Ece Takmaz
@ecekt.bsky.social
Postdoc at Utrecht University, previously PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam
Multimodal NLP, Vision and Language, Cognitively Inspired NLP
https://ecekt.github.io/
Multimodal NLP, Vision and Language, Cognitively Inspired NLP
https://ecekt.github.io/
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Ece Takmaz
@ecekt.bsky.social
· Oct 15
What makes an image memorable? And can we predict image memorability using pretrained vision encoders? We explored activations, attention distributions, image patch uniformity and sparse autoencoder losses using image representations across the layers of CLIP, DINOv2 and SigLIP2.
I will be attending EMNLP in China to present our paper with @bylinina.bsky.social (who will be in China, too) and Jakub Dotlacil in the BabyLM workshop! Looking forward to meeting people there! ✨ 😊 #EMNLP2025 @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social
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November 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I will be attending EMNLP in China to present our paper with @bylinina.bsky.social (who will be in China, too) and Jakub Dotlacil in the BabyLM workshop! Looking forward to meeting people there! ✨ 😊 #EMNLP2025 @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social
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Just got back from Hawaii, where I presented a workshop paper on image memorability at @iccv.bsky.social 🌺 Coming from multimodal NLP, it was my first time attending a CV conference. Everywhere I looked, there were talks and posters that were incredibly interesting!
October 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Just got back from Hawaii, where I presented a workshop paper on image memorability at @iccv.bsky.social 🌺 Coming from multimodal NLP, it was my first time attending a CV conference. Everywhere I looked, there were talks and posters that were incredibly interesting!
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🌍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!
What makes an image memorable? And can we predict image memorability using pretrained vision encoders? We explored activations, attention distributions, image patch uniformity and sparse autoencoder losses using image representations across the layers of CLIP, DINOv2 and SigLIP2.
October 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
What makes an image memorable? And can we predict image memorability using pretrained vision encoders? We explored activations, attention distributions, image patch uniformity and sparse autoencoder losses using image representations across the layers of CLIP, DINOv2 and SigLIP2.
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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Had such a great time presenting our tutorial on Interpretability Techniques for Speech Models at #Interspeech2025! 🔍
For anyone looking for an introduction to the topic, we've now uploaded all materials to the website: interpretingdl.github.io/speech-inter...
For anyone looking for an introduction to the topic, we've now uploaded all materials to the website: interpretingdl.github.io/speech-inter...
August 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Had such a great time presenting our tutorial on Interpretability Techniques for Speech Models at #Interspeech2025! 🔍
For anyone looking for an introduction to the topic, we've now uploaded all materials to the website: interpretingdl.github.io/speech-inter...
For anyone looking for an introduction to the topic, we've now uploaded all materials to the website: interpretingdl.github.io/speech-inter...
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
with @duyguislakoglu.bsky.social and Ozge Alacam at the ACL 2025 social event✨ #acl2025
August 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
with @duyguislakoglu.bsky.social and Ozge Alacam at the ACL 2025 social event✨ #acl2025
CoNLL audience today ✨ @conll-conf.bsky.social
August 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
CoNLL audience today ✨ @conll-conf.bsky.social
together with some Utrecht NLP people at ACL 2025! #acl2025 #acl2025NLP
July 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
together with some Utrecht NLP people at ACL 2025! #acl2025 #acl2025NLP
I'll be attending ACL 2025 in Vienna! Looking forward to seeing people there!😊🇦🇹 We are going to present 'LLMs instead of Human Judges? A Large Scale Empirical Study across 20 NLP Evaluation Tasks' aclanthology.org/2025.acl-sho... #acl2025 #acl2025nlp
July 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I'll be attending ACL 2025 in Vienna! Looking forward to seeing people there!😊🇦🇹 We are going to present 'LLMs instead of Human Judges? A Large Scale Empirical Study across 20 NLP Evaluation Tasks' aclanthology.org/2025.acl-sho... #acl2025 #acl2025nlp
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The @interspeech.bsky.social early registration deadline is coming up in a few days!
Want to learn how to analyze the inner workings of speech processing models? 🔍 Check out the programme for our tutorial:
interpretingdl.github.io/speech-inter... & sign up through the conference registration form!
Want to learn how to analyze the inner workings of speech processing models? 🔍 Check out the programme for our tutorial:
interpretingdl.github.io/speech-inter... & sign up through the conference registration form!
Interpretability Techniques for Speech Models — Tutorial @ Interspeech 2025
interpretingdl.github.io
June 13, 2025 at 5:18 AM
The @interspeech.bsky.social early registration deadline is coming up in a few days!
Want to learn how to analyze the inner workings of speech processing models? 🔍 Check out the programme for our tutorial:
interpretingdl.github.io/speech-inter... & sign up through the conference registration form!
Want to learn how to analyze the inner workings of speech processing models? 🔍 Check out the programme for our tutorial:
interpretingdl.github.io/speech-inter... & sign up through the conference registration form!
Abstract submission deadline extended to June 29!
Abstract submissions for the 1st Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting is now open! cpl2025.sites.uu.nl
Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 | Universiteit Utrecht
Universiteit Utrecht
cpl2025.sites.uu.nl
June 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Abstract submission deadline extended to June 29!
@melaniemitchell.bsky.social giving a talk at UvA! @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
@melaniemitchell.bsky.social giving a talk at UvA! @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social
CMCL will take place on May 3! Unfortunately, I am not in New Mexico, but I will be online! We have a nice selection of papers, and keynote talks by John Hale and Tessa Verhoef @naaclmeeting.bsky.social
@grambelli.bsky.social
@byungdoh.bsky.social & Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Philipp Wicke, Jixing Li
@grambelli.bsky.social
@byungdoh.bsky.social & Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Philipp Wicke, Jixing Li
May 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
CMCL will take place on May 3! Unfortunately, I am not in New Mexico, but I will be online! We have a nice selection of papers, and keynote talks by John Hale and Tessa Verhoef @naaclmeeting.bsky.social
@grambelli.bsky.social
@byungdoh.bsky.social & Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Philipp Wicke, Jixing Li
@grambelli.bsky.social
@byungdoh.bsky.social & Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Philipp Wicke, Jixing Li
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Abstract submissions for the 1st Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting is now open! cpl2025.sites.uu.nl
Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 | Universiteit Utrecht
Universiteit Utrecht
cpl2025.sites.uu.nl
March 20, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Abstract submissions for the 1st Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting is now open! cpl2025.sites.uu.nl
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April 4, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Abstract submissions for the 1st Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting is now open! cpl2025.sites.uu.nl
Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 | Universiteit Utrecht
Universiteit Utrecht
cpl2025.sites.uu.nl
March 20, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Abstract submissions for the 1st Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting is now open! cpl2025.sites.uu.nl
We are looking for emergency reviewers for the CMCL workshop! Send me a message if you would like to volunteer! @cmclworkshop.bsky.social @naaclmeeting.bsky.social
CMCL Workshop (@cmclworkshop.bsky.social)
Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics
http://cmclorg.github.io/
cmclworkshop.bsky.social
March 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
We are looking for emergency reviewers for the CMCL workshop! Send me a message if you would like to volunteer! @cmclworkshop.bsky.social @naaclmeeting.bsky.social
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🚨 Guest Speaker Alert! 🚨
We’re thrilled to announce that #CoNLL2025 will feature: 🥁
Raquel Fernández (University of Amsterdam)
&
Jean-Rémi King (@jeanremiking.bsky.social, CNRS / Meta AI)!
🎤✨
Check out their awesome work!👇
We’re thrilled to announce that #CoNLL2025 will feature: 🥁
Raquel Fernández (University of Amsterdam)
&
Jean-Rémi King (@jeanremiking.bsky.social, CNRS / Meta AI)!
