✈️ Headed to @iclr-conf.bsky.social — whether you’ll be there in person or tuning in remotely, I’d love to connect!

We’ll be presenting our paper on pre-training stability in language models and the PolyPythias 🧵

🔗 ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2503.09543
🤗 PolyPythias: huggingface.co/collections/...

Work in progress -- suggestions for NLP-ers based in the EU/Europe & already on Bluesky very welcome!

go.bsky.app/NZDc31B

Last week, we organized the workshop "New Perspectives on Bias and Discrimination in Language Technology" 🤖 @uvahumanities.bsky.social @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social

We're looking back at two inspiring days of talks, posters, and discussions—thanks to everyone who participated!

wai-amsterdam.github.io

This is a friendly reminder that there are 7 days left for submitting your extended abstract to this workshop!

(Since the workshop is non-archival, previously published work is welcome too. So consider submitting previous/future work to join the discussion in Amsterdam!)

Working on #bias & #discrimination in #NLP? Passionate about integrating insights from different disciplines? And do you want to discuss current limitations of #LLM bias mitigation work? 🤖
👋Join the workshop New Perspectives on Bias and Discrimination in Language Technology 4&5 Nov in #Amsterdam!

release day release day 🥳 OLMo 1b +7b out today and 65b soon...

OLMo accelerates the study of LMs. We release *everything*, from toolkit for creating data (Dolma) to train/inf code

blog blog.allenai.org/olmo-open-la...
olmo paper allenai.org/olmo/olmo-pa...
dolma paper allenai.org/olmo/dolma-p...

@michahu.bsky.social did an interview laying out our recent paper containing the figures I insist on calling "the mona lisa of training visualizations"

A 🧵thread about strategies for improving social bias evaluations of LMs. #blueskAI 🤖

bsky.app/profile/ovdw...

I am super excited to share that our paper "Undesirable Biases in NLP: Addressing Challenges of Measurement" has been published in JAIR!
doi.org/10.1613/jair...

I decided what we need to make blueskAI happen is a feed. Reply here to get added to the whitelist! Whitelisted users can post to the feed by adding the following keywords to a post:

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bskAI
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It was exciting to present our recent work at BlackboxNLP in Singapore on low-level causal interventions for gender bias in GPT2 small: 📝"Identifying and Adapting Transformer-Components responsible for Gender Bias in an English Language Model"
aclanthology.org/2023.blackbo...
A summary 👇

Together with Antoine Bertin & Cristina Tarquini we're raising funds to build a data-driven sculpture of beluga whale vocalizations as perceived by an Earth Species Project AI model. Can artificial listening enrich our understanding of whale communication through an immersive physical experience? 🐳

New manifesto! How can AI scientists borrow from evolutionary biology to strengthen their evidence and claims? Featuring the beautiful eggs of the tawny flanked prinia.