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Conference on Language Modeling @colmweb.org · 29/08/2026

We released tickets to our waiting list (as of yesterday). If you were on the wait list, please check your email. Tickets that are not claimed will be re-distributed. The wait list remains open, so sign up if interested

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Conference on Language Modeling @colmweb.org · 21/08/2026

We moved to colm.cc Our old website will forward you automatically, so don't stress 😅 The archives of 2024 and 2025 are linked from the new website

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Conference on Language Modeling @colmweb.org · 10/08/2026

The first batch of tickets will be released TODAY (Aug 10) at 1pm PT (pacific time). We are fairly certain we will be able to release more later on, so if tickets run out, we will direct people to a wait list (sign up if interested) colm.eventhosts.cc/register

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Conference on Language Modeling @colmweb.org · 03/08/2026

We are delaying general registration to Aug 10 to carefully manage author registration and make sure that all authors (main + workshops) get to register. We appreciate the patience

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Conference on Language Modeling @colmweb.org · 20/07/2026

Camera ready deadline is Aug 8! Also, financial assistance form is up: forms.gle/HhXhv8ND38X1... Deadline is July 31 Author registration is ongoing (authors, get on it!) Non-author registration will follow up in (very) early August

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Conference on Language Modeling @colmweb.org · 27/05/2026

COLM 2026 will host 16(!) workshops: colmweb.org/workshops.html CFPs are all online, and deadlines are coming up, so check the CFP of your workshops of interest

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 22/03/2026

I leave this project with a lot of food for thought about how we get to compact (and equally capable) models

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 22/03/2026

Very excited about @nthngdy.bsky.social's new work! It really gets to the bottom (or top, depends where the head in LMs is 😜) and fundamentals of contemporary LLMs. A real treat of a paper: solid theory, and very cool experiments.

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 17/02/2026

This call is still open. I am looking to recruit, as well as many other faculty at Cornell. We review folders as they come, and will send offers until all positions are filled. Please share with your network 🙏

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Conference on Language Modeling @colmweb.org · 19/01/2026

We have a mailing list for big announcements: groups.google.com/g/colm-annou... We use it very sparingly, roughly 1-2 times a year

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Conference on Language Modeling @colmweb.org · 18/01/2026

Call for papers -- due March 31, 2026 (abstracts due March 26) colmweb.org/cfp.html Call for workshops -- due April 14, 2026 colmweb.org/cfw.html

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COLM 2026: Call for Papers

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 29/12/2025

Hence, this is an interesting and important benchmark. Through a simple environment, it exposes a fairly fundamental flaw in current models

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 29/12/2025

This is not surprising, and aligns with other findings in the literature regarding visual reasoning and manipulation

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 29/12/2025

The prompts do provide rudimentary illustration. The stateful version allows the model to see the outcome of its own actions, technically allowing it to infer the physics. Generally though, the result for LLMs out of the box is negative.

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 29/12/2025

Most of the experiments are not with VLMs, but with a diverse set of RL methods. Do LLMs understand physics? They definitely generate outputs that seem to indicate so.

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Greg Durrett @gregdnlp.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Submit to COLM! Deadline of March 31. This llama gets to enjoy his holidays and isn't stressed out just yet...

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 13/12/2025

Zoe presented this paper at NeurIPS D+B: it's all knots(🪢🪢🪢!?), no language tokens were harmed (or reinforced) in the process It's such a fun and creative paper, a real mind twist ;) You really get to think carefully about visual intelligence looking at these knots 🪢

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Zizhao Chen @ch272h.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Hi all, I will be at #NeurIPS2025 to present my work on stress-testing looooooong visual reasoning with KnotGym🥨 Let's talk, whether or not your VLM that can see 14 million possible futures like Doctor Strange

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Conference on Language Modeling @colmweb.org · 11/11/2025

COLM is going to San Francisco for 2026! 🗓️Dates: October 6-9, 2026 🏨Venue: Hilton San Francisco Union Square Website and CFPs for papers and workshops coming up soon!

