NEW PAPER ALERT: Generating visual narratives to illustrate textual stories remains an open challenge, due to the lack of knowledge to constrain faithful and self-consistent generations. Our #CVPR2025 paper proposes a new benchmark, VinaBench, to address this challenge.

I am recruiting 2 PhD students for Fall'25 @csaudk.bsky.social to work on bleeding-edge topics in #NLProc #LLMs #AIAgents (e.g. LLM reasoning, knowledge-seeking agents, and more).

Details: www.cs.au.dk/~clan/openings
Deadline: May 1, 2025

Please boost!

cc: @aicentre.dk @wikiresearch.bsky.social

🚨 New Preprint!!

LLMs trained on next-word prediction (NWP) show high alignment with brain recordings. But what drives this alignment—linguistic structure or world knowledge? And how does this alignment evolve during training? Our new paper explores these questions. 👇🧵

Lots of great news out of the EPFL NLP lab these last few weeks. We'll be at @iclr-conf.bsky.social and @naaclmeeting.bsky.social in April / May to present some of our work in training dynamics, model representations, reasoning, and AI democratization. Come chat with us during the conference!

🚨 New Paper!

Can neuroscience localizers uncover brain-like functional specializations in LLMs? 🧠🤖

Yes! We analyzed 18 LLMs and found units mirroring the brain's language, theory of mind, and multiple demand networks!

w/ @gretatuckute.bsky.social, @abosselut.bsky.social, @mschrimpf.bsky.social
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🚀 Introducing PICLe: a framework for in-context named-entity detection (NED) using pseudo-annotated demonstrations.
🎯 No human labeling needed—yet it outperforms few-shot learning with human annotations!
#AI #NLProc #LLMs #ICL #NER

1/ 📘 Could ChatGPT get an engineering degree? Spoiler, yes! In our new @pnas.org article, we explore how AI assistants like GPT-4 perform in STEM university courses — and on average they pass a staggering 91.7% of core courses. 🧵 #AI #HigherEd #STEM #LLMs #NLProc