Hal Daumé III

AI, NLP & ML. Director @trails_ai. Prof @umdCS, member of @CLIPumd @HCIL_umd, former @MSFTresearch. Fun: 🧗🧑‍🍳🧘⛷️🏕️.

[Hal Daumé III @haldaume3]

AIM's 2nd round of TTK hiring - building up to 30 - is up!

📅 Ddl 12/22/25
🔬 Accessibility & Learning, plus Sustainability & Social Justice
🧑‍🏫 Associate/Full Prof*
🔗 https://t.co/laxuDJUfmx

*Assistant-level candidates: apply to departments, mentioning AIM in a cover letter

[Stefan Feuerriegel @stfeuerriegel]

🚀Introducing 𝐆𝐔𝐈𝐃𝐄-𝐋𝐋𝐌: A reporting checklist for using LLMs in behavioral & social science

✅GUIDE-LLM is a reporting checklist designed by 80+ experts to improve transparency, reproducibility & ethical accountability of LLM-based research

📄https://t.co/G7dL9wuz4u

[Hal Daumé III @haldaume3]

Best consideration is Mar 27, so get your postdoc applications in in the next week or so!

[Hal Daumé III @haldaume3]

Come join @trails_ai as a postdoc at @UofMaryland (and work w folks at GW, MSU & Cornell) to conduct research and scholarship focused on approaches to AI that advance trust and trustworthiness with a great group of colleagues!

🌐 https://t.co/Qx8UKavH06
🗓️ Summer/Fall 2026 start

[Hal Daumé III @haldaume3]

@Amit_rege96 @trails_ai @UofMaryland Mar 27 is best consideration date!

[Hal Daumé III @haldaume3]

Come join @trails_ai as a postdoc at @UofMaryland (and work w folks at GW, MSU & Cornell) to conduct research and scholarship focused on approaches to AI that advance trust and trustworthiness with a great group of colleagues!

🌐 https://t.co/Qx8UKavH06
🗓️ Summer/Fall 2026 start

[Jagdeep Singh @startupjag]

After operating in stealth for the last 18 months @rhodaai , we’re excited today to finally show the world what we’ve been working on. We believe we’re on a path to physical AGI with the launch of our brand new foundation model, the Direct Video Action (DVA) model.

[Hal Daumé III @haldaume3]

drum roll…

[Hal Daumé III @haldaume3]

AIM's 2nd round of TTK hiring - building up to 30 - is up!

📅 Ddl 12/22/25
🔬 Accessibility & Learning, plus Sustainability & Social Justice
🧑‍🏫 Associate/Full Prof*
🔗 https://t.co/laxuDJUfmx

*Assistant-level candidates: apply to departments, mentioning AIM in a cover letter

[Hal Daumé III @haldaume3]

@furongh @xiaoyu_liu_1231 @jbhuang0604 @pdadewei Congrats Xiaoyu - I thoroughly enjoyed reading your dissertation and serving on your committee!

[Hal Daumé III @haldaume3]

@furongh @bang_an_ @jbhuang0604 @Sangha26Dutta Congratulations, Bang - really great work, it was a pleasure being on your committee!

[TRAILS @trails_ai]

TRAILS Director Hal Daumé (@haldaume3) joined "AI or Not" the podcast with Pamela Isom to talk about his shift from technical AI research to its societal impact—touching on governance, copyright, and the need for stronger regulations. https://t.co/GVamuItJXe

[Hal Daumé III @haldaume3]

@tracyyxchen @zcliu @fumeng_yang @RuohanGao1 @hdi_umd @Adobe @BoschGlobal @jiajing_guo @vikib0y @NElmqvist Congrats Yuexi! It is truly outstanding work!!!

[TracyYXChen @tracyyxchen]

We created COALA, a visual analytics tool that helps understand how native & non-native English speakers write differently when writing together. Our findings can help build better AI writing assistants for teams. Related #CSCW paper: https://t.co/tas3Ry8RpP

[Paola Cascante-Bonilla @pcascanteb]

📌NLI Improves Compositionality in Vision-Language Models is accepted to #ICLR2025!

CECE enables interpretability and achieves significant improvements in hard compositional benchmarks without fine-tuning (e.g., Winoground, EqBen) and alignment (e.g., DrawBench, EditBench).

[Hal Daumé III @haldaume3]

Please join us for:
AI at Work: Building and Evaluating Trust

Presented by our Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRIALS) institute.

Feb 3-4
Washington DC

Open to all!

Details and registration at: https://t.co/BvSwDjdy7y
Sponsorship details at: https://t.co/IAUBzkGoMG

[Hal Daumé III @haldaume3]

Today is the registration deadline!

[TRAILS @trails_ai]

Join fellow members of the AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC) on Dec 3 for the 1st annual plenary, hosted by TRAILS on behalf of @NIST at UMD.

This event is only open to individuals who work for a member of AISIC.

📅Register by Nov 27

👉Learn more: https://t.co/ZE5EBF8wCk

[Upol Ehsan @UpolEhsan]

All AI systems make mistakes.

🧐 What if users could leverage AI flaws to understand it & take informed actions?

🚀 Our #CSCW2024 paper on Seamful XAI offers a process to foresee, locate, & leverage AI flaws—boosting user understanding & agency.

But why should you care?⤵️
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[Hal Daumé III @haldaume3]

If you're part of an AISIC organization (see https://t.co/n8BhriWETs) you are cordially invited to participate.

Registration closes on Nov 27; details at https://t.co/6l2mTdrQpt

If your org is interested in sponsoring, please contact me or Mallory Smith (info at above link).

[Hal Daumé III @haldaume3]

We (@trails_ai) are thrilled to host the First Annual AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC) plenary meeting on Dec 3 in College Park.

This is a *members only* in-person (w hybrid option) gathering where the AISIC task forces will update, and we'll discuss future efforts.

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[Khanh Nguyen @khanhxuannguyen]

New #emnlp2024 paper (oral presentation on Nov 12 (tomorrow), 12:15-12:30 Monroe):

TL;DR: When a model fails, it can still guide a human to success.

We show that uncertainty communication improves human decision making, in the context of navigation!

Why is this exciting? Uncertainty communication has been promoted as a desirable feature of ML models, but it remains unclear what benefits it provides beyond fostering human trust. We may be among the first to demonstrate the positive effects of uncertainty communication on human decision-making.

You can read our paper now: https://t.co/wXc3LHo74P

and check out our demo:
https://t.co/zMSZqyimMz