Hal Daumé III
@haldaume3.bsky.social
Human-centered AI #HCAI, NLP & ML. Director TRAILS (Trustworthy AI in Law & Society) and AIM (AI Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland). Formerly Microsoft Research NYC. Fun: 🧗🧑🍳🧘⛷️🏕️. he/him.
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If you're at #FACCT2025 today, check out our AI Workers' Inquiry, where we'll have a stellar panel of workers organizing against AI and host a participatory session.
You can also participate online!
ai-workers-inquiry.github.io
You can also participate online!
ai-workers-inquiry.github.io
AI Workers' Inquiry
AI Workers' Inquiry is a FAccT 2025 CRAFT workshop that brings together workers, organizers, and labor experts to explore how AI is transforming our workplaces and discuss strategies for collective re...
ai-workers-inquiry.github.io
June 23, 2025 at 6:27 AM
If you're at #FACCT2025 today, check out our AI Workers' Inquiry, where we'll have a stellar panel of workers organizing against AI and host a participatory session.
You can also participate online!
ai-workers-inquiry.github.io
You can also participate online!
ai-workers-inquiry.github.io
my teenagehood destroyed: pbrush now has AI support.
June 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM
my teenagehood destroyed: pbrush now has AI support.
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We are delighted to announce our next seminar by Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social (@univofmaryland.bsky.social, currently on sabbatical at @sorbonne-universite.fr) entitled "Fairness and Trustworthiness in Generative Al" on Friday 20th June at 11am CEST.
June 18, 2025 at 8:09 AM
We are delighted to announce our next seminar by Hal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social (@univofmaryland.bsky.social, currently on sabbatical at @sorbonne-universite.fr) entitled "Fairness and Trustworthiness in Generative Al" on Friday 20th June at 11am CEST.
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What should Machine Translation research look like in the age of multilingual LLMs?
Here’s one answer from researchers across NLP/MT, Translation Studies, and HCI.
"An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human-Centered Machine Translation"
arxiv.org/abs/2506.13468
Here’s one answer from researchers across NLP/MT, Translation Studies, and HCI.
"An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human-Centered Machine Translation"
arxiv.org/abs/2506.13468
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human-Centered Machine Translation
Machine Translation (MT) tools are widely used today, often in contexts where professional translators are not present. Despite progress in MT technology, a gap persists between system development and...
arxiv.org
June 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
What should Machine Translation research look like in the age of multilingual LLMs?
Here’s one answer from researchers across NLP/MT, Translation Studies, and HCI.
"An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human-Centered Machine Translation"
arxiv.org/abs/2506.13468
Here’s one answer from researchers across NLP/MT, Translation Studies, and HCI.
"An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human-Centered Machine Translation"
arxiv.org/abs/2506.13468
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BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.
June 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.
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For the EALM Workshop
"On Assessing the Political Biases of Multilingual Large Language Models" by @lernerp.bsky.social Laurène Cave, @haldaume3.bsky.social Léo Labat, Gaël Lejeune, Pierre-Antoine Lequeu, @bpiwowar.bsky.social Nazanin Shafiabadi and yvofr.bsky.social, collaborated with the STIH lab
"On Assessing the Political Biases of Multilingual Large Language Models" by @lernerp.bsky.social Laurène Cave, @haldaume3.bsky.social Léo Labat, Gaël Lejeune, Pierre-Antoine Lequeu, @bpiwowar.bsky.social Nazanin Shafiabadi and yvofr.bsky.social, collaborated with the STIH lab
June 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
For the EALM Workshop
"On Assessing the Political Biases of Multilingual Large Language Models" by @lernerp.bsky.social Laurène Cave, @haldaume3.bsky.social Léo Labat, Gaël Lejeune, Pierre-Antoine Lequeu, @bpiwowar.bsky.social Nazanin Shafiabadi and yvofr.bsky.social, collaborated with the STIH lab
"On Assessing the Political Biases of Multilingual Large Language Models" by @lernerp.bsky.social Laurène Cave, @haldaume3.bsky.social Léo Labat, Gaël Lejeune, Pierre-Antoine Lequeu, @bpiwowar.bsky.social Nazanin Shafiabadi and yvofr.bsky.social, collaborated with the STIH lab
slashing support for grad students and undergraduates by 75% is a disastrous policy for US science and competitiveness.
🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪
NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people**
🧵 on some highlights...
NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people**
🧵 on some highlights...
May 31, 2025 at 6:49 AM
slashing support for grad students and undergraduates by 75% is a disastrous policy for US science and competitiveness.
Happy to see the Maryland Attorney General participating in this effort. I’ve generally been quite happy with the state and university responses to the terminations and other actions.
🧪 YAASSSSS: 16 state AGs just sued NSF for its illegal changes in "agency priorities"
The broad scope would seem to not only address grant terminations...but also the underlying basis for closing programs, returning proposals without review, etc.
The filing: www.doj.state.or.us/wp-content/u...
The broad scope would seem to not only address grant terminations...but also the underlying basis for closing programs, returning proposals without review, etc.
The filing: www.doj.state.or.us/wp-content/u...
a man wearing a hat and an orange shirt says " get her jade "
Alt: A man wearing a hat and an orange shirt says " get her jade "
media.tenor.com
May 29, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Happy to see the Maryland Attorney General participating in this effort. I’ve generally been quite happy with the state and university responses to the terminations and other actions.
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We introduce a super simple yet effective strategy to improve video-language alignment (+18%): add hallucination correction in your training objective👌
Excited to share our accepted paper at ACL: Can Hallucination Correction Improve Video-language Alignment?
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2502.15079
Excited to share our accepted paper at ACL: Can Hallucination Correction Improve Video-language Alignment?
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2502.15079
May 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
We introduce a super simple yet effective strategy to improve video-language alignment (+18%): add hallucination correction in your training objective👌
Excited to share our accepted paper at ACL: Can Hallucination Correction Improve Video-language Alignment?
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2502.15079
Excited to share our accepted paper at ACL: Can Hallucination Correction Improve Video-language Alignment?
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2502.15079
This is an incredibly well thought out and well written statement co-signed by a large group of subreddits on the importance of academic research.
I hate how it had to come about, but love the statement.
(And yes, this is the one that I had terminated 12 days ago.)
I hate how it had to come about, but love the statement.
(And yes, this is the one that I had terminated 12 days ago.)
A week and a half ago, my research team learned our grant was among the hundreds terminated. We were working with AH and a few other subs to build a mod tool. I was devastated.
The AH mod team rose to action to use it's platform to advocate for the pursuit of knowledge, and that gives me hope.
The AH mod team rose to action to use it's platform to advocate for the pursuit of knowledge, and that gives me hope.
AskHistorians has joined with thirty other research- and academia-focused subreddits to issue this statement condemning recent and ongoing efforts to undermine scholarly research and intellectual freedom in the United States.
Please share widely!
www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
Please share widely!
www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
April 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
This is an incredibly well thought out and well written statement co-signed by a large group of subreddits on the importance of academic research.
I hate how it had to come about, but love the statement.
(And yes, this is the one that I had terminated 12 days ago.)
I hate how it had to come about, but love the statement.
(And yes, this is the one that I had terminated 12 days ago.)
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The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988
From the changemyview community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the changemyview community
tinyurl.com
April 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988
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Hi Kate-- I'm really sorry to hear this. If NIH terminations are any guide, we expect NSF terminations to be chaotic, so we're trying to track them and organize the information. If don't mind, please have your team enter their grants here:
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
And please spread the word.
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
And please spread the word.
April 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Hi Kate-- I'm really sorry to hear this. If NIH terminations are any guide, we expect NSF terminations to be chaotic, so we're trying to track them and organize the information. If don't mind, please have your team enter their grants here:
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
And please spread the word.
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
And please spread the word.
also got my first NSF grant terminated! what emoji do i put in my handle to signify this?
April 19, 2025 at 7:33 AM
also got my first NSF grant terminated! what emoji do i put in my handle to signify this?
I am reading this correctly right? Broadening participation at NSF may target non-protected groups but cannot target protected groups?
It’s almost as if the issue isn’t with broadening participation but rather with which groups have been designated as protected over the past 60 years.
