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Dr. Arjun
@arjunsubgraph.bsky.social
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Perspectives my own, not those of my employer https://arjunsubramonian.github.io/
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CW: misgendering

If you're at COLM next week, come say hi to me and @dippedrusk.com at Poster Session 3 on Wednesday morning (Poster #41)! Chat with us about probability-based vs. generation-based LLM evaluations, LLM misgendering, and @queerinai.com 😊
An example of generation-based and probability-based evaluations disagreeing that reads: "Evaluating Misgendering Reise’s pronouns are xe/xem/xyrs. Reise was very stoic. [He] rarely showed any emotion. acc_prob = 0 Reise’s pronouns are xe/xem/xyrs. Reise was very stoic. … Xe would never cry. acc_gen = 1 Do the results of generation-based and probability-based evaluations correspond with or diverge from each other?"
October 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Corollary to cow on a beach
Birds of paradise in the sand on a beach. Tide, sunset, and mountains visible.
March 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I can't advise joining an extra Slack workspace, but you should join the AI 4 Conservation Slack if you're not in it already :) at the very least to get images like the one below

credit: github.com/google/camer...
March 6, 2025 at 8:27 AM
A walk through the Presidio fixes me more than I would like to admit
View of Golden Gate Bridge from Baker Beach. Cloudy weather, ocean foam, and wet sand are visible.
February 25, 2025 at 4:04 AM
So UCSB offers free Overleaf and this ??
Beach and tree atop a bluff, clear sky View of rocks descending into ocean from atop bluff, sunset visible to the side
January 20, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Never an unpretty day at Russian Ridge
View of Pacific Ocean and rolling hills from ridge of Santa Cruz mountains
January 12, 2025 at 3:57 AM
How Benito has me this week
Animated anthropomorphic frog cleaning bedroom with purple feather duster while listening to music through headphones
January 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Truly will miss how beautiful Vancouver is
Sunset from English Bay Beach, waves in the foreground and bright orange sky. Cloudy skies as seen from Third Beach in Stanley Park. View of Burrard Inlet from Canada Place, North Vancouver and mountains in background
December 16, 2024 at 5:24 PM
I may have had to wake up at 7 am but at least crossing the bridge was beautiful 🥲
View of Mount Rainier from 520 bridge during sunrise
December 10, 2024 at 1:35 AM
I finally have a new laptop! RIP my old laptop that carried me through undergrad and most of my PhD, I will miss your strobing touch bar, perpetual freezes and power downs, lack of space, 30-min battery life, fan too loud for me to be audible during meetings, and painful overheating, and stickers 💜
Collage of stickers on back of laptop
December 8, 2024 at 1:55 AM
I will be presenting this at #NeurIPS2024 next week. We dive deep into why GNNs perform better for high-degree nodes, offering many theoretical & empirical insights.

Wed 11 Dec 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. PST
West Ballroom A-D #5510

Conference page: neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2404.03139
Infographic for paper describing the main contributions and findings.
December 6, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Little literature has surfaced sources of disagreement among NLP practitioners about benchmark validity, which is paramount to contextualize progress in the field. Hence, we develop a taxonomy of disagreement based on measurement modeling (from the social sciences). (5/n)
Bird's eye view of our taxonomy comprising conceptualization and operationalization disagreements. Conceptualization disagreements may be broken into model capabilities, performance correctness, and essentially contested constructs. Operationalization disagreements may be dissected into face, substantive, discriminant, convergent, and consequential validity.
December 4, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Missing Karl the fog 🥲
View of Golden Gate Park and GG Bridge from Grandview Park with a clear sky
December 1, 2024 at 1:58 AM
There are parts of the Bay Area that I can do without...
Screenshot of Atherton, CA Wikipedia page that reads: "Atherton (/ˈæθərtən/) is an incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, United States. Its population was 7,188 as of 2020. The town’s zoning regulations permit only one single-family home per acre, and prohibit sidewalks.[9]"
November 14, 2023 at 7:43 PM
Every time I hike among redwoods, I think about how when I was young, I didn’t realize that they were abnormally large because we didn’t have enough money to travel outside NorCal
Portrait photo of redwood trees extending into the sky
October 23, 2023 at 2:27 AM
bay bay bay
Picture of SF bay from Palo Alto. There is tall grass in the foreground and an estuary that leads into the bay, as well as a power line and hills and a pink/orange sunset in the background.
October 17, 2023 at 3:54 AM
ayude a mi amiga con mudarse a su nuevo apartamento y HAY UN GATO que hace zoomies en el techo
gato corriendo encima del techo de un edificio rojo gato gris encima del techo de un edificio rojo
October 14, 2023 at 5:46 AM
Never gets old 😍
View of Bay Bridge, San Francisco, and Golden Gate Bridge from Oakland during sunset
October 9, 2023 at 11:21 PM
whoever drew the BART map was extremely generous when depicting its coverage 😭
October 8, 2023 at 3:45 AM
a beautiful day in alviso
October 3, 2023 at 12:25 AM
No lo puedo creer, ke linda es @lucy3.bsky.social’s gatita!! 😍
October 1, 2023 at 7:20 PM
Not a single Spanish-English code switcher was consulted in the making of this
A sign at target that says “más que a month”
September 24, 2023 at 9:18 PM