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Zeerak Talat زیرک طلعت (they/them) @zeerak.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

NLP reviews suck! But why is not clear– @aclrollingreview.bsky.social provides *a lot* of guidance for how to review, but in that, first principles get lost. So @adamlopez.bsky.social and I have written down some of our thoughts on first principles.

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The Missing First Principles of Reviewing for ACL

Zeerak Talat & Adam Lopez, University of Edinburgh

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Are you interested in interning with me and my lab? A unique opportunity for a 4-month research stay, with generous funding as an Azrieli visiting PhD fellow! DM me if you're interested. azrielifoundation.org/fellows/visi...

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International Visiting PhD Fellowship - The Azrieli Foundation

The Azrieli Fellows Program is an elite group of academics who cultivate a network of leading professionals in Israel and around the world.

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Excited to have the Big Picture workshop back for another iteration this year at @aclmeeting.bsky.social Submit your big picture ideas, consolidation work, phd thesis distillation, etc. by March 5th! www.bigpictureworkshop.com w/ Allyson Ettinger, @norakassner.bsky.social, @sebruder.bsky.social

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Job application process in 2026: Applicant: I have written 3 papers Interviewer: where? Applicant: arXiv Interviewer: hired!

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

CS ArXiv recently banned “review and position” papers, but what are those? Do they include more generated content? Who is most affected by this change? @yanai.bsky.social and I dug into the data to find out! Nearly 50% of Computers & Society papers might be censored, vs 3% of Computer Vision ‼️

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

🚨 New Study 🚨 @arxiv.bsky.social has recently decided to prohibit any 'position' paper from being submitted to its CS servers. Why? Because of the "AI slop", and allegedly higher ratios of LLM-generated content in review papers, compared to non-review papers.

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I think I'm in a secret competition with my co-author about who uses more footnotes in the paper.

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Any good tutorials/guides on how to code with LLMs? What I found so far targeted folks who don't know what they are, mostly setting expectations and saying what LLMs can or cannot do. I'm beyond that. I'm looking for best practices. Kind of design patterns for vibe coding.

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Interested in interpretability, data attribution, evaluation, and similar topics? Interested in doing a postdoc with me? Apply to the prestigious Azrieli program! Link below 👇 DMs are open (email is good too!)

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Chantal @chantalsh.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

"AI slop" seems to be everywhere, but what exactly makes text feel like "slop"? In our new work (w/ @tuhinchakr.bsky.social, Diego Garcia-Olano, @byron.bsky.social ) we provide a systematic attempt at measuring AI "slop" in text! arxiv.org/abs/2509.19163 🧵 (1/7)

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I did a QA with Quanta about interpretability and training dynamics! I got to talk about a bunch of research hobby horses and how I got into them.

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

The new Tahoe UI is so bad. Everything just looks so blurred...

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Organizing a workshop? Checkout our compiled material for organizing one: www.bigpictureworkshop.com/open-workshop (and hopefully we'll be back for another iteration of the Big Picture next year w/ Allyson Ettinger, @norakassner.bsky.social, @sebruder.bsky.social)

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Big Picture Workshop - Open Workshop

Open sourcing the workshop

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I’m excited to share that I'm joining Bar-Ilan University as an assistant professor!

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

A strange trend I've noticed at #ACL2025 is that people are hesitant to reach out to papers/"academic products" authors. This is unfortunate for both parties! A simple email can save a lot of time to the sender, but is also one of my favorite kind of email as the receiver!

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Antoine Bosselut @abosselut.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

The EPFL NLP lab is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher on the topic of designing, training, and evaluating multilingual LLMs: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Come join our dynamic group in beautiful Lausanne!

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EPFL NLP Postdoctoral Scholar Posting - Swiss AI LLMs

The EPFL Natural Language Processing (NLP) lab is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher candidate in the area of multilingual LLM design, training, and evaluation. This postdoctoral position is as...

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I had a lot of fun contemplating about memorization questions at the @l2m2workshop.bsky.social panel yesterday together with Niloofar Mireshghallah and Reza Shokri, moderated by @pietrolesci.bsky.social who did a fantastic job! #ACL2025

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Shanshan Xu @sxu3.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I'll present our work w/ @santosh-tyss.bsky.social @yanai.bsky.social @barbaraplank.bsky.social on LLMs memorization of distributions of political leanings in their pretraining data! Catch us at L2M2 workshop @l2m2workshop.bsky.social #ACL2025 tmrw 📆 Aug 1, 14:00–15:30 📑 arxiv.org/pdf/2502.18282

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Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Ai2 is excited to be at #ACL2025 in Vienna, Austria this week. Come say hello, meet the team, and chat about the future of NLP. See you there! 🤝📚

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

It's crazy that people give more than a single invited talk during the same conference (diff workshops). A single talk (done right) is challenging enough.

