Ever wondered how Energy-Based Models (EBMs) work and how they differ from normal neural networks?
☕️ We go over EBMs and then dive into the Energy-Based Transformers paper to make LLMs that refine guesses, self-verify, and could adapt compute to problem difficulty.

The world’s largest NLP conference with almost 2,000 papers presented, ACL 2025 just took place in Vienna! 🎓✨ Here is a quick snapshot of the event via a short interview with one of the authors whose work caught my attention.
🎥 Watch: youtu.be/GBISWggsQOA

My friend Vivi Nastase is working on a short science communication film called "Puppets of a Digital Brain". It aims to explain the tech behind AI chatbots (the good, the bad, the environmental) in an accessible, visual way.
💡 GoFundMe: gofund.me/453ed662

How do LLMs pick the next word? They don’t choose words directly: they only output word probabilities. 📊 Greedy decoding, top-k, top-p, min-p are methods that turn these probabilities into actual text.

Right now, attending the synthetic gata generation tutorial which is packed, because it turned out that "Data is the new source code."

#ACL2025NLP

Excited to be at ACL 2025 in Vienna this week 🇦🇹 #ACL2025
I’m always up for a chat about reasoning models, NLE faithfulness, synthetic data generation, or the joys and challenges of explaining AI on YouTube.

If you're around, let’s connect!

We train AI on human-selected or -generated data (yes, even taking a photo is concept selection – we capture what we find interesting; text even more so, expressing our conceptualisation of the world). Then we’re surprised when the AI's concepts and representations are similar to ours. 🤷‍♀️

Excited to share that I’ll be joining the Summer School “AI and Human Values” this September at the Marsilius-Kolleg of Heidelberg University as a speaker. I'll be giving an introduction to how large language models actually work—before the summer school dives deeper into broader implications.

📍 Hosted at the stunning Railway Museum in Utrecht 🚂, and surrounded by the vibrant university community, I am grateful for the chance to share insights, engage with an inspiring community, and participate in stimulating research exchange at Utrecht University! 🌟

🎙️ Yesterday, I gave a keynote on large language models outfitted with visual understanding, and the faithfulness of their chain-of-thought reasoning at the National Conference on Governing the Digital Society and Human-Centered AI.

Prefer reading over watching videos? 📚 Check out some of our videos in blog post format on Substack!👇
aicoffeebreakwl.substack.com
We'll be adding more posts regularly, stay tuned! 📻

This Thursday, I'll share my story about how I made over 100 YouTube videos explaining ML in your coffee break! ☕
Listen in by joining Roosh Circle 's No Papers Club. There will be lots of insights, inspiration, and practical advice. 🫱🫲
Join here: lnkd.in/e_wX2r_G
⌚ Aug 1 at 5:00 PM CEST!