Research highlight! CosmicAI Researchers Wenxuan Ding (NYU), @gregdnlp.bsky.social (NYU) as well as external collaborator Nicholas Tomlin (NYU, TTIC) investigated whether LLM agents like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex can navigate cost-benefit tradeoffs in their actions. youtube.com/shorts/GMZ5z...

Check out Ramya's work on analyzing why and how LLM-generated stories feel homogeneous: the setting you prompt with might be novel but the plot unfolds in a very conventional way. Thread for how we quantified this & compare to existing metrics: 👇

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Check out Manya's benchmark for LLM creativity! Inspired by work on creativity in graphs (@adtraghunathan.bsky.social 's "roll the dice" paper), CREATE isolates testing of creative insights for discovery. Future: understanding how LLMs derive insights & how they can be better creative partners!

Check out Wenxuan's work on cost-uncertainty tradeoffs in agents! Providing different info to the model (here, estimates of its uncertainty) triggers a really different type of reasoning. Agent behavior under a harness reflects what info is included, not just the instructions.

Still accepting applications for this postdoc position in my lab at NYU! Applications due Feb 1. Please see the posting below for more information and apply on Interfolio: cims.nyu.edu/taur/postdoc... apply.interfolio.com/178940

Submit to COLM! Deadline of March 31. This llama gets to enjoy his holidays and isn't stressed out just yet...

Hiring researchers & engineers to work on –building reliable software on top of unreliable LLM primitives –statistical evaluation of real-world deployments of LLM-based systems I’m speaking about this on two NeurIPS workshop panels: 🗓️Saturday – Reliable ML Workshop 🗓️Sunday – LLM Evaluation Workshop

📢 Postdoc position 📢 I’m recruiting a postdoc for my lab at NYU! Topics include LM reasoning, creativity, limitations of scaling, AI for science, & more! Apply by Feb 1. (Different from NYU Faculty Fellows, which are also great but less connected to my lab.) Link in 🧵

Two brief advertisements! TTIC is recruiting both tenure-track and research assistant professors: ttic.edu/faculty-hiri... NYU is recruiting faculty fellows: apply.interfolio.com/174686 Happy to chat with anyone considering either of these options

Unfortunately I won't be at #COLM2025 this week, but please check out our work being presented by my collaborators/advisors! If you are interested in evals of open-ended tasks/creativity please reach out and we can schedule a chat! :)

Find my students and collaborators at COLM this week! Tuesday morning: @juand-r.bsky.social and @ramyanamuduri.bsky.social 's papers (find them if you missed it!) Wednesday pm: @manyawadhwa.bsky.social 's EvalAgent Thursday am: @anirudhkhatry.bsky.social 's CRUST-Bench oral spotlight + poster

Excited to present this at #COLM2025 tomorrow! (Tuesday, 11:00 AM poster session)

Check out this feature about AstroVisBench, our upcoming NeurIPS D&B paper about code workflows and visualization in the astronomy domain! Great testbed for the interaction of code + VLM reasoning models.

News🗞️ I will return to UT Austin as an Assistant Professor of Linguistics this fall, and join its vibrant community of Computational Linguists, NLPers, and Cognitive Scientists!🤘 Excited to develop ideas about linguistic and conceptual generalization (recruitment details soon!)

Great to work on this benchmark with astronomers in our NSF-Simons CosmicAI institute! What I like about it: (1) focus on data processing & visualization, a "bite-sized" AI4Sci task (not automating all of research) (2) eval with VLM-as-a-judge (possible with strong, modern VLMs)

The end of US leadership in science, technology, and innovation. All in one little table. A tremendous gift to China, courtesy of the GOP. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

Super excited Marin is finally out! Come see what we've been building! Code/platform for training fully reproducible models end-to-end, from data to evals. Plus a new high quality 8B base model. Percy did a good job explaining it on the other place. marin.community x.com/percyliang/s...

Check out Anirudh's work on a new benchmark for C-to-Rust transpilation! 100 realistic-scale C projects, plus target Rust interfaces + Rust tests that let us validate the transpiled code beyond what prior benchmarks allow.

🚀Meet CRUST-Bench, a dataset for C-to-Rust transpilation for full codebases 🛠️ A dataset of 100 real-world C repositories across various domains, each paired with: 🦀 Handwritten safe Rust interfaces. 🧪 Rust test cases to validate correctness. 🧵[1/6]

Check out Manya's work on evaluation for open-ended tasks! The criteria from EvalAgent can be plugged into LLM-as-a-judge or used for refinement. Great tool with a ton of potential, and there's LOTS to do here for making LLMs better at writing!

Check out Ramya et al.'s work on understanding discourse similarities in LLM-generated text! We see this as an important step in quantifying the "sameyness" of LLM text, which we think will be a step towards fixing it!

Our final South by Semantics lecture at UT Austin is happening on Wednesday April 23!

