shop. ☕️

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