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Akari Asai @akariasai.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Honored to be named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2025 in Science! Grateful for the recognition of my Ph.D. work on Retrieval-Augmented LMs, and excited to keep pushing the boundaries of reliable and efficient language models. 🔗 forbes.com/30-under-30/... More updates soon… 👀

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Forbes 30 Under 30 2025: Healthcare & Science

Discovering new worlds, in our cells and outer space.

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Akari Asai @akariasai.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Sad to miss #ICLR2025 this year, but my amazing co-authors will be there in person to present Pangea! neulab.github.io/Pangea/ I’ll be at the Foundation Models for Science conference at Simons Foundation, NYC next week, then heading to NAACL (more details soon). Let’s catch up if you’re around!✨

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Akari Asai @akariasai.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Real user queries often look different from the clean, concise ones in academic benchmarks - ambiguity, full of typos, and much less readable. We show that even strong RAG systems quickly break under these conditions. Awesome project led by @neelbhandari.bsky.social and @tianyucao.bsky.social!!

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Stella Li @stellali.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

31% of US adults use generative AI for healthcare 🤯But most AI systems answer questions assertively—even when they don’t have the necessary context. Introducing #MediQ a framework that enables LLMs to recognize uncertainty🤔and ask the right questions❓when info is missing: 🧵

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Akari Asai @akariasai.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Excited to attend #NeurIPS2024 in person! I’ll be presenting MassiveDS and CopyBench. Details below 🧵👇 Let’s catch up and chat about: - LLMs & Retrieval-Augmented/Augmented LMs - LLM Applications for science (e.g., OpenScholar) & others - Ph.D./faculty apps ...and more!

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Akari Asai @akariasai.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

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 🧵

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Kyle Lo @ COLM2026 @kylelo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

congrats @akariasai.bsky.social: 🔬 retrieval augmented LM for science literature 🧬 open data, weights, index, code, etc ⚗️ new eval suite for science literature tasks 🔭 demo to play w the model encourage checking out to see what scientific LMs can/cant do today w open research artifacts

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Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net · 19/11/2024

Super exciting RAG prototype @akariasai.bsky.social build on top of Semantic Scholar! I love how it returns competent research answers for seemingly out CS domain questions, eg “what’s a bell?” openscholar.allen.ai/query/69cf13... it’s good in domain too 😉

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work with me at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for creative students with interests in #NLP and #CulturalAnalytics. Boulder is a lovely college town 30 minutes from Denver and 1 hour from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎 Apply by December 15th!

A photo of Boulder, Colorado, shot from above the university campus and looking toward the Flatirons.

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Akari Asai @akariasai.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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

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