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Very excited about @nthngdy.bsky.social's new work! It really gets to the bottom (or top, depends where the head in LMs is 😜) and fundamentals of contemporary LLMs. A real treat of a paper: solid theory, and very cool experiments.

This call is still open. I am looking to recruit, as well as many other faculty at Cornell. We review folders as they come, and will send offers until all positions are filled. Please share with your network 🙏

We have a mailing list for big announcements: groups.google.com/g/colm-annou... We use it very sparingly, roughly 1-2 times a year

Call for papers -- due March 31, 2026 (abstracts due March 26) colmweb.org/cfp.html Call for workshops -- due April 14, 2026 colmweb.org/cfw.html

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

Zoe presented this paper at NeurIPS D+B: it's all knots(🪢🪢🪢!?), no language tokens were harmed (or reinforced) in the process It's such a fun and creative paper, a real mind twist ;) You really get to think carefully about visual intelligence looking at these knots 🪢

Hi all, I will be at #NeurIPS2025 to present my work on stress-testing looooooong visual reasoning with KnotGym🥨 Let's talk, whether or not your VLM that can see 14 million possible futures like Doctor Strange

COLM is going to San Francisco for 2026! 🗓️Dates: October 6-9, 2026 🏨Venue: Hilton San Francisco Union Square Website and CFPs for papers and workshops coming up soon!

Pushed a big update to LM-class (v2025.2) -- this second version makes a much more mature resource Many refinements of lecture slides + significant improvements to the assignments Many thanks to @ch272h.bsky.social, Yilun Hua, and Shankar Padmanabhan for their work on the assignments

I am potentially recruiting a postdoctoral fellow through this program. If interested, name me as a mentor, and ping me to let me know that you are applying! The process includes some sort of interview, so I can try to squeeze a few of these in advance (it will help a lot!)

Cornell is recruiting for multiple postdoctoral positions in AI as part of two programs: Empire AI Fellows and Foundational AI Fellows. Positions are available in NYC and Ithaca. Deadline for full consideration is Nov 20, 2025! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30971

Cornell (NYC and Ithaca) is recruiting AI postdocs, apply by Nov 20, 2025! If you're interested in working with me on technical approaches to responsible AI (e.g., personalization, fairness), please email me. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30971

Recent IVADO talk is now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozHk... Paper here: Pre-training Limited Memory Language Models with Internal and External Knowledge Linxi Zhao et al. arxiv.org/abs/2505.15962

i believe ours is the only paper discussing this. enjoy arxiv.org/abs/2502.20273

We hope to hire

How much data people use to train tokenizers nowadays? Trying to figure out, but so often people just use a trained tokenizer, so a bit tricky cc @soldaini.net and the OLMo folks

Closing session for #COLM2025! There will be #COLM2026! @yoavartzi.com and @gregdnlp.bsky.social will be organizing. Location TBD. Full day of workshops tomorrow, check the program.

COLM is on! Opening remarks: docs.google.com/presentation...

We are excited to announce 4 outstanding papers 🏆🏆🏆🏆 --> 🧵

My feed is on 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Can't wait to meet you all It's C-11 hours!

Blue sky all the way. @colmweb.org C day -1

Just found out the @IVADO_Qc summer bootcamp has published shiny top-notch videos of the talks. Here's mine: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5OR... Covering @ch272h.bsky.social's ReSpect work, and Giovanni Monea's ICRL work

Our complete program schedule is now online (and in Whova): colmweb.org/schedule.html

This ICLR deadline is marked by its soundtrack: Iggy Confidential... wow! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Keynote spotlight #5: the third of COLM (and last day of the main conference) will open with a keynote by Nicholas Carlini (Anthropic)

Joey Ramone wrote a song dedicated to his stock investor My contribution to your ICLR deadline soundtrack (or if you are looking for investment advice ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ) : www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbJx...

Keynote spotlight #4: the second day of COLM will close with @ghadfield.bsky.social from JHU talking about human society alignment, and lessons for AI alignment

Congratulations to Alane Suhr '22, a #CornellTech Ph.D. #alumni advised by associate professor Yoav Artzi, for receiving the prestigious 2022 @aaai.org / @acmsigai.bsky.social Doctoral Dissertation Award! Read more about the award here: aaai.org/about-aaai/a... @yoavartzi.com

As we are spotlighting these last few days, let's also spotlight the spotlights. COLM 2025 has 24 spotlight papers that will be presented as plenary orals 👏

Keynote spotlight #3: COLM's second day will open with some *real* intelligence 🧠🧠🧠 with Tom Griffiths from Princeton

Keynote spotlight #2: COLM's first-day afternoon session will go polymathic 🔭 with Shirley Ho 🌌 from the Flatiron Institute

Keynote spotlight #1: COLM will open on Oct 7 with a keynote by @lukezettlemoyer.bsky.social about mixed-modals models 🌈

How will AI agents impact democratic values? Democracies are—for independent reasons—already under acute pressure. Since WWII Moore's Law and democratisation went up and to the right in lockstep. Not any more.

Authors, your camera ready is due today!

COLM ❤️ families (and volunteers!)

The talk for our work on Retrospective Learning from Interactions, which will be in ACL (once I figure out how to squeeze it shorter) Gist: autonomous post-training from conversational signals for LLM bootstrapping ... look ma, no annotations! no hand-holding! 🙌📈🚀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW8S...

The list of accepted papers for COLM 2025 is now available here: colmweb.org/AcceptedPape... The papers will be made available around mid August, following the camera ready deadline

COLM 2025 is now accepting applications for: Financial Assistance Application -- docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Volunteer Application -- docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Childcare Financial Assistance Application -- docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... All due by July 31

@colmweb.org decisions are out, and so are we The strength of submissions this year amazed us! Many many hard decisions 😩 + Aditi, @eunsol.bsky.social , @ranjaykrishna.bsky.social 😴😴😴

How global is IRB or IRB-style monitoring of research? I have a pretty good idea that is broadly adopted in the US. What about Europe (my guess is yes)? India? China? Other countries that are exceptions?

Tokenization is still an open problem

What work/software is out there about training models on heterogeneous clusters? Let's say I have access to various machines, some with more contemporary GPUs, some with much older.

Recently hearing a lot of opposition to RAG, largely sounding like "it (will) never works". Trying to reconcile this with almost every query I put into ChatGPT doing a web search and retrieving content. So, definitely seems to work. What am I missing? Is it a definition discreprency?

Is there a comparative study comparing the words/day generation of news publications today vs. 1990s? Or for individual reporters? Trying to put numbers behind my impression of contemporary compulsion to generate endless chatter

What should Machine Translation research look like in the age of multilingual LLMs? Here’s one answer from researchers across NLP/MT, Translation Studies, and HCI. "An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human-Centered Machine Translation" arxiv.org/abs/2506.13468

Is there a 2-3 minute video explaining the technical gist behind the recent Meta V-JEPA2? Just something concrete and to the point