David Austin
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davideaustin.bsky.social
David Austin
@davideaustin.bsky.social
PhDing @ MILA/McGill in Computer Science | Multi-agent systems, emergent organization, and neurosymbolic methods
Previously @ UWaterloo

Also love guitar/bass, volleyball, history, cycling, and institutional design
I'll be at ACL 2025 to present this work with @cesare-spinoso.bsky.social , feel free to reach out if you'll be there too!
A blizzard is raging through Montreal when your friend says “Looks like Florida out there!” Humans easily interpret irony, while LLMs struggle with it. We propose a 𝘳𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭-𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘺-𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 probabilistic framework as a solution.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.09301 to appear @ #ACL2025 (Main)
June 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM