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Noah A. Smith

@nlpnoah.bsky.social
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Researcher in NLP, ML, computer music. Prof @uwcse @uwnlp & helper @allen_ai @ai2_allennlp & familiar to two cats. Single reeds, tango, swim, run, cocktails, מאַמע־לשון, GenX. Opinions not your business.

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Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Announcing Olmo 3, a leading fully open LM suite built for reasoning, chat, & tool use, and an open model flow—not just the final weights, but the entire training journey. Best fully open 32B reasoning model & best 32B base model. 🧵
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Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
"We are committed to our fully open ethos. That's why we release everything—weights, code, training data, checkpoints, all of it." — @nlpnoah.bsky.social at the Madrona IA Summit last week.
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Allen School @uwcse.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
#UWAllen prof @nlpnoah.bsky.social will be the new vice provost for artificial intelligence and Charles & Lisa Simonyi Endowed Chair for Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Technologies thanks to a $10M gift supporting @uofwa.bsky.social's global leadership in #AI. www.washington.edu/news/2025/11...
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$10M gift from Charles and Lisa Simonyi establishes AI@UW to advance artificial intelligence and emerging technologies
The University of Washington today announced a foundational $10 million gift from philanthropists Charles and Lisa Simonyi to support groundbreaking work in artificial intelligence and emerging...
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
a suicide note: I only logged in 200 times because your shitty system kept logging me out now a simple reviewing task has become endless I cannot do this again farewell @openreview.bsky.social
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
if you don't appreciate this joke, please unfollow me
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
why must millennials put emoji on everything
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Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
RewardBench 2 is here! We took a long time to learn from our first reward model evaluation tool to make one that is substantially harder and more correlated with both downstream RLHF and inference-time scaling.
The RewardBench 2 Leaderboard on HuggingFace.
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Alex גדעון בן װעלװל @jewishwonk.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I am furious about the news out of Colorado of Jews being lit on fire for the crime of calling for hostages to be released. I am furious at how dirtbag leftists on this website and elsewhere treat this as a game where violence against American Jews is justified if we aren't good tokens.
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Congratulations to @yizhongw.bsky.social, who successfully defended his PhD thesis today! Advised by @hanna-nlp.bsky.social and me.
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
trying to decide whether to go to Vienna in late July (there's a formerly-AI conference happening there and I might want to see some friends who still go) maybe you can help me decide who's going to be there and wants to rent a place and play music together
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
(I don't know why this will never get old) *upload photo of anyone at all to Molmo, type "where is the scientist?"* Molmo: I don't see a scientist here
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
the economist called us losers and we ... rolled our eyes because their argument is behind a paywall Gen X (at its best) doesn't feed trolls
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Why Gen X is the real loser generation
Don’t cry for millennials or Gen Z. Save your pity for those in their 50s
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
it's always glutes
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
used a LM to diagnose a medical problem, figure out steps to get treatment with minimal phone calls and time wasted waiting for healthcare providers to perform administrative tasks (1/n)
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
intellectually I get that his name is "Robert Prevost" but in my head I can't not hear it as "Ford Prefect"
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
before we get to their math, can someone explain how modern politicians choose to capitalize words? is there any rhyme or reason to it, or is it just a new version of boomer-random?
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
"When we erode the boundaries between the academic and the political, we ultimately harm both."
nytimes.com
Opinion | How About We Don’t Bring Our Whole Selves to Work?
Politics has no place at universities or in the classroom.
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
always hold these two thoughts in your mind when considering evaluation of AI systems: 1. rigorous evaluation is essential; we must not go back to the 1980s (anecdote world) 2. continuous improvement to eval methodology is essential; evaluations are usually broken in ways worth fixing
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
protip: the less you reply, the less email you get
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
True story: the NLP community elected the person holding this position to the presidency of our professional society. Let's take the greatest, most impactful thing to come out of our little world and shit all over it! It's the Tr*mp presidency in miniature
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
where's Johns Hopkins?
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A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U
A Call for Constructive Engagement
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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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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
new work on test-time alignment using MCMC
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Gonçalo Faria on X: "Introducing 𝗤𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻🚀, a 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁-𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱 that improves language model performance using Markov chain Monte Carlo. With no model retraining, 𝗤𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻 outperforms DPO-tuned models even when allowed to match inference compute, and achieves https://t.co/XbstsJhO0c" / X
Introducing 𝗤𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻🚀, a 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁-𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱 that improves language model performance using Markov chain Monte Carlo. With no model retraining, 𝗤𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻 outperforms DPO-tuned models even when allowed to match inference compute, and achieves https://t.co/XbstsJhO0c
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Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Meet Ai2 Paper Finder, an LLM-powered literature search system. Searching for relevant work is a multi-step process that requires iteration. Paper Finder mimics this workflow — and helps researchers find more papers than ever 🔍
Screenshot of the Ai2 Paper Finder interface
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 22/03/2025
This is just to say I have covered your Tesla in Kraft Singles which probably irritated and perplexed you Do not forgive me I will do it again and again and again
Screenshot of a Reddit post in r/Seattle