Check out @juand-r.bsky.social and @wenxuand.bsky.social 's work on improving generator-validator gaps in LLMs! I really like the formulation of the G-V gap we present, and I was pleasantly surprised by how well the ranking-based training closed the gap. Looking forward to following up in this area!

If you're scooping up students off the street for writing op-eds, you're secret police, and should be treated accordingly.

I'm excited to announce two papers of ours which will be presented this summer at @naaclmeeting.bsky.social eting.bsky.social and @iclr-conf.bsky.social ! 🧵

Excited about Proofwala, @amitayush.bsky.social's new framework for ML-aided theorem-proving. * Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.04671 * Code: github.com/trishullab/p... Proofwala allows the collection of proof-step data from multiple proof assistants (Coq and Lean) and multilingual training. (1/3)

Popular or not Dems cannot bend on the need for trans people to be treated with basic humanity and respect. If we give up that because the right made trans people unpopular, we give up everything. They’ll dice us group by group like a salami. We die on this hill or we die alone in a ditch

Here are just a few of the NSF review panels that were shut down today, Chuck. This is research that would have made us competitive in computer science that will now be delayed by many months if not lost forever. AI is fine but right now the top priority is keeping the lights on at NSF and NIH.

kicking off 2025 with our OLMo 2 tech report while payin homage to the sequelest of sequels 🫡 🚗 2 OLMo 2 Furious 🔥 is everythin we learned since OLMo 1, with deep dives into: 🚖 stable pretrain recipe 🚔 lr anneal 🤝 data curricula 🤝 soups 🚘 tulu post-train recipe 🚜 compute infra setup 👇🧵

Huge congrats to @prasannsinghal.bsky.social for being one of the 8 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award winners! It has been an absolute privilege to work with Prasann during his time at UT. (And he's applying for PhD programs this year...hint hint...) Prasann's work 🧵

What's in an attention head? 🤯 We present an efficient framework – MAPS – for inferring the functionality of attention heads in LLMs ✨directly from their parameters✨ A new preprint with Amit Elhelo 🧵 (1/10)

I'm at #Neurips2024 this week! My work (arxiv.org/abs/2406.17692) w/ @gregdnlp.bsky.social & @eunsol.bsky.social exploring the connection between LLM alignment and response pluralism will be at pluralistic-alignment.github.io Saturday. Drop by to learn more!

Missed out on #Swift tickets? No worries—swing by our #SVFT poster at #NeurIPS2024 and catch *real* headliners! 🎤💃🕺 📌Where: East Exhibit Hall A-C #2207, Poster Session 4 East ⏲️When: Thu 12 Dec, 4:30 PM - 7:30 PM PST #AI #MachineLearning #PEFT #NeurIPS24

The legendary Putnam math competition had its 85th edition yesterday. Coincidentally, George Tsoukalas will present our paper on PutnamBench, a next-generation #AI4Math benchmark, at #NeurIPS2024 this week: arxiv.org/abs/2407.11214. If you work on frontier AI for math/reasoning, talk to George!

I'll be at #NeurIPS2024 w/ - @fcyin.bsky.social's LoFiT: using interp to improve fine-tuning (Weds pm poster & MINT spotlight talk Sun) - @thomlake.bsky.social's analysis of Overton pluralism (Pluralistic alignment Sat) Please reach out to me to chat about interp, factuality, reasoning, &c!

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 🧵

when a famous person just got here and you temporarily have more followers than they do

mech interp: bsky.app/starter-pack... women in nlp: bsky.app/starter-pack... nlp #1: bsky.app/starter-pack... nlp #2: bsky.app/starter-pack... ml/data/tech: bsky.app/starter-pack... robotics & ai: bsky.app/starter-pack...

Taking a stand that we aren’t doing the #nlproc tag here. It’s #nlp. We used #nlproc because a decade ago the #nlp tag was full of sleazy scammers selling guides for hypnotizing women into sleeping with you. But guess what? We won. All the sleazy scammers are doing natural language processing now.

We got an 🥂 Outstanding Paper Award!! Cannot be more grateful 🥹 This is super validating for our long pursuit of computational work on QUD. Congrats to the amazing @yatingwu.bsky.social, Ritika Mangla, Alex Dimakis, @gregdnlp.bsky.social

I won't be at EMNLP, but come and see: 🔍 Detecting factual errors from LLMs (Liyan Tang) 🛠️ Detect, critique, & refine pipeline (Manya Wadhwa and Lucy Zhao) 🏭 Synthetic data generation (Abhishek Divekar) 📄 Fact-checking (Aniruddh Sriram) at FEVER t.co/fQbl0G7m23 (1st real post in the bluer skies!)

📢Our EMNLP 2023 work on Questions Under Discussion (QUD)! We introduce QUDeval, the first benchmark for evaluating the generation of open-ended questions and QUD parsing using linguistic principles. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2310.14520 w/ @yatingwu.bsky.social, Ritika Mangla, @gregdnlp.bsky.social