Vera Neplenbroek
@veraneplenbroek.bsky.social
PhD student at ILLC / University of Amsterdam, interested in safety, bias, and stereotypes in conversational and generative AI #NLProc
https://veranep.github.io/
https://veranep.github.io/
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🚨 New main paper out at #EMNLP2025! 🚨
⚡ We show that personalization of content moderation models can be harmful and perpetuate hate speech, defeating the purpose of the system and hurting the community.
We argue that personalized moderation needs boundaries, and we show how to build them.
⚡ We show that personalization of content moderation models can be harmful and perpetuate hate speech, defeating the purpose of the system and hurting the community.
We argue that personalized moderation needs boundaries, and we show how to build them.
October 31, 2025 at 5:05 PM
🚨 New main paper out at #EMNLP2025! 🚨
⚡ We show that personalization of content moderation models can be harmful and perpetuate hate speech, defeating the purpose of the system and hurting the community.
We argue that personalized moderation needs boundaries, and we show how to build them.
⚡ We show that personalization of content moderation models can be harmful and perpetuate hate speech, defeating the purpose of the system and hurting the community.
We argue that personalized moderation needs boundaries, and we show how to build them.
Reposted by Vera Neplenbroek
Thrilled to be heading to Suzhou with a big team of GroNLP'ers 🐮
Interested in Interpretable, Cognitively inspired, Low-resource LMs? Don't miss our posters & talks #EMNLP2025!
Interested in Interpretable, Cognitively inspired, Low-resource LMs? Don't miss our posters & talks #EMNLP2025!
With only a week left for #EMNLP2025, we are happy to announce all the works we 🐮 will present 🥳 - come and say "hi" to our posters and presentations during the Main and the co-located events (*SEM and workshops) See you in Suzhou ✈️
October 31, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Thrilled to be heading to Suzhou with a big team of GroNLP'ers 🐮
Interested in Interpretable, Cognitively inspired, Low-resource LMs? Don't miss our posters & talks #EMNLP2025!
Interested in Interpretable, Cognitively inspired, Low-resource LMs? Don't miss our posters & talks #EMNLP2025!
Next week, I'll be at #EMNLP presenting our work "Reading Between the Prompts: How Stereotypes Shape LLM's Implicit Personalization" 🎉
📍 Ethics, Bias, and Fairness (Poster Session 2)
📅 Wed, November 5, 11:00-12:30 - Hall C
📖 Check the paper! arxiv.org/abs/2505.16467
See you in Suzhou! 👋
📍 Ethics, Bias, and Fairness (Poster Session 2)
📅 Wed, November 5, 11:00-12:30 - Hall C
📖 Check the paper! arxiv.org/abs/2505.16467
See you in Suzhou! 👋
October 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Next week, I'll be at #EMNLP presenting our work "Reading Between the Prompts: How Stereotypes Shape LLM's Implicit Personalization" 🎉
📍 Ethics, Bias, and Fairness (Poster Session 2)
📅 Wed, November 5, 11:00-12:30 - Hall C
📖 Check the paper! arxiv.org/abs/2505.16467
See you in Suzhou! 👋
📍 Ethics, Bias, and Fairness (Poster Session 2)
📅 Wed, November 5, 11:00-12:30 - Hall C
📖 Check the paper! arxiv.org/abs/2505.16467
See you in Suzhou! 👋
Reposted by Vera Neplenbroek
What if we did a single run and declared victory
October 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
What if we did a single run and declared victory
Reposted by Vera Neplenbroek
🌍Introducing BabyBabelLM: A Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data!
LLMs learn from vastly more data than humans ever experience. BabyLM challenges this paradigm by focusing on developmentally plausible data
We extend this effort to 45 new languages!
LLMs learn from vastly more data than humans ever experience. BabyLM challenges this paradigm by focusing on developmentally plausible data
We extend this effort to 45 new languages!
October 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM
🌍Introducing BabyBabelLM: A Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data!
