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 👴👵👨👩
🗓️ 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!
The paper will be presented today orally at 4:30--4:45.
Read the paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.05670
Ada is an undergrad and will soon be looking for PhDs. Gaurav is a PhD student looking for intellectually stimulating internships/visiting positions. They did most of the work without much of my help. Highly recommend them. Please reach out to them if you have any positions.
Humans have a tendency to move heavier constituents to the end of the sentence. While LLMs show similar behaviour, what's surprising is that pretrianed models behave closer to humans than instruction-tuned models. And syllables rather than tokens define a better metric to define the heaviness.
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.
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?
List of #SafetyGuaranteedLLMs talks on Monday Apr 14 2025 PDT. Speakers @rogergrosse.bsky.social Boaz Barak, Ethan Perez, Georgios Piliouras
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...
sorry to hear but please don't boycott us. We are having a tough time with US already :). I hate the new system too. Earlier it was just a pdf. You can just send the report to the supervisor with pass/fail and feedback and perhaps they can take care from there.
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) 🧵👇
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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...
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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?
@sivareddyg.bsky.social Which platforms? Maybe consider @buffer.com
Nice! Hello friend. Long time!
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 am a lazy bsky :) or whatever you call it now.
