Elisa Nguyen
@elinguyen.bsky.social
PhD Student in the STAI group at the University of Tübingen and IMPRS-IS | Volunteering at KI macht Schule and Viva con Agua
elisanguyen.github.io
prev. intern at Vector Institute, MSR DL
elisanguyen.github.io
prev. intern at Vector Institute, MSR DL
Reposted by Elisa Nguyen
How can agents learn in long, open-ended tasks where success is rare and rewards are sparse? 👀
🚨 Enter ∆Belief-RL: We show how to use agent’s own belief updates as a dense reward for turn-level credit assignment.
The result? Surprisingly strong generalization.
(1/8) 🧵⬇️
🚨 Enter ∆Belief-RL: We show how to use agent’s own belief updates as a dense reward for turn-level credit assignment.
The result? Surprisingly strong generalization.
(1/8) 🧵⬇️
February 13, 2026 at 3:52 PM
How can agents learn in long, open-ended tasks where success is rare and rewards are sparse? 👀
🚨 Enter ∆Belief-RL: We show how to use agent’s own belief updates as a dense reward for turn-level credit assignment.
The result? Surprisingly strong generalization.
(1/8) 🧵⬇️
🚨 Enter ∆Belief-RL: We show how to use agent’s own belief updates as a dense reward for turn-level credit assignment.
The result? Surprisingly strong generalization.
(1/8) 🧵⬇️
Reposted by Elisa Nguyen
New paper out!🎉
One of our most surprising findings: fine-tuning an LLM on debugging code has unexpected side-effects on contextual privacy. The model learns from printing variables that internal state are ok to share, then generalises this to social situations🤯
A🧵below👇
One of our most surprising findings: fine-tuning an LLM on debugging code has unexpected side-effects on contextual privacy. The model learns from printing variables that internal state are ok to share, then generalises this to social situations🤯
A🧵below👇
February 3, 2026 at 5:11 PM
New paper out!🎉
One of our most surprising findings: fine-tuning an LLM on debugging code has unexpected side-effects on contextual privacy. The model learns from printing variables that internal state are ok to share, then generalises this to social situations🤯
A🧵below👇
One of our most surprising findings: fine-tuning an LLM on debugging code has unexpected side-effects on contextual privacy. The model learns from printing variables that internal state are ok to share, then generalises this to social situations🤯
A🧵below👇
Reposted by Elisa Nguyen
The 6th Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI is happening at CHI 2026 in Barcelona. It's been a great research community. You should submit a paper. Deadline is February 19th.
This year's theme is agentic AI, but all human-centered XAI topics are welcome.
This year's theme is agentic AI, but all human-centered XAI topics are welcome.
🚨[Pls repost!] Agentic AI is stress-testing Explainable AI. We need to fix it. That's why I'm thrilled to announce the 6th Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI) workshop at CHI 2026 in Barcelona! 🚀
📝 2-5 page single column papers (excluding refs)
🗓️ Deadline: Feb 19, 2026
🔗 hcxai.jimdosite.com
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📝 2-5 page single column papers (excluding refs)
🗓️ Deadline: Feb 19, 2026
🔗 hcxai.jimdosite.com
1/n
January 13, 2026 at 3:44 PM
The 6th Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI is happening at CHI 2026 in Barcelona. It's been a great research community. You should submit a paper. Deadline is February 19th.
This year's theme is agentic AI, but all human-centered XAI topics are welcome.
This year's theme is agentic AI, but all human-centered XAI topics are welcome.
Reposted by Elisa Nguyen
Scholar Inbox in conference mode is soooo useful. Get your poster session recommendations with the poster number and access the paper....
Thanks @andreasgeiger.bsky.social and team!
Thanks @andreasgeiger.bsky.social and team!
December 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Scholar Inbox in conference mode is soooo useful. Get your poster session recommendations with the poster number and access the paper....
Thanks @andreasgeiger.bsky.social and team!
Thanks @andreasgeiger.bsky.social and team!
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Finally got the job ad—looking for 2 PhD students to start spring next year:
www.gao-unit.com/join-us/
If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply!
I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the conference app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮
www.gao-unit.com/join-us/
If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply!
I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the conference app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮
December 3, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Finally got the job ad—looking for 2 PhD students to start spring next year:
www.gao-unit.com/join-us/
If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply!
I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the conference app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮
www.gao-unit.com/join-us/
If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply!
I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the conference app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮
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Excited to be at #Neurips2025 this week to present our paper "Monoculture or Multiplicity: Which is it?", joint work with Moritz Hardt.