LLMs learn from vastly more data than humans ever experience. BabyLM challenges this paradigm by focusing on developmentally plausible data
We extend this effort to 45 new languages!
LLMs learn from vastly more data than humans ever experience. BabyLM challenges this paradigm by focusing on developmentally plausible data
We extend this effort to 45 new languages!
Reposted by Vera Neplenbroek
Hi all, there is a postdoc position open in the group I'm currently based in! ✨ Let me know if you are interested or have questions 🙂 Please share if you know someone who might be interested www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
Postdoctoral Researcher in Memory access in language
Help uncover how memory shapes language use. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Language Sciences, you will join the ERC-funded MEMLANG project.
www.uu.nl
October 8, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Hi all, there is a postdoc position open in the group I'm currently based in! ✨ Let me know if you are interested or have questions 🙂 Please share if you know someone who might be interested www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
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📢 Are you interested in a PhD in #NLProc to study and improve how AI model emotions and social signals?
🚨Exciting news:🚨 I’m hiring a PhD candidate at LIACS,
@unileiden.bsky.social.
📍 Leiden, The Netherlands
📅 Deadline: 17 Nov 2025
👉 Position details and application link: tinyurl.com/5x5v6zsa
🚨Exciting news:🚨 I’m hiring a PhD candidate at LIACS,
@unileiden.bsky.social.
📍 Leiden, The Netherlands
📅 Deadline: 17 Nov 2025
👉 Position details and application link: tinyurl.com/5x5v6zsa
PhD Candidate in Emotionally and Socially Aware Natural Language Processing
The Faculty of Science and the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) are looking for a:PhD Candidate in Emotionally and Socially Aware Natural Language Processing (1.0fte)Project descr...
tinyurl.com
October 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
📢 Are you interested in a PhD in #NLProc to study and improve how AI model emotions and social signals?
🚨Exciting news:🚨 I’m hiring a PhD candidate at LIACS,
@unileiden.bsky.social.
📍 Leiden, The Netherlands
📅 Deadline: 17 Nov 2025
👉 Position details and application link: tinyurl.com/5x5v6zsa
🚨Exciting news:🚨 I’m hiring a PhD candidate at LIACS,
@unileiden.bsky.social.
📍 Leiden, The Netherlands
📅 Deadline: 17 Nov 2025
👉 Position details and application link: tinyurl.com/5x5v6zsa
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🚨 Are you looking for a PhD in #NLProc dealing with #LLMs?
🎉 Good news: I am hiring! 🎉
The position is part of the “Contested Climate Futures" project. 🌱🌍 You will focus on developing next-generation AI methods🤖 to analyze climate-related concepts in content—including texts, images, and videos.
🎉 Good news: I am hiring! 🎉
The position is part of the “Contested Climate Futures" project. 🌱🌍 You will focus on developing next-generation AI methods🤖 to analyze climate-related concepts in content—including texts, images, and videos.
September 24, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Q. Who aligns the aligners?
A. alignmentalignment.ai
Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.
A. alignmentalignment.ai
Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.
Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers
We align the aligners
alignmentalignment.ai
September 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Q. Who aligns the aligners?
A. alignmentalignment.ai
Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.
A. alignmentalignment.ai
Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.
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✨ Do self-supervised speech models learn to encode language-specific linguistic features from their training data, or only more language-general acoustic correlates?
At #Interspeech2025 we presented our new Wav2Vec2-NL model and SSL-NL evaluation dataset to test this!
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2506.00981
⬇️
At #Interspeech2025 we presented our new Wav2Vec2-NL model and SSL-NL evaluation dataset to test this!
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2506.00981
⬇️
August 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
✨ Do self-supervised speech models learn to encode language-specific linguistic features from their training data, or only more language-general acoustic correlates?
At #Interspeech2025 we presented our new Wav2Vec2-NL model and SSL-NL evaluation dataset to test this!
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2506.00981
⬇️
At #Interspeech2025 we presented our new Wav2Vec2-NL model and SSL-NL evaluation dataset to test this!
