In the past two years I have been slowly removing deadlines in my undergrad teaching and allowing students to have multiple attempts for an assignment. The results have been positive so far so I'm sharing the idea here. Two things have been bothering me in teaching: 1. we know

Our new paper is out! Why crediting the right reasoning steps is so important in RL LLM finetuning for difficult reasoning tasks. Congrats Amirhossein Kazemnejad Milad Aghajohari !

Friends! I am looking for PhD and Masters students to join my group for Fall 2025, Please share with students you may know who are interested in the intersection of language, CogSci, and AI! first deadline is Dec 1st, see my page for more info: evaportelance.github.io/prosstudents.h…

I'm recruiting PhD students this year with strong interest in NLP! If you are interested in understanding how we use language to effectively communicate, and how those insights translate to NLP models, apply to join the Coalas Lab at UCLA. Continue reading for details! (1/5)

Word Learning by Michael C. Frank: doi.org/10.21428/e2759…

The first step to joining my group is submitting a supervision request at Mila - Quebec AI Institute ! Applications now open 🎉 For next steps see evaportelance.github.io/prosstudents.h…

Mila is looking for talented new minds to join its community in the Fall of 2025! Our annual supervision request process is open until December 1st. Submit yours today ow.ly/yj8450TQoST

New paper out 🎉 !! Masoud and I wrote a perspective on how modern LMs and AI models can be useful for studying language acquisition in kids. Check out the open source paper in Language and Linguistics Compass: dx.doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.7… and this original thread:

tinlab at Boston University (with a new logo! 🪄) is recruiting PhD students for F25 and/or a postdoc! Our interests include meaning, generalization, evaluation design, and the nature of computation/representation underlying language and cognition, in both humans and machines. ⬇️

Re-upping: Postdoc position (two-to-three years) at Santa Fe Institute on cogsci-inspired AI approaches to multimodal reasoning. Start date flexible: target is Summer / Fall 2025. PhD in AI, ML, CogSci, or related area (by start date) Apply by Nov. 22. santafe.edu/about/jobs/pos…

Great team in a great city looking to hire!

🧵 Les étudiantes et étudiants internationaux sont d’une importance vitale pour le Québec. Bien qu’elles ne représentent qu’un très faible pourcentage de l’immigration temporaire dans la province, ces personnes consolident la compétitivité du Québec…

three exciting new labs in the NLP/linguistics/cognitive science area that are accepting PhD students!

I have multiple vacancies for PhD and Masters students at Mila - Institut québécois d'IA McGill NLP in NLP/ML focusing on representation learning, reasoning, multimodality and alignment. Deadline for applications is Dec 1st. More details: mila.quebec/en/prospective…

Do you want to understand how language models work, and how they can change language science? I'm recruiting PhD students at UBC Linguistics! The research will be fun, and Vancouver is lovely. So much cool NLP happening at UBC across both Ling and CS! linguistics.ubc.ca/graduate/admis…

Presented the AURORA paper together with some of the awesome co-authors Chris Pal Siva Reddy Luis Lara from Mila - Institut québécois d'IA Tons of fun, 3h of non-stop chatting and exchange of ideas, now pretty exhausted 😅

Benno Krojer (Benno Krojer) presented his spotlight paper « Learning Action and Reasoning-Centric Image Editing from Videos and Simulation » at NeurIPS Conference. Here is a summary of his research in one minute.

Congrats to OAI on producing a reasoning model! Their opaque tweets demonstrate that they’ve (independently) found some of the core ideas that we did on our way to STaR.