Zara Siddique
@zarasiddique.bsky.social
Working on ethics and bias in NLP @CardiffNLP #NLP #NLProc
Loved giving my second tutorial on steering vectors at #CardiffNLPWorkshop Lots of enthusiastic participants! @cardiffnlp.bsky.social
July 26, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Loved giving my second tutorial on steering vectors at #CardiffNLPWorkshop Lots of enthusiastic participants! @cardiffnlp.bsky.social
#CardiffNLPWorkshop off to a flying start with talks from Jennifer Foster and Marianna Apidianaki @cardiffnlp.bsky.social
July 14, 2025 at 10:37 AM
#CardiffNLPWorkshop off to a flying start with talks from Jennifer Foster and Marianna Apidianaki @cardiffnlp.bsky.social
Pleased to say this has been accepted to ACL System Demos :)
🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨
Dialz: A Python Toolkit for Steering Vectors
ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.06262
Docs: cardiffnlp.github.io/dialz/
Repo: github.com/cardiffnlp/d...
A Python package to help you create, apply and visualise steering vectors for anything you want - from sycophancy to bias.
Dialz: A Python Toolkit for Steering Vectors
ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.06262
Docs: cardiffnlp.github.io/dialz/
Repo: github.com/cardiffnlp/d...
A Python package to help you create, apply and visualise steering vectors for anything you want - from sycophancy to bias.
May 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Pleased to say this has been accepted to ACL System Demos :)
Come to my hackathon! Last one was super fun I promise
Announcing... Cardiff NLP's second hackathon! Join us on the 10th and 11th of June for two days of code 💻, pizza 🍕and networking. Open to all! Register your interest here: forms.gle/dG6F2Pbuy4H7...
May 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Come to my hackathon! Last one was super fun I promise
🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨
Dialz: A Python Toolkit for Steering Vectors
ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.06262
Docs: cardiffnlp.github.io/dialz/
Repo: github.com/cardiffnlp/d...
A Python package to help you create, apply and visualise steering vectors for anything you want - from sycophancy to bias.
Dialz: A Python Toolkit for Steering Vectors
ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.06262
Docs: cardiffnlp.github.io/dialz/
Repo: github.com/cardiffnlp/d...
A Python package to help you create, apply and visualise steering vectors for anything you want - from sycophancy to bias.
May 14, 2025 at 10:29 AM
🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨
Dialz: A Python Toolkit for Steering Vectors
ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.06262
Docs: cardiffnlp.github.io/dialz/
Repo: github.com/cardiffnlp/d...
A Python package to help you create, apply and visualise steering vectors for anything you want - from sycophancy to bias.
Dialz: A Python Toolkit for Steering Vectors
ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.06262
Docs: cardiffnlp.github.io/dialz/
Repo: github.com/cardiffnlp/d...
A Python package to help you create, apply and visualise steering vectors for anything you want - from sycophancy to bias.
New friends! Old friends! Please register if you’d like 2 whole days packed with NLP fun
The registration for the Cardiff #NLP Workshop is open forms.gle/dEE6xucksdsc...
📅Deadline: 6 June. Priority will be given to those who completed the EoI, but we have a few additional places available!
Check out the list of amazing speakers and find out more on our website www.cardiffnlpworkshop.org
📅Deadline: 6 June. Priority will be given to those who completed the EoI, but we have a few additional places available!
Check out the list of amazing speakers and find out more on our website www.cardiffnlpworkshop.org
May 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
New friends! Old friends! Please register if you’d like 2 whole days packed with NLP fun
Love this take: "Society appears far more willing to critically examine and address bias in AI systems than confront human bias directly"
Could AI help us build a more racially just society? | Sanmi Koyejo
We have an opportunity to build systems that don’t just replicate our current inequities. Will we take them?
www.theguardian.com
March 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Love this take: "Society appears far more willing to critically examine and address bias in AI systems than confront human bias directly"
Reposted by Zara Siddique
I am still in need of emergency reviewers for ARR this cycle for the computational social science track, please DM me if you have capacity 🙏
March 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I am still in need of emergency reviewers for ARR this cycle for the computational social science track, please DM me if you have capacity 🙏
NEW PAPER 📜
Shifting Perspectives: Steering Vector Ensembles for Robust Bias Mitigation in LLMs
ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2503.05371
GitHub: github.com/groovychoons...
Extremely Unofficial Blog Post: zarasiddique.com/blog/shiftin...
Shifting Perspectives: Steering Vector Ensembles for Robust Bias Mitigation in LLMs
ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2503.05371
GitHub: github.com/groovychoons...
Extremely Unofficial Blog Post: zarasiddique.com/blog/shiftin...
