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Chantal @chantalsh.bsky.social · 14d

"AI slop" seems to be everywhere, but what exactly makes text feel like "slop"?

In our new work (w/ @tuhinchakr.bsky.social, Diego Garcia-Olano, @byron.bsky.social ) we provide a systematic attempt at measuring AI "slop" in text!

arxiv.org/abs/2509.19163

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 14d

I did a QA with Quanta about interpretability and training dynamics! I got to talk about a bunch of research hobby horses and how I got into them.

Ben Brubaker @benbenbrubaker.bsky.social · 14d

I really enjoyed talking to @nsaphra.bsky.social about her thoughts on what much language model interpretability research misses. My latest in @quantamagazine.bsky.social:

To Understand AI, Watch How It Evolves | Quanta Magazine

Naomi Saphra thinks that most research into language models focuses too much on the finished product. She’s mining the history of their training for insights into why these systems work the way they d...

www.quantamagazine.org

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 14d

the transparency is just so bad

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 14d

lol I was very confused towards the end until i read the title again

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 14d

The new Tahoe UI is so bad. Everything just looks so blurred...

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 20d

Interesting opportunity for a research visit through the Azrieli foundation - azrielifoundation.org/azrieli-fell...
Let me know if you're interested!

Call for Applications for the Azrieli International Visiting PhD Fellowship - The Azrieli Foundation

The Azrieli International Visiting PhD Fellowship offers outstanding international PhD candidates the opportunity to conduct short-term research in Israel, fostering academic collaboration and strengt...

azrielifoundation.org

Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · Sep 3

Organizing a workshop? Checkout our compiled material for organizing one: www.bigpictureworkshop.com/open-workshop

(and hopefully we'll be back for another iteration of the Big Picture next year w/ Allyson Ettinger, @norakassner.bsky.social, @sebruder.bsky.social)

Big Picture Workshop - Open Workshop

Open sourcing the workshop

www.bigpictureworkshop.com

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · Aug 20

Thank you!!! ☺️

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thank you!! 😊

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · Aug 16

Thank you Ana!! 😊

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thanks! and so I've heard 😀

Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thank you! 😊

Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · Aug 14

I’m excited to share that I'm joining Bar-Ilan University as an assistant professor!

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · Aug 4

A strange trend I've noticed at #ACL2025 is that people are hesitant to reach out to papers/"academic products" authors.
This is unfortunate for both parties! A simple email can save a lot of time to the sender, but is also one of my favorite kind of email as the receiver!

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Antoine Bosselut @abosselut.bsky.social · Aug 4

The EPFL NLP lab is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher on the topic of designing, training, and evaluating multilingual LLMs:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Come join our dynamic group in beautiful Lausanne!

EPFL NLP Postdoctoral Scholar Posting - Swiss AI LLMs

The EPFL Natural Language Processing (NLP) lab is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher candidate in the area of multilingual LLM design, training, and evaluation. This postdoctoral position is as...

docs.google.com

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Pietro Lesci @pietrolesci.bsky.social · Aug 2

Had a really great and fun time with @yanai.bsky.social, Niloofar Mireshghallah, and Reza Shokri discussing memorisation at the @l2m2workshop.bsky.social panel. Thanks to the entire organising team and attendees for making this such a fantastic workshop! #ACL2025

Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · Aug 2

I had a lot of fun contemplating about memorization questions at the @l2m2workshop.bsky.social panel yesterday together with Niloofar Mireshghallah and Reza Shokri, moderated by
@pietrolesci.bsky.social who did a fantastic job!
#ACL2025

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · Aug 2

I just wish a particular conversation from the workshop's dinner would be appended to the panel's proceedings

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · Aug 2

I had a lot of fun contemplating about memorization questions at the @l2m2workshop.bsky.social panel yesterday together with Niloofar Mireshghallah and Reza Shokri, moderated by
@pietrolesci.bsky.social who did a fantastic job!
#ACL2025

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Shanshan Xu @sxu3.bsky.social · Jul 31

I'll present our work w/ @santosh-tyss.bsky.social
@yanai.bsky.social @barbaraplank.bsky.social on LLMs memorization of distributions of political leanings in their pretraining data! Catch us at L2M2 workshop @l2m2workshop.bsky.social #ACL2025 tmrw
📆 Aug 1, 14:00–15:30 📑 arxiv.org/pdf/2502.18282

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Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · Jul 28

Ai2 is excited to be at #ACL2025 in Vienna, Austria this week. Come say hello, meet the team, and chat about the future of NLP. See you there! 🤝📚

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · Jul 19

It's crazy that people give more than a single invited talk during the same conference (diff workshops).
A single talk (done right) is challenging enough.

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · Jul 16

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Leqi Liu @leqiliu.bsky.social · Jul 10

What if you could understand and control an LLM by studying its *smaller* sibling?

Our new paper introduces the Linear Representation Transferability Hypothesis. We find that the internal representations of different-sized models can be translated into one another using a simple linear(affine) map.

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · Jul 10

I really like this take. Academia and the open source community should embrace transparency in data, even in the cost of the issues that come with it. These issues should be of course studied and documented, but not used as an indicator or a signal to shut down the whole operation.

Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · Jul 10

Fully open machine learning requires not only GPU access but a community commitment to openness. (Some nostalgic lessons from the ImageNet decade.)

An open mindset

The commitments required for fully open source machine learning

www.argmin.net

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chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social · Jul 9

Prompting is our most successful tool for exploring LLMs, but the term evokes eye-rolls and grimaces from scientists. Why? Because prompting as scientific inquiry has become conflated with prompt engineering.

This is holding us back. 🧵and new paper with @ari-holtzman.bsky.social .

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