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Germans Savcisens (Savčišens) @savcisens.com · 15d

Truthfulness isn’t always binary. Sometimes it’s… neither 🤔 Our Trilemma of Truth paper is headed to the @neuripsconf.bsky.social Mechanistic Interpretability workshop 🚀 Let’s connect in San Diego! 🌴

Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2506.23921
Code and data: github.com/carlomarxdk/...

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Germans Savcisens (Savčišens) @savcisens.com · Aug 23

Had the pleasure of presenting our work on Three-valued veracity probes for LLMs at #NEMI Workshop! Mechanistic Interpretability has such a great and welcoming community.
If we crossed paths - let’s connect! 🚀
Poster: zenodo.org/records/1690...
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2506.23921

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Germans Savcisens (Savčišens) @savcisens.com · Jul 25

@nunetsi.bsky.social had a great week at @ic2s2.bsky.social! Looking forward to the next #IC2S2 in Vermont 🔬⛰️

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · Jul 25

🎥 All keynote talks from IC²S² ‘25 are now available on our YouTube channel!
#ic2s2 #css

International Conference on Computational Social Science @ic2s2.bsky.social · Jul 25

All the keynote recordings are available now, enjoy! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

IC2S2'25 Norrköping - YouTube

This playlist contains all keynotes from IC2S2'25 in Norrköping, Sweden.

www.youtube.com

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Germans Savcisens (Savčišens) @savcisens.com · Jul 23

Colleagues are making sure that I stay focused at #IC2S2 🤓

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Germans Savcisens (Savčišens) @savcisens.com · Jul 22

Presented our work on veracity-tracking in LLMs at #IC2S2 today!
Now looking forward to the next few days of great talks and conversations ✨️🎓

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Germans Savcisens (Savčišens) @savcisens.com · Jul 21

Little wins: our "Trilemma of Truth" dataset just hit 150 downloads. It contains true, false, and neither-valued statements (inspired by the three-valued logic) used to stress-test LLMs for fact-checking, veracity tracking, and uncertainty handling.

Dataset📚: huggingface.co/datasets/car...

carlomarxx/trilemma-of-truth · Datasets at Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

huggingface.co

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Germans Savcisens (Savčišens) @savcisens.com · Jul 20

Perfect weather, charming streets, and a poster so big it almost needed its own boarding pass 🧳✨
Excited to attend #IC2S2 in Norrköping 🇸🇪 Find me at the Poster Session on Tuesday: "Improving Probes that Track Veracity in Large Language Models" (Poster ID: 39) 🧪

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Germans Savcisens (Savčišens) @savcisens.com · Jul 18

I’m presenting a poster on my latest project: “The Trilemma of Truth.”
Drop by to see how LLMs leverage three‑valued logic to model truth 🔢🤖
And hey, if you fancy grabbing a coffee ☕, DM me!

📄 Poster: zenodo.org/records/1605...
📖 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2506.23921

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Germans Savcisens (Savčišens) @savcisens.com · Jul 1

Dataset with statements related to City Locations, Medical Indication, and Word Definitions is available on 🤗 huggingface.co/datasets/car...

carlomarxx/trilemma-of-truth · Datasets at Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

huggingface.co

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arXiv cs.CL Computation and Language @cscl-bot.bsky.social · Jul 1

Germans Savcisens, Tina Eliassi-Rad: The Trilemma of Truth in Large Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23921 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.23921 https://arxiv.org/html/2506.23921

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Germans Savcisens (Savčišens) @savcisens.com · Jul 1

🚨 New preprint!
Do LLMs really know what’s true?

In our paper, @eliassi.bsky.social and I introduce sAwMIL: a probing method that distinguishes between true, false, and neither—capturing what LLMs actually “retain.”

We evaluated 16 open models across 3 new datasets.

📄 arxiv.org/abs/2506.23921

The Trilemma of Truth in Large Language Models

We often attribute human characteristics to large language models (LLMs) and claim that they "know" certain things. LLMs have an internal probabilistic knowledge that represents information retained d...

arxiv.org

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Germans Savcisens (Savčišens) @savcisens.com · May 3

That happens way too often to me 🥲

Plenty of Room - Newsletter @plenty-of-room.bsky.social · May 3

Everyday struggle 🧪
plentyofroom.beehiiv.com

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Germans Savcisens (Savčišens) @savcisens.com · Apr 19

Thanks 😋

Germans Savcisens (Savčišens) @savcisens.com · Apr 14

What's the coolest guide/source on "Complex Data Visualization"? I am looking for some inspiration to visualize graphs and high dimensional data.

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Cate Hamilton @cateh.bsky.social · Mar 18

Great read from 2019 about abandoning the use of p-values in a dichotomous way and what we can do instead. More thinking, and less relying on significance tests to decide things for us!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Scientists rise up against statistical significance

Valentin Amrhein, Sander Greenland, Blake McShane and more than 800 signatories call for an end to hyped claims and the dismissal of possibly crucial effects.

www.nature.com

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Kosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · Mar 5

Sometimes we need a reality check 😉 @serge.belongie.com

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Germans Savcisens (Savčišens) @savcisens.com · Feb 8

Amazing time with the folks from @tint-philosophy.bsky.social at the retreat on Predictability of Human Lives. Great people & discussions, and so much to reflect on—especially around integrative modeling and how neural networks can help us get there. Plus, a relaxing sauna to top it off!

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Germans Savcisens (Savčišens) @savcisens.com · Jan 27

Visiting @mpidr.bsky.social this week—super excited to see what’s happening in Demographic Studies (don’t miss my talk!).
Also, I’ll be in Berlin on Feb 2, Helsinki from Feb 3-6, and Copenhagen from Feb 10-12. Let me know if you’re around and up for a coffee 🧪🔬☕️

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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · Jan 16

For those interdisciplinary students/scholars who are having identity crisis, this is for you (from 2018):
"How to survive as an interdisciplinary being"
www.slideshare.net/slideshow/ho...
#NetSciX2025

How to survive as an interdisciplinary being

How to survive as an interdisciplinary being - Download as a PDF or view online for free

www.slideshare.net

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Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social · Jan 15

New tool to estimate the level of participation in collective action expressed in natural language.
Applied to social media, it can produce large-scale and granular estimates of behavior change wrt collective action.
github.com/ariannap13/e...
@nerdsitu.bsky.social @itu.dk @carlsbergfondet.dk

Arianna Pera @ariannapera.bsky.social · Jan 15

Excited to share the tool @lajello.bsky.social & I built to predict social media participation in collective action! It moves beyond keywords, tracking activism stages across topics. See it in action with climate activism on Reddit 🌱

Check it out: arxiv.org/abs/2501.07368

@nerdsitu.bsky.social

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Germans Savcisens (Savčišens) @savcisens.com · Jan 4

I once asked ChatGPT how it thinks my life would look like in 20 years. And "Visionary Multidimensional Social Scientist" sounds like a great job title 😅 I guess it captured my love for the "His Dark Materials" trilogy.

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Nature Computational Science @natcomputsci.nature.com · Jan 2

📢 @savcisens.com discusses a recent study that shows that LLMs exhibit social identity biases similar to humans. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🔓https://rdcu.be/d5owe

Large language models act as if they are part of a group - Nature Computational Science

An extensive audit of large language models reveals that numerous models mirror the ‘us versus them’ thinking seen in human behavior. These social prejudices are likely captured from the biased conten...

www.nature.com

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Germans Savcisens (Savčišens) @savcisens.com · Jan 2

Happy to write this News & Views piece on the recent audit showing LLMs picking up "us versus them" biases: www.nature.com/articles/s43... (Read-only version: rdcu.be/d5ovo)

Check out the amazing (original) paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Large language models act as if they are part of a group - Nature Computational Science

An extensive audit of large language models reveals that numerous models mirror the ‘us versus them’ thinking seen in human behavior. These social prejudices are likely captured from the biased conten...

www.nature.com

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Germans Savcisens (Savčišens) @savcisens.com · Nov 23

Could you add me as well 🦋🦋