Mehar Bhatia
@meharbhatia.bsky.social
PhD Student at MILA/McGill University with Prof. Siva Reddy and Prof. Vered Shwartz. Previously UBC-CS.
Studying societal impacts of AI, alignment and safety.
Based in Montreal🇨🇦
Studying societal impacts of AI, alignment and safety.
Based in Montreal🇨🇦
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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)
Reposted by Mehar Bhatia
Huge congratulations to Dr. @vernadankers.bsky.social for passing her viva today! 🥳🎓
It's truly been an honour sharing the PhD journey with you. I wasn’t ready for the void your sudden departure left (in the office and in my life!).
Your new colleagues are lucky to have you! 🥺🥰
It's truly been an honour sharing the PhD journey with you. I wasn’t ready for the void your sudden departure left (in the office and in my life!).
Your new colleagues are lucky to have you! 🥺🥰
July 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Huge congratulations to Dr. @vernadankers.bsky.social for passing her viva today! 🥳🎓
It's truly been an honour sharing the PhD journey with you. I wasn’t ready for the void your sudden departure left (in the office and in my life!).
Your new colleagues are lucky to have you! 🥺🥰
It's truly been an honour sharing the PhD journey with you. I wasn’t ready for the void your sudden departure left (in the office and in my life!).
Your new colleagues are lucky to have you! 🥺🥰
Reposted by Mehar Bhatia
A blizzard is raging through Montreal when your friend says “Looks like Florida out there!” Humans easily interpret irony, while LLMs struggle with it. We propose a 𝘳𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭-𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘺-𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 probabilistic framework as a solution.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.09301 to appear @ #ACL2025 (Main)
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.09301 to appear @ #ACL2025 (Main)
June 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
A blizzard is raging through Montreal when your friend says “Looks like Florida out there!” Humans easily interpret irony, while LLMs struggle with it. We propose a 𝘳𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭-𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘺-𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 probabilistic framework as a solution.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.09301 to appear @ #ACL2025 (Main)
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.09301 to appear @ #ACL2025 (Main)
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I guess that now that I have 1% of my Twitter followers follow me here 😅, I should announce it here too for those of you no longer checking Twitter: my nonfiction book, "Lost in Automatic Translation" is coming out this July: lostinautomatictranslation.com. I'm very excited to share it with you!
May 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I guess that now that I have 1% of my Twitter followers follow me here 😅, I should announce it here too for those of you no longer checking Twitter: my nonfiction book, "Lost in Automatic Translation" is coming out this July: lostinautomatictranslation.com. I'm very excited to share it with you!
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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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🔔 Reminder & Call for #VLMs4All @ #CVPR2025!
Help shape the future of culturally aware & geo-diverse VLMs:
⚔️ Challenges: Deadline: Apr 15 🔗https://sites.google.com/view/vlms4all/challenges
📄 Papers (4pg): Deadline: Apr 22 🔗https://sites.google.com/view/vlms4all/call-for-papers
Join us!
Help shape the future of culturally aware & geo-diverse VLMs:
⚔️ Challenges: Deadline: Apr 15 🔗https://sites.google.com/view/vlms4all/challenges
📄 Papers (4pg): Deadline: Apr 22 🔗https://sites.google.com/view/vlms4all/call-for-papers
Join us!
📢Excited to announce our upcoming workshop - Vision Language Models For All: Building Geo-Diverse and Culturally Aware Vision-Language Models (VLMs-4-All) @CVPR 2025!
🌐 sites.google.com/view/vlms4all
🌐 sites.google.com/view/vlms4all
April 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Our DeepSeek-R1 'Thoughtology' paper 🧠💡brings a wealth of interesting insights into analyzing reasoning chains and across a variety of tasks.
Check it out!
mcgill-nlp.github.io/thoughtology/
Check it out!
mcgill-nlp.github.io/thoughtology/
April 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Our DeepSeek-R1 'Thoughtology' paper 🧠💡brings a wealth of interesting insights into analyzing reasoning chains and across a variety of tasks.
