Had the pleasure of co-organizing Guide-AI workshop earlier today.. Keynote talks by Steven Whang, Felix Naumann and a panel with Fatemeh Nargesian, Steven Whang, Felix Naumann, Boris Glavic, Leopoldo Bertossi, and Ziawasch Abedjan. SIGMOD/PODS 2025

An important G7 Summit, where I presented India’s perspective at the world stage. Here are highlights.

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Bangla LLM pretrained from scratch at context size of 4096 tokens huggingface.co/gyanai/biswaba… #nlproc #genai #bengali #bangla #llm #ai NAACL eaclmeeting ACL 2025

I’ll be on sabbatical from mid-Aug 2024 for 1 yr, and we’re looking to sublet our beautiful place near Lausanne during that time. 🪢 Mobilizing my network to help me find trustworthy tenants. If you know of anyone, pls ask them to contact me directly: people.epfl.ch/robert.west 🙏

**Are language models (LMs) capable of self-recognition?** A growing number of apps are built on just a few frontier LMs- should we be worried about self-recognition? We use LM-generated “security questions” to find out! Our results: probably not, but for surprising reasons >🧵

So excited to be at IC2S2! If you're into field experiments on social media and modeling information seeking online, let's hang out and chat! #ic2s2

Joining the ICML party a bit late: arrived in Vienna for ICML Conference and looking forward to attending many exciting workshops on Fri and Sat. Excited to meet old friends and make new ones. #icml2024

I will present Fleet of Agents, a framework utilizing LLMs as agents to navigate through dynamic tree searches ICML Conference NGSM workshop later today. Swing by the poster session at 12 CET to know more. w/ Nearchos, Lars, Roland, Caglar Gulcehre Bob West arxiv.org/abs/2405.06691

Come talk to me at 12 CET during the poster session in Strauss 3!! #icml24 #llms

Science faces a reproducibility crisis. Data science & AI courses often include hands-on projects using real-world datasets. What if these projects could help solve the crisis? Check out our new Harvard Data Science Review Harvard Data Science Review paper to learn how! hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/4df1pl7f/r…

#Barcelona beach warming up for #KDD2024 (-3 weeks) SIGKDD 2024

Announcing the ICLR 2025 Call for Papers! Abstract submission: 11:59pm, Sept 27 (AoE) Submission date: 11:59pm, Oct 1 (AoE) Reviews released: Nov 12 Author/Reviewer Discussion: Nov 12-26 Author Last Day to Reply: Nov 27 Final Decisions: Jan 22 2025 iclr.cc/Conferences/20…

Social media algorithms shape our reality by deciding what's relevant. Independent studies are crucial, but hard without platform cooperation. We've put together practical recommendations for reranking feeds using web extensions. Source code coming soon! arxiv.org/abs/2406.19571📄

Very grateful to have received an outstanding paper award for our “Do Llamas Work in English?” paper. This paper would not have been possible without 4️⃣ co-firstauthors. Great job everyone! The energetic young upcoming PhD students Venia and Giovanni and the legendary Prof. West!

If pasta, bread, and red meat are so bad, why do Europeans live to 100+ and stay healthy? But when Americans consume these? They get chronically sick. After some research… I found the disturbing truth that explains exactly what's going on: 🧵

My new article: A new ‘AI scientist’ can write science papers without any human input. Here’s why that’s a problem. Philosopher of science interested in chatting? DM me. theconversation.com/a-new-ai-scien… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Yay my PhD thesis is online!!