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Following our SEACrowd project, we’re thrilled to announce SEA-VL, a open-source initiative aimed at creating high-quality vision-language datasets for Southeast Asian languages! Join us to help develop a culturally SEA VLM! 🌏 seacrowd.github.io/seavl-launch/

🤖🧠 I'll be considering applications for postdocs & PhD students to start at Yale in Fall 2025! If you are interested in the intersection of linguistics, cognitive science, & AI, I encourage you to apply! Postdoc link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_po… PhD link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_st…

Excited to get recognized as an outstanding reviewer! 🙌

✨SEA Gathering at EMNLP 2024 Celebrating SEACrowd paper and future collaboration 🎉🥳👏🍾 Good food and good collaboration 🏝️🐟 #emnlp2024 #seacrowd #worldcuisines

me on bsky🦋 => ruochenzhang

Thanks to Nature News for some nice coverage of our work! nature.com/articles/d4158…

Second year Brown CS and CNTR PhD student Rui-Jie Yew was recently recognized as runner-up for Best Student Paper at the Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society Conference AI, Ethics, and Society Conference (AIES) at the end of October with collaborators lucy qin and Suresh Venkatasubramanian (mostly in the sky now). cntr.brown.edu/news/2024-11-1…

Even ducklings🐣can represent abstract visual relations. Can your favorite ViT? In our new NeurIPS Conference paper, we use mechanistic interpretability to find out!

QwQ is too good 🥹 acronyms are not enough, we need to use emoticons ∠( ᐛ 」∠)＿

Applications are now open for our NSF Summer REU Site, Artificial Intelligence for Computational Creativity! aireu.cs.brown.edu Deadline: Feb 3, 2025

David (David Romero Mogrovejo) the first author of CVQA (culturally relevant, human-written multilingual VQA) is presenting our work at the MBZUAI student research showcase Next week, he’ll present it in an oral session at NeurIPS Conference This is one of the works I’m most proud of!

Can we find circuits directly from a model’s params? At Neurips I’m presenting work on understanding how attn heads in LMs communicate by analyzing their weights. We find a lot of interesting things, like a 3D subspace that controls which index in a list to attend to!

Omw ➡️ #NeurIPS2024 If you’re there too, check out our oral and poster presentations on CVQA - a multilingual cultural-diverse VQA benchmark! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2406.05967 Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/afaji…

Excited to announce our new grassroots initiative, stay tuned for more! 🌟