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Yixuan "Tom" Wang

@tomyxw.bsky.social
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first year PhD student working (with @fredashi.bsky.social) (at UWaterloo) (on comp ling) previously PKU and UChicago homepage: am.yixuan-wang.site

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Kanishka Misra @kanishka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Understanding how learners conclude “X laughed Y” is incorrect is an age-old question, with several hypotheses, some of which have been ~impossible to disentangle! @tomyxw.bsky.social, @fredashi.bsky.social, and I use controlled rearing to shed light on this in our new EMNLP paper: 1/n
Title slide for “Disentangling Statistical Preemption from Entrenchment in Language Models’ Avoidance of Overgeneralization,” by Yixuan Wang, Freda Shi, and Kanishka Misra. Includes the main results plot and experimental design.
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Waterloo's David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science @uwcheritoncs.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Freda Shi and her UBC colleagues have won an Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2025. Their work introduces a new benchmark that evaluates how effectively large language models perform meta-linguistic reasoning — using LLMs to better understand languages themselves. cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/freda-s...
Professor Freda Shi in Waterloo's Davis Centre
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Yixuan "Tom" Wang @tomyxw.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
AI people are reclaiming unimportant linguistic terms
A section called Language Categorization by Geography (“by language family”), which falsely groups languages based on geographic proximity. Arabic, Afrikaans and Swahili are grouped together.
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Yixuan "Tom" Wang @tomyxw.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Annual Celebration Lūnāris, or better known as ACL🥳
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Yixuan "Tom" Wang @tomyxw.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Nearly all eateries near my Beijing home are closed, except that a third McDonald's in the community is opening soon🤯.
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Xinchi Yu @xinchiyu.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Happy xiaonian (Little New Year; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_...) to those who celebrate it! :) Don't forget to eat some candy 🍬 to “bribe” zaowangye (Kitchen God) to say sweet things about you to the Jade Emperor!
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Little New Year - Wikipedia
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Yixuan "Tom" Wang @tomyxw.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
NyTorch🗽🌇 #NYC
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Yixuan "Tom" Wang @tomyxw.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Today GitHub Copilot notified me I'm running out of quota and have to wait *until* 4172 BC to reset my quota.
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Yixuan "Tom" Wang @tomyxw.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Trolley Problem (ARR's Version)
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Yixuan "Tom" Wang @tomyxw.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
#rant #ARR AC: That paper is indeed irrelevant. Read this paper first. Me: But your paper is even not about language models?
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Yixuan "Tom" Wang @tomyxw.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Today I first noticed GitHub Copilot coining new words in real life. It suggested "brev-ier" when I wanted to say "more brevity".
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Yixuan "Tom" Wang @tomyxw.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
#rant #ARR Reviewer: Read this paper first. Me: Read my paper first. Or even better, use a better LLM.
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Yixuan "Tom" Wang @tomyxw.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
#rant What is even more unfair than the reviews is that my pandas asked me for 8PiB of memory.
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Yixuan "Tom" Wang @tomyxw.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Orld, low hel!
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