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Can LLMs accurately aggregate information over long, information-dense texts? Not yet…

We introduce Oolong, a dataset of simple-to-verify information aggregation questions over long inputs. No model achieves >50% accuracy at 128K on Oolong!
November 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
ICYMI: the LTI's Carolyn Rosé has been awarded the Kavčić-Moura Professorship in recognition of her research achievements and support of her future work. Congratulations to a devoted member of the LTI community!
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Rosé Among New SCS Endowed Faculty Chair Recipients - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University
LTI Faculty Member Carolyn Rosé has Received the Kavčić-Moura Professorship
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October 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Three LTI students (Danqing Wang, Zichun Yu, and @xinranz3.bsky.social) have been announced as part of the inaugural cohort of the @amazon AI Ph.D. Fellowship Program. Congrats to all recipients!

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10 CMU Students Selected for Amazon AI Ph.D. Fellowship Program
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October 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Congratulations to Maarten Sap for being named a recipient of a 2025 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering! 👏

Sap, a professor in @ltiatcmu.bsky.social, was recognized for his work to make artificial intelligence adaptive and knowledgeable about diverse cultures.

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October 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Congratulations to our own Maarten Sap on the tremendous honor of being named a 2025 Packard Fellow!
I’m ✨ super excited and grateful ✨to announce that I'm part of the 2025 class of #PackardFellows (www.packard.org/2025fellows). The @packardfdn.bsky.social and this fellowship will allow me to explore exciting research directions towards culturally responsible and safe AI 🌍🌈
October 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Our PhD & MLT students took advantage of a beautiful Pittsburgh fall day to explore Mt. Washington’s Emerald View Park. Here’s to making the most of fall break!
October 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Happy Smiley Day, all! The :-) emoticon was first used on this day in 1982 by LTI Professor Emeritus Scott Fahlman.
43 years ago today our digital vocabulary expanded tremendously through a simple :-) or :-(

On Sept. 19, 1982, Scott Fahlman, a research professor in
@scsatcmu.bsky.social, proposed the use of smiley emoticons "for joke markers."

That makes us :-)

➡️ cmu.is/Smiley-Emoticon | #Emoticon
September 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Carnegie Mellon leaders and faculty shared their expertise amongst fellow researchers and industry experts at AI Horizons 2025.

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September 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Incoming LTI assistant professor @akariasai.bsky.social, set to join our faculty in fall 2026, has been named one of @technologyreview.com's 35 Innovators Under 35 for her work in retrieval-augmented generation. Congratulations to Akari on this great honor!
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Asai Named to MIT Technology Review's '35 Innovators Under 35' - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University
Incoming LTI faculty member Akari Asai recognized in prestigious list for work on retrieval-augmented generation
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September 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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I'm excited cause I'm teaching/coordinating a new unique class, where we teach new PhD students all the "soft" skills of research, incl. ideation, reviewing, presenting, interviewing, advising, etc.

Each lecture is taught by a different LTI prof! It takes a village! maartensap.com/11705/Fall20...
August 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Happy first day of classes to all our students, new and returning! Wishing everyone a happy and enlightening fall semester.
August 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Congrats to @shinjiw.bsky.social and his team for their Best Student Paper award at #Interspeech2025!
August 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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I spoke to Forbes about why model "welfare" is a silly framing to an important issue; models don't have feelings, and it's a big distraction from real questions like tensions between safety vs. user utility, which are NLP/HCI/policy questions www.forbes.com/sites/victor...
August 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A hearty congratulations to the LTI's
@maartensap.bsky.social, who's been awarded an
Okawa Research Grant for his work in his work in socially-aware artificial intelligence. lti.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...
Sap Awarded 2025 Okawa Research Grant - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University
LTI Assistant Professor Maarten Sap received the prestigious award for his work in socially-aware artificial intelligence
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August 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
We're excited to announce the launch of MMU-RAG at #NeurIPS2025! A new competition from the LTI & Amazon AGI focused on real-world Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with live user feedback via RAG-Arena.

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LTI and Amazon AGI Launch MMU-RAG Competition to Advance AI Systems for Complex Information Tasks - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University
The competion, focused on evaluation of retrieval-augmented generation systems, debuts at NeurIPS 2025
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July 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Congrats (and well done!) to LTI PhD student Shaily Bhatt on her plenary lightning talk at #IC2S2
July 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Hand gestures are a major mode of human communication, but they don't always translate well across cultures. New research from @akhilayerukola.bsky.social, @maartensap.bsky.social and others is aimed at giving AI systems a hand with overcoming cultural biases:
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Using Hand Gestures To Evaluate AI Biases - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University
LTI researchers have created a model to help generative AI systems understand the cultural nuance of gestures.
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June 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Hand gestures are a major mode of human communication, but they don't always translate well across cultures. New research from @akhilayerukola.bsky.social, @maartensap.bsky.social and others is aimed at giving AI systems a hand with overcoming cultural biases:
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Using Hand Gestures To Evaluate AI Biases - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University
LTI researchers have created a model to help generative AI systems understand the cultural nuance of gestures.
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June 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
New research from LTI, UMich, & Allen Institute for AI: LLMs don’t just hallucinate – sometimes, they lie. When truthfulness clashes with utility (pleasing users, boosting brands), models often mislead. @nlpxuhui.bsky.social and @maartensap.bsky.social discuss the paper:
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Does Your Chatbot Swear to Tell the Truth? - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University
New research finds that LLM-based agents can't always be trusted to be truthful
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June 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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What if AI played the role of your sassy gay bestie 🏳️‍🌈 or AAVE-speaking friend 👋🏾?

You: “Can you plan a trip?”
🤖 AI: “Yasss queen! let’s werk this babe✨💅”

LLMs can talk like us, but it shapes how we trust, rely on & relate to them 🧵

📣 our #FAccT2025 paper: bit.ly/3HJ6rWI

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June 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Our MSAII and MCDS programs were both recently ranked among the nations best by TechGuide, with the MSAII program being named the number one program among MS programs in AI. Congrats to all the faculty, students and staff that make us who we are! lti.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...
MSAII and MCDS Named Top Programs - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University
LTI's Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence and Innovation and Master of Computational Data Science Programs Both Ranked Among Nation's Best by TechGuide
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May 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
We had a blast at our Commencement Reception Friday night. Congrats again to all of our 2025 grads – go out and make us (even more) proud!
May 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM