Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

I finally finished it! www.victorzhong.com/writing/refl...

We would like to extend our warmest thanks to the organizing committee @sivareddyg.bsky.social, Dawn Song, @yoshuabengio.bsky.social, Alane Suhr, @chrisjpal.bsky.social, @yusu-agent.bsky.social and @vzhong.bsky.social.

Do you have a PhD (or equivalent) or will have one in the coming months (i.e. 2-3 months away from graduating)? Do you want to help build open-ended agents that help humans do humans things better, rather than replace them? We're hiring 1-2 Research Scientists! Check the 🧵👇

I think in retrospect ARR might have been a bad idea. Am I hallucinating or is there an exodus of junior NLP researchers from *ACL into ML conferences and COLM?

Are you an established professor in AI open to moving to the University of Waterloo? Please DM me directly!

Flying out of DCA for the first time and I gotta say - this has ought to be one of the worst airports in North America… so cramped people are literally sitting on the ground or standing shoulder to shoulder

This is how digital feudalism works. It offers the illusion of empowerment. Likes become validation. Followers feel like influence. Monetisation looks like success. But the rules are hidden. The platform decides what rises and what vanishes.

Is Best-of-N really the best we can do for language model inference? New paper (appearing at ICML) led by the amazing Audrey Huang (ahahaudrey.bsky.social) with Adam Block, Qinghua Liu, Nan Jiang, and Akshay Krishnamurthy (akshaykr.bsky.social). 1/11

Incredible lineup of speakers at #CUA #WORKSHOP @ #ICML2025! Speakers part 3/3: Qingyun Wu (Penn State University) @qingyunwu.bsky.social Zhiyong Wu (Shanghai AI Lab) Victor Zhong (University of Waterloo, Vector Institute) @vzhong.bsky.social

Teaching for the first time: I finished the last official lecture of the class and got a surprise round of applause! Feels so great!

A bit of a mess around the conflict of COLM with the ARR (and to lesser degree ICML) reviews release. We feel this is creating a lot of pressure and uncertainty. So, we are pushing our deadlines: Abstracts due March 22 AoE (+48hr) Full papers due March 28 AoE (+24hr) Plz RT 🙏

We've kept pushing our Open-R1 project, an open initiative to replicate and extend the techniques behind DeepSeek-R1 And even we were mind-blown by the results we got with this latest model we're releasing: ⚡️OlympicCoder [1/3]

#InternationalWomensDay is a time to promote women’s equity by celebrating women’s achievements, raising awareness about discrimination and taking action to forge gender parity. Meet some of the exceptional women in Science who are helping to #AccelerateAction: bit.ly/3XCAft9 @uwaterloo.ca

Report: CANADA! CANADA! CANADA! CANADA! CANADA! CANADA!

The democratization and commoditization of foundation models is happening and will continue to happen - regulation will not slow nor stop it. Secrecy, propriety moats, and trade embargoes may succeed briefly in AI, but they will fail. And when they do, they will likely fail hard.

📣 Big news for sustainability in tech! 🔋 CS Professor Martin Karsten and his collaborators Peter Cai and Joe Damato have developed a small modification to the Linux kernel — now part of Linux 6.13 — that could cut energy use in data centres by up to 30%. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cherito...

#AI hallucinations are a problem; #UWAllen Ph.D. student @akariasai.bsky.social may have the answer. She was named a @techreviewjp.bsky.social Innovator Under 35 for her work to make #LLMs more transparent and useful—without making stuff up. #IU35 #AIforGood news.cs.washington.edu/2025/01/07/w...

Sadly, we have lost a brilliant researcher and colleague, Felix Hill. Please see this note, where I have tried to compile some of his writings: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Shoutout to the Pearson Air Canada lost+found folks.. Got in exhausted after a ~24 hour journey and realized at 11pm that I forgot my laptop in seat stowage. Filed a claim 11pm and received found notice 5am. Bussed to airport and recovered at 8am. Would have lost my lecture notes and talk slides!

bye, felix kyunghyuncho.me/bye-felix/

Terrible tragedy. Douwe posted this on X: x.com/douwekiela/s... With a link and details about the service London: > his family have asked to share this webpage for the celebration of his life: pp.events/felix

Faculty position doing AI for materials discovery! Come join us at the @uoftmse @uoft.bsky.social jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Plenty of exciting opportunities in the GTA and with @acceleration_c and @vectorinst.bsky.social in particular! Please share and retweet!

feeling a but under the weather this week … thus an increased level of activity on social media and blog: kyunghyuncho.me/i-sensed-anx...

I'll get straight to the point. We trained 2 new models. Like BERT, but modern. ModernBERT. Not some hypey GenAI thing, but a proper workhorse model, for retrieval, classification, etc. Real practical stuff. It's much faster, more accurate, longer context, and more useful. 🧵

Are you on the faculty market for data systems, ML, or CV? We have 6 (SIX!) spots at UWaterloo CS. If you are at NeurIPS please reach out - I'd love to talk to you!

I will be at NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver Dec 9-13. Please let me know if you'd like to learn more about r2llab.com or discuss potential collaborations. We will present 3 works around evaluating and building general-purpose language agents:

Excited to reveal Genie 2, our most capable foundation world model that, given a single prompt image, can generate an endless variety of action-controllable, playable 3D worlds. Fantastic cross-team effort by the Open-Endedness Team and many other teams at Google DeepMind! 🧞

I will be in Vancouver for NeurIPS Dec 9-13. Please let me know if you’d like to catch up!

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 🧵

If you're potentially interested in transitioning into AI safety research, come collaborate with my team at Anthropic! Funded fellows program for researchers new to the field here: alignment.anthropic.com/2024/anthrop...

If you are interested in applying to grad school in ML/NLP, and are interested in our work in feedback learning, semantic evaluation, and test-time adaptation, please consider applying at r2llab.com/opening. DDL Dec 1! I'll also be presenting recent works on language agents at NeurIPS in Vancouver.

Are you on the job market? Our department at the University of Waterloo is hiring for multiple tenure track positions in CS, please apply here! Feel free to DM me with questions. cs.uwaterloo.ca/tenure-track...

1/ Introducing ᴏᴘᴇɴꜱᴄʜᴏʟᴀʀ: a retrieval-augmented LM to help scientists synthesize knowledge 📚 @uwnlp.bsky.social & Ai2 With open models & 45M-paper datastores, it outperforms proprietary systems & match human experts. Try out our demo! openscholar.allen.ai

If you are interested in applying to grad school in ML/NLP, and are interested in our work in feedback learning, semantic evaluation, and test-time adaptation, please consider applying at r2llab.com/opening. DDL Dec 1! I'll also be presenting recent works on language agents at NeurIPS in Vancouver.

Hi Bluesky! I am a assistant professor at the University of Waterloo. My lab r2llab.com explores how to improve ML efficiency and generalization using language understanding. I am not super active on social media, but do post occasionally to share our work. Here's what we work on 🧵

Well hello #machinelearning #nlp! Certainly seems like there is a very noticeable migration from X recently!