📄 Paper #1000: openreview.net/pdf?id=DO5Lt...
📍 Wed, Dec 3, 2025 • 4:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Feel free to come by and reach out!
A short 🧵.
📄 Paper #1000: openreview.net/pdf?id=DO5Lt...
📍 Wed, Dec 3, 2025 • 4:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Feel free to come by and reach out!
A short 🧵.
December 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Excited to be at #Neurips2025 this week to present our paper "Monoculture or Multiplicity: Which is it?", joint work with Moritz Hardt.
📄 Paper #1000: openreview.net/pdf?id=DO5Lt...
📍 Wed, Dec 3, 2025 • 4:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Feel free to come by and reach out!
A short 🧵.
📄 Paper #1000: openreview.net/pdf?id=DO5Lt...
📍 Wed, Dec 3, 2025 • 4:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Feel free to come by and reach out!
A short 🧵.
Reposted by Elisa Nguyen
At #NeurIPS in San Diego this week? Interested in XAI, causality, or performative prediction? Come visit our poster!
💬 Performative Validity of Recourse Explanations
📆 Wednesday, 4.30 pm, Poster Session 2
w/ Hidde Fokkema, Timo Freiesleben, Celestine Mendler-Dünner, Ulrike von Luxburg
💬 Performative Validity of Recourse Explanations
📆 Wednesday, 4.30 pm, Poster Session 2
w/ Hidde Fokkema, Timo Freiesleben, Celestine Mendler-Dünner, Ulrike von Luxburg
December 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
At #NeurIPS in San Diego this week? Interested in XAI, causality, or performative prediction? Come visit our poster!
💬 Performative Validity of Recourse Explanations
📆 Wednesday, 4.30 pm, Poster Session 2
w/ Hidde Fokkema, Timo Freiesleben, Celestine Mendler-Dünner, Ulrike von Luxburg
💬 Performative Validity of Recourse Explanations
📆 Wednesday, 4.30 pm, Poster Session 2
w/ Hidde Fokkema, Timo Freiesleben, Celestine Mendler-Dünner, Ulrike von Luxburg
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🚨 New paper at #NeurIPS2025!
A systematic fixation-level comparison of a performance-optimized DNN scanpath model and a mechanistic cognitive model reveals behaviourally relevant mechanisms that can be added to the mechanistic model to substantially improve performance.
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A systematic fixation-level comparison of a performance-optimized DNN scanpath model and a mechanistic cognitive model reveals behaviourally relevant mechanisms that can be added to the mechanistic model to substantially improve performance.
🧵👇
November 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
🚨 New paper at #NeurIPS2025!
A systematic fixation-level comparison of a performance-optimized DNN scanpath model and a mechanistic cognitive model reveals behaviourally relevant mechanisms that can be added to the mechanistic model to substantially improve performance.
🧵👇
A systematic fixation-level comparison of a performance-optimized DNN scanpath model and a mechanistic cognitive model reveals behaviourally relevant mechanisms that can be added to the mechanistic model to substantially improve performance.
🧵👇
Reposted by Elisa Nguyen
We are looking for several postdoctoral researchers to join our Norms & Practices Lab! This is an exciting opportunity for scholars of #philosophy, #law, #culturalanthropology, and (qualitative) #socialscience: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2... 1/2
November 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
We are looking for several postdoctoral researchers to join our Norms & Practices Lab! This is an exciting opportunity for scholars of #philosophy, #law, #culturalanthropology, and (qualitative) #socialscience: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2... 1/2
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Tübingen Conference for AI and Law starting on wednesday!
Keynotes by Rediet Abebe, Solon Borocas, Sylvie Delacroix, Lilian Edwards, Christoph Engel, Michal Gal, Philipp Hacker, Christoph Kern, Christoph Sorge.
ailawinstitute.de/conference-f...
Keynotes by Rediet Abebe, Solon Borocas, Sylvie Delacroix, Lilian Edwards, Christoph Engel, Michal Gal, Philipp Hacker, Christoph Kern, Christoph Sorge.
ailawinstitute.de/conference-f...
November 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Tübingen Conference for AI and Law starting on wednesday!
Keynotes by Rediet Abebe, Solon Borocas, Sylvie Delacroix, Lilian Edwards, Christoph Engel, Michal Gal, Philipp Hacker, Christoph Kern, Christoph Sorge.
ailawinstitute.de/conference-f...