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Leqi Liu @leqiliu.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

What if you could understand and control an LLM by studying its *smaller* sibling? Our new paper introduces the Linear Representation Transferability Hypothesis. We find that the internal representations of different-sized models can be translated into one another using a simple linear(affine) map.

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I really like this take. Academia and the open source community should embrace transparency in data, even in the cost of the issues that come with it. These issues should be of course studied and documented, but not used as an indicator or a signal to shut down the whole operation.

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chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Prompting is our most successful tool for exploring LLMs, but the term evokes eye-rolls and grimaces from scientists. Why? Because prompting as scientific inquiry has become conflated with prompt engineering. This is holding us back. 🧵and new paper with @ari-holtzman.bsky.social .

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

What's up with @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social Wasn't the entire premise of this website to allow uploading of papers w/o the official peer review process??

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Check out our take on Chain-of-Thought. I really like this paper as a survey on the current literature on what CoT is, but more importantly on what it's not. It also serves as a cautionary tale to the (apparently quite common) misuse of CoT as an interpretable method.

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Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury @somnathbrc.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐋𝐋𝐌𝐬? Our method, Perfect Erasure Functions (PEF), erases concepts perfectly from LLM representations. We analytically derive PEF w/o parameter estimation. PEFs achieve pareto optimal erasure-utility tradeoff backed w/ theoretical guarantees. #AISTATS2025 🧵

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Valentina Pyatkin @valentinapy.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I'll be at #NAACL2025: 🖇️To present my paper "Superlatives in Context", showing how the interpretation of superlatives is very context dependent and often implicit, and how LLMs handle such semantic underspecification 🖇️And we will present RewardBench on Friday Reach out if you want to chat!

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

💡 New ICLR paper! 💡 "On Linear Representations and Pretraining Data Frequency in Language Models": We provide an explanation for when & why linear representations form in large (or small) language models. Led by @jackmerullo.bsky.social, w/ @nlpnoah.bsky.social & @sarah-nlp.bsky.social

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I'm on my way to ICLR! Let me know if you want to meet and/or hang out 🥳

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Kyle Mahowald @kmahowald.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I might be able to hire a postdoc for this fall in computational linguistics at UT Austin. Topics in the general LLM + cognitive space (particularly reasoning, chain of thought, LLMs + code) and LLM + linguistic space. If this could be of interest, feel free to get in touch!

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

How many _final_ will we end up with?

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I'm curious if someone actually found those useful... All the "feedback" I got was just rephrasing my reviews.

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The R1 paper claims it does not require any (mostly) supervised data to enable these capabilities with RL, but it doesn't report any details on its data or how much it contains instruction data. It also doesn't tackle contamination...

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Sponsor ACL 🥳 It is an AI conference, even though some say otherwise.

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Ian Magnusson @ianmagnusson.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Come chat with me at #NeurIPS2024 and learn about how to use Paloma to evaluate perplexity over hundreds of domains! ✨We have stickers too✨

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

If I don't post about being on the job market, am I really on the job market?

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Mechanical Dirk @mechanicaldirk.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

We just updated the OLMo repo at github.com/allenai/OLMo! There are now several training configs that together reproduce the training runs that lead to the final OLMo 2 models. In particular, all the training data is available, tokenized and shuffled exactly as we trained on it!

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GitHub - allenai/OLMo: Modeling, training, eval, and inference code for OLMo

Modeling, training, eval, and inference code for OLMo - allenai/OLMo

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Has anyone figured out how to create a keyboard shortcut in keynote to add animation to an object?

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Sohee Yang @soheeyang.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

🚨 New Paper 🚨 Can LLMs perform latent multi-hop reasoning without exploiting shortcuts? We find the answer is yes – they can recall and compose facts not seen together in training or guessing the answer, but success greatly depends on the type of the bridge entity (80% for country, 6% for year)! 1/N

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

interfolio has the incredibly sophisticated feature of saving my statements, so why can't it save my demographic information? I assure you, my US-centric race won't change from one application to another.

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I mean, if you ask about my desired position...

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Where are the agents who can fill out these applications for me?

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Back in the day, I used to go on Twitter while waiting for my RNN models to finish training. These days, it's going on bsky (ok, ok, X as well) while waiting for ChatGPT to re-write my statement.

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Dear EiC, Get some sleep, Yours truly, Yanai

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Training LLMs still has a way to go in terms of the number of authors (blog.google/outreach-ini...)

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