For this week's MilaNLP reading group, Yujie presented "Does Fine-Tuning LLMs on New Knowledge Encourage Hallucinations?" by Zorik Gekhman et al. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2405.05904 #NLProc

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My Manager watching me code while ChatGPT is down

What to know about DeepSeek youtu.be/0eMzc-WnBfQ?si… In which we aim to understand MoE, o1, scaling, tech reporting, modern semiconductors, microeconomics, and international geopolitics.

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New paper: turns out you can train deep nets without normalization layers by replacing them with a parameterized tanh()

#MyanmarEarthquake The scene after the collapse of the Shwe Pho Shing Mosque in #Mandalay due to the 7.7 magnitude #earthquake hit #Myanmar. At least 20 people were killed when the Shwe Pho Shing Mosque in Mandalay collapsed during worship today due to a devastating

1/ Myanmar is facing an unimaginable catastrophe. A powerful earthquake has devastated cities, destroying homes, temples, and lives. The USGS estimates the death toll could reach up to 100,000, with economic losses as high as 70% of the country’s GDP.

The criminal acts of an unconscionably cruel and corrupt military dictatorship. Give the aid to National Unity Government Myanmar and the resistance forces. #MyanmarEarthquake

Our hearts go out to all those affected by the earthquake in Myanmar. Wishing strength, safety, and hope to those in need. Together, we stand with Myanmar. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #Sagaing #HelpMyanmarRecover #MyanmarEarthquake

Myanmar’s junta is still bombing in spite of a devastating earthquake and a ceasefire announced by some opponents in the face of the disaster, reports The Irrawaddy (Eng). Air raids even took place near the epicentre as well as northern Shan State, it said. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

Myanmar’s junta has continued attacks even after the devastating earthquake. This map shows where. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #MyanmarEarthquake

1/ Binance’s earthquake relief plan for Myanmar is well-intentioned but deeply flawed. A $5 or $50 BNB airdrop to KYC-verified users isn’t real aid. Earthquake survivors need food, water, shelter—not crypto sitting in an exchange. This needs to change. 🧵👇

The recent earthquake made headlines everywhere and it was my first time feeling one. Still feels a bit unreal. As a digital nomad who spends half of my time in Bangkok, and with my girlfriend being from Myanmar, I’ve been paying extra attention to this disaster. We are really

Respect Brother. He speak out the real fact of Myanmar Situation. No need to be arrested the one who stand the truth and stay together with Myanamr Citizen.Our people from Myanmar stand with him like he stand with our people. #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar #WeAresupportingthatstudent

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Swag package from Google AI Developer Program for my participation in the Vertex AI Sprint <3 I had the opportunity to contribute a Burmese language tutorial on data extraction with Gemini on Vertex AI . The video is here. youtu.be/K0ayOkGVTAI #VertexAISprint

⭐️We're thrilled to share that our paper WorldCuisines has been selected for the Best Theme Paper Award at NAACL 2025 NAACL HLT 2025! 🎉 A huge thank you to the reviewers and area chair for this incredible recognition — we’re truly honored. Massive gratitude to all our amazing

what do you teach at the first-year graduate course on machine learning, in this era of LLM and large-scale compute? here's my experiment on answering this question: let's teach everything that admits SGD and that is not LLM, and ask students to read old papers.

🌏 Join SEA-VL Phase 2 – Help Build a Vision-Language Model for Southeast Asia! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of SEA-VL Phase 2, a global community initiative to build VLMs that truly understands SEA—its languages, cultures, and visual richness.🧵(1/x) #nlproc #seacrowd