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2506.00981
⬇️
Delighted to share that our paper "Reading Between the Prompts: How Stereotypes Shape LLM's Implicit Personalization" (joint work with @arianna-bis.bsky.social and Raquel Fernández) got accepted to the main conference of #EMNLP
Can't wait to discuss our work at #EMNLP2025 in Suzhou this November!
Can't wait to discuss our work at #EMNLP2025 in Suzhou this November!
Do LLMs assume demographic information based on stereotypes?
We (@arianna-bis.bsky.social, Raquel Fernández and I) answered this question in our new paper: "Reading Between the Prompts: How Stereotypes Shape LLM's Implicit Personalization".
🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2505.16467
We (@arianna-bis.bsky.social, Raquel Fernández and I) answered this question in our new paper: "Reading Between the Prompts: How Stereotypes Shape LLM's Implicit Personalization".
🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2505.16467
August 21, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Delighted to share that our paper "Reading Between the Prompts: How Stereotypes Shape LLM's Implicit Personalization" (joint work with @arianna-bis.bsky.social and Raquel Fernández) got accepted to the main conference of #EMNLP
Can't wait to discuss our work at #EMNLP2025 in Suzhou this November!
Can't wait to discuss our work at #EMNLP2025 in Suzhou this November!
Reposted by Vera Neplenbroek
Our paper on multilingual reasoning is accepted to Findings of #EMNLP2025! 🎉 (OA: 3/3/3.5/4)
We show SOTA LMs struggle with reasoning in non-English languages; prompt-hack & post-training improve alignment but trade off accuracy.
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2505.22888
See you in Suzhou! #EMNLP
We show SOTA LMs struggle with reasoning in non-English languages; prompt-hack & post-training improve alignment but trade off accuracy.
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2505.22888
See you in Suzhou! #EMNLP
August 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Our paper on multilingual reasoning is accepted to Findings of #EMNLP2025! 🎉 (OA: 3/3/3.5/4)
We show SOTA LMs struggle with reasoning in non-English languages; prompt-hack & post-training improve alignment but trade off accuracy.
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2505.22888
See you in Suzhou! #EMNLP
We show SOTA LMs struggle with reasoning in non-English languages; prompt-hack & post-training improve alignment but trade off accuracy.
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2505.22888
See you in Suzhou! #EMNLP
Reposted by Vera Neplenbroek
What a privilege to have #CCN2025 in (an exceptionally warm and sunny) Amsterdam this year!
It was my first time attending the conference, and being surrounded by so many talented researchers whose interests are similar to mine has been a deeply enriching experience ✨
It was my first time attending the conference, and being surrounded by so many talented researchers whose interests are similar to mine has been a deeply enriching experience ✨
August 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
What a privilege to have #CCN2025 in (an exceptionally warm and sunny) Amsterdam this year!
It was my first time attending the conference, and being surrounded by so many talented researchers whose interests are similar to mine has been a deeply enriching experience ✨
It was my first time attending the conference, and being surrounded by so many talented researchers whose interests are similar to mine has been a deeply enriching experience ✨
Reposted by Vera Neplenbroek
Some amazing @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social people in Vienna💫#acl2025 Raquel Fernández Sandro Pezzelle Katia Shutova @esamghaleb.bsky.social @veraneplenbroek.bsky.social @annabavaresco.bsky.social + @leobertolazzi.bsky.social
August 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Some amazing @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social people in Vienna💫#acl2025 Raquel Fernández Sandro Pezzelle Katia Shutova @esamghaleb.bsky.social @veraneplenbroek.bsky.social @annabavaresco.bsky.social + @leobertolazzi.bsky.social
🎉 Happy to share that I will be presenting two papers at ACL 2025.