Keynotes by Rediet Abebe, Solon Borocas, Sylvie Delacroix, Lilian Edwards, Christoph Engel, Michal Gal, Philipp Hacker, Christoph Kern, Christoph Sorge.
ailawinstitute.de/conference-f...
Super happy to be recognised as a top reviewer for this year's NeurIPS :) Thanks @neuripsconf.bsky.social for the free ticket and see you in San Diego in Dec!
October 18, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Super happy to be recognised as a top reviewer for this year's NeurIPS :) Thanks @neuripsconf.bsky.social for the free ticket and see you in San Diego in Dec!
Reposted by Elisa Nguyen
Hamburg just said YES in the climate referendum! ♥️
Thanks to everyone who fought for it.
This vote matters for Hamburg – and sends a strong signal far beyond.
The climate issue is alive: we can set the agenda and win!
Another lesson: climate action must go hand in hand with social justice.
Thanks to everyone who fought for it.
This vote matters for Hamburg – and sends a strong signal far beyond.
The climate issue is alive: we can set the agenda and win!
Another lesson: climate action must go hand in hand with social justice.
October 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Hamburg just said YES in the climate referendum! ♥️
Thanks to everyone who fought for it.
This vote matters for Hamburg – and sends a strong signal far beyond.
The climate issue is alive: we can set the agenda and win!
Another lesson: climate action must go hand in hand with social justice.
Thanks to everyone who fought for it.
This vote matters for Hamburg – and sends a strong signal far beyond.
The climate issue is alive: we can set the agenda and win!
Another lesson: climate action must go hand in hand with social justice.
Reposted by Elisa Nguyen
🚨 Workshop on the Theory of Explainable Machine Learning
Call for ≤2 page extended abstract submissions by October 15 now open!
📍 Ellis UnConference in Copenhagen
📅 Dec. 2
🔗 More info: sites.google.com/view/theory-...
@gunnark.bsky.social @ulrikeluxburg.bsky.social @emmanuelesposito.bsky.social
Call for ≤2 page extended abstract submissions by October 15 now open!
📍 Ellis UnConference in Copenhagen
📅 Dec. 2
🔗 More info: sites.google.com/view/theory-...
@gunnark.bsky.social @ulrikeluxburg.bsky.social @emmanuelesposito.bsky.social
Theory of XAI Workshop, Dec 2, 2025
Explainable AI (XAI) is now deployed across a wide range of settings, including high-stakes domains in which misleading explanations can cause real harm. For example, explanations are required by law ...
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September 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
🚨 Workshop on the Theory of Explainable Machine Learning
Call for ≤2 page extended abstract submissions by October 15 now open!
📍 Ellis UnConference in Copenhagen
📅 Dec. 2
🔗 More info: sites.google.com/view/theory-...
@gunnark.bsky.social @ulrikeluxburg.bsky.social @emmanuelesposito.bsky.social
Call for ≤2 page extended abstract submissions by October 15 now open!
📍 Ellis UnConference in Copenhagen
📅 Dec. 2
🔗 More info: sites.google.com/view/theory-...
@gunnark.bsky.social @ulrikeluxburg.bsky.social @emmanuelesposito.bsky.social
Reposted by Elisa Nguyen
📣 New Preprint!
Have you ever wondered what the political content in LLM's training data is? What are the political opinions expressed? What is the proportion of left- vs right-leaning documents in the pre- and post-training data? Do they correlate with the political biases reflected in models?
Have you ever wondered what the political content in LLM's training data is? What are the political opinions expressed? What is the proportion of left- vs right-leaning documents in the pre- and post-training data? Do they correlate with the political biases reflected in models?
September 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
📣 New Preprint!
Have you ever wondered what the political content in LLM's training data is? What are the political opinions expressed? What is the proportion of left- vs right-leaning documents in the pre- and post-training data? Do they correlate with the political biases reflected in models?
Have you ever wondered what the political content in LLM's training data is? What are the political opinions expressed? What is the proportion of left- vs right-leaning documents in the pre- and post-training data? Do they correlate with the political biases reflected in models?
Reposted by Elisa Nguyen
We have a new paper out today, and I’m so proud of it and the work that went into creating it! Link here: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.184....
The 2024 US presidential election was the first major election in the US since the popularization of LLMs. (1/6)
The 2024 US presidential election was the first major election in the US since the popularization of LLMs. (1/6)
September 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
We have a new paper out today, and I’m so proud of it and the work that went into creating it! Link here: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.184....
