Security questions are great! My password didn't work, answered the question about where I was born. Logged on. Not my account. Ah well ;) Time to remember my username.

Our new #emnlp paper is out on grounded language learning with Candace Ross and @yevgeni_berzak. Learn semantic parsers the way kids do: by looking around and figuring out what what interpretations make sense. news.mit.edu/2018/machines-… aclweb.org/anthology/D18-…

Our dataset, ObjectNet, a new kind of object recognition dataset that includes controls for biases, is being released at #NeurIPS this week. Removing biases leads to a sharp drop in performance, opening the way to more robust computer vision. objectnet.dev

What happens when folks at MIT CSAIL get an adorable dog in their office? Now presenting the weekend project of Andrei Barbu #doggytraining #arduino Adam Yaari Yen-Ling Kuo

Not only do word embeddings have biases, our work with Candace Ross shows adding vision to ground embeddings makes biases worse using new data & tests. Vision datasets are very biased arxiv.org/abs/2002.08911 Doesn't matter, it was in the 40% of #IJCAI rejections without review!

Aviv Netanyahu , Tianmin Shu , Boris Katz, Andrei Barbu & CoCoSci MIT (Josh Tenenbaum) will be giving an Invited Talk / Oral Presentation on "PHASE: Physically-grounded Abstract Social Events for Machine Social Perception" at 1.15-1.30 pm EST, this Saturday! Link: openreview.net/forum?id=_bokm…

Our paper just won a Best Paper Award at @svrhm2020! Congrats to my wonderful collaborators 🎉 And thanks the organizers for the great workshop!

You would this is from the Pocket Guide to Misogyny, but it's a popular book on negotiation. Reading the literature on negotiation strategies to teach machines how to bargain has been a shocking. How can business schools continue to teach this drivel in the 21st century?

Interested in large-scale neuroscience of language and multimodal representations? We have the dataset for you, the Brain Treebank! Come to our oral at NeurIPS. Today at 3:50pm PST, East Meeting room braintreebank.dev Now with extra foundation models arxiv.org/abs/2302.14367

Want embeddings for your neural recordings? You'll have better decoders with less data and a much more interesting story around connectivity. Check out Geeling Chau and Christopher Wang's awesome work at #ICLR2025. From BrainBERT to the Population Transformer arxiv.org/abs/2406.03044

MIT's brilliant suggestion about what to do with an active shooter on campus "If confronted by shooter, attack using improvised weapons"

Valuable paper on anchoring bias in treebanking—needs analysis of errors/variation & how to improve accuracy arxiv.org/abs/1605.04481 #nlproc