MilaNLP Lab
@milanlp.bsky.social
The Milan Natural Language Processing Group #NLProc #AI
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We're back with the reading group!
Today Lorena Calvo-Bartolomé presented "The Alternative Annotator Test for LLM-as-a-Judge: How to Statistically Justify Replacing Human Annotators with LLMs"
Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...
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Today Lorena Calvo-Bartolomé presented "The Alternative Annotator Test for LLM-as-a-Judge: How to Statistically Justify Replacing Human Annotators with LLMs"
Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...
#NLProc #LLMasajudge
September 10, 2026 at 2:22 PM
We're back with the reading group!
Today Lorena Calvo-Bartolomé presented "The Alternative Annotator Test for LLM-as-a-Judge: How to Statistically Justify Replacing Human Annotators with LLMs"
Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...
#NLProc #LLMasajudge
Today Lorena Calvo-Bartolomé presented "The Alternative Annotator Test for LLM-as-a-Judge: How to Statistically Justify Replacing Human Annotators with LLMs"
Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...
#NLProc #LLMasajudge
It was a pleasure to host @radamihalcea.bsky.social at our weekly lab seminar. Thank you for the inspiring talk and thought-provoking discussion on the importance of the long tail in NLP. We really enjoyed the conversation!
July 30, 2026 at 2:05 PM
It was a pleasure to host @radamihalcea.bsky.social at our weekly lab seminar. Thank you for the inspiring talk and thought-provoking discussion on the importance of the long tail in NLP. We really enjoyed the conversation!
For today's reading group, @veraneplenbroek.bsky.social presented "Old Habits Die Hard: How Conversational History Geometrically Traps LLMs" by Simhi et al. (2026)
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.03308
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Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.03308
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July 16, 2026 at 1:45 PM
For today's reading group, @veraneplenbroek.bsky.social presented "Old Habits Die Hard: How Conversational History Geometrically Traps LLMs" by Simhi et al. (2026)
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.03308
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Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.03308
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🧠🤖 It was a pleasure to host @andreadevarda.bsky.social for his talk, "Large Language Models as Models of Human Language(s) and Higher-Level Cognition." A truly inspiring talk!
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July 13, 2026 at 9:48 AM
🧠🤖 It was a pleasure to host @andreadevarda.bsky.social for his talk, "Large Language Models as Models of Human Language(s) and Higher-Level Cognition." A truly inspiring talk!
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🏆 Congrats to @zeerak.bsky.social and @dirkhovy.bsky.social on the 2016 Test of Time Award! 🎉
"Hateful Symbols or Hateful People? Predictive Features for Hate Speech Detection on Twitter" has shaped research on #hatespeech!
Paper: aclanthology.org/N16-2013/
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"Hateful Symbols or Hateful People? Predictive Features for Hate Speech Detection on Twitter" has shaped research on #hatespeech!
Paper: aclanthology.org/N16-2013/
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July 13, 2026 at 9:27 AM
🏆 Congrats to @zeerak.bsky.social and @dirkhovy.bsky.social on the 2016 Test of Time Award! 🎉
"Hateful Symbols or Hateful People? Predictive Features for Hate Speech Detection on Twitter" has shaped research on #hatespeech!
Paper: aclanthology.org/N16-2013/
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"Hateful Symbols or Hateful People? Predictive Features for Hate Speech Detection on Twitter" has shaped research on #hatespeech!
Paper: aclanthology.org/N16-2013/
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July 10, 2026 at 3:20 PM
For our last reading group, @pranav-nlp.bsky.social presented "Enhancing University Curricula with Integrated AI Ethics Education: A Comprehensive Approach" by Deb et al. (2025)
Link: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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Link: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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July 10, 2026 at 8:38 AM
For our last reading group, @pranav-nlp.bsky.social presented "Enhancing University Curricula with Integrated AI Ethics Education: A Comprehensive Approach" by Deb et al. (2025)
Link: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
#AIEthics #NLProc
Link: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
#AIEthics #NLProc
For today's reading group, @esradonmez.bsky.social presented "RLHF May Not Reflect Genuine Preferences" by Ghafouri et al. (2026).
Interesting thoughts on whether annotations are actually real preferences!
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.03238
#NLProc #RLHF
Interesting thoughts on whether annotations are actually real preferences!