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 10/11/2025

This is maybe counterintuitive to the original intention of just index the chaos to make it accessible. I guess that ideal of search softened a long time ago

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 10/11/2025

That's definitely part of it, because this digestions has deeper history. Search engine indexing also seems just easier, so companies opt to it, even pre AI-overview-everything

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 10/11/2025

Re peer-rev --> pre-print servers: arXiv is a simple uniform place to store. Indexing engines love it, so if you want something to be searchable, nothing is better. To make things worse, at times it seems like journals/proceedings almost play a game of hide-and-seek with PDFs

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 10/11/2025

Re position papers: I don't think anyone can deny how effective some of these papers became for citations counts

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 06/11/2025

Is this all just a big practical joke for ChatGPT? I have been told god doesn't play dice with the world, but I guess AGI does :)

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 05/11/2025

It's a Thursday though ....

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 03/11/2025

Pushed a big update to LM-class (v2025.2) -- this second version makes a much more mature resource Many refinements of lecture slides + significant improvements to the assignments Many thanks to @ch272h.bsky.social, Yilun Hua, and Shankar Padmanabhan for their work on the assignments

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 03/11/2025

This kind of ad-hoc adaptation is hard in general of LLMs, but you can post-train to it for some degree arxiv.org/abs/2508.06482 I suspect contemporary ASR models have the same backbone, so maybe applicable too More broadly, there is a lot of interesting stuff to do in this space of adaptation

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Post-training for Efficient Communication via Convention Formation

Humans communicate with increasing efficiency in multi-turn interactions, by adapting their language and forming ad-hoc conventions. In contrast, prior work shows that LLMs do not naturally show this ...

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 28/10/2025

I am potentially recruiting a postdoctoral fellow through this program. If interested, name me as a mentor, and ping me to let me know that you are applying! The process includes some sort of interview, so I can try to squeeze a few of these in advance (it will help a lot!)

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 28/10/2025

Cornell is recruiting for multiple postdoctoral positions in AI as part of two programs: Empire AI Fellows and Foundational AI Fellows. Positions are available in NYC and Ithaca. Deadline for full consideration is Nov 20, 2025! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30971

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Angelina Wang @angelinawang.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Cornell (NYC and Ithaca) is recruiting AI postdocs, apply by Nov 20, 2025! If you're interested in working with me on technical approaches to responsible AI (e.g., personalization, fairness), please email me. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30971

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Cornell University, Empire AI Fellows Program

Job #AJO30971, Postdoctoral Fellow, Empire AI Fellows Program, Cornell University, New York, New York, US

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 27/10/2025

There's the legit gaming, which is just optimizing for the metrics and breaking them. Then there's the really fake stuff, like citation rings. You would thing citation translate to bitcoins with the level of creativity and effort that people put into it

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 27/10/2025

The top citer has >1k papers, with a PhD from 2007. That's one hell of a steady rate ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 27/10/2025

It's pretty crazy how the entire citation game has been manipulated. It's enough to give a quick look at Semantic Scholar for Bengio, who GScholar just gave 1M citations. SScholar gave 0.5M, but it's not only the number, it's the top citers

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 24/10/2025

Recent IVADO talk is now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozHk... Paper here: Pre-training Limited Memory Language Models with Internal and External Knowledge Linxi Zhao et al. arxiv.org/abs/2505.15962

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Pre-Training LLMs to Externalize Knowledge - Yoav Artzi

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 23/10/2025

It definitely doesn't seem to hold in process, which lacks any similar regulation or structure. The (sci-fi-ish?) argument is that one cannot disentangle deployment/impact from development (i.e., one cannot shut it down).

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 23/10/2025

The analogy sounds great, but are you sure it really holds? Public buy-in aside. Development vs. deployment is clearly distinguished in vaccines, both in being built into the process and in delaying impact to deployment. Does the same hold for so-pronounced ASI development?

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 23/10/2025

Indeed a bizarre mix, but say more about why the (very very short) letter is bonkers.... pretty please

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 20/10/2025

How much data people use to train tokenizers nowadays? Trying to figure out, but so often people just use a trained tokenizer, so a bit tricky cc @soldaini.net and the OLMo folks

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 20/10/2025

Can you really post fast enough? 🏓

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 18/10/2025

How crowded is the bar?

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Closing session for #COLM2025! There will be #COLM2026! @yoavartzi.com and @gregdnlp.bsky.social will be organizing. Location TBD. Full day of workshops tomorrow, check the program.

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