💡New work!

Do LLMs learn foundational concepts required to build world models? We address this question with 🌐🐨EWoK (Elements of World Knowledge)🐨🌐, a flexible cognition-inspired framework to test knowledge across physical and social domains

ewok-core.github.io

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statistics = only fun when it works

🎉New paper our in Cognitive Science CogSci Society with Michael C. Frank and Dan Jurafsky !

It's a deepdive into how visually-grounded LMs - and by extension possibly humans - learn the meanings of complex words like and/or, behind/in front, more/fewer.

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i wish ppl were more sensitive to fair credit assignment

just used 'semantics practitioner' in a meeting with collaborators and idk what to think about it

I am delighted to officially announce the National Deep Inference Fabric project, #NDIF .

ndif.us

NDIF is an U.S. National Science Foundation-supported computational infrastructure project to help YOU advance the science of large-scale AI.

cleaning/tidying your apartment can be refreshing/peaceful, but have you tried cleaning your github repositories?

wow it worked

today's our last day of classes, so let me share 2 exciting updates 🥁

1⃣ Starting Fall 2025, I will begin as an Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh 🤠 Looking forward to exploring Pittsburgh (send all your recs)!

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I'll be in Paris until mid-July for a research visit at Le Laboratoire Linguistique de Formelle (LLF). Let me know if you're around! 🇫🇷

petition to ban music-based rounds at trivia night

📢 New Paper!

Ever wondered why transformers are able to capture hierarchical structure of human language without incorporating an explicit 🌲 structure in their architecture?

In this work we delve deep into understanding hierarchical generalization in transformers.

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Me feel sad because me no got cookies. But me feel good because me got me. And me not so bad! 💙

sometimes I wonder why I check Twitter after I wake up (or at all)

sometimes it’s nice to be reminded of things you’ve posted

Just finished this over the weekend -- such an amazing book! Horowitz once again keeping his mysteries fresh and twisty!

Whatever the outcome is, birds surely aren’t real

v good conf!