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.03238
#NLProc #RLHF
July 2, 2026 at 10:36 AM
For today's reading group, @esradonmez.bsky.social presented "RLHF May Not Reflect Genuine Preferences" by Ghafouri et al. (2026).
Interesting thoughts on whether annotations are actually real preferences!
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.03238
#NLProc #RLHF
Interesting thoughts on whether annotations are actually real preferences!
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.03238
#NLProc #RLHF
For today's reading group, @marlutz.bsky.social presented "State media control influences large language models" by Waight et al. (2026)
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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June 25, 2026 at 10:56 AM
For today's reading group, @marlutz.bsky.social presented "State media control influences large language models" by Waight et al. (2026)
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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We were honored to welcome Giulia Barbareschi to our lab for an inspiring conversation on inclusive technology and what NLP should learn from it.
Thank you for sharing your insights and vision!
#InclusiveTech #Accessibility #NLProc
Thank you for sharing your insights and vision!
#InclusiveTech #Accessibility #NLProc
June 23, 2026 at 9:49 AM
We were honored to welcome Giulia Barbareschi to our lab for an inspiring conversation on inclusive technology and what NLP should learn from it.
Thank you for sharing your insights and vision!
#InclusiveTech #Accessibility #NLProc
Thank you for sharing your insights and vision!
#InclusiveTech #Accessibility #NLProc
For today's reading group, Urs Zaberer presented "Toward universal steering and monitoring of AI models" by Beaglehole et al. (2026)
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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June 18, 2026 at 10:41 AM
For today's reading group, Urs Zaberer presented "Toward universal steering and monitoring of AI models" by Beaglehole et al. (2026)
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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@taniseceron.bsky.social is presenting her work about political content in pre-training and post-training data at the AI & Society conference.
#AIandSociety #NLProc
#AIandSociety #NLProc
June 12, 2026 at 9:03 AM
@taniseceron.bsky.social is presenting her work about political content in pre-training and post-training data at the AI & Society conference.
#AIandSociety #NLProc
#AIandSociety #NLProc
For today's reading group, @pia-p.bsky.social presented "When Personalization Meets Reality: A Multi-Faceted Analysis of Personalized Preference Learning" by Yijiang River Dong et al. (2025)
Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
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Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
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June 4, 2026 at 12:25 PM
For today's reading group, @pia-p.bsky.social presented "When Personalization Meets Reality: A Multi-Faceted Analysis of Personalized Preference Learning" by Yijiang River Dong et al. (2025)
Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
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Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
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🎉 Excited to welcome Lorena Calvo Bartolomé to our lab!
Her expertise in NLP and signal processing will bring fresh perspectives to our research. She will be working on TOLD, a project exploring voice-based data collection as a richer alternative to written annotation.
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Her expertise in NLP and signal processing will bring fresh perspectives to our research. She will be working on TOLD, a project exploring voice-based data collection as a richer alternative to written annotation.
#NLProc
June 3, 2026 at 7:11 AM
🎉 Excited to welcome Lorena Calvo Bartolomé to our lab!
Her expertise in NLP and signal processing will bring fresh perspectives to our research. She will be working on TOLD, a project exploring voice-based data collection as a richer alternative to written annotation.
#NLProc
Her expertise in NLP and signal processing will bring fresh perspectives to our research. She will be working on TOLD, a project exploring voice-based data collection as a richer alternative to written annotation.
#NLProc
We had the pleasure of hosting @tresiwald.bsky.social and Alireza Salemi at our latest seminar.
Andreas spoke about the reliability of language models through computational argumentation, while Alireza presented his work on personalizing LLMs.
Thank you both for the inspiring talks!
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Andreas spoke about the reliability of language models through computational argumentation, while Alireza presented his work on personalizing LLMs.
Thank you both for the inspiring talks!
#NLProc
June 1, 2026 at 2:52 PM
We had the pleasure of hosting @tresiwald.bsky.social and Alireza Salemi at our latest seminar.
Andreas spoke about the reliability of language models through computational argumentation, while Alireza presented his work on personalizing LLMs.
Thank you both for the inspiring talks!
#NLProc
Andreas spoke about the reliability of language models through computational argumentation, while Alireza presented his work on personalizing LLMs.
