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Conference on Language Modeling @colmweb.org · 10h

T-40 minutes until the opening session for the third installment of COLM, the biggest COLM ever! Be sure to attend to hear about the outstanding papers, and then we'll go right into our first keynote (@chelseafinn.bsky.social ) and first set of oral presentations!

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Conference on Language Modeling @colmweb.org · 01/10/2026

Coming to COLM next week? The schedule is live at colm.eventhosts.cc/virtual/2026... 5 invited talks, a panel discussion, 24 orals, and 856 posters await! This llama will need plenty of coffee to see all that...

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Conference on Language Modeling @colmweb.org · 31/07/2026

📢 New blog post describing the COLM 2026 PCs’ analyses of AI use in submitted papers. gregdurrett.github.io/colm2026-blo... (temporary home, new COLM website coming soon!)

Title and first few paragraphs of the blog post "AI submissions at COLM: theoryslop, slopterpretability, and papers in the age of agents"

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NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) @nsfsimonscosmicai.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Research highlight! CosmicAI Researchers Wenxuan Ding (NYU), @gregdnlp.bsky.social (NYU) as well as external collaborator Nicholas Tomlin (NYU, TTIC) investigated whether LLM agents like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex can navigate cost-benefit tradeoffs in their actions. youtube.com/shorts/GMZ5z...

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Can LLM agents like Claude Code & OpenAI Codex can navigate cost-benefit tradeoffs in their actions?

YouTube video by NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins

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Greg Durrett @gregdnlp.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Check out Ramya's work on analyzing why and how LLM-generated stories feel homogeneous: the setting you prompt with might be novel but the plot unfolds in a very conventional way. Thread for how we quantified this & compare to existing metrics: 👇

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Conference on Language Modeling @colmweb.org · 31/03/2026

❗The full paper submission deadline for COLM is ~14 hours from now (11:59pm AOE)! Please submit your final PDFs on the same page where you uploaded your abstracts. And please use the provided LaTeX templates; do not handwrite your manuscript like this llama is! Good luck!

A llama sweating while writing a paper at a desk. A sign says "Deadline! March 31 11:59pm AOE"

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Greg Durrett @gregdnlp.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

ICML reviews have you considering this? Please look at our final submission instructions for COLM below!

Image of a llama driving a car taking an exit towards COLM instead of continuing to ICML.

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Greg Durrett @gregdnlp.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Check out Manya's benchmark for LLM creativity! Inspired by work on creativity in graphs (@adtraghunathan.bsky.social 's "roll the dice" paper), CREATE isolates testing of creative insights for discovery. Future: understanding how LLMs derive insights & how they can be better creative partners!

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Greg Durrett @gregdnlp.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Check out Wenxuan's work on cost-uncertainty tradeoffs in agents! Providing different info to the model (here, estimates of its uncertainty) triggers a really different type of reasoning. Agent behavior under a harness reflects what info is included, not just the instructions.

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Greg Durrett @gregdnlp.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Still accepting applications for this postdoc position in my lab at NYU! Applications due Feb 1. Please see the posting below for more information and apply on Interfolio: cims.nyu.edu/taur/postdoc... apply.interfolio.com/178940

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Greg Durrett @gregdnlp.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Submit to COLM! Deadline of March 31. This llama gets to enjoy his holidays and isn't stressed out just yet...

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Greg Durrett @gregdnlp.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Sorry, no, it's an in-person full-time role.

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Ahmad Beirami @abeirami.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Hiring researchers & engineers to work on –building reliable software on top of unreliable LLM primitives –statistical evaluation of real-world deployments of LLM-based systems I’m speaking about this on two NeurIPS workshop panels: 🗓️Saturday – Reliable ML Workshop 🗓️Sunday – LLM Evaluation Workshop

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Greg Durrett @gregdnlp.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

More details here: cims.nyu.edu/taur/postdoc... Interfolio link to apply coming soon! Feel free to email me in the meantime following the instructions there.

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Greg Durrett @gregdnlp.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

📢 Postdoc position 📢 I’m recruiting a postdoc for my lab at NYU! Topics include LM reasoning, creativity, limitations of scaling, AI for science, & more! Apply by Feb 1. (Different from NYU Faculty Fellows, which are also great but less connected to my lab.) Link in 🧵

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Nick Tomlin @nickatomlin.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Two brief advertisements! TTIC is recruiting both tenure-track and research assistant professors: ttic.edu/faculty-hiri... NYU is recruiting faculty fellows: apply.interfolio.com/174686 Happy to chat with anyone considering either of these options

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TTIC Faculty Opportunities at TTIC

