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Kate Sanders

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Researcher at Microsoft Copilot Tuning. Cal alum, Ph.D. @ JHU CLSP. #NLProc katesanders9.github.io

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Marco @mcognetta.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 15/06/2026
you're telling me a desk rejected this paper
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MAGMaR Workshop @magmar-workshop.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
This year's shared task allows you to submit for the retrieval track, generation track, or full RAG track on a challenging new collection of unedited ("raw") videos. Research Papers (Apr. 1) Shared Task (Apr. 20)
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MAGMaR Workshop @magmar-workshop.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
📹 + 🧠 + 📝 = 🔥 First call for MAGMaR 2026, the 2nd workshop on multimodal augmented generation via multimodal retrieval! If #RAG isn't hard enough for you, try multilingually and multimodally. Collocated with @aclmeeting in San Diego in July. nlp.jhu.edu/magmar/
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Kate Sanders @kesnet50.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Will be presenting Bonsai on Thursday, 1/22 at the morning talks session and noon poster session: arxiv.org/pdf/2504.03640
Bonsai poster
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Kate Sanders @kesnet50.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I will be at AAAI 2026 in Singapore next week! ✈️ I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's cool projects and discussing reasoning, post-training, and multimodality. Please reach out if you will be there and would like to connect.
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Mayank Mehta @mayankmehta.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Bye bye 2025, a divisive year, with many divisors: 3, 5, 9, 15, 25, 27, 45, 75, 81, 135, 225, 405, 675. Happy 2026 = 2*1013 Just two primes Cheers!
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Kate Sanders @kesnet50.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Thinking about my favorite amp today 😔❤️
Eleven, eleven, eleven, eleven..
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Krithika Ramesh @stolenpyjak.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
🚀 SynthTextEval, our open-source toolkit for generating and evaluating synthetic text data for high-stakes domains, will be featured at EMNLP 2025 as a system demonstration! GitHub: github.com/kr-ramesh/sy... Paper 📝: aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-d... #EMNLP2025 #EMNLP #SyntheticData
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GitHub - kr-ramesh/synthtexteval: SynthTextEval: A Toolkit for Generating and Evaluating Synthetic Data Across Domains (EMNLP 2025 System Demonstration)
SynthTextEval: A Toolkit for Generating and Evaluating Synthetic Data Across Domains (EMNLP 2025 System Demonstration) - kr-ramesh/synthtexteval
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
In honor of some new people coming from AI twitter, I finally updated my post to recommend For You over Discover.
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
A company that believed it was in the verge of AGI or ASI wouldn’t capitulate to the government because it wouldn’t care about government contracts. They would soon BE the economy and the government would soon be capitulating to them.
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Cameron Ellis @camerontellis.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Astronaut meme: "Wait, it's all perception?" "Always has been"
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Conference on Language Modeling @colmweb.org · 22/09/2025
Keynote spotlight #4: the second day of COLM will close with @ghadfield.bsky.social from JHU talking about human society alignment, and lessons for AI alignment
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Cornell Tech @cornelltech.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Congratulations to Alane Suhr '22, a #CornellTech Ph.D. #alumni advised by associate professor Yoav Artzi, for receiving the prestigious 2022 @aaai.org / @acmsigai.bsky.social Doctoral Dissertation Award! Read more about the award here: aaai.org/about-aaai/a... @yoavartzi.com
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AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award - AAAI
The AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award recognizes and encourages superior research and writing by doctoral candidates in AI.
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity 2004: A year 2010: ~ a month 2015: ~ a week Now: A day ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪
Line chart showing that there's been a rapid escalation in how quickly the world installs a gigawatt of solar power capacity.
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
🚨 Urban Stats 28.0.0 🚨 The mapper is now completely redesigned by me and @spudwaffle.bsky.social, allowing for much prettier looking maps and way more customization alongside significantly more options for geographies! See below for some of the examples of the maps you can create!
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Yoav Goldberg @yoavgo.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
When reading AI reasoning text (aka CoT), we (humans) form a narrative about the underlying computation process, which we take as a transparent explanation of model behavior. But what if our narratives are wrong? We measure that and find it usually is. Now on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2508.16599
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Humans Perceive Wrong Narratives from AI Reasoning Texts
A new generation of AI models generates step-by-step reasoning text before producing an answer. This text appears to offer a human-readable window into their computation process, and is increasingly r...
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Daniel Khashabi @danielkhashabi.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.22037 🔗 Project page: aka.ms/jailbreak-d... 📊 Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/ja...
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jackzhang/JBDistill-Bench · Datasets at Hugging Face
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Daniel Khashabi @danielkhashabi.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
So, what's the future of AI safety benchmarks? Jack's solution is "renewable benchmarks" that allows us to refresh and expand benchmarks with a single click!! x.com/jackjingyuz...