Thank you both for the inspiring talks!
#NLProc
Welcome @esradonmez.bsky.social!
We’re excited to have her with us over the next few months, where she’ll be working on pluralistic alignment.
We’re excited to have her with us over the next few months, where she’ll be working on pluralistic alignment.
June 1, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Welcome @esradonmez.bsky.social!
We’re excited to have her with us over the next few months, where she’ll be working on pluralistic alignment.
We’re excited to have her with us over the next few months, where she’ll be working on pluralistic alignment.
For today's reading group, @knewmikel.bsky.social presented "Multitask-Bench: Unveiling and Mitigating Safety Gaps in LLMs Fine- tuning" by Essa Jan et al. (2025)
Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.coling-...
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Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.coling-...
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May 28, 2026 at 11:47 AM
For today's reading group, @knewmikel.bsky.social presented "Multitask-Bench: Unveiling and Mitigating Safety Gaps in LLMs Fine- tuning" by Essa Jan et al. (2025)
Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.coling-...
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Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.coling-...
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May 27, 2026 at 3:31 PM
It was a pleasure to host @marcostranisci.bsky.social and hear about his newly awarded Marie Curie project “DISHARM” - inspiring work and a great discussion!
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May 8, 2026 at 4:28 PM
It was a pleasure to host @marcostranisci.bsky.social and hear about his newly awarded Marie Curie project “DISHARM” - inspiring work and a great discussion!
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Great discussion in today’s reading group! 📚
@a-lauscher.bsky.social presented “Synthetic Eggs in Many Baskets: The Impact of Synthetic Data Diversity on LLM Fine-Tuning”
Link: arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01490
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@a-lauscher.bsky.social presented “Synthetic Eggs in Many Baskets: The Impact of Synthetic Data Diversity on LLM Fine-Tuning”
Link: arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01490
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May 7, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Great discussion in today’s reading group! 📚
@a-lauscher.bsky.social presented “Synthetic Eggs in Many Baskets: The Impact of Synthetic Data Diversity on LLM Fine-Tuning”
Link: arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01490
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@a-lauscher.bsky.social presented “Synthetic Eggs in Many Baskets: The Impact of Synthetic Data Diversity on LLM Fine-Tuning”
Link: arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01490
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📚 For today's reading group Yujie Ren presented "Safe + Safe = Unsafe? Exploring How Safe Images Can Be Exploited to Jailbreak Large Vision-Language Models" by Cui et al.
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.11496
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Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.11496
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April 30, 2026 at 12:55 PM
📚 For today's reading group Yujie Ren presented "Safe + Safe = Unsafe? Exploring How Safe Images Can Be Exploited to Jailbreak Large Vision-Language Models" by Cui et al.
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.11496
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Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.11496
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📚 For today's reading group Serena Pugliese presented "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence" by Cheng et al. (2026)
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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April 23, 2026 at 10:40 AM
📚 For today's reading group Serena Pugliese presented "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence" by Cheng et al. (2026)
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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We were thrilled to host @alexanderhoyle.bsky.social at our lab!
His insightful talk on topic modeling sparked great discussions and fresh perspectives across the team.
Thanks for the visit, we hope to welcome you back soon!
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His insightful talk on topic modeling sparked great discussions and fresh perspectives across the team.
Thanks for the visit, we hope to welcome you back soon!
#NLProc
April 22, 2026 at 10:22 AM
We were thrilled to host @alexanderhoyle.bsky.social at our lab!
His insightful talk on topic modeling sparked great discussions and fresh perspectives across the team.
Thanks for the visit, we hope to welcome you back soon!
#NLProc
His insightful talk on topic modeling sparked great discussions and fresh perspectives across the team.
Thanks for the visit, we hope to welcome you back soon!
#NLProc
We are delighted to welcome @marlutz.bsky.social to our lab over the next few months! 🎉
She'll work on the representation of different demographic groups in LLMs.
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She'll work on the representation of different demographic groups in LLMs.
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April 21, 2026 at 2:39 PM
We are delighted to welcome @marlutz.bsky.social to our lab over the next few months! 🎉
She'll work on the representation of different demographic groups in LLMs.
#NLProc
She'll work on the representation of different demographic groups in LLMs.
#NLProc