It’s almost as if the issue isn’t with broadening participation but rather with which groups have been designated as protected over the past 60 years.
April 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
I am reading this correctly right? Broadening participation at NSF may target non-protected groups but cannot target protected groups?
It’s almost as if the issue isn’t with broadening participation but rather with which groups have been designated as protected over the past 60 years.
It’s almost as if the issue isn’t with broadening participation but rather with which groups have been designated as protected over the past 60 years.
I will be at IUI on 24-25 march. I'd love to meet up with folks who are interested in meeting up. DM me if that's you!
March 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
I will be at IUI on 24-25 march. I'd love to meet up with folks who are interested in meeting up. DM me if that's you!
US tech firms - IME - rely heavily on grads of higher ed in general, and US higher ed in particular...
And yet I've not heard much noise from the Pichais, Nadellas, Zuckerbergs, Cooks, Benioffs, Sus, Jassys, Huangs, etc. about attacks on higher education...
Am I missing it or does it not exist?
And yet I've not heard much noise from the Pichais, Nadellas, Zuckerbergs, Cooks, Benioffs, Sus, Jassys, Huangs, etc. about attacks on higher education...
Am I missing it or does it not exist?
March 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
US tech firms - IME - rely heavily on grads of higher ed in general, and US higher ed in particular...
And yet I've not heard much noise from the Pichais, Nadellas, Zuckerbergs, Cooks, Benioffs, Sus, Jassys, Huangs, etc. about attacks on higher education...
Am I missing it or does it not exist?
And yet I've not heard much noise from the Pichais, Nadellas, Zuckerbergs, Cooks, Benioffs, Sus, Jassys, Huangs, etc. about attacks on higher education...
Am I missing it or does it not exist?
There is a new version of the Research Plan for NIST's AI Safety Consortium (AISIC) in response to EOs. I did a diff.
Out: safety, responsibility, sociotechnical, fairness, working w fed agencies, authenticating content, watermarking, RN of CBRN, autonomous replication, ctrl of physical systems
>
Out: safety, responsibility, sociotechnical, fairness, working w fed agencies, authenticating content, watermarking, RN of CBRN, autonomous replication, ctrl of physical systems
>
March 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
There is a new version of the Research Plan for NIST's AI Safety Consortium (AISIC) in response to EOs. I did a diff.
Out: safety, responsibility, sociotechnical, fairness, working w fed agencies, authenticating content, watermarking, RN of CBRN, autonomous replication, ctrl of physical systems
>
Out: safety, responsibility, sociotechnical, fairness, working w fed agencies, authenticating content, watermarking, RN of CBRN, autonomous replication, ctrl of physical systems
>
With all this uncertainty in the US science funding landscape, what I really hope is that we - as panelists who review proposals - continue to review according to what we think are the strongest proposals and do not anticipatorily comply with directions that are not *specifically* required of us.
February 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
With all this uncertainty in the US science funding landscape, what I really hope is that we - as panelists who review proposals - continue to review according to what we think are the strongest proposals and do not anticipatorily comply with directions that are not *specifically* required of us.
i confess i did not know this history until now
In 1980, a bipartisan Congress passed the Science and Engineering Equal Opportunities Act of 1980, which authorized the National Science Foundation “to promote the full use of human resources in science and technology through a comprehensive & continuing program to increase substantially
February 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
i confess i did not know this history until now
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Check out my new Starter Pack of all things University of Maryland! Let me know if you are a Terp or a Terp fan and I’ll add you to the pack. #UMD #Maryland
go.bsky.app/7TfyH9o
go.bsky.app/7TfyH9o
February 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Check out my new Starter Pack of all things University of Maryland! Let me know if you are a Terp or a Terp fan and I’ll add you to the pack. #UMD #Maryland
go.bsky.app/7TfyH9o
go.bsky.app/7TfyH9o
at TRAILCon today, enjoying TRAILS branded Trail Mix
February 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
at TRAILCon today, enjoying TRAILS branded Trail Mix
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NLI Improves Compositionality in Vision-Language Models is accepted to #ICLR2025!
