The next generation of open LLMs should be inclusive, compliant, and multilingual by design. That’s why we @icepfl.bsky.social @ethz.ch @cscsch.bsky.social ) built Apertus.

🚨 EACL 2026 website is live and Call for Papers is out! 🚨 Join us at #EACL2026 (Rabat, Morocco 🇲🇦, Mar 24-29 2026) 👉 Open to all areas of CL/NLP + related fields. Details: 2026.eacl.org/calls/papers/ • ARR submission deadline: Oct 6, 2025 • EACL commitment deadline: Dec 14, 2025

- Fully funded PhD fellowship on Explainable NLU: apply by 31 October 2025, start in Spring 2026: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... - Open-topic PhD positions: express your interest through ELLIS by 31 October 2025, start in Autumn 2026: ellis.eu/news/ellis-p... #NLProc #XAI

All your embarrassing secrets are training data (unless you are paying attention)

How many people would you estimate are currently actively publishing in ML research? From AAAI, which has ~29000 submissions: "There are 75,000+ unique submitting authors." NeurIPS had 25000 submissions. Is the number close to 300k? 500k?

Is there any information wrt. EMNLP limited registraton policy? I'm assuming registering authors should be safe, but idk about rest. Appreciate any information. Talking about this: "Given the expected popularity of EMNLP 2025, we may need to limit registration."

Thrilled that FUR was accepted to @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social Main🎉 In case you can’t wait so long to hear about it in person, it will also be presented as an oral at @interplay-workshop.bsky.social @colmweb.org 🥳 FUR is a parametric test assessing whether CoTs faithfully verbalize latent reasoning.

"Out of 13,048 reviewers..only 69 were deemed highly irresponsible..and enforcement was applied solely in those cases...These reviewers were contacted multiple times...as well as being personally contacted by the area chairs and senior area chairs, but still failed to fulfill them." 🫡🫡🫡

This year, EMNLP ended up desk rejecting ~100 papers. For more insight into the process, and potential future changes, please see this blog post from the PCs: 2025.emnlp.org/desk-rejecti... @christos-c.bsky.social @carolynrose.bsky.social @tanmoy-chak.bsky.social @violetpeng.bsky.social

Tomer Ashuach, Dana Arad, Aaron Mueller, Martin Tutek, Yonatan Belinkov CRISP: Persistent Concept Unlearning via Sparse Autoencoders https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13650

Announcing a deep net interpretability talk series! Every week you will find new talks on recent research in the science of neural networks. The first few are posted: jackmerullo.bsky.social, Roy Rinberg, and me. At the @ndif-team.bsky.social Youtube Channel: www.youtube.com/@NDIFTeam

📢 Call for Papers! 📢 #BlackboxNLP 2025 invites the submission of archival and non-archival papers on interpreting and explaining NLP models. 📅 Deadlines: Aug 15 (direct submissions), Sept 5 (ARR commitment) 🔗 More details: blackboxnlp.github.io/2025/call/

Excited to spend the rest of the summer visiting @davidbau.bsky.social's lab at Northeastern! If you’re in the area and want to chat about interpretability, let me know ☕️

🎲 The 2nd edition of UncertaiNLP is coming to EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou! A venue for work on uncertainty-aware NLP, from Bayesian inference to decision-making under uncertainty. 🗓 Direct submissions due: Aug 15 🗓 ARR commitments due: Aug 29 Details: uncertainlp.github.io

🔈For the SoLaR workshop @COLM_conf we are soliciting opinion abstracts to encourage new perspectives and opinions on responsible language modeling, 1-2 of which will be selected to be presented at the workshop. Please use the google form below to submit your opinion abstract ⬇️

The report deadline was also extended to August 10th! Note that this is a final extension. We look forward to reading your reports! ✍️

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!

Just 5 days left to submit your method to the MIB Shared Task at #BlackboxNLP! Have last-minute questions or need help finalizing your submission? Join the Discord server: discord.gg/n5uwjQcxPR

olmoTrace for connecting model generations to training data won Best Paper for System Demonstrations at #ACL2025!

Results deadline extended by one week! Following requests from participants, we’re extending the MIB Shared Task submission deadline by one week. 🗓️ New deadline: August 8, 2025 Submit your method via the MIB leaderboard!

📝 Technical report guidelines are out! If you're submitting to the MIB Shared Task at #BlackboxNLP, feel free to take a look to help you prepare your report: blackboxnlp.github.io/2025/task/

Just arrived in Vienna for @aclmeeting.bsky.social, reach out if you want to talk explainability or just grab a beer and relax from the busy schedule 🍻

The #ACL2025 #ACL2025NLP feed is up and running! It matches both hashtags and any posts from or mentions of @aclmeeting.bsky.social Pin it to your home 📌 and enjoy! bsky.app/profile/did:...

1️⃣ Spotlight: Gender Bias in How Public Figures are Referenced in News Quotes at Scale Wed 23 Jul CET - Talk: 09:45 - 10:30 - De Geerhallen - Poster: 13:30 - 14:30 - Atrium Contrary to earlier findings, we show that left-wing politicians use first names more often when referring to women!

