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Alex Warstadt

@alexwarstadt.bsky.social

Asst Prof. @ UCSD | PI of LeM๐Ÿ‹N Lab | Former Postdoc at ETH Zรผrich, PhD @ NYU | computational linguistics, NLProc, CogSci, pragmatics | he/him ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ alexwarstadt.github.io

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Honoured to receive two (!!) SAC highlights awards at #ACL2025 ๐Ÿ˜ (Conveniently placed on the same slide!)
With the amazing: @philipwitti.bsky.social, @gregorbachmann.bsky.social and @wegotlieb.bsky.social,
@cuiding.bsky.social, Giovanni Acampa, @alexwarstadt.bsky.social, @tamaregev.bsky.social

31.07.2025 07:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Stay tuned for more updates on our work!

28.02.2025 22:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Some things we work on include:
-LMs as models of human learners
-Efficient LM pretraining
-Bayesian & experimental pragmatics
-Information-theoretic linguistics
-Prosody and speech processing
-Multimodal pretraining
-Grammatical evaluation

28.02.2025 22:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

LeM๐Ÿ‹N Lab is an essentially **interdisciplinary** group.

We use advances in NLP to investigate how humans learn language and why language is the way it is.

And we use insights from Linguistics and CogSci to evaluate and interpret LMs and advance data-efficient pretraining.

28.02.2025 22:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hey everyone ๐Ÿ‘‹ I'm new here! If you followed on X, please give me a follow. If not, I'm a computational linguist and NLPer. I am the PI of UCSD's Learning Meaning and Natural Language Lab.
a.k.a. LeM๐Ÿ‹N Lab!

What do we do? ๐Ÿ‘‡

28.02.2025 22:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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