Still two weeks to apply for this postdoc position in #NLProc

Deadline June 10th

New week, new blog! In collab with MLCommons, we wrote up a summary of the PRISM alignment project, covering what motivated us to collect feedback from 1,500 humans around the world, how we collected it & which challenges we encountered on the road 🙇‍♀️
mlcommons.org/2024/05/prism/

A fully-funded 3.5y scholarship (UK/Home applicants) for a PhD in #NLProc is available!

Broad topic: efficient and robust alignment of LLMs.

Application deadline: Jun 10th

More info: findaphd.com/phds/project/e…

Blog alert on the PRISM alignment project w/ quotes from me & both PhD supervisors (Bertie Vidgen, Scott Hale). As Scott nicely puts it: 'Having more people at the table, having more perspectives represented, ultimately leads to technology that will raise everyone up.'🙌🚀

I will be presenting our work: “Small Language Models Improve Giants by Rewriting their Outputs” at #EACL2024 🇲🇹 !

If you are around, drop by today (poster) at 14:00 in Radisson or tomorrow (oral) at 14:00 in Marie Louise. All times are CET.

Now thesis is in — I’m on the job market! Looking for RS roles for product and/or research.

My PhD focused on cross-lingual transfer + structure prediction but also interested in analysis of optimisation, training dynamics and evaluating generation 🧵

Happy to announce that our paper has been accepted at #EACL24 (Main conf.) 🎉! Many thanks to my co-authors Google!

📄 camera-ready: arxiv.org/abs/2305.13514…
💻 code: github.com/GeorgeVern/lmc…

Happy to share our latest preprint with Andrei Popescu-Belis : 'Don't Rank, Combine! Combining Machine Translation Hypotheses Using Quality Estimation'

📝preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2401.06688

Can you pre-train LMs under extreme settings, e.g. only using small subsets of characters from individual tokens instead of full tokens?

Check out our new paper w/ Ahmed Ahmed Alajrami and Katerina Katerina Margatina, to appear at #EMNLP2023

📰: arxiv.org/pdf/2310.17271…

PhD Vacancy Alert!

Join us in spreading the word: Eva Vanmassenhove, afra alishahi and I have a PhD opening on fair and inclusive Machine Translation.

Details & application: tiu.nu/21906
Deadline: Nov 15, 2023
Interviews: Dec 2023

Thanks!
#PhDJob #MachineTranslation

Feels uncomfortable and unimportant to celebrate that our paper got accepted in #EMNLP2023 Findings, given everything that is going on. It was the last paper for my PhD though, so there’s the silver lining!

📢 We're happy to announce that our group has 12 papers accepted to #EMNLP2023 (6 main, 6 findings) 🧵⬇️

Congratulations to all our members and collaborators! 🥳 #NLProc

How does human feedback steer LLM behaviours?🧐 Whose voices dominate? 🗣️What challenges remain and how can we do better as a community in the future?🔮

All these questions and more answered in our new survey paper, accepted at #EMNLP23 !

a small 🧵

arxiv.org/abs/2310.07629

Rejections are part of research (and life), but this year's EMNLP 2024 review process is very disappointing.

Our paper was rejected despite the meta-review explicitly proposing acceptance.

#emnlp2023

If you are looking for a faculty position in #NLProc , we are hiring!

Reach out for details if you are interested in applying!

I'm hiring a postdoc for 18 months to work with us on tokenization-free NLP in Copenhagen. Applications are due by August 31: di.ku.dk/english/about/…. Don't hesitate to reach out with informal inquiries.

This is so bad I can’t even focus on a few things to begin to explain.🥲 Only the Caldera view is acceptable (though unnecessary) and the glass of water.

While we're preparing our EMNLP submissions, we're happy to announce that our group has 11 papers (8 main and 3 findings) accepted at #ACL2023NLP Congratulations to all our members and collaborators🥳

🫶 Thrilled to see CAL (arxiv.org/abs/2109.03764 w/ Giorgos Vernikos @loicbarrault Nikos Aletras) as an established AL acquisition method & always happy to see algorithms that build on top of it and improve it! (certainly more to be done still💪)

Very nice work Matthias Aßenmacher!