Ada
@adadtur.bsky.social
she/her
McGillNLP & Mila
'can you be an expat if you were never a pat?' - leo hertzler
occasionally live on ckut 90.3 fm :-)
adadtur.github.io
McGillNLP & Mila
'can you be an expat if you were never a pat?' - leo hertzler
occasionally live on ckut 90.3 fm :-)
adadtur.github.io
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"Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind."
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September 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind."
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enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
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Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.
August 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.
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Our new paper in #PNAS (bit.ly/4fcWfma) presents a surprising finding—when words change meaning, older speakers rapidly adopt the new usage; inter-generational differences are often minor.
w/ Michelle Yang, @sivareddyg.bsky.social , @msonderegger.bsky.social and @dallascard.bsky.social👇(1/12)
w/ Michelle Yang, @sivareddyg.bsky.social , @msonderegger.bsky.social and @dallascard.bsky.social👇(1/12)
July 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Our new paper in #PNAS (bit.ly/4fcWfma) presents a surprising finding—when words change meaning, older speakers rapidly adopt the new usage; inter-generational differences are often minor.
w/ Michelle Yang, @sivareddyg.bsky.social , @msonderegger.bsky.social and @dallascard.bsky.social👇(1/12)
w/ Michelle Yang, @sivareddyg.bsky.social , @msonderegger.bsky.social and @dallascard.bsky.social👇(1/12)
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Thrilled to announce our new survey that explores the exciting possibilities and troubling risks of computational persuasion in the era of LLMs 🤖💬
📄Arxiv: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.07775
💻 GitHub: github.com/beyzabozdag/...
📄Arxiv: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.07775
💻 GitHub: github.com/beyzabozdag/...
May 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Thrilled to announce our new survey that explores the exciting possibilities and troubling risks of computational persuasion in the era of LLMs 🤖💬
📄Arxiv: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.07775
💻 GitHub: github.com/beyzabozdag/...
📄Arxiv: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.07775
💻 GitHub: github.com/beyzabozdag/...
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Started a new podcast with @tomvergara.bsky.social !
Behind the Research of AI:
We look behind the scenes, beyond the polished papers 🧐🧪
If this sounds fun, check out our first "official" episode with the awesome Gauthier Gidel
from @mila-quebec.bsky.social :
open.spotify.com/episode/7oTc...
Behind the Research of AI:
We look behind the scenes, beyond the polished papers 🧐🧪
If this sounds fun, check out our first "official" episode with the awesome Gauthier Gidel
from @mila-quebec.bsky.social :
open.spotify.com/episode/7oTc...
02 | Gauthier Gidel: Bridging Theory and Deep Learning, Vibes at Mila, and the Effects of AI on Art
Behind the Research of AI · Episode
open.spotify.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Started a new podcast with @tomvergara.bsky.social !
Behind the Research of AI:
We look behind the scenes, beyond the polished papers 🧐🧪
If this sounds fun, check out our first "official" episode with the awesome Gauthier Gidel
from @mila-quebec.bsky.social :
open.spotify.com/episode/7oTc...
Behind the Research of AI:
We look behind the scenes, beyond the polished papers 🧐🧪
If this sounds fun, check out our first "official" episode with the awesome Gauthier Gidel
from @mila-quebec.bsky.social :
open.spotify.com/episode/7oTc...
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Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assemblyman, declared victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary after Andrew Cuomo conceded the race.
“Tonight we made history,” Mamdani said, addressing his supporters. wapo.st/44yMVoI
“Tonight we made history,” Mamdani said, addressing his supporters. wapo.st/44yMVoI
June 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assemblyman, declared victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary after Andrew Cuomo conceded the race.
“Tonight we made history,” Mamdani said, addressing his supporters. wapo.st/44yMVoI
“Tonight we made history,” Mamdani said, addressing his supporters. wapo.st/44yMVoI
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Mahmoud Khalil is finally home with his beautiful wife and newborn son.
Each one of the 104 days he spent detained was a grave injustice.
From the moment of his detention, @ccrjustice.org + @aclu.org engaged my office as we worked closely to help secure his release. They did remarkable work here.