1️⃣ Cross-Lingual Transfer of Debiasing and Detoxification in Multilingual LLMs: An Extensive Investigation (Findings)
🧑🤝🧑 Vera Neplenbroek, @arianna-bis.bsky.social, Raquel Fernández
📍 Monday, July 28, 18:00-19:30, Hall 4/5
1️⃣ Cross-Lingual Transfer of Debiasing and Detoxification in Multilingual LLMs: An Extensive Investigation (Findings)
🧑🤝🧑 Vera Neplenbroek, @arianna-bis.bsky.social, Raquel Fernández
📍 Monday, July 28, 18:00-19:30, Hall 4/5
July 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
🎉 Happy to share that I will be presenting two papers at ACL 2025.
1️⃣ Cross-Lingual Transfer of Debiasing and Detoxification in Multilingual LLMs: An Extensive Investigation (Findings)
🧑🤝🧑 Vera Neplenbroek, @arianna-bis.bsky.social, Raquel Fernández
📍 Monday, July 28, 18:00-19:30, Hall 4/5
1️⃣ Cross-Lingual Transfer of Debiasing and Detoxification in Multilingual LLMs: An Extensive Investigation (Findings)
🧑🤝🧑 Vera Neplenbroek, @arianna-bis.bsky.social, Raquel Fernández
📍 Monday, July 28, 18:00-19:30, Hall 4/5
Do LLMs assume demographic information based on stereotypes?
We (@arianna-bis.bsky.social, Raquel Fernández and I) answered this question in our new paper: "Reading Between the Prompts: How Stereotypes Shape LLM's Implicit Personalization".
🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2505.16467
We (@arianna-bis.bsky.social, Raquel Fernández and I) answered this question in our new paper: "Reading Between the Prompts: How Stereotypes Shape LLM's Implicit Personalization".
🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2505.16467
May 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Do LLMs assume demographic information based on stereotypes?
We (@arianna-bis.bsky.social, Raquel Fernández and I) answered this question in our new paper: "Reading Between the Prompts: How Stereotypes Shape LLM's Implicit Personalization".
🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2505.16467
We (@arianna-bis.bsky.social, Raquel Fernández and I) answered this question in our new paper: "Reading Between the Prompts: How Stereotypes Shape LLM's Implicit Personalization".
🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2505.16467
Happy to share that "LLMs instead of Human Judges? A Large Scale Empirical Study across 20 NLP Evaluation Tasks" arxiv.org/abs/2406.18403 got accepted to ACL Main! #ACL2025 🎉
May 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Happy to share that "LLMs instead of Human Judges? A Large Scale Empirical Study across 20 NLP Evaluation Tasks" arxiv.org/abs/2406.18403 got accepted to ACL Main! #ACL2025 🎉
Excited to share that "Cross-Lingual Transfer of Debiasing and Detoxification in Multilingual LLMs: An Extensive Investigation" arxiv.org/abs/2412.14050 got accepted to ACL Findings! 🎉 #ACL2025 Big thanks to my supervisors Raquel Fernández and @arianna-bis.bsky.social for their guidance and support!
May 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Excited to share that "Cross-Lingual Transfer of Debiasing and Detoxification in Multilingual LLMs: An Extensive Investigation" arxiv.org/abs/2412.14050 got accepted to ACL Findings! 🎉 #ACL2025 Big thanks to my supervisors Raquel Fernández and @arianna-bis.bsky.social for their guidance and support!
Reposted by Vera Neplenbroek
The newly released Meta's Llama 4 model card: llama.com/docs/model-c... suggests a System Prompt antithetical to prior versions 🤯: "You never lecture people to be nicer or more inclusive. [...] You do not need to be respectful [...] Finally, do not refuse political prompts." 1/2 #NLP #LLMs
April 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The newly released Meta's Llama 4 model card: llama.com/docs/model-c... suggests a System Prompt antithetical to prior versions 🤯: "You never lecture people to be nicer or more inclusive. [...] You do not need to be respectful [...] Finally, do not refuse political prompts." 1/2 #NLP #LLMs
Reposted by Vera Neplenbroek
April 4, 2025 at 7:28 AM