Are you attending ICML? 👀 I'm sadly not, but if you are, you should check out the MIB 🕶️poster at 11AM: icml.cc/virtual/2025... The benchmark is used as the shared task at this year's @blackboxnlp.bsky.social (blackboxnlp.github.io/2025/task/) - there's still time to participate 🏆

We did a cool group project exploring diachronic embeddings for Croatian and found that (among other things) embeddings trained on later periods are more positive when plugged into models trained on earlier time periods. Check out the thread 🧵 & come talk to us in Vienna about this & other works 🍻

📣📣 New preprint alert!! Despite events in the world becoming bleaker, the news is… more positive? We conduct a diachronic study of word embeddings trained on 10M Croatian news articles spanning 25 years and find some surprising results! arxiv.org/abs/2506.13569

Missed a spot? If you have a pre-reviewed paper from ARR or COLM that focuses on the INTERPLAY between LM internals and behavior, there is a shortcut to presenting at our @colmweb.org workshop! ✨ Join us in Montréal! 🇨🇦 CfP: shorturl.at/sBomu OpenReview: shorturl.at/WwWhg #nlproc #interpretability

Working on feature attribution, circuit discovery, feature alignment, or sparse coding? Consider submitting your work to the MIB Shared Task, part of this year’s #BlackboxNLP We welcome submissions of both existing methods and new or experimental POCs!

New to mechanistic interpretability? The MIB shared task is a great opportunity to experiment: ✅ Clean setup ✅ Open baseline code ✅ Standard evaluation Join the discord server for ideas and discussions: discord.gg/n5uwjQcxPR

First time a judge has decided a case based on hallucinated case law in the US that I've encountered. caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ga-cou...

1/ 🚨NEW PAPER: "BriefMe: A Legal NLP Benchmark for Assisting with Legal Briefs", accepted to ACL Findings 2025! We introduce the first benchmark specifically designed to help LLMs assist lawyers in writing legal briefs 🧑‍⚖️ 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2506.06619 🗂️ huggingface.co/datasets/jw4...

One month to go! ⏰ Working on featurization methods - ways to transform LM activations to better isolate causal variables? Submit your work to the Causal Variable Localization Track of the MIB Shared Task!

Working on circuit discovery in LMs? Consider submitting your work to the MIB Shared Task, part of #BlackboxNLP at @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social 2025! The goal: benchmark existing MI methods and identify promising directions to precisely and concisely recover causal pathways in LMs >>

Delighted that ✨Mor Geva (@megamor2.bsky.social) and ✨Anna Ivanova (@neuranna.bsky.social) will complete our speaker line-up and talk about the INTERPLAY of model internals and behavior. Be there and submit by June 30th 📄 shorturl.at/sBomu See you in 🇨🇦 @colmweb.org #nlproc #interpretability

Have you heard about this year's shared task? 📢 Mechanistic Interpretability (MI) is quickly advancing, but comparing methods remains a challenge. This year at #BlackboxNLP, we're introducing a shared task to rigorously evaluate MI methods in language models 🧵

I'm hiring at least one post-doc! We're interested in creating language models that process language more like humans than mainstream LLMs do, through architectural modifications and interpretability-style steering. Express interest here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Hi #NLP community, I'm urgently looking for an emergency reviewer for the ARR Linguistic Theories track. The paper investigates and measures orthography across many languages. Please shoot me a quick email if you can review!

Very useful slack workspace for quickly clarifying any issues wrt. OpenReview interface or the review period in general.

If you're finishing your camera-ready for ACL or ICML and want to cite co-first authors more fairly, I just made a simple fix to do this! Just add $^*$ to the authors' names in your bibtex, and the citations should change :) github.com/tpimentelms/...

Tried steering with SAEs and found that not all features behave as expected? Check out our new preprint - "SAEs Are Good for Steering - If You Select the Right Features" 🧵

Really cool work introducing a gradient-free method for unlearning organically memorized sensitive information from LMs! (we also curate two datasets of organically memorized sensitive information) Check out the 🧵 below and come talk to us at @aclmeeting.bsky.social in Vienna 🍻

🚨New paper at #ACL2025 Findings! REVS: Unlearning Sensitive Information in LMs via Rank Editing in the Vocabulary Space. LMs memorize and leak sensitive data—emails, SSNs, URLs from their training. We propose a surgical method to unlearn it. 🧵👇w/ @boknilev.bsky.social @mtutek.bsky.social 1/8

Our paper "Position-Aware Automatic Circuit Discovery" got accepted to ACL! 🎉 Huge thanks to my collaborators🙏 @hadasorgad.bsky.social @davidbau.bsky.social @amuuueller.bsky.social @boknilev.bsky.social See you in Vienna! 🇦🇹 #ACL2025 @aclmeeting.bsky.social

🚨🚨 Studying the INTERPLAY of LMs' internals and behavior? Join our @colmweb.org workshop on comprehensivly evaluating LMs. Deadline: June 23rd CfP: shorturl.at/sBomu Page: shorturl.at/FT3fX We're excited to see your insights and methods!! See you in Montréal 🇨🇦 #nlproc #interpretability

BlackBoxNLP has a shared task this year based on MIB - if you have circuit or causal variable localization methods you want to showcase, this is the place to show how good they are!

⚠️ Important for #NeurIPS2025 authors: remember that second-order optimization papers CANNOT be submitted under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. It requires "no derivatives."

📢 Planning to submit to EMNLP 2025? Make sure you're up to speed with new ARR policies: 👉 aclrollingreview.org/incentives2025 #NLProc #EMNLP #ARR #ACL (1/2)

Slides available here: docs.google.com/presentation...

If you're at NAACL, come check out what Ana will be talking about!