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Ben Lipkin

@benlipkin.bsky.social
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researcher. prev: mit, apple, umich benlipkin.github.io

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Ev Fedorenko @evfedorenko.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I am so excited about this finding from @pengrui-han.bsky.social and @andreadevarda.bsky.social, also with Jacob Andreas! Perhaps modularity is inevitable in intelligent systems, biological or in silico. :)
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Greta Tuckute @gretatuckute.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Humans largely learn language through speech. In contrast, most LLMs learn from pre-tokenized text. In our #Interspeech2025 paper, we introduce AuriStream: a simple, causal model that learns phoneme, word & semantic information from speech. Poster P6, tomorrow (Aug 19) at 1:30 pm, Foyer 2.2!
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Hope Kean @hopekean.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Is the Language of Thought == Language? A Thread 🧵 New Preprint (link: tinyurl.com/LangLOT) with @alexanderfung.bsky.social, Paris Jaggers, Jason Chen, Josh Rule, Yael Benn, @joshtenenbaum.bsky.social, ‪@spiantado.bsky.social‬, Rosemary Varley, @evfedorenko.bsky.social 1/8
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Evidence from Formal Logical Reasoning Reveals that the Language of Thought is not Natural Language
Humans are endowed with a powerful capacity for both inductive and deductive logical thought: we easily form generalizations based on a few examples and draw conclusions from known premises. Humans al...
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Thomas Hikaru Clark @thomashikaru.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
1/7 If you're at CogSci 2025, I'd love to see you at my talk on Friday 1pm PDT in Nob Hill A! I'll be talking about our work towards an implemented computational model of noisy-channel comprehension (with @postylem.bsky.social, Ted Gibson, and @rplevy.bsky.social).
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Ben Lipkin @benlipkin.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Many LM applications may be formulated as text generation conditional on some (Boolean) constraint. Generate a… - Python program that passes a test suite. - PDDL plan that satisfies a goal. - CoT trajectory that yields a positive reward. The list goes on… How can we efficiently satisfy these? 🧵👇
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João Loula @joaoloula.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
#ICLR2025 Oral How can we control LMs using diverse signals such as static analyses, test cases, and simulations? In our paper “Syntactic and Semantic Control of Large Language Models via Sequential Monte Carlo” (w/ @benlipkin.bsky.social, @alexlew.bsky.social, @xtimv.bsky.social) we:
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Kyle Mahowald @kmahowald.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I might be able to hire a postdoc for this fall in computational linguistics at UT Austin. Topics in the general LLM + cognitive space (particularly reasoning, chain of thought, LLMs + code) and LLM + linguistic space. If this could be of interest, feel free to get in touch!
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JHU Computer Science @jhucompsci.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Jason Eisner & Li Du’s “Syntactic and semantic control of large language models via sequential Monte Carlo” with @joaoloula.bsky.social, @benlipkin.bsky.social, @yahyaemara.bsky.social, @alexlew.bsky.social, @xtimv.bsky.social, & more presents an architecture for controlled LM generation: (11/12)
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Syntactic and Semantic Control of Large Language Models via...
A wide range of LM applications require generating text that conforms to syntactic or semantic constraints. Imposing such constraints can be naturally framed as _probabilistic conditioning_, but...
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Colton Casto @coltoncasto.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
New paper! 🧠 **The cerebellar components of the human language network** with: @hsmall.bsky.social @moshepoliak.bsky.social @gretatuckute.bsky.social @benlipkin.bsky.social @awolna.bsky.social @aniladmello.bsky.social and @evfedorenko.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n 🧵
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The cerebellar components of the human language network
The cerebellum's capacity for neural computation is arguably unmatched. Yet despite evidence of cerebellar contributions to cognition, including language, its precise role remains debated. Here, we sy...
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Ben Lipkin @benlipkin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
New preprint on controlled generation from LMs! I'll be presenting at NENLP tomorrow 12:50-2:00pm Longer thread coming soon :)
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Greta Tuckute @gretatuckute.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I defended my PhD at MIT Brain&Cog last week--so much gratitude to my advisor @evfedorenko.bsky.social, as well as my committee @nancykanwisher.bsky.social, @joshhmcdermott.bsky.social and Yoon Kim. Thank you to all my brilliant collaborators and the MIT community. I have loved this journey so much.
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Alex Lew @alexlew.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
If you're interested in a PhD at the intersection of machine learning and programming languages, consider applying to Yale CS! We're exploring new approaches to building software that draws inferences and makes predictions. See alexlew.net for details & apply at gsas.yale.edu/admissions/ by Dec. 15
Probabilistic and differentiable programming at Yale — fully funded PhD positions starting Fall 2025! Apply by Dec. 15.

Do a PhD at the rich intersection of programming languages and machine learning.
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Ben Lipkin @benlipkin.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Lots of folks talking about scaling LLM inference over this last year Internally, I’ve been developing and using a library that makes this extremely easy, and I decided to open-source it Meet the decoding library: github.com/benlipkin/de... 1/7
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GitHub - benlipkin/decoding: Composable inference algorithms with LLMs and programmable logic
Composable inference algorithms with LLMs and programmable logic - benlipkin/decoding
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Robert Hawkins @rdhawkins.bsky.social · 05/09/2023
✨ Now out in Psychological Review! ✨ We present a new account of relevance that weighs both *epistemic* and *decision-theoretic* utility: statements are relevant if they improve the accuracy of listener’s beliefs *and* their future decision-making. www.tedsumers.info/_files/ugd/2...
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Anna (Anya) Ivanova @neuranna.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
First post and big news - I am starting as an Assistant Professor in Psychology at Georgia Tech in Jan 2024! www.language-intelligence-thought.net
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LIT Lab
Our goal is to understand the relationship between language and human thought. How does the language network in the brain interact with other systems to interpret meaning in the world? Can models...
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Jennifer Hu @jennhu.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
To researchers doing LLM evaluation: prompting is *not a substitute* for direct probability measurements. Check out the camera-ready version of our work, to appear at EMNLP 2023! (w/ @rplevy.bsky.social) Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2305.13264 Original thread: twitter.com/_jennhu/stat...
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Cory Shain @coryshain.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
👋Hi #bsky! Just wanted to let everyone know I'll be arriving at #Stanford in fall of 2024 and I'm looking for awesome people to help me figure out language. I'm new here my network is small, so RTs would be great! 🧵👇
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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
🚀 We've officially landed on Bluesky! Excited to join this vibrant new platform and (re)connect with all of you! 🗣️💬 Help us spread the word by retweeting and following.
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