Loved giving my second tutorial on steering vectors at #CardiffNLPWorkshop Lots of enthusiastic participants! @cardiffnlp.bsky.social

#CardiffNLPWorkshop off to a flying start with talks from Jennifer Foster and Marianna Apidianaki @cardiffnlp.bsky.social

Pleased to say this has been accepted to ACL System Demos :)

Come to my hackathon! Last one was super fun I promise

🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨 Dialz: A Python Toolkit for Steering Vectors ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.06262 Docs: cardiffnlp.github.io/dialz/ Repo: github.com/cardiffnlp/d... A Python package to help you create, apply and visualise steering vectors for anything you want - from sycophancy to bias.

New friends! Old friends! Please register if you’d like 2 whole days packed with NLP fun

Love this take: "Society appears far more willing to critically examine and address bias in AI systems than confront human bias directly"

I am still in need of emergency reviewers for ARR this cycle for the computational social science track, please DM me if you have capacity 🙏

NEW PAPER 📜 Shifting Perspectives: Steering Vector Ensembles for Robust Bias Mitigation in LLMs ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2503.05371 GitHub: github.com/groovychoons... Extremely Unofficial Blog Post: zarasiddique.com/blog/shiftin...

Strongly encourage you to register for our free NLP workshop, previously had speakers from DeepMind, Microsoft, Amazon and top university NLP labs etc. and it’s looking like it’s going to be a great line up this year too. If you can’t make it, please share with others who may be interested!

We've created a Cardiff NLP Starter Pack to make it easy to follow #NLP researchers at Cardiff Uni.

OpenAI furious DeepSeek might have stolen all the data OpenAI stole from us 🔗 www.404media.co/openai-furio...

Severance episode 2, Traitors final AND this It's a weekend of watching for me 🍿

Need to be spending less time on deepseek and more time on deep sleep 😴

Our paper on extraction of metaphoric analogies from literary texts will be presented in COLING ( Wed 11:00 , Atrium, poster) by @camachocollados.bsky.social and Luis Espinosa-Anke. Done with @zarasiddique.bsky.social , @hsuvas.bsky.social and @antypasd.bsky.social

If you ever find yourself getting worried about catastrophic AI risk, remember you can always just turn off the AI at the plug

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw

Wrote a little blog post on my favourite EMNLP papers :) zarasiddique.com/blog/my-favo...

Had fun presenting my favourite #EMNLP2024 papers today at our secret reading group + bonus raccoon pics from Miami 🦝 Will follow up with favourite papers in blog post form soon!

Had an amazing time at #EMNLP2024 and excited to connect with other researchers on here :)