Alexander Hoyle

Postdoctoral fellow with @ETH_AI_Center. CSS + NLP. Previously CS PhD @umdcs, intern at @msftresearch and @ai2_allennlp.

[Alexander Hoyle @miserlis_]

@AzmineWasi We really need to empower someone (ACs?) to desk-reject obviously bad papers and stop wasting people's time

[Alexander Hoyle @miserlis_]

@sebschu Thanks for your advice—it was obviously helpful :)

[Alexander Hoyle @miserlis_]

Delighted to announce the next step in my career!

After my postdoc, I will begin a joint appointment at TU Wien and the Complexity Science Hub Vienna as an Assistant Professor in NLP! My deepest thanks to all who helped me along the way

I'm hiring—details on PhD positions below

[Alexander Hoyle @miserlis_]

If you were considering schools in the US but are having visa issues/concerns about relocating there, please consider applying—of course Americans looking for outside opportunities are also welcome!

[Alexander Hoyle @miserlis_]

Why join? Vienna has a vibrant, rapidly-growing AI scene and a terrific quality of life; TU Wien has an excellent CS department; the Complexity Science Hub is a home to ambitious interdisciplinary work.

If you are curious, opinionated, driven: come!

[Alexander Hoyle @miserlis_]

@NishantBalepur @rachelrudinger Wow, this is very fun. Nice work as usual !

[Alexander Hoyle @miserlis_]

We view this effort as a first rung on a reproducibility ladder, eventually ending with wholesale replication from only a research question

Ben, and the rest of the team, did terrific work on this and I’m really excited for what’s next!

Now on arXiv: https://t.co/uKXr8axzAr

[Alexander Hoyle @miserlis_]

New preprint out!

Recent work tasks LLM agents with re-running existing social science replication code. Given current capabilities, that should be table stakes

Here, we move up a level of abstraction, and ask models to reproduce results from a paper’s descriptions alone

[Elliott Ash @ellliottt]

Can AI agents read a social science paper and write the code from scratch to reproduce its results?

No access to original code. Just text + data.

New paper with Ben Kohler, @david_rzs, @__jae_1, and @miserlis_

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[Alexander Hoyle @miserlis_]

Thanks for mavhing me! I had a lovely time!

[MilaNLP @MilaNLProc]

We were thrilled to host @miserlis_ at our lab!
His insightful talk on topic modeling sparked great discussions and fresh perspectives across the team. Thanks for the visit, we hope to welcome you back soon!

#NLProc

[David Pfau @pfau]

Out of the whole space of bad LLM applications, there is something about this specifically that upsets me on a different level, because it so fundamentally misunderstands the thing it is trying to replace that I fail to understand how the idea ever arose in the first place.

[Alexander Hoyle @miserlis_]

@besttrousers @FuckoBucko1 @FamilyOfficeCA as much as one can be said to "agree" with a factual statement about causal graphs

[Alexander Hoyle @miserlis_]

@besttrousers @FuckoBucko1 @FamilyOfficeCA https://t.co/MnTnJ68bA0

I remember this specifically because I found it so irksome

(disclaimer: I am not a chud and agree with your original point)

[Alexander Hoyle @miserlis_]

@yegordb Very interested!

[Alexander Hoyle @miserlis_]

@RexDouglass Could you elaborate/do you have some examples? I'm now sitting in an Econ group and I feel that CS research could benefit a lot from a similar emphasis on robustness/rigor/causality (although I agree both engage in a willful ignorance of existing work)

https://t.co/dBiSiCsZWG

[Alexander Hoyle @miserlis_]

@causalinf I think you might be interested in our paper on LLMs for scalar measurement: https://t.co/X8oGdWkuej

[Alexander Hoyle @miserlis_]

@AaronSchein The closest you'd get to that with this approach is using https://t.co/jXpU7Wq8M1

[Alexander Hoyle @miserlis_]

I wrote a blog post on my experience using AI for slide generation Basic idea: write your lecture notes first, then prompt the LLM to produce corresponding slides in reveal.js (h/t @ChenhaoTan). I'm picky about my slides but was happy with the results!

(link in thread below)

[Alexander Hoyle @miserlis_]

@ChenhaoTan @Keleesssss If you mean me, then yes :)

[Alexander Hoyle @miserlis_]

@Keleesssss @ChenhaoTan Woah I love that!