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Zara Siddique

@zarasiddique.bsky.social
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Working on ethics and bias in NLP @CardiffNLP #NLP #NLProc

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Zara Siddique @zarasiddique.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Loved giving my second tutorial on steering vectors at #CardiffNLPWorkshop Lots of enthusiastic participants! @cardiffnlp.bsky.social
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Zara Siddique @zarasiddique.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
#CardiffNLPWorkshop off to a flying start with talks from Jennifer Foster and Marianna Apidianaki @cardiffnlp.bsky.social
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Zara Siddique @zarasiddique.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Pleased to say this has been accepted to ACL System Demos :)
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Zara Siddique @zarasiddique.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Come to my hackathon! Last one was super fun I promise
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Zara Siddique @zarasiddique.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨 Dialz: A Python Toolkit for Steering Vectors ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.06262 Docs: cardiffnlp.github.io/dialz/ Repo: github.com/cardiffnlp/d... A Python package to help you create, apply and visualise steering vectors for anything you want - from sycophancy to bias.
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Zara Siddique @zarasiddique.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
New friends! Old friends! Please register if you’d like 2 whole days packed with NLP fun
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Zara Siddique @zarasiddique.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Love this take: "Society appears far more willing to critically examine and address bias in AI systems than confront human bias directly"
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Could AI help us build a more racially just society? | Sanmi Koyejo
We have an opportunity to build systems that don’t just replicate our current inequities. Will we take them?
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Dustin Wright @dustinbwright.com · 25/03/2025
I am still in need of emergency reviewers for ARR this cycle for the computational social science track, please DM me if you have capacity 🙏
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Zara Siddique @zarasiddique.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
NEW PAPER 📜 Shifting Perspectives: Steering Vector Ensembles for Robust Bias Mitigation in LLMs ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2503.05371 GitHub: github.com/groovychoons... Extremely Unofficial Blog Post: zarasiddique.com/blog/shiftin...
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Shifting Perspectives: Steering Vector Ensembles for Robust Bias Mitigation in LLMs
We present a novel approach to bias mitigation in large language models (LLMs) by applying steering vectors to modify model activations in forward passes. We employ Bayesian optimization to systematic...
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Zara Siddique @zarasiddique.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Strongly encourage you to register for our free NLP workshop, previously had speakers from DeepMind, Microsoft, Amazon and top university NLP labs etc. and it’s looking like it’s going to be a great line up this year too. If you can’t make it, please share with others who may be interested!
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Cardiff NLP @cardiffnlp.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
We've created a Cardiff NLP Starter Pack to make it easy to follow #NLP researchers at Cardiff Uni.
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404 Media @404media.co · 29/01/2025
OpenAI furious DeepSeek might have stolen all the data OpenAI stole from us 🔗 www.404media.co/openai-furio...
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Zara Siddique @zarasiddique.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Severance episode 2, Traitors final AND this It's a weekend of watching for me 🍿
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Joy Buolamwini and Sam Altman: Unmasking the Future of AI
YouTube video by Commonwealth Club World Affairs (CCWA)
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Zara Siddique @zarasiddique.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Need to be spending less time on deepseek and more time on deep sleep 😴
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Joanne Boisson @joanneboisson.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Our paper on extraction of metaphoric analogies from literary texts will be presented in COLING ( Wed 11:00 , Atrium, poster) by @camachocollados.bsky.social and Luis Espinosa-Anke. Done with @zarasiddique.bsky.social , @hsuvas.bsky.social and @antypasd.bsky.social
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Zara Siddique @zarasiddique.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
If you ever find yourself getting worried about catastrophic AI risk, remember you can always just turn off the AI at the plug
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/01/2025
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this but everything seems to be going down the tubes quite fast. And not fun tubes, like at…
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Zara Siddique @zarasiddique.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Wrote a little blog post on my favourite EMNLP papers :) zarasiddique.com/blog/my-favo...
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Zara Siddique @zarasiddique.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Had fun presenting my favourite #EMNLP2024 papers today at our secret reading group + bonus raccoon pics from Miami 🦝 Will follow up with favourite papers in blog post form soon!
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Zara Siddique @zarasiddique.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Had an amazing time at #EMNLP2024 and excited to connect with other researchers on here :)
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