Each one of the 104 days he spent detained was a grave injustice.
From the moment of his detention, @ccrjustice.org + @aclu.org engaged my office as we worked closely to help secure his release. They did remarkable work here.
Mahmoud Khalil emerges from airport security with his wife Noor and newborn, legal team and Rep. AOC.
June 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Mahmoud Khalil is finally home with his beautiful wife and newborn son.
Each one of the 104 days he spent detained was a grave injustice.
From the moment of his detention, @ccrjustice.org + @aclu.org engaged my office as we worked closely to help secure his release. They did remarkable work here.
Each one of the 104 days he spent detained was a grave injustice.
From the moment of his detention, @ccrjustice.org + @aclu.org engaged my office as we worked closely to help secure his release. They did remarkable work here.
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The facts:
We release (MVPBench) with around 55K videos (grouped as *minimal video pairs*) from diverse physical understanding sources
Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2506.09987
Huggingface: huggingface.co/datasets/fac...
GitHub: github.com/facebookrese...
Leaderboard: huggingface.co/spaces/faceb...
We release (MVPBench) with around 55K videos (grouped as *minimal video pairs*) from diverse physical understanding sources
Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2506.09987
Huggingface: huggingface.co/datasets/fac...
GitHub: github.com/facebookrese...
Leaderboard: huggingface.co/spaces/faceb...
A Shortcut-aware Video-QA Benchmark for Physical Understanding via Minimal Video Pairs
Existing benchmarks for assessing the spatio-temporal understanding and reasoning abilities of video language models are susceptible to score inflation due to the presence of shortcut solutions based ...
arxiv.org
June 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The facts:
We release (MVPBench) with around 55K videos (grouped as *minimal video pairs*) from diverse physical understanding sources
Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2506.09987
Huggingface: huggingface.co/datasets/fac...
GitHub: github.com/facebookrese...
Leaderboard: huggingface.co/spaces/faceb...
We release (MVPBench) with around 55K videos (grouped as *minimal video pairs*) from diverse physical understanding sources
Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2506.09987
Huggingface: huggingface.co/datasets/fac...
GitHub: github.com/facebookrese...
Leaderboard: huggingface.co/spaces/faceb...
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Excited to share the results of my recent internship!
We ask 🤔
What subtle shortcuts are VideoLLMs taking on spatio-temporal questions?
And how can we instead curate shortcut-robust examples at a large-scale?
We release: MVPBench
Details 👇🔬
We ask 🤔
What subtle shortcuts are VideoLLMs taking on spatio-temporal questions?
And how can we instead curate shortcut-robust examples at a large-scale?
We release: MVPBench
Details 👇🔬
June 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Excited to share the results of my recent internship!
We ask 🤔
What subtle shortcuts are VideoLLMs taking on spatio-temporal questions?
And how can we instead curate shortcut-robust examples at a large-scale?
We release: MVPBench
Details 👇🔬
We ask 🤔
What subtle shortcuts are VideoLLMs taking on spatio-temporal questions?
And how can we instead curate shortcut-robust examples at a large-scale?
We release: MVPBench
Details 👇🔬
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Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.
May 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.
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Breaking news: The Trump administration revoked Harvard’s ability to enroll foreign students, saying it allowed anti-American agitators.
Existing foreign students must transfer or risk losing their legal status, DHS said.
Existing foreign students must transfer or risk losing their legal status, DHS said.
Live updates: Trump administration revokes Harvard’s ability to enroll foreign students
Get the latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the Republican-led Congress.
wapo.st
May 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Breaking news: The Trump administration revoked Harvard’s ability to enroll foreign students, saying it allowed anti-American agitators.
Existing foreign students must transfer or risk losing their legal status, DHS said.
Existing foreign students must transfer or risk losing their legal status, DHS said.
