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Jesse Thomason @thomason.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

First GLAMOR Lab lunch today since we moved from USC to Georgia Tech! We're so excited to be in Atlanta and look forward to working with our new colleagues in the School of Interactive Computing 😁

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Jesse Thomason @thomason.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Over half of the papers in my ARR batch as AC this cycle contained easily identified, hallucinated citations with incorrect author lists and malformed text. I am so disappointed by the state of the field right now, and I encourage ARR to move forward with desk rejections. #nlproc

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Jesse Thomason @thomason.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I'd like to thank many of my colleagues at the University of Southern California who have supported my students and me over the last five years, and have made this transition possible. I know that they will continue to #fighton ✌️

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Jesse Thomason @thomason.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

For prospective PhD students, I plan to hire in this coming application cycle (Fall 2026) with a focus on robotics, speech, and signed languages.

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Jesse Thomason @thomason.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I am honored to have this opportunity to grow our lab's focus on how increasingly ubiquitous grounded language technologies are being used by real people, and on further developing those technologies with meaningful societal impact in mind.

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Jesse Thomason @thomason.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

This fall semester, I will be moving my GLAMOR lab (glamor.rocks) to the School of Interactive Computing (IC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology!

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Naomi Caselli @naomicaselli.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Okay y’all, gather round for a chat. It’s been a roller coaster, and I thought I’d share what we’ve learned. 🧵 (1/16) bsky.app/profile/luck...

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Jesse Thomason @thomason.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

This month, @jessezhang.bsky.social completed his PhD defense and signed to start a postdoc with @abhishekunique7.bsky.social at UW! Keep an eye on his journey :) www.jessezhang.net I'm sad to lose one of my sinistral students but glad to produce another Dr. Jesse 😛

Jesse Thomason and Jesse Zhang in their respective PhD robes.

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Jesse Thomason @thomason.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Come by @naaclmeeting.bsky.social Hall 3 posters at 11am to see @leekezar.bsky.social's American Sign Language Knowledge Graph! Lee's work highlights quantitative evidence of iconic relationships between form and meaning in ASL. The ASLKG is part of an exciting direction for the GLAMOR lab :)

The ASLKG relates the form (e.g., 2/V handshape) and meaning (e.g., related to sight) of signs in the ASL lexicon. We use this knowledge to neurosymbolically recognize signs (e.g., READ) and infer their meaning.

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Jesse Thomason @thomason.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Come by @naaclmeeting.bsky.social Poster 6 in Hall 3 from 4-530pm today to see @billzhu.bsky.social's and Ishika Singh's work with me and @robinjia.bsky.social on PSALM: autonomously inducing symbolic pre- and post-conditions of actions with LLMs, symbolic planning, and text environment interaction!

LLMs can propose plans and generate action semantics, but struggle with state tracking. Symbolic planners leverage specialized search algorithms, but require predefined action semantics for the environment.
PSALM integrates the strengths of both.

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Wang Bill Zhu @billzhu.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

At @naaclmeeting.bsky.social this week! I’ll be presenting our work on LLM domain induction with @thomason.bsky.social on Thu (5/1) at 4pm in Hall 3, Section I. Would love to connect and chat about LLM planning, reasoning, AI4Science, multimodal stuff, or anything else. Feel free to DM!

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Jesse Thomason @thomason.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Human-AI decision making is probably something I think is bad but inevitable, so the least we can do is explore ways to reduce inappropriate human reliance on AI system output. In @tejassrinivasan.bsky.social latest work, he does just that, successfully mitigating /both/ over- and under-reliance.

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Mert İnan @merterm.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

‼️ Ever wish LLMs would just... slow down for a second? In our latest work, "Better Slow than Sorry: Introducing Positive Friction for Reliable Dialogue Systems", we delve into how strategic delays can enhance dialogue systems. Paper Website: merterm.github.io/positive-fri...

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Jesse Thomason @thomason.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

The CoRL party continues tomorrow! My student Ishika Singh is helping to organize LangRob (sites.google.com/view/langrob...) where I'll give the last invited talk at 1600, and she is presenting our ongoing work on symbolic planning and LLMs (arxiv.org/abs/2406.02791) at LEAP. Come chat with us!

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Jesse Thomason @thomason.bsky.social · 10/03/2024

galois oisable but they don't fall down!

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Jesse Thomason @thomason.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Trying out a Role-Playing Paper-Reading Seminar in the style of Colin Raffel's blog colinraffel.com/blog/role-pl... post in my History of Language and Computing graduate course this semester. Eager to see how it plays out, but I wanted to show off the class materials that just arrived :)

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Jesse Thomason @thomason.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

-Tomorrow- at #NeurIPS2023 you can catch me in Hall B2 at the Robot Learning Workshop bright and early at 8:45am-9:10am talking about how "LPTMs Can Help Robots Without Ignoring Robotics", and where I feel the community (and my own lab!) have mostly missed the mark here so far.

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Jesse Thomason @thomason.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

link a gSheet copy of your NSF COI excel sheet 😛

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Jesse Thomason @thomason.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Towards X: Using Y To Pretend to do X

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Jesse Thomason @thomason.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

happy spotify wrapped season to the three other people paying for YouTube Music

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Jesse Thomason @thomason.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

It's National First-Generation College Student Day! If you navigated part time jobs, college applications and fees, college stress, maybe even grad school all while having to make up stories that explain what you're doing to family, I see you. I'm proud of you, and I'm happy to talk. #FirstGenDocs

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Jesse Thomason @thomason.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Proud of this new work with @billzhu.bsky.social and @robinjia.bsky.social that wades into the blurred space between semantic parsing and open vocabulary generation, to appear at #EMNLP #EMNLP2023 !

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Jesse Thomason @thomason.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

I'm at CoLLAs in Montreal this week where my students Tejas (PhD) and Flora (ugrad) are presenting their work on Adapter distillation---transfer learning without the parameter cost of AdapterFusion at tomorrow's poster session board P7. Looking forward to meeting folks in this emerging community 🐨

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Jesse Thomason @thomason.bsky.social · 25/07/2023

petition to rename "Postdoc" to "Assistant to the Professor"

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