Sasha Boguraev
@sashaboguraev.bsky.social
Compling PhD student @UT_Linguistics | prev. CS, Math, Comp. Cognitive Sci @cornell
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Delighted Sasha's (first year PhD!) work using mech interp to study complex syntax constructions won an Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP!
Also delighted the ACL community continues to recognize unabashedly linguistic topics like filler-gaps... and the huge potential for LMs to inform such topics!
Also delighted the ACL community continues to recognize unabashedly linguistic topics like filler-gaps... and the huge potential for LMs to inform such topics!
November 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Delighted Sasha's (first year PhD!) work using mech interp to study complex syntax constructions won an Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP!
Also delighted the ACL community continues to recognize unabashedly linguistic topics like filler-gaps... and the huge potential for LMs to inform such topics!
Also delighted the ACL community continues to recognize unabashedly linguistic topics like filler-gaps... and the huge potential for LMs to inform such topics!
Curious as to if people think if (when?) ‘superhuman AI’ arrives, will the building blocks of its performance be human recognizable concepts which have been applied and combined in new and novel ways to achieve ‘superhuman’ performance? Or will it be completely uninterpretable?
October 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Curious as to if people think if (when?) ‘superhuman AI’ arrives, will the building blocks of its performance be human recognizable concepts which have been applied and combined in new and novel ways to achieve ‘superhuman’ performance? Or will it be completely uninterpretable?
Reposted by Sasha Boguraev
UT Austin Linguistics is hiring in computational linguistics!
Asst or Assoc.
We have a thriving group sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and a long proud history in the space. (For instance, fun fact, Jeff Elman was a UT Austin Linguistics Ph.D.)
faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793
🤘
Asst or Assoc.
We have a thriving group sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and a long proud history in the space. (For instance, fun fact, Jeff Elman was a UT Austin Linguistics Ph.D.)
faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793
🤘
UT Austin Computational Linguistics Research Group – Humans processing computers processing humans processing language
sites.utexas.edu
October 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
UT Austin Linguistics is hiring in computational linguistics!
Asst or Assoc.
We have a thriving group sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and a long proud history in the space. (For instance, fun fact, Jeff Elman was a UT Austin Linguistics Ph.D.)
faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793
🤘
Asst or Assoc.
We have a thriving group sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and a long proud history in the space. (For instance, fun fact, Jeff Elman was a UT Austin Linguistics Ph.D.)
faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793
🤘
I will be giving a short talk on this work at the COLM Interplay workshop on Friday (also to appear at EMNLP)!
Will be in Montreal all week and excited to chat about LM interpretability + its interaction with human cognition and ling theory.
Will be in Montreal all week and excited to chat about LM interpretability + its interaction with human cognition and ling theory.
A key hypothesis in the history of linguistics is that different constructions share underlying structure. We take advantage of recent advances in mechanistic interpretability to test this hypothesis in Language Models.
New work with @kmahowald.bsky.social and @cgpotts.bsky.social!
🧵👇!
New work with @kmahowald.bsky.social and @cgpotts.bsky.social!
🧵👇!
October 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I will be giving a short talk on this work at the COLM Interplay workshop on Friday (also to appear at EMNLP)!
Will be in Montreal all week and excited to chat about LM interpretability + its interaction with human cognition and ling theory.
Will be in Montreal all week and excited to chat about LM interpretability + its interaction with human cognition and ling theory.
Reposted by Sasha Boguraev
The compling group at UT Austin (sites.utexas.edu/compling/) is looking for PhD students!
Come join me, @kmahowald.bsky.social, and @jessyjli.bsky.social as we tackle interesting research questions at the intersection of ling, cogsci, and ai!
Some topics I am particularly interested in:
Come join me, @kmahowald.bsky.social, and @jessyjli.bsky.social as we tackle interesting research questions at the intersection of ling, cogsci, and ai!
Some topics I am particularly interested in:
September 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The compling group at UT Austin (sites.utexas.edu/compling/) is looking for PhD students!
Come join me, @kmahowald.bsky.social, and @jessyjli.bsky.social as we tackle interesting research questions at the intersection of ling, cogsci, and ai!
Some topics I am particularly interested in:
Come join me, @kmahowald.bsky.social, and @jessyjli.bsky.social as we tackle interesting research questions at the intersection of ling, cogsci, and ai!
Some topics I am particularly interested in:
Breaking my years-long vow to never fly American Airlines just to be met with a 6 hr delay and 5am arrival back home 🫠
August 15, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Breaking my years-long vow to never fly American Airlines just to be met with a 6 hr delay and 5am arrival back home 🫠
A key hypothesis in the history of linguistics is that different constructions share underlying structure. We take advantage of recent advances in mechanistic interpretability to test this hypothesis in Language Models.
