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Enjoyed giving an oral on why MCQA sucks at #MASCSLL2025, and humbled to win a best paper award! Thanks to Jordan Boyd-Graber Rachel Rudinger for their mentorship (as always), and Kenneth Huang for organizing 🫶 Very nostalgic to reproduce last MASC's result 😁x.com/NishantBalepur…

Tom Goldstein (Tom Goldstein), Univ. of Maryland AI expert and director of UMD Center for Machine Learning, speaks to evidence that certain artificial intelligence systems could benefit from “thinking” independently of language. quantamagazine.org/to-make-langua… via Quanta Magazine

🚨New Paper🚨 1/ We often assume that well-written text is easier to translate ✏️ But can #LLMs automatically rewrite inputs to improve machine translation? 🌎 Here's what we found 🧵

I'll be presenting our work, VocADT, tomorrow at #ICLR2025✨ Check out our poster session: iclr.cc/virtual/2025/p… 🗓️Thu 24 Apr 3 p.m. - 5:30 p.m 📍Hall 3 + Hall 2B #250 So excited to be attending ICLR 2026 in Singapore🇸🇬

I'll be presenting two papers NAACL HLT 2025! 1. Why LLMs can't write a question with the answer "468" 🤔🙅 2. A multi-agent LLM that balances opinions on "is pineapple good on pizza?" 🎭🍕 Let's also chat about: 📍 Helpfulness 📍 Why MCQA sucks 📍 Generating cute paper titles 👀

🏆ADVSCORE won an Outstanding Paper Award at #NAACL2025 NAACL HLT 2025!! If you want to learn how to make your benchmark *actually* adversarial, come find me: 📍Poster Session 5 - HC: Human-centered NLP 📅May 1 @ 2PM Hiring for human-focused AI dev/LLM eval? Let’s talk! 💼

Are you tired of using traditional stance detection to measure the polarity of text? Our #NAACL25 paper proposes an approach that uses pairwise comparisons to order texts on a continuous scale, capturing both implicit and explicit content. 📍Today @ Hall 3 from 4-5:30pm.

TRAILS Director Hal Daumé (Hal Daumé III) joined "AI or Not" the podcast with Pamela Isom to talk about his shift from technical AI research to its societal impact—touching on governance, copyright, and the need for stronger regulations. go.umd.edu/1yvy

I feel so honored to win this award at #naaclmeeting #naacl2025 🥹 Cannot say how much grateful I am to my wonderful advisor Jordan Boyd-Graber and could not have done it without Maharshi Gor, Eve Fleisig, Ishani Mondal 🙏

Major Life Update 1/3 🥂🎊🎉 I passed my Ph.D. Preliminary Examination and am now a Ph.D. Candidate! I am almost a Doctor! Huge thanks to my amazing advisor Rachel Rudinger and my committee Sarah Wiegreffe Marine Carpuat Hal Daumé III Abhinav Shrivastava and Naomi Feldman for their support!

🎉🎉 Excited to have two papers accepted to #ACL2025! Our first paper designs a preference training method to boost LLM personalization 🎨 While the second outlines our position on why MCQA evals are terrible and how to make them better 🙏 Grateful for amazing collaborators!

🎉Our GRACE paper is heading to #ACL2025 Main conference! 🇦🇹 LLMs don’t just make mistakes; they make them with confidence, often more than people. Excited to push the boundaries of how we evaluate and understand LMs alongside humans! 👥🤝🤖 Grateful for amazing collab!

We’re hiring! 🎓 Feizi Lab has an open Postdoctoral Position in LLM Reasoning, supported by our PECASE award and other projects. If you're excited about foundational research in LLMs, apply here: forms.gle/uupq4wPz2EQnC4…

I'm now a Ph.D. candidate! 🎉🥳 A few weeks ago, I proposed my thesis: "Teaching AI to Answer Questions with Reasoning that Actually Helps You". Thanks to my amazing committee + friends UMD CLIP Lab! 🫶 I won't be back in Maryland for a while, some exciting things coming soon 👀

1/ Are two #LLMs better than one for equitable cultural alignment? 🌍 We introduce a Multi-Agent Debate framework — where two LLM agents debate the cultural adaptability of a given scenario. #ACL2025 🧵👇

8/ 💌 Huge thanks to Marine Carpuat, Rachel Rudinger, and Tianyi Zhou for their guidance — and special shoutout to the amazing UMD CLIP team! Check out our paper and code below 🚀 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.24671 🤖 Dataset: github.com/dayeonki/cultu…

A bit late to announce, but I’m excited to share that I'll be starting as an assistant professor at the University of Maryland UMD Department of Computer Science this August. I'll be recruiting PhD students this upcoming cycle for fall 2026. (And if you're a UMD grad student, sign up for my fall seminar!)