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Ian Magnusson

@ianmagnusson.bsky.social
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Science of language models @uwnlp.bsky.social and @ai2.bsky.social with @PangWeiKoh and @nlpnoah.bsky.social. ianmagnusson.github.io

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David Heineman @davidheineman.com · 19/08/2025
Evaluating language models is tricky, how do we know if our results are real, or due to random chance? We find an answer with two simple metrics: signal, a benchmark’s ability to separate models, and noise, a benchmark’s random variability between training steps 🧵
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Valentin Hofmann @valentinhofmann.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
📢 New #COLM2025 paper 📢 Standard benchmarks give every LLM the same questions. This is like testing 5th graders and college seniors with *one* exam! 🥴 Meet Fluid Benchmarking, a capability-adaptive eval method delivering lower variance, higher validity, and reduced cost. 🧵
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Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
🚀 Introducing Fluid Benchmarking—an adaptive way to evaluate LLMs. Inspired by psychometrics, it tailors which questions to ask based on each model’s capability, making evals more efficient & reliable. 🧵
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Ian Magnusson @ianmagnusson.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
🔭 Science relies on shared artifacts collected for the common good. 🛰 So we asked: what's missing in open language modeling? 🪐 DataDecide 🌌 charts the cosmos of pretraining—across scales and corpora—at a resolution beyond any public suite of models that has come before.
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Jiacheng Liu @liujch1998.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Today we're unveiling OLMoTrace, a tool that enables everyone to understand the outputs of LLMs by connecting to their training data. We do this on unprecedented scale and in real time: finding matching text between model outputs and 4 trillion training tokens within seconds. ✨
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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 06/12/2024
🚨I too am on the job market‼️🤯 I'm searching for faculty positions/postdocs in multilingual/multicultural NLP, vision+language models, and eval for genAI! I'll be at #NeurIPS2024 presenting our work on meta-evaluation for text-to-image faithfulness! Let's chat there! Papers in🧵, see more: saxon.me
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Kyle Lo @kylelo.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
the science of LMs should be fully open✨ today @akshitab.bsky.social @natolambert.bsky.social and I are giving our #neurips2024 tutorial on language model development. everything from data, training, adaptation. published or not, no secrets 🫡 tues, 12/10, 9:30am PT ☕️ neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
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NeurIPS Tutorial Opening the Language Model Pipeline: A Tutorial on Data Preparation, Model Training, and AdaptationNeurIPS 2024
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Stella Li @stellali.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Excited to present MediQ at #NeurIPS ! 📍Stop by my poster: East Exhibit Hall A-C #4805📷 🕚Thu, Dec 12 | 11am–2pm 🗓️tinyurl.com/mediq2024 Love to chat about anything--reasoning, synthetic data, multi-agent interaction, multilingual nlp! Message me if you want to chat☕️🍵🧋
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Jiacheng Liu @liujch1998.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Want to predict the task performance of LMs before pretraining them? We develop task scaling laws and model ladders, which predict the accuracy on individual tasks by OLMo 2 7B & 13B models within 2 points of absolute error. The cost is 1% of the compute used to pretrain them.
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Hamish Ivison @hamishivi.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Excited to be at #NeurIPS next week in 🇨🇦! Please reach out if you want to chat about LM post-training (Tülu!), data curation, or anything else :) I'll be around all week, with two papers you should go check out (see image or next tweet):
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Shayne Longpre @shaynelongpre.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Touching down in Vancouver 🛬 for #NeurIPS2024! I'll be presenting our "Consent in Crisis" work on the 11th: arxiv.org/abs/2407.14933 Reach out to catch up or chat about: - Training data / methods - AI uses & impacts - Multilingual scaling
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Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons
General-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) systems are built on massive swathes of public web data, assembled into corpora such as C4, RefinedWeb, and Dolma. To our knowledge, we conduct the first, ...
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Ian Magnusson @ianmagnusson.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Come chat with me at #NeurIPS2024 and learn about how to use Paloma to evaluate perplexity over hundreds of domains! ✨We have stickers too✨
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Clara Na @clarana.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Building/customizing your own LLM? You'll want to curate training data for it, but how do you know what makes the data good? You can try out recipes👩‍🍳 iterate on ✨vibes✨ but we can't actually test all possible combos of tweaks,,, right?? 🙅‍♂️WRONG! arxiv.org/abs/2410.15661 (1/n) 🧵
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Ian Magnusson @ianmagnusson.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
LMs are used to process text from many topics, styles, dialects, etc., but how well do they do? 📈 Evaluating perplexity on just one corpus like C4 doesn't tell the whole story 📉 ✨📃✨ We introduce Paloma, a benchmark of 585 domains from NY Times to r/depression on Reddit.
Perplexity macro averaged over any domains within each of the 18 top-level data sources in Paloma, using baselines with pretraining controls including decontamination. Evaluating on one monolithic corpus, such as C4, does not tell the complete story of model fit. Paloma lets us see when trends differ from one distribution of language to another. For instance, the 3 baselines trained on only Common Crawl data (C4, mC4-en, Falcon-RefinedWeb) exhibit high perplexity, sometimes with non-monotonic scaling over tokens seen, on specific evaluation sources such as The Pile, Dolma, and Dolma-100-Programming-Languages.
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