CECE enables interpretability and achieves significant improvements in hard compositional benchmarks without fine-tuning (e.g., Winoground, EqBen) and alignment (e.g., DrawBench, EditBench). + info: cece-vlm.github.io
CECE enables interpretability and achieves significant improvements in hard compositional benchmarks without fine-tuning (e.g., Winoground, EqBen) and alignment (e.g., DrawBench, EditBench). + info: cece-vlm.github.io
January 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
NLI Improves Compositionality in Vision-Language Models is accepted to #ICLR2025!
CECE enables interpretability and achieves significant improvements in hard compositional benchmarks without fine-tuning (e.g., Winoground, EqBen) and alignment (e.g., DrawBench, EditBench). + info: cece-vlm.github.io
CECE enables interpretability and achieves significant improvements in hard compositional benchmarks without fine-tuning (e.g., Winoground, EqBen) and alignment (e.g., DrawBench, EditBench). + info: cece-vlm.github.io
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Please join us for:
AI at Work: Building and Evaluating Trust
Presented by our Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRIALS) institute.
Feb 3-4
Washington DC
Open to all!
Details and registration at: trails.gwu.edu/trailscon-2025
Sponsorship details at: trails.gwu.edu/media/556
AI at Work: Building and Evaluating Trust
Presented by our Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRIALS) institute.
Feb 3-4
Washington DC
Open to all!
Details and registration at: trails.gwu.edu/trailscon-2025
Sponsorship details at: trails.gwu.edu/media/556
January 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Please join us for:
AI at Work: Building and Evaluating Trust
Presented by our Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRIALS) institute.
Feb 3-4
Washington DC
Open to all!
Details and registration at: trails.gwu.edu/trailscon-2025
Sponsorship details at: trails.gwu.edu/media/556
AI at Work: Building and Evaluating Trust
Presented by our Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRIALS) institute.
Feb 3-4
Washington DC
Open to all!
Details and registration at: trails.gwu.edu/trailscon-2025
Sponsorship details at: trails.gwu.edu/media/556
Please join us for:
AI at Work: Building and Evaluating Trust
Presented by our Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRIALS) institute.
Feb 3-4
Washington DC
Open to all!
Details and registration at: trails.gwu.edu/trailscon-2025
Sponsorship details at: trails.gwu.edu/media/556
AI at Work: Building and Evaluating Trust
Presented by our Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRIALS) institute.
Feb 3-4
Washington DC
Open to all!
Details and registration at: trails.gwu.edu/trailscon-2025
Sponsorship details at: trails.gwu.edu/media/556
January 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Please join us for:
AI at Work: Building and Evaluating Trust
Presented by our Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRIALS) institute.
Feb 3-4
Washington DC
Open to all!
Details and registration at: trails.gwu.edu/trailscon-2025
Sponsorship details at: trails.gwu.edu/media/556
AI at Work: Building and Evaluating Trust
Presented by our Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRIALS) institute.
Feb 3-4
Washington DC
Open to all!
Details and registration at: trails.gwu.edu/trailscon-2025
Sponsorship details at: trails.gwu.edu/media/556
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📢 The survey 👇 on "intelligence" & ChatGPT is open until Jan 14. All fields are welcome, but a special invitation goes to folks in Philosophy, Psychology, HCI, Cognitive Science, CSS, and AI ethics. Please repost.
What do YOU mean by "intelligence", and does ChatGPT fit your definition?
We collected the major criteria used in CogSci and other fields, and designed a survey to find out!
Access link: www.survey-xact.dk/collect
Code: 4S7V-SN4M-S536
Time: 5-10 mins
We collected the major criteria used in CogSci and other fields, and designed a survey to find out!
Access link: www.survey-xact.dk/collect
Code: 4S7V-SN4M-S536
Time: 5-10 mins
Perspectives on Intelligence: Community Survey
Research survey exploring how NLP/ML/CogSci researchers define and use the concept of intelligence.
bertramhojer.github.io
January 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
📢 The survey 👇 on "intelligence" & ChatGPT is open until Jan 14. All fields are welcome, but a special invitation goes to folks in Philosophy, Psychology, HCI, Cognitive Science, CSS, and AI ethics. Please repost.