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Manya Wadhwa @manyawadhwa.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Unfortunately I won't be at #COLM2025 this week, but please check out our work being presented by my collaborators/advisors! If you are interested in evals of open-ended tasks/creativity please reach out and we can schedule a chat! :)

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Greg Durrett @gregdnlp.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Find my students and collaborators at COLM this week! Tuesday morning: @juand-r.bsky.social and @ramyanamuduri.bsky.social 's papers (find them if you missed it!) Wednesday pm: @manyawadhwa.bsky.social 's EvalAgent Thursday am: @anirudhkhatry.bsky.social 's CRUST-Bench oral spotlight + poster

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Juan Diego Rodriguez @juand-r.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Excited to present this at #COLM2025 tomorrow! (Tuesday, 11:00 AM poster session)

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Greg Durrett @gregdnlp.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Check out this feature about AstroVisBench, our upcoming NeurIPS D&B paper about code workflows and visualization in the astronomy domain! Great testbed for the interaction of code + VLM reasoning models.

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Kanishka Misra @kanishka.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

News🗞️ I will return to UT Austin as an Assistant Professor of Linguistics this fall, and join its vibrant community of Computational Linguists, NLPers, and Cognitive Scientists!🤘 Excited to develop ideas about linguistic and conceptual generalization (recruitment details soon!)

Picture of the UT Tower taken by me on my first day at UT as a postdoc in 2023!

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Greg Durrett @gregdnlp.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Great to work on this benchmark with astronomers in our NSF-Simons CosmicAI institute! What I like about it: (1) focus on data processing & visualization, a "bite-sized" AI4Sci task (not automating all of research) (2) eval with VLM-as-a-judge (possible with strong, modern VLMs)

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The end of US leadership in science, technology, and innovation. All in one little table. A tremendous gift to China, courtesy of the GOP. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

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Greg Durrett @gregdnlp.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Check out Anirudh's work on a new benchmark for C-to-Rust transpilation! 100 realistic-scale C projects, plus target Rust interfaces + Rust tests that let us validate the transpiled code beyond what prior benchmarks allow.

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Anirudh Khatry @anirudhkhatry.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

🚀Meet CRUST-Bench, a dataset for C-to-Rust transpilation for full codebases 🛠️ A dataset of 100 real-world C repositories across various domains, each paired with: 🦀 Handwritten safe Rust interfaces. 🧪 Rust test cases to validate correctness. 🧵[1/6]

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Greg Durrett @gregdnlp.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Check out Manya's work on evaluation for open-ended tasks! The criteria from EvalAgent can be plugged into LLM-as-a-judge or used for refinement. Great tool with a ton of potential, and there's LOTS to do here for making LLMs better at writing!

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Greg Durrett @gregdnlp.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Check out Ramya et al.'s work on understanding discourse similarities in LLM-generated text! We see this as an important step in quantifying the "sameyness" of LLM text, which we think will be a step towards fixing it!

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Juan Diego Rodriguez @juand-r.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Our final South by Semantics lecture at UT Austin is happening on Wednesday April 23!

South by Semantics Workshop
Title: "Not-your-mother's connectionism: LLMs as cognitive models"
Speaker: Ellie Pavlick (Brown University)
Date and time: April 23, 2025. 3:30 - 5 PM.
Location: GDC 6.302

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Greg Durrett @gregdnlp.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Check out @juand-r.bsky.social and @wenxuand.bsky.social 's work on improving generator-validator gaps in LLMs! I really like the formulation of the G-V gap we present, and I was pleasantly surprised by how well the ranking-based training closed the gap. Looking forward to following up in this area!

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

If you're scooping up students off the street for writing op-eds, you're secret police, and should be treated accordingly.

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Juan Diego Rodriguez @juand-r.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I'm excited to announce two papers of ours which will be presented this summer at @naaclmeeting.bsky.social eting.bsky.social and @iclr-conf.bsky.social ! 🧵

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Swarat Chaudhuri @swarat.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Excited about Proofwala, @amitayush.bsky.social's new framework for ML-aided theorem-proving. * Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.04671 * Code: github.com/trishullab/p... Proofwala allows the collection of proof-step data from multiple proof assistants (Coq and Lean) and multilingual training. (1/3)

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Popular or not Dems cannot bend on the need for trans people to be treated with basic humanity and respect. If we give up that because the right made trans people unpopular, we give up everything. They’ll dice us group by group like a salami. We die on this hill or we die alone in a ditch

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/01/2025

Here are just a few of the NSF review panels that were shut down today, Chuck. This is research that would have made us competitive in computer science that will now be delayed by many months if not lost forever. AI is fine but right now the top priority is keeping the lights on at NSF and NIH.

