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Researcher at @Microsoft. Previously a PhD student at @CarnegieMellon visiting @UW. nlp, machine learning, jazz

[Benjamin Van Durme @ben_vandurme]

I am growing an R&D team around Copilot Tuning, a newly announced effort that supports adaptation at a customer-specific level.
Join us! https://t.co/kVocnuTrKN
We collaborate with a crack team of eng and scientists that support the product, also growing!
https://t.co/typyUXfQ8g

[Nishant Subramani @nsubramani23]

🚀 Excited to share a new interp+agents paper: 🐭🐱 MICE for CATs: Model-Internal Confidence Estimation for Calibrating Agents with Tools appearing at #NAACL2025

This was work done @Microsoft last summer with @adveisner @justinsvegliato @ben_vandurme @ysu_nlp @sammthomson

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@alexjc There's also a line of work on extracting automata from RNNs, eg: https://t.co/3cEYzh9FBH

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@alexjc We had some work in 2018 that sounds relevant: https://t.co/HJReUeGQDs

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@dirk_hovy Congrats, Dirk!

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@xtimv @jhuclsp @adveisner Congrats Tim!

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@BartoszMilewski Sketch of a (maybe overcomplicated) approach:
G: CFG that accepts valid Roman numerals.
D_x: WFSA that gives weighted edit distance to malformed input 'x'.
Bar-Hillel to construct G ∩ D_x (a WCFG with non-neg weights).
A* to find min-cost production of G ∩ D_x.

[Ana Mostarac @anammostarac]

Daniel Friedberg, Chief Regulatory Officer at FTX, was previously in-house counsel for a fraudulent online poker site.

He has taken down his LinkedIn profile.

[Jason Eisner @adveisner]

PhD students in NLP/ML/AI: apply for an in-person summer 2023 internship at Microsoft Semantic Machines! Intelligent agents helping humans, via grounded natural language dialogue and more. Read more at https://t.co/Oo0sIkOQ3G . #NLProc #ML #AI

[Elias Stengel-Eskin @EliasEskin]

🚨 New paper alert 🚨

Now that it's accepted to EMNLP, I'm excited to share work from my internship last year at @MSFTResearch Semantic Machines!
📄: https://t.co/OUyFGyuAyp
🤖: https://t.co/5oovvqxCyO

This all started with a troubling trend first noticed by @ysu_nlp

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[Olivier Grisel @ogrisel]

The PDF of the draft is available under the CC-BY-NC-ND license, it is 1308 pages long and seems to cover every possible topic related to modern ML and probabilities.

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[the finite physicist @FinitePhysicist]

there is literally no experimental evidence for group theory

[Fadel Adib @fadeladib]

Over the past 5 years, I’ve read >1,000 letters of recommendation to grad programs in MIT - mostly EECS, Media Lab, and MechE. Since it's letter-writing season, here is some concrete advice for anyone writing letters based on my experience

[amber rollo @ambercrollo]

all dog costumes should have fake arms so the front paws are the feet. i realize this now. https://t.co/efpS5aQ8zz

[Jesse Dodge @JesseDodge]

Are you teaching a class this fall? This makes a great course project! Students choose a paper to reproduce and basically use it as a guide. They can write up their results (successfully reproduction or not), and can use this as a first step for their own research projects!

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Praying for the safety of everyone hunkering down through Ida

[The Weather Channel @weatherchannel]

#Ida remains a Cat 4 Hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph. Hurricane Ida is just 40 miles south-southeast of Grand Isle, LA. Catastrophic wind damage is likely where the core of Ida moves onshore along the southeast coast of Louisiana in the next few hours.

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@sameer_ congrats Sameer!

[Graham Neubig @gneubig]

If you're interested, please come work with us to help implement better review processes for *ACL conferences and workshops! There's plenty of work to be done and lots of exciting things we can do to make reviewing better 😃

[Laszlo Bock @LaszloBock]

No line at the walk in vaccination site at Facebook HQ right now (May 1, 9:15am). Anyone 16+ from San Mateo country is welcome to get vaccinated.

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@Ted_Underwood bayesopt/GP when the objective function evaluation is noisy. cf Section 5 here: https://t.co/cAj8cW9rhO