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Rachel Flood Heaton @rachelfloodheaton.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
In our forthcoming paper, John Hummel and I ask what it would mean for a neural computing architecture such as a brain to implement a symbol system, and the related question of what makes it difficult for them to do so, with an eye toward the differences between humans, animals, and ANNs.
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From Basic Affordances to Symbolic Thought: A Computational Phylogenesis of Biological Intelligence
What is it about human brains that allows us to reason symbolically whereas most other animals cannot? There is evidence that dynamic binding, the ability to combine neurons into groups on the fly, is...
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Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
This paper is making the rounds: arxiv.org/abs/2506.21734 A tiny (27M) brain-inspired model trained just on 1000 samples outperforming o3-mini-high on reasoning tasks. #MLSky 🧠🤖
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Parth Nobel @ptnobel.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Interested in large-scale GPU optimization? Interested in how modern neural networks are being deployed to solve classical optimization problems? Writing a paper on these topics? Submit to the ScaleOPT workshop at NeurIPS! www.cvxgrp.org/scaleopt/#su...
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Arya McCarthy @aryamccarthy.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I'm recruiting MLEs @ #ACL2025! Reach out if you know folks interested in legal NLP, structured prediction, and full-time at a startup environment in NYC I'll also always chat about: • population-level inference on corpora • broad-coverage semantics • which café has the best Sachertorte in Vienna
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Jordan Boyd-Graber @boydgraber.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
My students and I are presenting three papers on Monday at #ACL2025 and this thread will recap them (including their videos).
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Tu Thanh Ha @tuthanhha.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”
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Kate Sanders @kesnet50.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Taking off for Vienna #ACL2025! 🇦🇹 Excited to talk with people about transparent reasoning, multimodality, and fact verification. Stop by our multimodal RAG workshop on Friday 🔥🔥🔥 Please reach out if you want to grab coffee!
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The #ACL2025 #ACL2025NLP feed is up and running! It matches both hashtags and any posts from or mentions of @aclmeeting.bsky.social Pin it to your home 📌 and enjoy! bsky.app/profile/did:...
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Juxtastat DAU update! Crazy how we've been >1000 every day for over a year now! Thank you all for all your support, and make sure to keep spreading the word!
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ACL 2027 @aclmeeting.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
🥳 🎉 ❤️ The ACL 2025 Proceedings are live on the ACL Anthology 🥰 ! We’re thrilled to pre-celebrate the incredible research 📚 ✨ that will be presented starting Monday next week in Vienna 🇦🇹 ! Start exploring 👉 aclanthology.org/events/acl-2... #NLProc #ACL2025NLP #ACLAnthology
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Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2025) - ACL Anthology
pdf bibProceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)Wanxiang Che | Joyce Nabende | Ekaterina Shutova | Mohammad Taher Pilehvar
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
This New Yorker piece is the most hopeful I've felt about the world in a long time. I had no idea solar was booming like this. And if you live in the same world as me, dominated by oil & gas guys maintaining that solar and wind are inefficient gimmicks, you might not've known some of this either.
It took from the invention of the photovoltaic solar cell, in 1954, until 2022 for the world to install a terawatt of solar power; the second terawatt came just two years later, and the third will arrive either later this year or early next.
That’s because people are now putting up a gigawatt’s worth of solar panels, the rough equivalent of the power generated by one coal-fired plant, every fifteen hours. Solar power is now growing faster than any power source in history, and it is closely followed by wind power—which is really another form of energy from the sun, since it is differential heating of the earth that produces the wind that turns the turbines.
Last year, ninety-six per cent of the global demand for new electricity was met by renewables, and in the United States ninety-three per cent of new generating capacity came from solar, wind, and an ever-increasing variety of batteries to store that power.
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Niyati Bafna @niyatibafna.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
🔈When LLMs solve tasks with a mid-to-low resource input or target language, their output quality is poor. We know that. But can we put our finger on what breaks inside the LLM? We introduce the 💥 translation barrier hypothesis 💥 for failed multilingual generation with LLMs. arxiv.org/abs/2506.22724
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
I wrote something up for AI people who want to get into bluesky and either couldn't assemble an exciting feed or gave up doomscrolling when their Following feed switched to talking politics 24/7.
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The AI Researcher's Guide to a Non-Boring Bluesky Feed | Naomi Saphra
How to migrate to bsky without a boring feed.
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Leland McInnes @lelandmcinnes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Explore Wikipedia through a data map. Pages are grouped by semantic similarity, for topic clusters. Hover to see details, zoom to explore more fine-grained topics, click to go to a page. Search by page name to find interesting starting points for exploration. lmcinnes.github.io/datamapplot_...
