MilaNLP Lab
@milanlp.bsky.social
The Milan Natural Language Processing Group #NLProc #AI
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Another exhausting day in the lab… conducting very rigorous panettone analysis. Pandoro was evaluated too, because we believe in fair experimental design.
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Another exhausting day in the lab… conducting very rigorous panettone analysis. Pandoro was evaluated too, because we believe in fair experimental design.
We're happy to have @veraneplenbroek.bsky.social at our lab this week! She presented her #EMNLP2025 work "Reading Between the Prompts: How Stereotypes Shape LLM's Implicit Personalization" and shared more of her exciting ongoing work.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
We're happy to have @veraneplenbroek.bsky.social at our lab this week! She presented her #EMNLP2025 work "Reading Between the Prompts: How Stereotypes Shape LLM's Implicit Personalization" and shared more of her exciting ongoing work.
#NLProc
#NLProc
“Teacher Demonstrations in a BabyLM’s Zone of Proximal Development for Contingent Multi-Turn Interaction” selected for an Outstanding Paper Award at the BabyLM Challenge & Workshop!
November 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
“Teacher Demonstrations in a BabyLM’s Zone of Proximal Development for Contingent Multi-Turn Interaction” selected for an Outstanding Paper Award at the BabyLM Challenge & Workshop!
What an inspiring week at #EMNLP2025 in Suzhou🇨🇳!
Huge thanks to the organizers and everyone who stopped by our poster/talk!
Huge thanks to the organizers and everyone who stopped by our poster/talk!
November 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
What an inspiring week at #EMNLP2025 in Suzhou🇨🇳!
Huge thanks to the organizers and everyone who stopped by our poster/talk!
Huge thanks to the organizers and everyone who stopped by our poster/talk!
For our weekly lab seminar, it was a pleasure to have @andersgiovanni.com presenting his research "How AI Affects Us: Controlled Experiments in Human-AI Interaction".
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November 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
For our weekly lab seminar, it was a pleasure to have @andersgiovanni.com presenting his research "How AI Affects Us: Controlled Experiments in Human-AI Interaction".
#NLProc
#NLProc
For our weekly reading group, @joachimbaumann.bsky.social presented the upcoming PNAS article "The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research" by @
@seanjwestwood.bsky.social.
@seanjwestwood.bsky.social.
November 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
For our weekly reading group, @joachimbaumann.bsky.social presented the upcoming PNAS article "The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research" by @
@seanjwestwood.bsky.social.
@seanjwestwood.bsky.social.
Proud to present our #EMNLP2025 papers!
Catch our team across Main, Findings, Workshops & Demos 👇
Catch our team across Main, Findings, Workshops & Demos 👇
October 31, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Proud to present our #EMNLP2025 papers!
Catch our team across Main, Findings, Workshops & Demos 👇
Catch our team across Main, Findings, Workshops & Demos 👇
Great session today in our lab reading group. Thanks to Emanuele Moscato for presenting the article “Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking?” from @naturemagazine.bsky.social.
Article: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Article: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Great session today in our lab reading group. Thanks to Emanuele Moscato for presenting the article “Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking?” from @naturemagazine.bsky.social.
Article: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Article: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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For our last Thursday Reading Group, @taniseceron.bsky.social presented "Helpful, harmless, honest? Sociotechnical limits of AI alignment and safety through Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback" by A. D. Lindström et al. (2025)
Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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October 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
For our last Thursday Reading Group, @taniseceron.bsky.social presented "Helpful, harmless, honest? Sociotechnical limits of AI alignment and safety through Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback" by A. D. Lindström et al. (2025)
Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#NLProc
It was a pleasure to have @rochellechoenni.bsky.social presenting "Brittle but Steerable: Aligning Cultural Values in Multilingual Language Models" at our lab seminar.
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October 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
It was a pleasure to have @rochellechoenni.bsky.social presenting "Brittle but Steerable: Aligning Cultural Values in Multilingual Language Models" at our lab seminar.
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We’re delighted to welcome Eve Fleisig to our @milanlp.bsky.social lab as a visiting PhD student! ✨
October 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
We’re delighted to welcome Eve Fleisig to our @milanlp.bsky.social lab as a visiting PhD student! ✨
Thanks Clara Meister for presenting "Parity-Aware Byte-Pair Encoding: Improving Cross-lingual Fairness in Tokenization" at our lab seminar.
#NLProc #tokenization #fairness
#NLProc #tokenization #fairness
October 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Thanks Clara Meister for presenting "Parity-Aware Byte-Pair Encoding: Improving Cross-lingual Fairness in Tokenization" at our lab seminar.
#NLProc #tokenization #fairness
#NLProc #tokenization #fairness
📚 For today’s reading group @arimuti.bsky.social presented Emergent Misalignment: Narrow Finetuning Can Produce Broadly Misaligned LLMs (Betley et al., 2025).
🧩 arxiv.org/abs/2502.17424
#NLProc #AIAlignment #LLMs
🧩 arxiv.org/abs/2502.17424
#NLProc #AIAlignment #LLMs
October 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
📚 For today’s reading group @arimuti.bsky.social presented Emergent Misalignment: Narrow Finetuning Can Produce Broadly Misaligned LLMs (Betley et al., 2025).
