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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...
washington.edu
$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 · 17/06/2025
if a restaurant worker feels the need to tell you the food is fresh ... it definitely isn't
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
you can go to Vienna, meet people you like in cafes, and not pay the registration ... seems like a net win
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
this is not new, it was always tedious
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
if you find it or write it (or want to write it together) lmk
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
yours too, "bro"
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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
I thought you were a writer. write it down, no one wants to watch a video
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
we wrote this and I think it's part of what you want arxiv.org/pdf/2311.17301
arxiv.org
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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 · 30/05/2025
not going, I can play music in Seattle without renting a room
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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 · 21/05/2025
saw this in Seattle this weekend, it was great, also recommend
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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
give Schumer a break, he's so old he can't remember which party he's in ... ביז הונדערט צװאַנציק, טשוקעלע
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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
economist.com
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
I doubt surgeons and specialists will be obsolete in my lifetime, but the idea of a "primary care physician" who just punches shit into a computer before writing you a prescription for a common issue, and "insurance company" that stands between you and solution ... probably will (4/n)
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
truly can't wait until the day I can say I helped replace our inefficient, ineffective, and (most importantly) soul-destroying "healthcare" "system" (3/n)
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
can now easily see how the rest of the process (interacting with experts to get the problem fixed, or determine that it can't be fixed and make informed decisions) will be automated (2/n)
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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 · 06/05/2025
it's a pity, such a lost opportunity for people to think scientifically about language
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
edicts from academics, now that will be an effective way to change language use by whole societies! why did no one think of this before? I would have thought that linguists (of all people) would understand the idea that term meanings change over time
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
different folks have different evaluation functions and different values I guess
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
savings accounts? ok boomer
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
good insurance and good hospitals do not exist in this country ... "unlucky" for some is surviving long enough to be dragged into those "good" hospitals (or having to interface with those "good" insurance companies) where you pay to die slowly and painfully
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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
there's also what I anticipate will be the dominant genX narrative: you say "fuck no," throw one last party, and check out, because we've been watching and know that there are worse things than death modern medicine sounds great but most of us won't be able to afford it, so meh
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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 · 25/04/2025
Airplanes are nothing more than tubes modified with airfoil shaped wings. Unless you want to travel from one place to another very fast, they suck and aren't useful.
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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?
aacu.org
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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Noah A. Smith @nlpnoah.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I'm not saying Musk is a vampire, but that sure sounds like something a vampire would say
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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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