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Sophie Hao

@cinnamonlab.ai
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Assistant professor of Linguistics and Data Science at Boston University. NLP, computational linguistics, interpretability, social bias and fairness. she/her. www.notaphonologist.com

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Sophie Hao @cinnamonlab.ai · 10/06/2026
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? 🧵⬇️
A screenshot of the title of a research paper. The title is "A Theory of Training Profit-Optimal LLMs," and the authors are Sophie Hao from Boston University and William Merrill from the Allen Institute of AI.
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Sophie Hao @cinnamonlab.ai · 26/08/2025
(1/3) Please check out our new paper with @skgabrie.bsky.social and her amazing students, to appear in #EMNLP2025! (🚨 Offensive Content Warning) arxiv.org/abs/2507.05455
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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...
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Sophie Hao @cinnamonlab.ai · 16/12/2024
I keep thinking "Bluesky" is a Slavic patronymic
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Lindia Tjuatja @lindiatjuatja.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
💬 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 🧵:
Screenshot of the paper title "What Goes Into a LM Acceptability Judgment? Rethinking the Impact of Frequency and Length"
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