🧩 arxiv.org/abs/2502.17424
#NLProc #AIAlignment #LLMs
🧩 arxiv.org/abs/2502.17424
#NLProc #AIAlignment #LLMs
📖For our last Reading Group @donyarn.bsky.social presented
"Culture is Everywhere: A Call for Intentionally Cultural Evaluation" by Oh et al.
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01301
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"Culture is Everywhere: A Call for Intentionally Cultural Evaluation" by Oh et al.
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01301
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September 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM
📖For our last Reading Group @donyarn.bsky.social presented
"Culture is Everywhere: A Call for Intentionally Cultural Evaluation" by Oh et al.
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01301
#NLProc
"Culture is Everywhere: A Call for Intentionally Cultural Evaluation" by Oh et al.
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01301
#NLProc
MilaNLPers at CLiC-it 2025 presenting "Probing Feminist Representations: A Study of Bias in LLMs and Word Embeddings"
Check the paper at clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/u...
#NLProc #clicit25
Check the paper at clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/u...
#NLProc #clicit25
September 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
MilaNLPers at CLiC-it 2025 presenting "Probing Feminist Representations: A Study of Bias in LLMs and Word Embeddings"
Check the paper at clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/u...
#NLProc #clicit25
Check the paper at clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/u...
#NLProc #clicit25
What makes LLMs agree even when they shouldn’t? 🤔
At our last seminar’s lab, Jan Batzner presented The Brief History of LLM Sycophancy as We Know It.
#NLProc #sycophancy #LLM
At our last seminar’s lab, Jan Batzner presented The Brief History of LLM Sycophancy as We Know It.
#NLProc #sycophancy #LLM
September 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
What makes LLMs agree even when they shouldn’t? 🤔
At our last seminar’s lab, Jan Batzner presented The Brief History of LLM Sycophancy as We Know It.
#NLProc #sycophancy #LLM
At our last seminar’s lab, Jan Batzner presented The Brief History of LLM Sycophancy as We Know It.
#NLProc #sycophancy #LLM
📖For this Thursday's Reading Group @elisabassignana.bsky.social presented "The sociolinguistic foundations of language modeling" by Grieve et al.
Paper: www.frontiersin.org/journals/art...
#NLProc #LLM #sociolinguistics
Paper: www.frontiersin.org/journals/art...
#NLProc #LLM #sociolinguistics
September 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM
📖For this Thursday's Reading Group @elisabassignana.bsky.social presented "The sociolinguistic foundations of language modeling" by Grieve et al.
Paper: www.frontiersin.org/journals/art...
#NLProc #LLM #sociolinguistics
Paper: www.frontiersin.org/journals/art...
#NLProc #LLM #sociolinguistics
📖For this Thursday's Reading Group @deboranozza.bsky.social
presented two papers on #sycophancy in #LLMs.
Papers: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.13995, arxiv.org/pdf/2310.13548
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presented two papers on #sycophancy in #LLMs.
Papers: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.13995, arxiv.org/pdf/2310.13548
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September 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
📖For this Thursday's Reading Group @deboranozza.bsky.social
presented two papers on #sycophancy in #LLMs.
Papers: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.13995, arxiv.org/pdf/2310.13548
#NLProc
presented two papers on #sycophancy in #LLMs.
Papers: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.13995, arxiv.org/pdf/2310.13548
#NLProc
We're back with the reading group! 🚀
Today @paul-rottger.bsky.social presented The Levers of Political Persuasion with Conversational AI by Hackenburg et al. (2025)
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.13919
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Today @paul-rottger.bsky.social presented The Levers of Political Persuasion with Conversational AI by Hackenburg et al. (2025)
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.13919
#NLProc
September 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM
We're back with the reading group! 🚀
Today @paul-rottger.bsky.social presented The Levers of Political Persuasion with Conversational AI by Hackenburg et al. (2025)
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.13919
#NLProc
Today @paul-rottger.bsky.social presented The Levers of Political Persuasion with Conversational AI by Hackenburg et al. (2025)
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.13919
#NLProc
We are very honored to have @dirkhovy.bsky.social as General Chair of #EMNLP2025, which will take place in Suzhou, China. Looking forward to a great conference!
July 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
We are very honored to have @dirkhovy.bsky.social as General Chair of #EMNLP2025, which will take place in Suzhou, China. Looking forward to a great conference!
We’re incredibly proud to announce that our lab received two #ACL2025 awards: Best Social Impact Paper for @elisabassignana.bsky.social and @dirkhovy.bsky.social , and Outstanding Paper for @paul-rottger.bsky.social.
Congratulations to them and to all collaborators who made this possible!
Congratulations to them and to all collaborators who made this possible!
July 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
We’re incredibly proud to announce that our lab received two #ACL2025 awards: Best Social Impact Paper for @elisabassignana.bsky.social and @dirkhovy.bsky.social , and Outstanding Paper for @paul-rottger.bsky.social.
Congratulations to them and to all collaborators who made this possible!
Congratulations to them and to all collaborators who made this possible!
July 30, 2025 at 8:45 AM
📖For this Thursday's Reading Group, Serena Pugliese presented "Emergent social conventions and collective bias in LLM populations" by Ariel Flint Ashery et al. (2025)
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#NLProc
July 24, 2025 at 10:23 AM
📖For this Thursday's Reading Group, Serena Pugliese presented "Emergent social conventions and collective bias in LLM populations" by Ariel Flint Ashery et al. (2025)
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#NLProc
Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#NLProc