🎤✨
Check out their awesome work!👇
March 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🚨 Guest Speaker Alert! 🚨
We’re thrilled to announce that #CoNLL2025 will feature: 🥁
Raquel Fernández (University of Amsterdam)
&
Jean-Rémi King (@jeanremiking.bsky.social, CNRS / Meta AI)!
🎤✨
Check out their awesome work!👇
We’re thrilled to announce that #CoNLL2025 will feature: 🥁
Raquel Fernández (University of Amsterdam)
&
Jean-Rémi King (@jeanremiking.bsky.social, CNRS / Meta AI)!
🎤✨
Check out their awesome work!👇
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Almost all Dutch universities will go on strike next week, against the budget cuts. Join us!
10 March: Leiden
11 March: Utrecht
13 March: Nijmegen
17 March: Amsterdam
18 March: Groningen
25 March: Twente
8 April: Rotterdam
10 April: Tilburg
14 April: Wageningen
15 April: Maastricht
10 March: Leiden
11 March: Utrecht
13 March: Nijmegen
17 March: Amsterdam
18 March: Groningen
25 March: Twente
8 April: Rotterdam
10 April: Tilburg
14 April: Wageningen
15 April: Maastricht
March 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Almost all Dutch universities will go on strike next week, against the budget cuts. Join us!
10 March: Leiden
11 March: Utrecht
13 March: Nijmegen
17 March: Amsterdam
18 March: Groningen
25 March: Twente
8 April: Rotterdam
10 April: Tilburg
14 April: Wageningen
15 April: Maastricht
10 March: Leiden
11 March: Utrecht
13 March: Nijmegen
17 March: Amsterdam
18 March: Groningen
25 March: Twente
8 April: Rotterdam
10 April: Tilburg
14 April: Wageningen
15 April: Maastricht
It was very nice seeing @aicoffeebreak.bsky.social again after many years😊 She gave a wonderful keynote at the Railway Museum in Utrecht, as part of the National Conference on AI Transformations!💫
February 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
It was very nice seeing @aicoffeebreak.bsky.social again after many years😊 She gave a wonderful keynote at the Railway Museum in Utrecht, as part of the National Conference on AI Transformations!💫
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I will be giving a talk on open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding at the next ZurichCV meetup!
🗓️ Date: Thursday, January 23rd 18:00 CET
📍Location: @ETH_AI_Center, please see zurichai.ch/events/zurichcv-7 for additional details!
🗓️ Date: Thursday, January 23rd 18:00 CET
📍Location: @ETH_AI_Center, please see zurichai.ch/events/zurichcv-7 for additional details!
ZurichCV #7 | ZurichAI
Ayca Takmaz on open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding.
zurichai.ch
January 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I will be giving a talk on open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding at the next ZurichCV meetup!
🗓️ Date: Thursday, January 23rd 18:00 CET
📍Location: @ETH_AI_Center, please see zurichai.ch/events/zurichcv-7 for additional details!
🗓️ Date: Thursday, January 23rd 18:00 CET
📍Location: @ETH_AI_Center, please see zurichai.ch/events/zurichcv-7 for additional details!
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Felix Hill was such an incredible mentor — and occasional cold water swimming partner — to me. He's a huge part of why I joined DeepMind and how I've come to approach research. Even a month later, it's still hard to believe he's gone.
January 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Felix Hill was such an incredible mentor — and occasional cold water swimming partner — to me. He's a huge part of why I joined DeepMind and how I've come to approach research. Even a month later, it's still hard to believe he's gone.
Today celebrating Dr. @jumelet.bsky.social who successfully defended his PhD thesis! 🥳👨🎓It was great witnessing his amazing research trajectory. Lucky to have had such a friendly and inspirational colleague!✨📸
December 10, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Today celebrating Dr. @jumelet.bsky.social who successfully defended his PhD thesis! 🥳👨🎓It was great witnessing his amazing research trajectory. Lucky to have had such a friendly and inspirational colleague!✨📸