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I’m excited to share that I’ll be starting as an Assistant Professor at @UWMadisonStats this fall! I’m deeply grateful to my advisors Manolis Kellis and Eric Xing, mentor Rich Caruana, and countless friends and family members, for their support.

I very much enjoyed this survey of causal interpretability methods for neural networks from Aaron Mueller and many others - succinct, well organized, just opinionated enough. please write more reviews everyone arxiv.org/abs/2408.01416

A short story of fast progress: NVIDIA released an ≈8B parameter model they called Megatron in 2019, and five years later they have released an ≈8B model they call Minitron. (I did round off an entire BERT-large for the 2019 model.)

What role can LLMs play in cog sci? How have they been optimised & does the theory of evo offer insight? In our new paper (ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008355, arxiv.org/abs/2408.09544), Chemla & I offer a different take on the issues while touching on the recent impossible languages debate.

Thank you ACL Anthology! In the meantime, Behzad Shayegh has very helpfully compiled a list of the missing papers with as many preprint links as possible: theshayegh.github.io/ACL2024Missing…

Wonderful! Welcome, Peter, and also congratulations to you and to UBC (and to us)!

Stanford Linguistics is hiring!!! We have an open area, open rank faculty position! Apply here: facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/4947…

☀️🐂 -> 🍃 🏙️ Some news! I’ve moved to Chicago to start as a [Research [Assistant Professor]] (independent postdoc w/ PI status) at TTIC next week! But I’m feeling very bittersweet, because I spent a wonderful 12 months at UT Austin postdoc-ing with Kyle Mahowald

The missing long and short papers are now available in the Anthology. We apologize for this inconvenience and thank everyone for their patience. aclanthology.org/events/acl-202…

My own take on this debate re our recent PNAS letter and the DGL response: there are important and deep questions raised about the difference between models’ abilities to do tasks and their knowledge of language. Thread.

I am BEYOND EXCITED to publish our interview with Krista Opsahl-Ong (Krista Opsahl-Ong) from Stanford AI Lab! 🔥 Krista is the lead author of MIPRO, short for Multi-prompt Instruction Proposal Optimizer, and one of the leading developers and scientists behind DSPy! This was such

Thank you so much for this thoughtful and entertaining video! One discussion point: most of our languages are created with invertible functions, so an appeal to entropy can't explain the contrasts. The hop languages in particular suggest locality biases are relevant.

🔗 Thoughts on Research Impact in AI. Grad students often ask: how do I do research that makes a difference in the current, crowded AI space? This is a blogpost that summarizes my perspective in six guidelines for making research impact via open-source artifacts. Link below.

I think there is real wisdom in this meme! I've seen so many blogging systems rise and fall in my career, and I'm not even that old! The system you control is the best one when you are building things to last (as Omar is)!