Proposal Review Panel for Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (1194)
Date/Time: January 28, 2025 8:30am – 5:00pm
Contact: Daniel McAdams, 703/292-4654

Proposal Review Panel for Innovation and Technology Ecosystems (84685)
Date/Time: January 28, 2025 12:00pm – 6:00pm
Contact: Alastair Monk, 703/292-8050

Proposal Review Panel for Innovation and Technology Ecosystems (84685)
Date/Time: January 28, 2025 10:00am – 5:00pm
Contact: Henry Ahn, 703/292-8050

Proposal Review Panel for Electrical, Communications, and Cyber Systems (1196)
Date/Time: January 28 - 29, 2025 9:00am – 6:00pm
Contact: Dominique Dagenais, 703/292-2980

Proposal Review Panel for Engineering Education and Centers (173)
Date/Time: January 28 - 29, 2025 8:30am – 5:00pm
Contact: Jesus Soriano Molla, 703/292-7795

Proposal Review Panel for Computer and Network Systems (1207)
Date/Time: January 28 - 29, 2025 8:30am – 5:00pm
Contact: Nan Zhang, 703/292-8950

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Kyle Lo @ COLM2026 @kylelo.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

kicking off 2025 with our OLMo 2 tech report while payin homage to the sequelest of sequels 🫡 🚗 2 OLMo 2 Furious 🔥 is everythin we learned since OLMo 1, with deep dives into: 🚖 stable pretrain recipe 🚔 lr anneal 🤝 data curricula 🤝 soups 🚘 tulu post-train recipe 🚜 compute infra setup 👇🧵

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Greg Durrett @gregdnlp.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Congrats to Prasann and all the other awardees! Full list is here: cra.org/about/awards...

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Taulbee Report 2024

Visit the post for more.

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Greg Durrett @gregdnlp.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Before his post-training work, Prasann did a great project on representing LM outputs with lattices, which remains one of my favorite algorithms-oriented papers from my group in the last few years, with a lot of potential for interesting follow-up work!

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Greg Durrett @gregdnlp.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

He then advanced our understanding of online DPO methods: how can we combine the strengths of reward models and DPO? (also at COLM 2024)

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Greg Durrett @gregdnlp.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

...established a critical weakness of RLHF with open reward models: spurious correlation with length (COLM 2024)

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Greg Durrett @gregdnlp.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Huge congrats to @prasannsinghal.bsky.social for being one of the 8 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award winners! It has been an absolute privilege to work with Prasann during his time at UT. (And he's applying for PhD programs this year...hint hint...) Prasann's work 🧵

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Mor Geva @megamor2.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

What's in an attention head? 🤯 We present an efficient framework – MAPS – for inferring the functionality of attention heads in LLMs ✨directly from their parameters✨ A new preprint with Amit Elhelo 🧵 (1/10)

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Greg Durrett @gregdnlp.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Thanks for the comments! We fine-tune biases only for certain heads, but at both training and inference time, we still have to use the entire network. So it doesn't save inference-time compute.

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Thom Lake @thomlake.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I'm at #Neurips2024 this week! My work (arxiv.org/abs/2406.17692) w/ @gregdnlp.bsky.social & @eunsol.bsky.social exploring the connection between LLM alignment and response pluralism will be at pluralistic-alignment.github.io Saturday. Drop by to learn more!

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Greg Durrett @gregdnlp.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

bsky.app/profile/anam... sorry but you gotta give taylor at least 60% of your poster real estate if you want sota in swiftiness

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Atula Tejaswi @atutej.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Missed out on #Swift tickets? No worries—swing by our #SVFT poster at #NeurIPS2024 and catch *real* headliners! 🎤💃🕺 📌Where: East Exhibit Hall A-C #2207, Poster Session 4 East ⏲️When: Thu 12 Dec, 4:30 PM - 7:30 PM PST #AI #MachineLearning #PEFT #NeurIPS24

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Swarat Chaudhuri @swarat.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

The legendary Putnam math competition had its 85th edition yesterday. Coincidentally, George Tsoukalas will present our paper on PutnamBench, a next-generation #AI4Math benchmark, at #NeurIPS2024 this week: arxiv.org/abs/2407.11214. If you work on frontier AI for math/reasoning, talk to George!

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Greg Durrett @gregdnlp.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I'll be at #NeurIPS2024 w/ - @fcyin.bsky.social's LoFiT: using interp to improve fine-tuning (Weds pm poster & MINT spotlight talk Sun) - @thomlake.bsky.social's analysis of Overton pluralism (Pluralistic alignment Sat) Please reach out to me to chat about interp, factuality, reasoning, &c!

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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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Greg Durrett @gregdnlp.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I should influence before my window closes

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