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Abdelrahman Zayed @abdelzayed.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

A new paper accepted in @colmweb.org COLM 2025! I led a group of 3 brilliant students to dive deep into the problem of discrimination in language models. We discovered that models that take racist decisions don’t always have biased thoughts!

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Gaurav Kamath @grvkamath.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Our new paper in #PNAS (bit.ly/4fcWfma) presents a surprising finding—when words change meaning, older speakers rapidly adopt the new usage; inter-generational differences are often minor. w/ Michelle Yang, ‪@sivareddyg.bsky.social‬ , @msonderegger.bsky.social‬ and @dallascard.bsky.social‬👇(1/12)

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Ziling Cheng @ziling-cheng.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

What do systematic hallucinations in LLMs tell us about their generalization abilities? Come to our poster at #ACL2025 on July 29th at 4 PM in Level 0, Halls X4/X5. Would love to chat about interpretability, hallucinations, and reasoning :) @mcgill-nlp.bsky.social @mila-quebec.bsky.social

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Cesare @cesare-spinoso.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

How can we use models of cognition to help LLMs interpret figurative language (irony, hyperbole) in a more human-like manner? Come to our #ACL2025NLP poster on Wednesday at 11AM (exhibit hall - exact location TBA) to find out! @mcgill-nlp.bsky.social @mila-quebec.bsky.social @aclmeeting.bsky.social

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Cesare @cesare-spinoso.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

A blizzard is raging through Montreal when your friend says “Looks like Florida out there!” Humans easily interpret irony, while LLMs struggle with it. We propose a 𝘳𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭-𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘺-𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 probabilistic framework as a solution. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.09301 to appear @ #ACL2025 (Main)

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Benno Krojer @bennokrojer.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Started a new podcast with @tomvergara.bsky.social ! Behind the Research of AI: We look behind the scenes, beyond the polished papers 🧐🧪 If this sounds fun, check out our first "official" episode with the awesome Gauthier Gidel from @mila-quebec.bsky.social : open.spotify.com/episode/7oTc...

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02 | Gauthier Gidel: Bridging Theory and Deep Learning, Vibes at Mila, and the Effects of AI on Art

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Xing Han Lu @xhluca.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

"Build the web for agents, not agents for the web" This position paper argues that rather than forcing web agents to adapt to UIs designed for humans, we should develop a new interface optimized for web agents, which we call Agentic Web Interface (AWI). arxiv.org/abs/2506.10953

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Badr M. Abdullah, PhD @badralabsi.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

New paper in Interspeech 2025 🚨 @interspeech.bsky.social A Robust Model for Arabic Dialect Identification using Voice Conversion Paper 📝 arxiv.org/pdf/2505.24713 Demo 🎙️https://shorturl.at/rrMm6 #Arabic #SpeechTech #NLProc #AI #Speech #ArabicDialects #Interspeech2025 #ArabicNLP

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Ziling Cheng @ziling-cheng.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Do LLMs hallucinate randomly? Not quite. Our #ACL2025 (Main) paper shows that hallucinations under irrelevant contexts follow a systematic failure mode — revealing how LLMs generalize using abstract classes + context cues, albeit unreliably. 📎 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.22630 1/n

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Mila - Institut québécois d'IA @mila-quebec.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Congratulations to Mila members @adadtur.bsky.social , Gaurav Kamath and @sivareddyg.bsky.social for their SAC award at NAACL! Check out Ada's talk in Session I: Oral/Poster 6. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.05670

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Siva Reddy @sivareddyg.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Ada is an undergrad and will soon be looking for PhDs. Gaurav is a PhD student looking for intellectually stimulating internships/visiting positions. They did most of the work without much of my help. Highly recommend them. Please reach out to them if you have any positions.

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Language Models Largely Exhibit Human-like Constituent Ordering Preferences

Though English sentences are typically inflexible vis-à-vis word order, constituents often show far more variability in ordering. One prominent theory presents the notion that constituent ordering is ...

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Benno Krojer @bennokrojer.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Great work from labmates on LLMs vs humans regarding linguistic preferences: You know when a sentence kind of feels off e.g. "I met at the park the man". So in what ways do LLMs follow these human intuitions?

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Parishad BehnamGhader @parishadbehnam.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Instruction-following retrievers can efficiently and accurately search for harmful and sensitive information on the internet! 🌐💣 Retrievers need to be aligned too! 🚨🚨🚨 Work done with the wonderful Nick and @sivareddyg.bsky.social 🔗 mcgill-nlp.github.io/malicious-ir/ Thread: 🧵👇

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Exploiting Instruction-Following Retrievers for Malicious Information Retrieval

Parishad BehnamGhader, Nicholas Meade, Siva Reddy

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Siva Reddy @sivareddyg.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

How to Get Your LLM to Generate Challenging Problems for Evaluation? 🤔 Check out our CHASE recipe. A highly relevant problem given that most human-curated datasets are crushed within days.

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Fabian David Schmidt @fdschmidt.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Introducing MVL-SIB, a massively multilingual vision-language benchmark for cross-modal topic matching in 205 languages! 🤔Tasks: Given images (sentences), select topically matching sentence (image). Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2502.12852 HF: huggingface.co/datasets/Wue... Details👇

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sienna @hapylilacident.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Y’all we won!!!!!!!!! 🇨🇦

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Yu Lu Liu @liuyulu.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

The submission deadline is in less than a month! We welcome encore submissions, so consider submitting your work regardless of whether it's been accepted or not #chi2025 😉

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Yu Lu Liu @liuyulu.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Human-centered Evalulation and Auditing of Language models (HEAL) workshop is back for #CHI2025, with this year's special theme: “Mind the Context”! Come join us on this bridge between #HCI and #NLProc! Workshop submission deadline: Feb 17 AoE More info at heal-workshop.github.io.

The image includes a shortened call for participation that reads:
"We welcome participants who work on topics related to supporting human-centered evaluation and auditing of language models. Topics of interest include, but not limited to:
- Empirical understanding of stakeholders' needs and goals of LLM evaluation and auditing
- Human-centered evaluation and auditing methods for LLMs
- Tools, processes, and guidelines for LLM evaluation and auditing
- Discussion of regulatory measures and public policies for LLM auditing
- Ethics in LLM evaluation and auditing

Special Theme: Mind the Context. We invite authors to engage with specific contexts in LLM evaluation and auditing. This theme could involve various topics: the usage contexts of LLMs, the context of the evaluation/auditing itself, and more! The term ''context'' is purposefully left open for interpretation!

The image also includes pictures of workshop organizers, who are: Yu Lu Liu, Wesley Hanwen Deng, Michelle S. Lam, Motahhare Eslami, Juho Kim, Q. Vera Liao, Wei Xu, Jekaterina Novikova, and Ziang Xiao.

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McGill NLP @mcgill-nlp.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

It turns out we had even more papers at EMNLP! Let's complete the list with three more🧵

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McGill NLP @mcgill-nlp.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Our lab members recently presented 3 papers at @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social in Miami ☀️ 📜 From interpretability to bias/fairness and cultural understanding -> 🧵

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Yu Lu Liu @liuyulu.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I’m putting together a starter pack for researchers working on human-centered AI evaluation. Reply or DM me if you’d like to be added, or if you have suggestions! Thank you! (It looks NLP-centric at the moment, but that’s due to the current limits of my own knowledge 🙈) go.bsky.app/G3w9LpE

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Caleb Moses @mathematiguy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I didn’t expect to wind up in the news over this but in hindsight, I guess it makes sense lol. This is the first time I’ve been in the Herald since high school 😂.

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