We won a Senior Area Chair Award at NAACL!! Many thanks again to my amazing coauthors Gaurav Kamath and @sivareddyg.bsky.social :-)
May 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
We won a Senior Area Chair Award at NAACL!! Many thanks again to my amazing coauthors Gaurav Kamath and @sivareddyg.bsky.social :-)
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Check out Gaurav's video on their #NAACL paper and find @adadtur.bsky.social at the conference 👇
Congratulations to Mila members @adadtur.bsky.social , Gaurav Kamath and @sivareddyg.bsky.social for their SAC award at NAACL! Check out Ada's talk in Session I: Oral/Poster 6. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.05670
May 2, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Check out Gaurav's video on their #NAACL paper and find @adadtur.bsky.social at the conference 👇
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Great work from labmates on LLMs vs humans regarding linguistic preferences: You know when a sentence kind of feels off e.g. "I met at the park the man". So in what ways do LLMs follow these human intuitions?
Congratulations to Mila members @adadtur.bsky.social , Gaurav Kamath and @sivareddyg.bsky.social for their SAC award at NAACL! Check out Ada's talk in Session I: Oral/Poster 6. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.05670
May 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Great work from labmates on LLMs vs humans regarding linguistic preferences: You know when a sentence kind of feels off e.g. "I met at the park the man". So in what ways do LLMs follow these human intuitions?
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Ada is an undergrad and will soon be looking for PhDs. Gaurav is a PhD student looking for intellectually stimulating internships/visiting positions. They did most of the work without much of my help. Highly recommend them. Please reach out to them if you have any positions.
Language Models Largely Exhibit Human-like Constituent Ordering Preferences
Though English sentences are typically inflexible vis-à-vis word order, constituents often show far more variability in ordering. One prominent theory presents the notion that constituent ordering is ...
arxiv.org
May 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Ada is an undergrad and will soon be looking for PhDs. Gaurav is a PhD student looking for intellectually stimulating internships/visiting positions. They did most of the work without much of my help. Highly recommend them. Please reach out to them if you have any positions.
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Incredibly proud of my students @adadtur.bsky.social and Gaurav Kamath for winning a SAC award at #NAACL2025 for their work on assessing how LLMs model constituent shifts.
May 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Incredibly proud of my students @adadtur.bsky.social and Gaurav Kamath for winning a SAC award at #NAACL2025 for their work on assessing how LLMs model constituent shifts.
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Congratulations to Mila members @adadtur.bsky.social , Gaurav Kamath and @sivareddyg.bsky.social for their SAC award at NAACL! Check out Ada's talk in Session I: Oral/Poster 6. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.05670
May 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Congratulations to Mila members @adadtur.bsky.social , Gaurav Kamath and @sivareddyg.bsky.social for their SAC award at NAACL! Check out Ada's talk in Session I: Oral/Poster 6. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.05670
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I filmed this yesterday on my way to Lousiana where my constituent Rümeysa Öztürk is being wrongfully held by ICE. I’m there now demanding her release. More to come.
April 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I filmed this yesterday on my way to Lousiana where my constituent Rümeysa Öztürk is being wrongfully held by ICE. I’m there now demanding her release. More to come.
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Models like DeepSeek-R1 🐋 mark a fundamental shift in how LLMs approach complex problems. In our preprint on R1 Thoughtology, we study R1’s reasoning chains across a variety of tasks; investigating its capabilities, limitations, and behaviour.
🔗: mcgill-nlp.github.io/thoughtology/
🔗: mcgill-nlp.github.io/thoughtology/
April 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Models like DeepSeek-R1 🐋 mark a fundamental shift in how LLMs approach complex problems. In our preprint on R1 Thoughtology, we study R1’s reasoning chains across a variety of tasks; investigating its capabilities, limitations, and behaviour.
🔗: mcgill-nlp.github.io/thoughtology/
🔗: mcgill-nlp.github.io/thoughtology/
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Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
March 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
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I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
Pm Private GIF
ALT: Pm Private GIF
media.tenor.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
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this is outrageously terrible but if there's one thing the Trump administration’s policy is doing so far it is expediting public outrage and turning the masses against everything AI
www.wired.com/story/ai-saf...
www.wired.com/story/ai-saf...
Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models
A directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.”
www.wired.com
March 15, 2025 at 10:07 AM
this is outrageously terrible but if there's one thing the Trump administration’s policy is doing so far it is expediting public outrage and turning the masses against everything AI
www.wired.com/story/ai-saf...
www.wired.com/story/ai-saf...