The 2024 US presidential election was the first major election in the US since the popularization of LLMs. (1/6)
The 2024 US presidential election was the first major election in the US since the popularization of LLMs. (1/6)
Reposted by Elisa Nguyen
I've been waiting some years to make this joke and now it’s real:
I conned somebody into giving me a faculty job!
I’m starting as a W1 Tenure-Track Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in a week (lol), in the Faculty of CS and Math
and I'm recruiting PhD students 🤗
I conned somebody into giving me a faculty job!
I’m starting as a W1 Tenure-Track Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in a week (lol), in the Faculty of CS and Math
and I'm recruiting PhD students 🤗
a man wearing a white shirt and tie smiles in front of a window
ALT: a man wearing a white shirt and tie smiles in front of a window
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September 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I've been waiting some years to make this joke and now it’s real:
I conned somebody into giving me a faculty job!
I’m starting as a W1 Tenure-Track Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in a week (lol), in the Faculty of CS and Math
and I'm recruiting PhD students 🤗
I conned somebody into giving me a faculty job!
I’m starting as a W1 Tenure-Track Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in a week (lol), in the Faculty of CS and Math
and I'm recruiting PhD students 🤗
Reposted by Elisa Nguyen
EurIPS is coming! 📣 Mark your calendar for Dec. 2-7, 2025 in Copenhagen 📅
EurIPS is a community-organized conference where you can present accepted NeurIPS 2025 papers, endorsed by @neuripsconf.bsky.social and @nordicair.bsky.social and is co-developed by @ellis.eu
eurips.cc
EurIPS is a community-organized conference where you can present accepted NeurIPS 2025 papers, endorsed by @neuripsconf.bsky.social and @nordicair.bsky.social and is co-developed by @ellis.eu
eurips.cc
July 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
EurIPS is coming! 📣 Mark your calendar for Dec. 2-7, 2025 in Copenhagen 📅
EurIPS is a community-organized conference where you can present accepted NeurIPS 2025 papers, endorsed by @neuripsconf.bsky.social and @nordicair.bsky.social and is co-developed by @ellis.eu
eurips.cc
EurIPS is a community-organized conference where you can present accepted NeurIPS 2025 papers, endorsed by @neuripsconf.bsky.social and @nordicair.bsky.social and is co-developed by @ellis.eu
eurips.cc
Reposted by Elisa Nguyen
NeurIPS has decided to do what ICLR did: As a SAC I received the message 👇 This is wrong! If the review process cannot handle so many papers, the conference needs yo split instead of arbitrarily rejecting 400 papers.
August 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
NeurIPS has decided to do what ICLR did: As a SAC I received the message 👇 This is wrong! If the review process cannot handle so many papers, the conference needs yo split instead of arbitrarily rejecting 400 papers.
Reposted by Elisa Nguyen
🎉 Delighted to announce that our 🫗Leaky Thoughts paper about contextual privacy with reasoning models is accepted to #EMNLP main!
Huge congrats to the amazing team Tommaso Green, Haritz Puerto @coallaoh.bsky.social @oodgnas.bsky.social
Huge congrats to the amazing team Tommaso Green, Haritz Puerto @coallaoh.bsky.social @oodgnas.bsky.social
🫗 An LLM's "private" reasoning may leak your sensitive data!
🎉 Excited to share our paper "Leaky Thoughts: Large Reasoning Models Are Not Private Thinkers" was accepted at #EMNLP main!
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🎉 Excited to share our paper "Leaky Thoughts: Large Reasoning Models Are Not Private Thinkers" was accepted at #EMNLP main!
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August 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
🎉 Delighted to announce that our 🫗Leaky Thoughts paper about contextual privacy with reasoning models is accepted to #EMNLP main!
Huge congrats to the amazing team Tommaso Green, Haritz Puerto @coallaoh.bsky.social @oodgnas.bsky.social
Huge congrats to the amazing team Tommaso Green, Haritz Puerto @coallaoh.bsky.social @oodgnas.bsky.social
Reposted by Elisa Nguyen
Are you afraid of LLMs teaching people how to build bioweapons? Have you tried just... not teaching LLMs about bioweapons?
@eleutherai.bsky.social and the UK AISI joined forces to see what would happen, pretraining three 6.9B models for 500B tokens and producing 15 total models to study
@eleutherai.bsky.social and the UK AISI joined forces to see what would happen, pretraining three 6.9B models for 500B tokens and producing 15 total models to study
August 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Are you afraid of LLMs teaching people how to build bioweapons? Have you tried just... not teaching LLMs about bioweapons?
