Technology specialist at EU AI Office / AI Safety / Prev: @AmsterdamNLP @AiEleuther Thoughts & opinions are my own and do not necessarily represent my employer
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I am happy to announce that our position paper "You Reap What You Sow: On the Challenges of Bias Evaluation Under Multi-Lingual Settings" has been accepted for presentation at the @BigscienceW #acl2022 ☘️ workshop! 🧵⬇️ aclanthology.org/2022.bigsci…
ALT https://aclanthology.org/2022.bigscience-1.3/
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I’ll be on job market in early 2026, looking for research scientist or academic roles in NLP/Speech.
I’ll be at #ACL2025 & giving a tutorial on #interpretability at #Interspeech2025; I’d love to chat & connect if there are any opportunities!🤗
Website: hmohebbi.github.io/ 🧵
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Like Pythia, but 1234 isn't your favorite random seed? We retrained Pythia 9x using different random seeds to explore how stable analyses of learning dynamics are to randomness. Meet @pietro_lesci @blancheminerva Fri 1500-1730 Hall 3 + Hall 2B #259 nitter.cf/pietro_lesci/status/19…
✈️ Headed to @iclr_conf — whether you’ll be there in person or tuning in remotely, I’d love to connect!
We’ll be presenting our paper on pre-training stability in language models and the PolyPythias 🧵
🔗 ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2503.09543
🤗 PolyPythias: huggingface.co/collections/E…
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✈️ Headed to @iclr_conf — whether you’ll be there in person or tuning in remotely, I’d love to connect!
We’ll be presenting our paper on pre-training stability in language models and the PolyPythias 🧵
🔗 ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2503.09543
🤗 PolyPythias: huggingface.co/collections/E…
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🚨 PhD position alert! 🚨
I'm hiring a fully funded PhD student to work on mechanistic interpretability at @UvA_Amsterdam. If you're interested in reverse engineering modern deep learning architectures, please apply: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD…
Last week, we organized the workshop "New Perspectives on Bias and Discrimination in Language Technology" @UvA_Amsterdam @AmsterdamNLP. We're looking back at two inspiring days of talks, posters, and discussions—thanks to everyone who participated!
wai-amsterdam.github.io/ – at Amsterdam, The Netherlands
We also presented our own work on testing the validity and reliability of LM bias measures:
📄Undesirable Biases in NLP: Addressing Challenges of Measurement
jair.org/index.php/jair/arti…
This is a friendly reminder that there are 7 days left for submitting your extended abstract to this workshop!
(Since the workshop is non-archival, previously published work is welcome too. So consider submitting previous/future work to join the discussion in Amsterdam!)
Working on #bias & #discrimination in #NLP? Passionate about integrating insights from other disciplines? Want to discuss current limitations of #LLM bias mitigation?
👋Join the workshop New Perspectives on Bias and Discrimination in Language Technology; 4&5 Nov in #Amsterdam!
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#CallforPapers for the workshop New Perspectives on Bias and Discrimination in Language Technology, which will discuss the state of the art on bias measurement and mitigation in language technology and explore new avenues of approach. Deadline: 15 Sept! go.uva.nl/3Yyw0QD
One of the central issues discussed in the context of the societal impact of language technology is that ML systems can contribute to discrimination. Despite efforts to address these issues, we are far from solving them.
🌟The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from different fields to discuss the state of the art on bias measurement and mitigation in language technology and to explore new avenues of approach.
This workshop is organized by @AmsterdamNLP @UvA_Amsterdam researchers Katrin Schulz, Leendert van Maanen, @wzuidema, Dominik Bachmann, and myself.
More information on the workshop can be found on the website, which will be updated regularly.
wai-amsterdam.github.io/
Working on #bias & #discrimination in #NLP? Passionate about integrating insights from other disciplines? Want to discuss current limitations of #LLM bias mitigation?
👋Join the workshop New Perspectives on Bias and Discrimination in Language Technology; 4&5 Nov in #Amsterdam!
We're super excited to host
@dongng, John Lalor, @ZeerakTalat, and @az_jacobs as invited speakers at this workshop! Submit an extended abstract to join the discussions; either in a 20min talk or a poster session.
📝Deadline Call for Abstracts: 15 Sep, 2024
wai-amsterdam.github.io/