Shifting Perspectives: Steering Vector Ensembles for Robust Bias Mitigation in LLMs
We present a novel approach to bias mitigation in large language models (LLMs) by applying steering vectors to modify model activations in forward passes. We employ Bayesian optimization to systematic...
arxiv.org
March 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
NEW PAPER 📜
Shifting Perspectives: Steering Vector Ensembles for Robust Bias Mitigation in LLMs
ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2503.05371
GitHub: github.com/groovychoons...
Extremely Unofficial Blog Post: zarasiddique.com/blog/shiftin...
Shifting Perspectives: Steering Vector Ensembles for Robust Bias Mitigation in LLMs
ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2503.05371
GitHub: github.com/groovychoons...
Extremely Unofficial Blog Post: zarasiddique.com/blog/shiftin...
Strongly encourage you to register for our free NLP workshop, previously had speakers from DeepMind, Microsoft, Amazon and top university NLP labs etc. and it’s looking like it’s going to be a great line up this year too.
If you can’t make it, please share with others who may be interested!
If you can’t make it, please share with others who may be interested!
The 4th Cardiff #NLP Workshop will take place on the 14-15 July 2025!
📍 Cardiff (Wales, UK)
✨Free registration and some accommodation options!✨
ℹ️ For more information: www.cardiffnlpworkshop.org
📝 Join us by completing the expression of interest form: forms.gle/rY1YCDgcjFDt...
📍 Cardiff (Wales, UK)
✨Free registration and some accommodation options!✨
ℹ️ For more information: www.cardiffnlpworkshop.org
📝 Join us by completing the expression of interest form: forms.gle/rY1YCDgcjFDt...
March 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Strongly encourage you to register for our free NLP workshop, previously had speakers from DeepMind, Microsoft, Amazon and top university NLP labs etc. and it’s looking like it’s going to be a great line up this year too.
If you can’t make it, please share with others who may be interested!
If you can’t make it, please share with others who may be interested!
Reposted by Zara Siddique
OpenAI furious DeepSeek might have stolen all the data OpenAI stole from us
🔗 www.404media.co/openai-furio...
🔗 www.404media.co/openai-furio...
January 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
OpenAI furious DeepSeek might have stolen all the data OpenAI stole from us
🔗 www.404media.co/openai-furio...
🔗 www.404media.co/openai-furio...
Severance episode 2, Traitors final AND this
It's a weekend of watching for me 🍿
It's a weekend of watching for me 🍿
Joy Buolamwini and Sam Altman: Unmasking the Future of AI
YouTube video by Commonwealth Club World Affairs (CCWA)
www.youtube.com
January 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Severance episode 2, Traitors final AND this
It's a weekend of watching for me 🍿
It's a weekend of watching for me 🍿
Need to be spending less time on deepseek and more time on deep sleep 😴
January 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Need to be spending less time on deepseek and more time on deep sleep 😴
Reposted by Zara Siddique
Our paper on extraction of metaphoric analogies from literary texts will be presented in COLING ( Wed 11:00 , Atrium, poster) by @camachocollados.bsky.social and Luis Espinosa-Anke.
Done with @zarasiddique.bsky.social , @hsuvas.bsky.social and @antypasd.bsky.social
Done with @zarasiddique.bsky.social , @hsuvas.bsky.social and @antypasd.bsky.social
January 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Our paper on extraction of metaphoric analogies from literary texts will be presented in COLING ( Wed 11:00 , Atrium, poster) by @camachocollados.bsky.social and Luis Espinosa-Anke.
Done with @zarasiddique.bsky.social , @hsuvas.bsky.social and @antypasd.bsky.social
Done with @zarasiddique.bsky.social , @hsuvas.bsky.social and @antypasd.bsky.social
If you ever find yourself getting worried about catastrophic AI risk, remember you can always just turn off the AI at the plug
January 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM
If you ever find yourself getting worried about catastrophic AI risk, remember you can always just turn off the AI at the plug
Reposted by Zara Siddique
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl
I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this but everything seems to be going down the tubes quite fast. And not fun tubes, like at…
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Had fun presenting my favourite #EMNLP2024 papers today at our secret reading group + bonus raccoon pics from Miami 🦝
Will follow up with favourite papers in blog post form soon!
Will follow up with favourite papers in blog post form soon!
December 3, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Had fun presenting my favourite #EMNLP2024 papers today at our secret reading group + bonus raccoon pics from Miami 🦝
Will follow up with favourite papers in blog post form soon!
Will follow up with favourite papers in blog post form soon!
Had an amazing time at #EMNLP2024 and excited to connect with other researchers on here :)
November 20, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Had an amazing time at #EMNLP2024 and excited to connect with other researchers on here :)