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We're compiling a list of papers testing the abilities of LLMs against humans. Check it out! And you can help contribute too!

look at my new babylm paper! arxiv.org/abs/2609.11870
basically, i initialize token embeddings with representations from an image encoder rather than randomly and then train text-only as usual. kind of a visual demonstration to start off the word learning process

there is this guy on my flight to shanghai sitting next to me checking out the emnlp program and a bunch of papers and his bsky feed is 90% emnlp stuff and on the one hand it would be nice to chat but on the other hand it‘s a 12-hour flight so maybe i it’a better if i focus on my netfix downloads..

I will be attending EMNLP in China to present our paper with @bylinina.bsky.social (who will be in China, too) and Jakub Dotlacil in the BabyLM workshop! Looking forward to meeting people there! ✨ 😊 #EMNLP2025 @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social

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who'll be at emnlp?

got a tiny (approx 50k) grant from NWO to do something about whether (instruction-tuned) lms are an 'agent', a superposition of agents, what's going on there epistemically and also how people interact with these 'personae' -- we'll seeeeee www.nwo.nl/en/researchp...

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Four large Dutch universities, including Leiden University where I work, have decided to throw international psychology bachelor programs under the bus in an effort to appease the rightwing government.

Here's my blog why this is a terrible idea.

eiko-fried.com/cutting-inte...

do we know a pair of base vs. instruct models that are both deployed by an inference provider on hf (or maybe a hf space but less preferable..) AND that don't require students sending their info for the license agreement?

oh wow ok allenai.org/blog/olmotrace

i mean i'd be really surprised if what lms generate as 'reasoning' text faithfully reflected the ways they come up with the answer. like, what would guarantee that

another day another minicons update (potentially a significant one for psycholinguists?)

"Word" scoring is now a thing! You just have to supply your own splitting function!

pip install -U minicons for merriment

you have to tell me which starter pack i apparently suddenly ended up in

the tiny books have arrived

Forthcoming titles in Elements in Semantics: 1. Abzianidze, @bylinina.bsky.social, Paperno Deep Learning and Semantics. 2.K. Davidson Semantics of Depiction, 3. Chatzikyriakidis Cooper, Gregoromichelaki, Sutton Types and the structure of meaning: Issues in compositional and lexical semantics
(2/3)

all invitations i find in my inbox are actually invitations to work a bit more

in order to actually do smth in research directions i'm interested in i need some bandwidth: research time, phd students to work with, experiment budgets. in nl it's getting more and more complicated (for obv reasons): some ways to get phd students are frozen, some grants not announced anymore..

this thing is coming out soon btw! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

linguists? computational linguists? nlp people? semantics people? anybody?