Jan Buchmann

PhD student in NLP @UKPLab
Scientific documents, document structure, linking

[UKP Lab @UKPLab]

📢 10 papers authored or co-authored by UKP members have been accepted for publication at #EMNLP2024 in Miami! 🇺🇸
And 2 papers from CL and TACL will be presented at the conference 🎉

Congratulations to everyone involved! 💐 – be sure to check them out in this thread (1/🧵):

[Nico Daheim @ndaheim_]

Please drop by our poster tomorrow and talk to my co-authors about how IVON can directly optimize a variational objective with similar performance and cost as Adam but many things on top (uncertainty, model adaptation, diagnosis, ...)

Thu. 13:30-15:00, hall c 4-9, poster #1402

[Jan Buchmann @Koby_Loby]

In case you are looking for it: @eaclmeeting commitment link is here:
https://t.co/sjCWYSuXRB

[UKP Lab @UKPLab]

Pointwise V-usable information (PVI) excels in many #NLProc tasks. But fine-tuning #LLMs with it is very time-consuming 🐌 Is in-context PVI the necessary next step?

Yes! 🎉Check out our empirical analysis accepted at #EMNLP2023 – and this 🧵 (1/7)

📄 https://t.co/zzqSIznMtn

[UKP Lab @UKPLab]

Are Emergent Abilities in Large Language Models just In-Context Learning?

Spoiler: YES 🤯

Through a series of over 1,000 experiments, we provide compelling evidence: https://t.co/0AmNp1ltR9

Our results allay safety concerns regarding latent hazardous abilities.

A🧵👇 #NLProc

[Jan Buchmann @Koby_Loby]

@emnlpmeeting In case anyone is interested: I received an answer from the EMNLP Program Chairs via E-Mail:
In short:
1. Yes
2. No

[Jan Buchmann @Koby_Loby]

@emnlpmeeting I have two questions regarding the author response:
1. "EMNLP 2023 template" refers to the paper template? 2. Do references count towards the one page limit?
Would appreciate any help :)

[Jan Buchmann @Koby_Loby]

@_mm85 Kind of ironic considering that twitter is blocked in China?

[Jan Buchmann @Koby_Loby]

Hey @signalapp, why do you keep insisting that I turn on notifications? Being donation funded and tracking-less (which I support very much), signal shouldn’t need to get me hooked, right?

[Ethan Perez @EthanJPerez]

Some ppl have asked why we’d expect larger language models to do worse on tasks (inverse scaling). We train LMs to imitate internet text, an objective that is often misaligned w human preferences; if the data has issues, LMs will mimic those issues (esp larger ones). Examples: 🧵

[Jan Buchmann @Koby_Loby]

Great tutorial by ⁦@PetarV_93⁩ at ⁦@CambridgeEllis⁩ ML Summer School!

[Peter Welinder @npew]

GPT-3 is amazing at complex tasks like creative writing and summarizing. But it's surprisingly bad at reversing words. 🤔

The reason is that GPT-3 doesn't see the world the way we humans do. 👀

If you teach it to reason, it can get around its limitations to get really good. 💡

[Jan Buchmann @Koby_Loby]

@s_hesz @chimsky68 Lets go!

[Jan Buchmann @Koby_Loby]

@s_hesz @t_witteria_wien Nein das ist das Gegenteil

[Jan Buchmann @Koby_Loby]

Great talks at #SciNLP about exciting applications of NLP research @andycrouse77 @NCBI !

[Deutsche Wohnen & Co Enteignen @dwenteignen]

Volksentscheid, WIR KOMMEN! 💛💜 Mit sagenhaften 343.591 Unterschriften🎉

🎈Aufgrund der Anzahl an Unterschriften (schon die vorläufige Zahl ist ein Rekord für Volksbegehren in Berlin) gehen wir davon aus, dass es zum Volksentscheid am 26.09. kommt! 💪

[Jan Buchmann @Koby_Loby]

Really interesting, well-researched (and long) article on the origin of SARS-CoV2 and the dangers of gain-of-function research on viruses. Bottomline: The lab escape theory seems to be more plausible than reported by some. https://t.co/y8mfQ6SQGF

[Robert G. Reeve @RobertGReeve]

I'm back from a week at my mom's house and now I'm getting ads for her toothpaste brand, the brand I've been putting in my mouth for a week. We never talked about this brand or googled it or anything like that.

As a privacy tech worker, let me explain why this is happening. 🧵