To My Neighbor Whose Tesla Is Covered in Kraft Singles
1. I am the one who keeps doing this
2. This is not because you own a Tesla, but because of who you are as a person and the choices you have made.
3. Every time you veer out of your way to splash people while we are waiting for the bus, I will do it again.
4. You are never going to catch me.

That is all.
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
a small change to building your BPE tokenizer gets your pretrained LM 8 MMLU points (for example) and 27% inference-time efficiency boost ...
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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
It’s unfair to compare the trashing of Teslas to the Boston Tea Party because tea is worth something
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Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Humbled to make @fastcompany.com's 2025 most innovative companies list for making AI models that are truly open. "Ai2 is setting a strong benchmark for what transparency can look like in the entire AI industry."🎉
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5 Calls @5calls.org · 14/03/2025
Senate Democrats who voted YES on cloture for the CR: Schumer Gillibrand Fetterman Schatz Durbin King Shaheen Hassan Peters Cortez Masto
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
nice try, everyone still knows you're a collaborator
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 12/03/2025
I will not vote to weaken my power to fight for WA state. I will not vote to turn YOUR taxpayer dollars into Trump & Elon's personal slush funds. I will vote NO. We should pass my short term CR, avoid a shutdown, and do our jobs.
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
til people think of linkedin as a social network and post stuff there it's even more cringe than twitter
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
with democrats like these, who even needs republicans
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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Man Who Invested in Trump Shocked to be Losing Money
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I'm really proud of our team for reaching this milestone! Let's put to rest the propaganda (1) that fully-open AI models are second-class, (2) that researchers can only have impact or gain understanding of current systems if they work at a soulless for-profit, and (3) that AI is sooo mysterious.
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
exactly. secular people have found this stuff abhorrent and uncouth for a very long time, nothing new about that
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
any hope that my employer, the University of Washington wouldn't "comply with the fascists in advance" is now dashed ... this is some serious bullshit www.washington.edu/provost/2025...
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Working together to address the financial risks facing our University
Just over five years ago, the University was on the precipice of a shut down at the leading edge of what would become a global pandemic. The devastating health outcomes of COVID-19 combined with the.....
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Alex גדעון בן װעלװל @jewishwonk.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The rule of law is a good thing. I don't like this guy, I don't like his movement. I still expect the government to provide him due process and make the case with evidence to an impartial judge on why he should be deported. If the gov fails to make the case, I expect that ruling to be respected.
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
evidence accumulates that Elon Musk hates Jews more than is strictly necessary *reluctantly fetches space laser from the basement*
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
robertreich.substack.com
More reasons for modest optimism
This week’s 10
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
cold email via linkedin (lmao) inviting me to send my cv for consideration as an expert witness (lmao) the noise I made when I read the parenthetical that the cv should be in msword format considering sending them my cv.pdf and quote $100M but it wouldn't be enough #lawyers
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
the first rule of any academic editing job (e.g., program chair, editor) is to *never* send email through a system that doesn't make it clear (1) what human is responsible for the message and (2) includes their email address ... looking at you, openreview
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
mazl tov to the beings who made openreview ... truly pioneering in the effective use of a rarely mastered design pattern known as Gaslighting The User
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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I'm very excited we are finally hiring a POLICY LEAD for Ai2 / OLMo. This is going to be super useful to massively amplify the impact of our all our open efforts and have a positive impact on the world. You will work with people like me + Ai2 leadership to improve the AI ecosystem.
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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Vance mistook Ukraine for the Republican congressional caucus
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
me (on my bike, at a stop light): how do you like your nazi car tesla driver: I have a child in the car me: oh I guess nazis can have children Do people really use their kids as a device to defend against their shameful shit? I thought that was just an old movie trope. "But I've got a family!"
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
new OCR tools from the OLMo team open, as god would have intended, did it exist
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