@eleutherai.bsky.social and the UK AISI joined forces to see what would happen, pretraining three 6.9B models for 500B tokens and producing 15 total models to study
@eleutherai.bsky.social and the UK AISI joined forces to see what would happen, pretraining three 6.9B models for 500B tokens and producing 15 total models to study
Reposted by Elisa Nguyen
Are you an XAI researcher attending #ICCV2025? Submit your recently published work — at CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI etc. — to the eXCV Workshop for the opportunity to further showcase your work! Published papers can be submitted as is, no rewriting necessary.
@iccv.bsky.social
@iccv.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Are you an XAI researcher attending #ICCV2025? Submit your recently published work — at CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI etc. — to the eXCV Workshop for the opportunity to further showcase your work! Published papers can be submitted as is, no rewriting necessary.
@iccv.bsky.social
@iccv.bsky.social
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We’re excited to welcome @nicoleludwig.bsky.social as a Junior Professor for Climate, Energy & Machine Learning Systems!
Learn more: →https://tuebingen.ai/news/junior-professor-nicole-ludwig-joins-tuebingen-ai-center
@unituebingen.bsky.social @mwk-bw.bsky.social @ml4science.bsky.social
Learn more: →https://tuebingen.ai/news/junior-professor-nicole-ludwig-joins-tuebingen-ai-center
@unituebingen.bsky.social @mwk-bw.bsky.social @ml4science.bsky.social
August 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
We’re excited to welcome @nicoleludwig.bsky.social as a Junior Professor for Climate, Energy & Machine Learning Systems!
Learn more: →https://tuebingen.ai/news/junior-professor-nicole-ludwig-joins-tuebingen-ai-center
@unituebingen.bsky.social @mwk-bw.bsky.social @ml4science.bsky.social
Learn more: →https://tuebingen.ai/news/junior-professor-nicole-ludwig-joins-tuebingen-ai-center
@unituebingen.bsky.social @mwk-bw.bsky.social @ml4science.bsky.social
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Meet @elinguyen.bsky.social, our Winter 2025 Research Intern who traveled all the way from Germany to explore new research perspectives!
Inspired to start your own journey?
Applications for Vector's Winter 2026 Research Internships are open! Apply now:
vectorinstitute.ai/programs/res...
Inspired to start your own journey?
Applications for Vector's Winter 2026 Research Internships are open! Apply now:
vectorinstitute.ai/programs/res...
July 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Meet @elinguyen.bsky.social, our Winter 2025 Research Intern who traveled all the way from Germany to explore new research perspectives!
Inspired to start your own journey?
Applications for Vector's Winter 2026 Research Internships are open! Apply now:
vectorinstitute.ai/programs/res...
Inspired to start your own journey?
Applications for Vector's Winter 2026 Research Internships are open! Apply now:
vectorinstitute.ai/programs/res...
Reposted by Elisa Nguyen
👩🏫 Heute startet die Themenrunde "KI und Bildung" bei #ImaScientist @w-i-d.de - wir wünschen allen beteiligten Forschenden und Schulklassen interessante Gespräche, einen schönen Austausch und sind schon gespannt, welche:r der Forschenden das Rennen als Lieblingswissenschaftler:in macht! 👩🔬👩🎓
May 19, 2025 at 9:03 AM
👩🏫 Heute startet die Themenrunde "KI und Bildung" bei #ImaScientist @w-i-d.de - wir wünschen allen beteiligten Forschenden und Schulklassen interessante Gespräche, einen schönen Austausch und sind schon gespannt, welche:r der Forschenden das Rennen als Lieblingswissenschaftler:in macht! 👩🔬👩🎓
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Für die kommende Themenrunde von I’m a Scientist suchen wir Wissenschaftler*innen, die zum Einfluss von KI auf den Bildungsbereich forschen. Die Live-Chats mit Schüler*innen finden vom 19. bis 23. Mai statt. Bis zum 27. April bewerben: imascientist.de/bewerbungsfo...
#Wisskomm
#Wisskomm
April 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Für die kommende Themenrunde von I’m a Scientist suchen wir Wissenschaftler*innen, die zum Einfluss von KI auf den Bildungsbereich forschen. Die Live-Chats mit Schüler*innen finden vom 19. bis 23. Mai statt. Bis zum 27. April bewerben: imascientist.de/bewerbungsfo...
#Wisskomm
#Wisskomm