Sophie Hao
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Sophie Hao
@cinnamonlab.ai
Assistant professor of Linguistics and Data Science at Boston University. NLP, computational linguistics, interpretability, social bias and fairness. she/her. https://www.notaphonologist.com/
Re: OpenAI/Anthropic IPO news, a preprint with @lambdaviking.bsky.social

Scaling up training reliably improves LLMs, but it also increases training and inference costs, leading to massive capital expenditure by AI firms. How can we understand what level of LLM scaling is justified economically? 🧵⬇️
June 10, 2026 at 8:45 PM
(1/3) Please check out our new paper with @skgabrie.bsky.social and her amazing students, to appear in #EMNLP2025!

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arxiv.org/abs/2507.05455
ModelCitizens: Representing Community Voices in Online Safety
Automatic toxic language detection is critical for creating safe, inclusive online spaces. However, it is a highly subjective task, with perceptions of toxic language shaped by community norms and liv...
arxiv.org
August 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I keep thinking "Bluesky" is a Slavic patronymic
December 16, 2024 at 5:42 AM
Reposted by Sophie Hao
💬 Have you or a loved one compared LM probabilities to human linguistic acceptability judgments? You may be overcompensating for the effect of frequency and length!
🌟 In our new paper, we rethink how we should be controlling for these factors 🧵:
November 20, 2024 at 6:08 PM