🚀Introducing “StochasTok: Improving Fine-Grained Subword Understanding in LLMs”!🚀
LLMs are incredible but still struggle disproportionately with subword tasks, e.g., for character counts, wordplay, multi-digit numbers, fixing typos… Enter StochasTok, led by Anya Sims!
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at #ICLR2025? 🇸🇬 check out Cong Lu talk about our work on a novel stochastic tokenisation method, StochasTok, on Mon, 4:20 PM @ Hall 4 #6 - work w/ Anya Sims @yeewhye.bsky.social @jfoerst.bsky.social and Thom Foster
I'm also co-organizing the @climatechangeai.bsky.social workshop at #ICLR2025!
Join us April 28: climatechange.ai/events/iclr2...
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The Clopath Lab has a fully funded PhD position open for Oct in Computational Neuroscience at Imperial College London. If you are interested, just send us an informal e-mail!
Applications are now open! 3-week courses: Comp Neuro and Deep Learning. 2-week courses: NeuroAI and Comp Tools for Climate Science.
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Learn from top AI researchers and connect with peers in Sarajevo 🇧🇦, a historical crossroads of East and West. Needs-based scholarships are available.
Deadline: 31 March 2025.
📢📢 Second Call for Papers for the 2nd ClimateNLP Workshop at ACL 2025 📢📢
🗓️ Submission Deadline: March 1st AOE
🚀 We invite short and long papers at the intersection of climate change and NLP 🌍
More info: nlp4climate.github.io
I wrote about the concept of agency (both human and artificial) in the year 2025. gracewlindsay.com/2025/01/24/2...
Join us at our upcoming workshop at ICLR, XAI4Science: From Understanding Model Behavior to Discovering New Scientific Knwlg, Apr 27-28
submissions on a-priori (ante-hoc) & a-posteriori (post-hoc) interpretability & self-explainable models for understanding model’s behvr welcm tinyurl.com/3w8sddpm
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Ping me if you want to chat about this and/or my current postdoc on robust LLMs for nature recovery+climate change w/ @yeewhye.bsky.social @naturerecovery.bsky.social @naturebasedsols.bsky.social 🌱 🌍
at @neuripsconf.bsky.social 🇨🇦 this week presenting one of my PhD chapters w/ @clopathlab.bsky.social: "Feedback control guides credit assignment in recurrent neural networks" 🧠 🤖
openreview.net/forum?id=xav...
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This paper from Claudia Clopath's lab is very exciting for me.
I've been musing for a while now that the challenge of approximating gradient descent is probably made way easier in the brain by feedback signals for control.
Here they show it!!!
openreview.net/forum?id=xav...
🧠📈 #NeuroAI 🧪