Freda Shi

Should be fun to read!

I can only go through <40 slides in a one-hour talk... verified multiple times. My job talk has 39 slides (including acknowledgement), and so are my recent talks.
Always impressed when folks present 100 slides in the same amount of time.

AI isn't replacing radiologists Radiology combines digital images, clear benchmarks, and repeatable tasks. But demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high.

In 2016 Hinton predicted that AI would replace all radiologists in five years. Ten years later, why hasn't it happened? This post is a great explainer.

www.understandingai.org/p/ai-isnt-re...

Thanks, Chenhao! It's my pleasure helping with streamlining things in the backend - quite some pain but also fun :-)))

🚀 ACL ARR is looking for a Co-CTO to join me lead our amazing tech team and drive the future of our workflow. If you’re interested or know someone who might be, let’s connect!

RTs & recommendations appreciated.

Same! I‘ve literally unbidden 0 out of my recommended batch.

Also, is it now common to assume all reviewers are irresponsible and start to threaten them before deadline?

Is there a specific reason that NeurIPS does not show AC identity to reviewers? I'm very curious about who sent the polite reminders, and of course, even more curious about the rude ones.

#CoreCognition #LLM #multimodal #GrowAI We spent 3 years to curate 1503 classic experiments spanning 12 core concepts in human cognitive development and evaluated on 230 MLLMs with 11 different prompts for 5 times to get over 3.8 millions inference data points.

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Just in case this personal latex environmental setup is helpful to a broader crowd ⬇️

I use local complication w/ VSCode latex workshop plugin + git for version control.
Pros: better hierarchical organization & doesn’t require internet.
Cons: sometimes need to resolve conflict (usually fine if commit frequently) & require a powerful laptop to match overleaf compilation speed.

I'm late to the NAACL party, but I've just arrived in Albuquerque! I'll talk about measuring faithfulness of verbalized reasoning on *Sunday* at Repl4NLP at *9:45*.

Screenshot of a slide that says "what does it take to convince ourselves that a system is exhibiting compositionality?" with a side comment "mostly AI, but humans too!!" for the word system

hello NAACL friends I'm giving a keynote today at RepL4NLP at 1:30PM local time, come say hi! I'll mostly be musing about things with light research discussions

If you are also at NAACL, let's chat!

Tutorial website here: language-grounding.github.io. More material forthcoming.

On my way to NAACL✈️! If you're also there and interested in grounding, don't miss our tutorial on "Learning Language through Grounding"!
Mark your calendar: May 3rd, 14:00-17:30, Ballroom A.

Another exciting collaboration with @marstin.bsky.social @kordjamshidi.bsky.social, Jiayuan, and Joyce!

📢Curious why your LLM behaves strangely after long SFT or DPO?
We offer a fresh perspective—consider doing a "force analysis" on your model’s behavior.
Check out our #ICLR2025 Oral paper:

Learning Dynamics of LLM Finetuning!

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Congratulations Danica and Joshua!

Also happy to chat if you are interested in grad school and academic job opportunities in Waterloo and Canada, quite a sane place to live in and work for.

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Find me at:
- Fri Apr 25, 10am-12:30pm Hall 3 + Hall 2B #212, presenting the poster below w/ @kordjamshidi.bsky.social and Joyce
- Fri Apr 25, Oral Session 4c w/ Joyce
- All mentorship hours (12:30pm-2pm) on Apr 24-26 - proudly chairing (i.e., supporting) the sessions w/ @rosanneliu.com

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✈ Just landed in Singapore for #ICLR 2025! DM or email me if you'd like to chat about
- Grounded language acquisition and learning
- What do vision-language models "know," and what they don't
- (Computational) linguistics with/for language models, especially grounded LMs

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Good idea! 💯

Oh wow, so TINlab Is Najoung’s lab?

I received a review like this five years ago. It’s probably the right time now to share it with everyone who wrote or got random discouraging reviews from ICML/ACL.

Wow fantastic!!! Congrats to both you and BU!

I still can't comprehend how an AC (a professor) accepts the role but then never responds back to emails and never completes their tasks😖! We need urgent 5 emergency reviewers to complete reviews for ACL by the end of today. Area: Ethics, Bias, and Fairness. Please reach out if you can help! Thanks🙏

I was assigned to review three, and fortunately got a decent one. This is probably just the submission distribution nowadays.

The font is a bit off in Google Slides---an alternative PDF view is here: drive.google.com/file/d/1tnwC...

🤖 I just made the slides public for this talk. TL; DR: how we computer scientists adapt insights from linguistics to analyze and improve our models. Comments & discussion are welcomed; the recording from Vector is forthcoming.
docs.google.com/presentation...

Application for a postdoctoral position on adversarial robustness Location - Work primarily takes place at UBC, Vancouver, Computer Science department. Position - We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for a funded position, under the joint supervision of Math...

There is a postdoctoral position for research on adversarial robustness at UBC, supervised by Mathias Lecuyer (@mathias-lecuyer.bsky.social), Geoff Pleiss, and Nidhi Hegde. Please spread the word! 🇨🇦

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...