Giorgos Vernikos

Research Enginner @googledeepmind in🇨🇭. Prev @EPFL, @Google, @AmazonScience and @ecentua

[Giorgos Vernikos @gvernikos]

Happy to share our latest preprint with @apopescubelis : "Don't Rank, Combine! Combining Machine Translation Hypotheses Using Quality Estimation"

📝preprint: https://t.co/3UMO21hzv5

[Nelly Papalampidi @pinelopip3]

Congrats @redpony and team! This is an amazing achievement and shows how AI research can power applications for social good! 🥳

Also it was personally fun sitting close by in the office and watching this project take off!

[Giorgos Vernikos @gvernikos]

Nelly is amazing! I can’t recommend working with her enough !!!

[Nelly Papalampidi @pinelopip3]

Are you interested to join @GoogleDeepMind as a student researcher (PhD students)?

I am hiring for a fun project on reward modeling for world models!

If you are interested on video understanding/generation and reward models/critiquing, get in touch and apply below! 👇

[Angelika Romanou @agromanou]

If you’re at @iclr_conf this week, come check out our spotlight poster INCLUDE during the Thursday 3:00–5:30pm session!

I will be there to chat about all things multilingual & multicultural evaluation.

Feel free to reach out anytime during the conference. I’d love to connect!

[SIGREP @sigrep_acl]

Disappointed with #ICLR or #NAACL reviews? Consider submitting your work at #Repl4NLP @naaclmeeting , whether it's full papers, extended abstracts, or cross-submissions. 🔥

Details on submissions 👉 https://t.co/vqbYL2qiHh

⏰ Deadline January 30

[SIGREP @sigrep_acl]

📢📢 Call for papers
#Repl4NLP @naaclmeeting

Consider submitting your work -full papers, extended abstracts, or cross-submissions!

✨ Direct paper submission deadline: Jan 30, 2025
✨ ARR commitment deadline: Feb 20, 2025

More details on our website: https://t.co/vqbYL2pKRJ

[Alexandra Chronopoulou @alexandraxron]

We are organizing Repl4NLP 2025 along with @fredahshi @gvernikos @vaibhav_adlakha @xiang_lorraine @mbodhisattwa. The workshop will be co-located with NAACL 2025 in Albuquerque, New Mexico and we plan to have a great panel of speakers.
Consider submitting your coolest work!

[Raj Dabre @prajdabre]

Paper #2: Language and Task Arithmetic with Parameter-Efficient Layers for Zero-Shot Summarization
Link: https://t.co/H5AMVzMT5v

Ever wondered how we can do LLM weight arithmetic to enable models to handle tasks in languages in zero shot style? The authors have a solution.

[Angelika Romanou @agromanou]

🚀 We've released the Lite version of Global-MMLU!
✅ Faster, easier evaluation
✅ Balanced culturally sensitive and culturally agnostic knowledge

Try it at 🤗: https://t.co/PEPg7bWy2l

[Angelika Romanou @agromanou]

Introducing Global-MMLU🌍: A multilingual benchmark featuring MMLU translations in 42 languages crafted with:
✅ Human curation
✅ Extensive metadata
✅ Insights into cultural sensitivity
Proud to have collaborated with @singhshiviii and @CohereForAI to bring this work to life!

[Angelika Romanou @agromanou]

🚀 Introducing INCLUDE 🌍: A multilingual LLM evaluation benchmark spanning 44 languages!
Contains *newly-collected* data, prioritizing *regional knowledge*.

Setting the stage for truly global AI evaluation.
Ready to see how your model measures up?
#AI #Multilingual #LLM #NLProc

[Alexandra Chronopoulou @alexandraxron]

Super excited - we received ✨✨best paper award ✨✨ for our paper at the Multilingual Representation Learning workshop #EMNLP2024!!! This was a fun internship project thanks to @seb_ruder @priyanka_17 and @cindyxinyiwang @PfeiffJo @maynez_joshua!

[Alexandra Chronopoulou @alexandraxron]

I am in Miami 🌴 attending #EMNLP2024! Tomorrow I will be presenting my @GoogleDeepMind internship paper at the @mrl2024_emnlp workshop at 11:00am (poster session) and as an oral at 2:30pm! If you are still around and interested in multilingual model merging, stop by!🎉

[Efimia Panagiotaki @panefimia]

Can neural networks reason like pointcloud registration algorithms?
Excited to share our latest paper, "NAR-*ICP: Neural Execution of Classical ICP-based Pointcloud Registration Algorithms", with @PetarV_93, @d_d_martini, and @kula78!
https://t.co/DuEwZvbvLb
More info below 🤖

[Alexandra Chronopoulou @alexandraxron]

Can we achieve effective zero-shot summarization by combining language & task information from existing PEFT adapters with weight arithmetic?

Our paper, accepted at the @mrl2024_emnlp workshop #EMNLP2024, explores this question! A 🧵:

[Giorgos Vernikos @gvernikos]

@alexandraxron @LukeZettlemoyer @licwu @albrechtschmidt Συγχαρητήρια Δρ. Χρονοπούλου !!!🥳

[Giorgos Vernikos @gvernikos]

I am in Bangkok 🇹🇭 attending #ACL2024NLP! Tomorrow at 10:00 during Poster Session 4, I'll be presenting our work QE-fusion. If you're interested in translation, LLMs, and quality estimation, stop by for a chat!

[Giorgos Vernikos @gvernikos]

Happy to share our latest preprint with @apopescubelis : "Don't Rank, Combine! Combining Machine Translation Hypotheses Using Quality Estimation"

📝preprint: https://t.co/3UMO21hzv5

[Giorgos Vernikos @gvernikos]

@katemargatina @nikaletras Εύγε Δρ. Μαργατίνα!!!

[Nikos Aletras @nikaletras]

Congratulations to Dr. Katerina (⁦@katemargatina⁩) who passed her PhD viva today with no corrections!! 🎉🥳

Katerina has made very important contributions to active learning for NLP, including contrastive-based acquisition!

[Giorgos Vernikos @gvernikos]

🚨 Excited to announce that our QE-fusion paper has been accepted to the #ACL2024NLP main conference! 🎉 See you all in Bangkok!! 🇹🇭

📰 camera-ready: https://t.co/3UMO21i7kD

[Giorgos Vernikos @gvernikos]

Happy to share our latest preprint with @apopescubelis : "Don't Rank, Combine! Combining Machine Translation Hypotheses Using Quality Estimation"

📝preprint: https://t.co/3UMO21hzv5

[Giorgos Bouritsas (@[email protected]) @gbouritsas]

#ICML2024 Paper 📣. tl;dr: a theoretical analysis of the minima of various contrastive learning losses + a novel loss family (seamless plugin) inspired by our theory, w/ robust & consistent downstream performance improvements. With @pakoromilas,
@tyiannak,@MihalisAN, Y. Panagakis