Morris Alper

Postdoc at @LTIatCMU. I research creative multimodal machine learning leveraging linguistic structure.

[Morris Alper @MorrisAlper]

The number of languages in the world just got a lot higher! At least constructed ones.
Meet ConlangCrafter - a pipeline for creating novel languages with LLMs.
A Japanese-Esperanto creole? An alien cephalopod color-based language?
Enter your idea and see a conlang emerge. 🧵👇

[Morris Alper @MorrisAlper]

@MikeWingert Wiktionary says it's cognate with Arabic ثَغْر (ṯaḡr, “gap, cleft”)

[Morris Alper @MorrisAlper]

@phono_logical Khoekhoegowab

[Morris Alper @MorrisAlper]

Great news: ConlangCrafter was accepted as an oral presentation at @aclmeeting! Ni iras al San Diego! (how is there no Esperanto flag emoji???)

[Morris Alper @MorrisAlper]

The number of languages in the world just got a lot higher! At least constructed ones.
Meet ConlangCrafter - a pipeline for creating novel languages with LLMs.
A Japanese-Esperanto creole? An alien cephalopod color-based language?
Enter your idea and see a conlang emerge. 🧵👇

[בִﻦ בִﻦ @BenThereDonDhat]

ﻟא יודع לﻤה ﻧזׄכרתי אבל שבוع הבא הוﻟכת להתקיים הצﻌדה הבין דתית ﻟזכויות אדم ולשלוم, נצא מYMCA ﻟכיוון שער יפו ונראה שהﻌיר יכוﻟה גﻢ אחרת ומגיﻊ ﻟה ﻃוב יותר. ﻋיצבתי שלﻄים אז בואו

[Morris Alper @MorrisAlper]

It was a pleasure to present on ConlangCrafter at MIT at this week’s workshop on Invented, Constructed, and Emergent Languages in Multi-AI Systems!

[Morris Alper @MorrisAlper]

@etai_sella @EladRichardson Great work Etai! Very cool!

[Songyou Peng @songyoupeng]

Yay, finally! Introducing Vision Banana🍌 from @GoogleDeepMind, our unified model that outperforms SoTA specialist models on various vision tasks!

By treating 2D/3D vision tasks as image generation, we unlock a new foundation for CV.

Project page: https://t.co/GQgRi6mWwC

(1/5)

[Emmy Liu @_emliu]

wrote a guide on getting compute grants as a student, something I wish I did more at the beginning of my PhD. It's honestly one of the highest ROI things you can do as a student (we've gotten 100k+ gpu hrs for roughly 2 weeks of work writing).

https://t.co/U15nwau88a

[Morris Alper @MorrisAlper]

@ninabegus Lualatex and xelatex work well but arxiv doesn’t support them.

[Morris Alper @MorrisAlper]

@ninabegus ASCII bias is strong. Good luck getting IPA to render correctly in arxiv submissions…

[Morris Alper @MorrisAlper]

@BenThereDonDhat It’s giving animorphs

[Morris Alper @MorrisAlper]

Now accepted to ACL 2026!
Check out our pipeline for inventing new languages with LLMs!

[Morris Alper @MorrisAlper]

The number of languages in the world just got a lot higher! At least constructed ones.
Meet ConlangCrafter - a pipeline for creating novel languages with LLMs.
A Japanese-Esperanto creole? An alien cephalopod color-based language?
Enter your idea and see a conlang emerge. 🧵👇

[Morris Alper @MorrisAlper]

@pharyngealschwa What’s the etymology of שתתאח׳ה?

[Morris Alper @MorrisAlper]

So cool! We need a version with F3.

[御水（みもい） @mimoi_sound]

グラフ上で点をグリグリ動かして母音を発音させるやつをp5.jsで作ったことがあります

[Nimrod Shabtay @NimrodShabtay]

Introducing Look Where It Matters — High-Resolution Crops Retrieval for Efficient VLMs.
VLMs don't need to process full high-res images. AwaRes uses tool-calling to retrieve only the high-res regions needed to answer a given query🧵
https://t.co/JCiHCykcRP https://t.co/xqIYzmKeHP

[Morris Alper @MorrisAlper]

@mmitchell_ai To be fair, this and related works are using CIFAR-type setups while I was referring to web-scale training which is more related to works like this one: https://t.co/t8vW49tzjW
Though that's a good point re: likely up-weighting.

[Morris Alper @MorrisAlper]

@massiviola01 Super interesting! I'm working on a task related to knowledge probing where Flux models are clearly much worse than SDXL. Seems to be consistent with what you're saying.

[Massimiliano Viola ✈️ CVPR @massiviola01]

Repeat after me: prettier AI images make worse training data.

Wait what??🤔

A recent paper tested a dozen text-to-image models from 2022 to 2025 in synth to real transfer, and the results are discouraging to say the least.

[Morris Alper @MorrisAlper]

@random_walker The problem is that this creates an incentive for advisors to delay students’ graduation because they provide cheap (relatively) labor, even though a PhD student should be eligible to graduate once they have acquired the skills that the degree is supposed to teach.