New work with @kmahowald.bsky.social and @cgpotts.bsky.social!
🧵👇!
New work with @kmahowald.bsky.social and @cgpotts.bsky.social!
🧵👇!
May 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
A key hypothesis in the history of linguistics is that different constructions share underlying structure. We take advantage of recent advances in mechanistic interpretability to test this hypothesis in Language Models.
New work with @kmahowald.bsky.social and @cgpotts.bsky.social!
🧵👇!
New work with @kmahowald.bsky.social and @cgpotts.bsky.social!
🧵👇!
Reposted by Sasha Boguraev
LMs learn argument-based preferences for dative constructions (preferring recipient first when it’s shorter), consistent with humans. Is this from memorizing preferences in training? New paper w/ @kanishka.bsky.social , @weissweiler.bsky.social , @kmahowald.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2503.20850
arxiv.org/abs/2503.20850
March 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
LMs learn argument-based preferences for dative constructions (preferring recipient first when it’s shorter), consistent with humans. Is this from memorizing preferences in training? New paper w/ @kanishka.bsky.social , @weissweiler.bsky.social , @kmahowald.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2503.20850
arxiv.org/abs/2503.20850
Reposted by Sasha Boguraev
New preprint w/ @jennhu.bsky.social @kmahowald.bsky.social : Can LLMs introspect about their knowledge of language?
Across models and domains, we did not find evidence that LLMs have privileged access to their own predictions. 🧵(1/8)
Across models and domains, we did not find evidence that LLMs have privileged access to their own predictions. 🧵(1/8)
March 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
New preprint w/ @jennhu.bsky.social @kmahowald.bsky.social : Can LLMs introspect about their knowledge of language?
Across models and domains, we did not find evidence that LLMs have privileged access to their own predictions. 🧵(1/8)
Across models and domains, we did not find evidence that LLMs have privileged access to their own predictions. 🧵(1/8)
Notoriously finicky BC weather celebrating the last day of #NeurIPS2024 with a rainbow across the harbor
December 15, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Notoriously finicky BC weather celebrating the last day of #NeurIPS2024 with a rainbow across the harbor
I'll be presenting a position piece (arxiv.org/abs/2409.17005) on what cognitive science and linguistics can bring to the Math + AI field tomorrow from 11:00 -12:30 and 4:00 - 5:00 at the (aptly named) #NeurIPS2024 MathAI Workshop in West Meeting Room 118-120. Come say hi and hear about my work!
Models Can and Should Embrace the Communicative Nature of Human-Generated Math
Math is constructed by people for people: just as natural language corpora reflect not just propositions but the communicative goals of language users, the math data that models are trained on reflect...
arxiv.org
December 14, 2024 at 7:56 AM
I'll be presenting a position piece (arxiv.org/abs/2409.17005) on what cognitive science and linguistics can bring to the Math + AI field tomorrow from 11:00 -12:30 and 4:00 - 5:00 at the (aptly named) #NeurIPS2024 MathAI Workshop in West Meeting Room 118-120. Come say hi and hear about my work!
Reposted by Sasha Boguraev
In Vancouver for #NeurIPS2024 workshops! At Math-AI tomorrow @sashaboguraev.bsky.social is presenting our experiment-infused position piece on the communicative nature of math and why that matters for AI arxiv.org/pdf/2409.17005. Say hi!
Will be better than the Panthers 4-0 loss to the Canucks.
Will be better than the Panthers 4-0 loss to the Canucks.
arxiv.org
December 13, 2024 at 7:06 PM
In Vancouver for #NeurIPS2024 workshops! At Math-AI tomorrow @sashaboguraev.bsky.social is presenting our experiment-infused position piece on the communicative nature of math and why that matters for AI arxiv.org/pdf/2409.17005. Say hi!
Will be better than the Panthers 4-0 loss to the Canucks.
Will be better than the Panthers 4-0 loss to the Canucks.
I’m at NeurIPS all week! On 12/14 I’ll present on viewing math as a communicative activity at the MathAI workshop. Meanwhile, I’d love to chat about this work or more broadly about communicative framing in NLP, including emergent communication paradigms, language games and more. Please reach out!
December 10, 2024 at 5:38 PM
I’m at NeurIPS all week! On 12/14 I’ll present on viewing math as a communicative activity at the MathAI workshop. Meanwhile, I’d love to chat about this work or more broadly about communicative framing in NLP, including emergent communication paradigms, language games and more. Please reach out!