Check it out!
mcgill-nlp.github.io/thoughtology/
Check it out!
mcgill-nlp.github.io/thoughtology/
🚀 Diversity in AI matters! Excited to be part of the VLMs-4-All @CVPR 2025 Workshop, where we push for geo-diverse & culturally aware Vision-Language Models! Submit your papers now, join the challenges & engage in vital discussions. 🌍🔥 #CVPR2025 #VLMs4All2025
📢Excited to announce our upcoming workshop - Vision Language Models For All: Building Geo-Diverse and Culturally Aware Vision-Language Models (VLMs-4-All) @CVPR 2025!
🌐 sites.google.com/view/vlms4all
🌐 sites.google.com/view/vlms4all
March 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
🚀 Diversity in AI matters! Excited to be part of the VLMs-4-All @CVPR 2025 Workshop, where we push for geo-diverse & culturally aware Vision-Language Models! Submit your papers now, join the challenges & engage in vital discussions. 🌍🔥 #CVPR2025 #VLMs4All2025
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Instruction-following retrievers can efficiently and accurately search for harmful and sensitive information on the internet! 🌐💣
Retrievers need to be aligned too! 🚨🚨🚨
Work done with the wonderful Nick and @sivareddyg.bsky.social
🔗 mcgill-nlp.github.io/malicious-ir/
Thread: 🧵👇
Retrievers need to be aligned too! 🚨🚨🚨
Work done with the wonderful Nick and @sivareddyg.bsky.social
🔗 mcgill-nlp.github.io/malicious-ir/
Thread: 🧵👇
Exploiting Instruction-Following Retrievers for Malicious Information Retrieval
Parishad BehnamGhader, Nicholas Meade, Siva Reddy
mcgill-nlp.github.io
March 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Instruction-following retrievers can efficiently and accurately search for harmful and sensitive information on the internet! 🌐💣
Retrievers need to be aligned too! 🚨🚨🚨
Work done with the wonderful Nick and @sivareddyg.bsky.social
🔗 mcgill-nlp.github.io/malicious-ir/
Thread: 🧵👇
Retrievers need to be aligned too! 🚨🚨🚨
Work done with the wonderful Nick and @sivareddyg.bsky.social
🔗 mcgill-nlp.github.io/malicious-ir/
Thread: 🧵👇
🚨🚨🚨 Checkout our new position paper on rethinking LLM alignment through social, economic, and contractual frameworks! 🌍💼⚖️
Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.00069
How should AI align with society? Let’s discuss!👇
Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.00069
How should AI align with society? Let’s discuss!👇
📢New Paper Alert!🚀
Human alignment balances social expectations, economic incentives, and legal frameworks. What if LLM alignment worked the same way?🤔
Our latest work explores how social, economic, and contractual alignment can address incomplete contracts in LLM alignment🧵
Human alignment balances social expectations, economic incentives, and legal frameworks. What if LLM alignment worked the same way?🤔
Our latest work explores how social, economic, and contractual alignment can address incomplete contracts in LLM alignment🧵
March 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🚨🚨🚨 Checkout our new position paper on rethinking LLM alignment through social, economic, and contractual frameworks! 🌍💼⚖️
Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.00069
How should AI align with society? Let’s discuss!👇
Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.00069
How should AI align with society? Let’s discuss!👇
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Presented the AURORA paper together with some of the awesome co-authors Chris Pal @sivareddyg.bsky.social and @ludolara.bsky.social from @Mila_Quebec
Tons of fun, 3h of non-stop chatting and exchange of ideas, now pretty exhausted 😅
Tons of fun, 3h of non-stop chatting and exchange of ideas, now pretty exhausted 😅
December 12, 2024 at 12:00 AM
Presented the AURORA paper together with some of the awesome co-authors Chris Pal @sivareddyg.bsky.social and @ludolara.bsky.social from @Mila_Quebec
Tons of fun, 3h of non-stop chatting and exchange of ideas, now pretty exhausted 😅
Tons of fun, 3h of non-stop chatting and exchange of ideas, now pretty exhausted 😅