Drew Farris

Software, Data, Search, IR, ML & Distributed Systems. Open Source Geek, @theasf member. Author @tamingtext, Director AI @BoozAllen, opinions are my own.

[Drew Farris @drewfarris]

More than 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by 2027—not because the tech isn’t ready, but because they aren’t built to operate in real environments. At #BoozAllen, we build agentic AI for mission conditions—so it performs when it matters. https://t.co/vUOTIGIMP5

[Drew Farris @drewfarris]

Meg builds #AI for missions with lasting importance—working at the edge of what’s possible. Interested in a role like Meg’s? Bring your #AI expertise to Booz Allen and apply: https://t.co/7xtvxvmRn6

[MLSecOps @mlsecops]

🎙️🎉 New pod episode is live!
S2Ep3: "Evaluating Real-World Adversarial ML Attack Risks and Effective Management: Robustness vs. Non-ML Mitigations" with guests, Drew Farris and Edward Raff.

👀 Watch, listen, or read the transcript ➡️https://t.co/ZBVpB1J6Hn

#MLSecOps #ProtectAI

[MLSecOps @mlsecops]

Thanks so much to @EdwardRaffML and @drewfarris for joining us in the studio for this conversation.
Check out their paper that inspired the talk here: https://t.co/OwYBZ1xS8B "You Don't Need Robust Machine Learning to Manage Adversarial Attack Risks."

[Drew Farris @drewfarris]

@simplechris It’s a fascinating, challenging, sometimes frustrating, yet incredibly rewarding space to be in. I love it too.

[Doug Turnbull @softwaredoug]

When AI startup discovers their RAG problems are the same old search relevance problems we've struggled with mightily for years :)

[Edward Raff @EdwardRaffML]

By 𝑅𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑒𝑙𝑓-𝐴𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡𝘩 𝐻𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝𝘩𝑖𝑐 𝑅𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 you too can classify sequence with 1 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗻𝘀! New #neurosymbolic awesomeness led by @rea1mma w @BlancheMinerva @oatesbag @icmlconf

[Drew Farris @drewfarris]

Seconded! I am proud of the work @BlancheMinerva has done, continues to develop, and the fact @BoozAllen can support and drive value from open research.

[Edward Raff @EdwardRaffML]

Super proud of @BlancheMinerva 's work over the years and recognizing it @BoozAllen . Check it out to learn more about the awesome stuff she does, we support, and all the cool things we do through smart folks like Stella! https://t.co/DidGcCdrFV

[Stella Biderman @BlancheMinerva]

What is the state-of-the-art for Semantic Search over text? Actual semantic *search*, not some chatbot hallucinating content that I need to go check.

[Drew Farris @drewfarris]

@kshashi @gsingers @strandbookstore I would definitely cover things like byte pair encoding, positional embeddings, transformers, attention, reader/retriever and RLHF to name a few but the general structure still holds up pretty well. It is exciting to see the progress made over the past 10 years.

[Drew Farris @drewfarris]

@gsingers @strandbookstore It is always fun to find a copy in the wild.

[Nora Belrose @norabelrose]

(7/7) LEACE wouldn’t be possible without @TheDavidSJ, who proved the theorem that led to this paper. I'd also like to thank our other coauthors @ravfogel @ryandcotterell @EdwardRaffML @BlancheMinerva!

[Nora Belrose @norabelrose]

Ever wanted to mindwipe an LLM?

Our method, LEAst-squares Concept Erasure (LEACE), provably erases all linearly-encoded information about a concept from neural net activations. It does so surgically, inflicting minimal damage to other concepts. 🧵
https://t.co/Wzs9huIkOC

[Drew Farris @drewfarris]

“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” - Amara’s Law https://t.co/13UNZOKMTG

[Drew Farris @drewfarris]

“When there is a smart person in the loop, unreliable advice [from an LLM] is better than no advice, and the advice comes much more explicitly than from carrying out a conventional search on a search engine” - Rodney Brooks https://t.co/llTHkoTIp1

[Drew Farris @drewfarris]

A nice analysis of how parameters are used in transformer models. Good Sunday morning reading. https://t.co/RfFllFoiRX

[Drew Farris @drewfarris]

OH “Hey, that’s Flea!”

[Drew Farris @drewfarris]

Congratulations on the publication of Inside Deep Learning @EdwardRaffML! It is great to finally hold it - it’s Chonky! @ManningBooks https://t.co/mK1NEiUZDK

[Drew Farris @drewfarris]

@Kate_MLA_SF I think this belongs on r/choosingbeggars

[Edward Raff @EdwardRaffML]

Come by today for the @iclr_conf #MLEvaluationStandards workshop. Also super excited that @drewfarris and I @BoozAllen received an outstanding paper award! And another for reviewing! A thread on two papers in the workshop: 🧵