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At the Machines Can See 2024 Summit, #MBZUAI made significant contributions.

MBZUAI's Provost, Tim Baldwin, provided valuable insights during a panel discussion on adapting educational strategies, fostering industry-academia collaboration, and navigating the evolving workforce

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Paper accepted to NAACL 2024 main conference.
arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2404.02421
In this work, we explore the interaction between two bottlenecks of LLMs: negation and tokenization (quoting Andrej Karpathy: 'tokenization is the root of suffering').

Unveiling the Achilles' Heel of LLMs: We survey 120+ papers on AI jailbreaking attacks, defense strategies, and safety assessments, aiming to provide the most comprehensive summary of AI jailbreaking security for academia and industry.

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Professor Tim Baldwin is appointed Provost of #MBZUAI . Professor Baldwin's dedication and outstanding contributions to the field of natural language processing ( #NLP ) are exemplary.

His visionary leadership has led to the establishment of new departments, thriving faculty

Amazing work by team MBZUAI

A number of us are at #EACL2024 if you have questions about the University, NLP Department, place, or anything else ...

Now at poster #33: 'Do-Not-Answer: Evaluating Safeguards in LLMs'. Yuxia Wang, Haonan Li, Xudong Han, Preslav Nakov, Timothy Baldwin aclanthology.org/2024.findings-… #EACL #EACL 2024 #NLProc , #LLMs #GenAI

Ever faced a lack of labeled data for multilingual tasks?

This #EACL2024 , we unveil an effective method for sentiment analysis in low-resource languages solely relying on a multilingual lexicon 💡 – more in this 🧵 (1/8).

📰 arxiv.org/abs/2402.02113

#NLProc #SentimentAnalysis

Honoured and delighted to host you on campus Michelle Donelan MP, and looking forward to deepening engagement between UAE and the UK in AI Safety and beyond

Our preprint with Prof. Danushka Bollegala, Naoaki Okazaki, and Tim Baldwin proposes a framework to evaluate gender bias in LLMs through CoT✨ Moreover, we demonstrate that instructing LLMs to predict the gender of professions step-by-step can effectively debias!
📄 arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2401.15585

Are you always discarding incorrect reasoning paths during reasoning data generation for LLM fine-tuning?
Our latest research reveals that negative examples can actually enhance LLM's reasoning during fine-tuning.

Introducing #NAT (Negative-Aware Training) A new agent

Kickstarting our Central and South American trip with a visit to Instituto de de Informática - INF. Looking forward to seeing you soon Viviane Moreira!
I'll be talking about our latest research and spreading the word about opportunities to join MBZUAI
#Brazil #nlp

Huge congratulations to the Allen Institute for AI team!

The OLMo series is a substantial contribution to the OSS LLM community with:
- open training datasets
- 500 checkpoints
- analysis and evaluations

Couldn’t be happier to see more projects with similar goals (cc EleutherAI)

#MBZUAI 's faculty, researchers, students showcase academic prowess with 18 accepted papers—double the previous year, at the Eighteenth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) 2024.

Our NLP dept MBZUAI is hiring multiple open rank faculty positions in Speech/NLP. Some facts:
* Ranked #18 in the world for NLP (csrankings.org)
* 1st AI university
* Friendly & supportive work environment
Apply Now!
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#MBZUAI and Justice Connect are enhancing legal aid access using innovative #NLP tools.

Led by Professor Tim Baldwin, acting provost & NLP professor at MBZUAI, the partnership has notably improved user experience in legal understanding, cutting form abandonment by more than 50%.

📣We’re kicking off 2024 with our first seminar!! 🥳
👉Join us on Tuesday, Jan 9th at 1030am (VN time) for an innovative seminar from Tim Baldwin!
🔸Seminar Title: LLMs FTW
💥Watch: youtube.com/live/UfTPy5M8O…
💥Register now: forms.office.com/r/uSc77kJJx7

Great opportunity to work with one of our star faculty at MBZUAI ...