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arxiv cs.CL @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
William Walden, Kathryn Ricci, Miriam Wanner, Zhengping Jiang, Chandler May, Rongkun Zhou, Benjamin Van Durme How Grounded is Wikipedia? A Study on Structured Evidential Support arxiv.org/abs/2506.12637
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Kaiser Sun @kaiserwholearns.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
What happens when an LLM is asked to use information that contradicts its knowledge? We explore knowledge conflict in a new preprint📑 TLDR: Performance drops, and this could affect the overall performance of LLMs in model-based evaluation.📑🧵⬇️ 1/8 #NLProc #LLM #AIResearch
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What Is Seen Cannot Be Unseen: The Disruptive Effect of Knowledge Conflict on Large Language Models
Large language models frequently rely on both contextual input and parametric knowledge to perform tasks. However, these sources can come into conflict, especially when retrieved documents contradict…
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JHU Computer Science @jhucompsci.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Learn about the groundbreaking work being presented by JHU researchers at @cvprconference.bsky.social’s #CVPR2025! Check out the full list here www.cs.jhu.edu/news/johns-h... or browse through the thread below! 🧵 (1/14)
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Johns Hopkins researchers to highlight work at CVPR 2025
Researchers from the Department of Computer Science will present groundbreaking work at the IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, the premier annual computer vision event.
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Niyati Bafna @niyatibafna.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
We know that speech LID systems flunk on accented speech. But why? And what can we do about it? 🤔 Our work arxiv.org/abs/2506.00628 (Interspeech '25) finds that *accent-language confusion* is an important culprit, ties it to the length of feature that the model relies on, and proposes a fix.
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Kate Sanders @kesnet50.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Excited to announce that I'm working on a project at AWS in New York this summer! Reach out if you're in the area and want to grab coffee 😀
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/04/2025
@npr.org for every minute spent talking to a non-autistic person about autistic people's needs, you should be giving at least 2x that amount to actually autistic people— & not just in written stories, but on-air. Apply said rubric to any other group under attack right now for their lived realities.
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Kate Sanders @kesnet50.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
We had a ton of fun last summer hacking away on this problem at the SCALE 2024 summer workshop. This summer, we're bringing it to Vienna as an ACL 2025 shared task!
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MAGMaR Workshop @magmar-workshop.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
🚨 IT'S HERE! 🚨 The Eval Leaderboard is now LIVE! 🏆💻 Our video retrieval collection stumps most pre-trained models. See if you can build a better system! eval.ai/web/challeng...
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EvalAI: Evaluating state of the art in AI
EvalAI is an open-source web platform for organizing and participating in challenges to push the state of the art on AI tasks.
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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
First draft online version of The RLHF Book is DONE. Recently I've been creating the advanced discussion chapters on everything from Constitutional AI to evaluation and character training, but I also sneak in consistent improvements to the RL specific chapter. rlhfbook.com
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
THIS IS ONE NEURON! Jaw dropping. It distributes a particular neurotransmitter (norepinephrine) across the mouse brain; it’s a locus coeruleus neuron. @jeremiahycohen.bsky.social and colleagues at the @alleninstitute.bsky.social are using new biotech to see things never seen before.
Jeremiah Cohen standing in front of a giant green neuron.
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Will Smith @willsmithvision.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
So, we wrote a neural net library entirely in LaTeX...
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Kate Sanders @kesnet50.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Thank you! 🙂
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Kate Sanders @kesnet50.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This work was done at Johns Hopkins University @jhuclsp with my advisor, @ben_vandurme. I'd also like to thank my labmates, who provided excellent feedback and advice. Check out the full paper here! arxiv.org/abs/2504.03640
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Bonsai: Interpretable Tree-Adaptive Grounded Reasoning
To develop general-purpose collaborative agents, humans need reliable AI systems that can (1) adapt to new domains and (2) transparently reason with uncertainty to allow for verification and correctio...
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Kate Sanders @kesnet50.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Bonsai's compositional reasoning trees enable human-in-the-loop editing and sophisticated counterfactual reasoning. It matches or outperforms transparent and black-box systems on multiple benchmarks, demonstrating that transparency does not entail low performance.
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Kate Sanders @kesnet50.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Bonsai accounts for uncertainty by assigning scalar likelihood scores to claims. It uses an iterative "anchor-and-adjust" paradigm that naturally integrates with chain-of-thought. Experiments suggest that this improves human judgment alignment over simpler methods:
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Kate Sanders @kesnet50.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Bonsai transparently reasons over a wide variety of grounding sources, including transcripts, photographs, videos, audio, and databases. It uses a flexible evidence extraction framework to convert these sources into a straightforward information bank.
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Kate Sanders @kesnet50.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
🚨 New preprint on transparent, tree-adaptive grounded reasoning! We introduce Bonsai, a versatile reasoning system that generates interpretable, grounded, and uncertainty-aware reasoning traces while enabling state-of-the-art performance on text and video benchmarks.
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