Proud to announce our paper on "Automatic Unit Test Data Generation and Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning for Code Synthesis" has been accepted to Findings of #EMNLP2023 . This is joint work with Matthieu Zimmer, Gerasimos Lampouras , Derrick Goh Xin Deik, and Iacobacci et al. .

There is a beautiful story that just happened in AI so let me share it for a lighter tone weekend post among all the doom stories in our AI field this week. It’s a story of people on three continents building and sharing in the open a new small efficient and state-of-the-art AI

Very happy to be co-organizing this workshop and shared task with the fine folks at @TCD and The ADAPT Centre! Please help us spread the word of our research track and shared task: Paper deadline: Dec 18th ARR commitment deadline: Jan 17th Shard task deadline: Jan 20th

Many thanks to all the wonderful reviewers, area chairs & senior area chairs that support our reviewing process. Here's a special shout out to the *best reviewers* for October cycle. aclrollingreview.org/great-oct23-re… ACLRollingReview #NLProc

If you are attending eaclmeeting, join #UncertaiNLP workshop! I will give my keynote discussing uncertainty quantification & evaluation and —spoiler alert— conformal prediction. If you are interested in uncertainty (if not, maybe you should :)) #UncertaiNLP is the place to be!

If you are in Malta 🇲🇹 (hi!👋), come join me today at the Generation session (Marie Louise 2 - Radisson Blu Hotel) 14:00 - 15:30 local time, where I will present our work "Text-to-Code Generation with Modality-relative Pre-training"! 🎉

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Looking to grow our NLP team in London - Huawei Noah's Ark Lab! We have positions for Research Scientists (permanents) and Engineers (contractors), where they will conduct academic and applied research in NLP and ML. Details below: huaweiuk.teamtailor.com/jobs/4209412-r… linkedin.com/jobs/view/3912…

So happy to be back to MCR for this talk! Thanks again for the invitation!

Checkout our latest work!

Delighted to present our #naacl2024 paper, #HumanRankEval: Automatic Evaluation of #LMs as Conversational Assistants with Gerasimos Lampouras and Iacobacci et al. providing fast, reliable and private evaluation of instruction-tuned #LLMs. A truly new eval paradigm, no #gpt4-as-a-judge :)

Research Scientist (permanent) positions just opened in our NLP team in London - Huawei Noah's Ark Lab! Looking for experienced researchers to help us tackle some interesting (and persistent) questions :) Take a look and apply if interested: huaweiuk.teamtailor.com/jobs/4981873-r…