Full house at BlackboxNLP at #EMNLP2025!! Getting ready for my 1.45PM keynote 😎 Join us in A102 to learn about "Memorization: myth or mystery?"

🏆 full house at the IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Award #talk delivered by Verna Dankers on Compositionality Decomposed: How do Neural Networks Generalise?! #IJCAI2025

Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 IJCAI–JAIR Prize for their paper “Compositionality Decomposed: How Do Neural Networks Generalise?” — Dieuwke Hupkes, Verna Dankers, Mathijs Mul, and Elia Bruni! Presented by Edith Elkind, Northwestern University arxiv.org/abs/1908.08351 #IJCAI2025

Proud to accept a 5y outstanding paper award @ijcai.org 🏆 from the Journal of AI Research for the impact Compositionality Decomposed has had, on behalf of the team (Dieuwke Hupkes, Elia Bruni & Mathijs Mul)!🧡 Come to room 513 on [email protected] to learn about rethinking compgen evaluation in the LLM era🤖

Had a blast at #ACL2025 connecting with new/familiar faces, explaining the many affiliations on my badge, chatting about memorisation--generalisation, and visiting stunning Schönbrunn. A shoutout to the co-organisers & speakers of the successful @l2m2workshop.bsky.social 🧡 I learnt a lot from you!

Thrilled to be in Vienna to learn about all the papers & catch up with NLP friends 🇦🇹 You'll find me at the ACL mentorship session (Mon 2PM), at our @l2m2workshop.bsky.social (Fri) and at my poster (Wed 11AM)! I'll present work w/ @vyraun.bsky.social on memorization in NMT under SeqKD #ACL2025 (1/5)

I miss Edinburgh and its wonderful people already!! Thanks to @tallinzen.bsky.social and @edoardo-ponti.bsky.social for inspiring discussions during the viva! I'm now exchanging Arthur's Seat for Mont Royal to join @sivareddyg.bsky.social's wonderful lab @mila-quebec.bsky.social 🤩

Models like DeepSeek-R1 🐋 mark a fundamental shift in how LLMs approach complex problems. In our preprint on R1 Thoughtology, we study R1’s reasoning chains across a variety of tasks; investigating its capabilities, limitations, and behaviour. 🔗: mcgill-nlp.github.io/thoughtology/

Super excited about the First L2M2 (Large Language Model Memorization) workshop at #ACL2025 in Vienna @l2m2workshop.bsky.social! 🥳 Submit via ARR in February, or directly to the workshop in March! Archival and non-archival contributions are welcome. 🗒️ sites.google.com/view/memoriz...

thinking of calling this "The Illusion Illusion" (more examples below)