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Our new mechanistic interpretability work "Activation Scaling for Steering and Interpreting Language Models" was accepted into Findings of EMNLP 2024! 🔴🔵 📄arxiv.org/pdf/2410.04962 Kevin Du, Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson, Bob West, Ryan Cotterell and Aaron Schein thread 👇

"Positioning of the remains, along with pieces of birch wood that might be the remnants of stakes, suggest the sacrifices could have been posed as “spectral riders”, just as Herodotus described."

We're thrilled to announce the first winner of the NeurIPS travel award! 🏆 Congratulations to Annalena Kofler for her outstanding poster, "DINGO: Neural Posterior Estimation for Gravitational Waves." Well deserved! Thanks to @WiMLWorkshop for making this award possible.

Looking forward to speaking in the online Monte Carlo seminar tomorrow!

[Please RT] I’m recruiting PhD students to work with me at University of Washington! I’m looking for students passionate about developing new *social media algorithms*, both broadly and within the scope of this NSF grant: tinyurl.com/395yfphd More info: faculty.washington.edu/msaveski/ University of Washington / @UW_iSchool

At NeurIPS today through Sunday! I'll be presenting our spotlight paper on evaluating LLM world models at the Thursday 4:30-7:30pm poster session (#2301). On Saturday I'll be co-organizing the Behavioral ML Workshop workshop. Hope to see you there!

Calling all ML researchers! Submit your work to the “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better” workshop at #ICLR2025 focusing on negative results in applied #DeepLearning. Share your unexpected outcomes & lessons learned! Deadline: Feb 3, 2025. More info: shorturl.at/TkFBf

Data science like applied statistics is a performance, moving between stances.

#ICLR2025 Thrilled to share that our ICLR 2026 paper has been accepted for an oral presentation! We show that LLMs represent political ideologies on a linear axis—and that we can detect and even steer their ideological perspectives. In our paper: - We find a linear "map" of

Very excited about this work. Junsol Kim did an amazing job leading it!

Interested in how we can monitor and steer the subjective perspectives of AI? I’ll be presenting our work on how language models represent political perspectives this Saturday at #ICLR2025 — would love to connect! Linear Representations of Political Perspective Emerge in Large

Read Kevin Murphy, Chris Bishop and David Mackay's textbooks and you'll know more than 99% of people in AI.

we write too much. more than we can read, and many small incremental things. i think there should be some mechanism to restrict paper submissions and acceptances per person per year, to force people to prioritize their best work, and invest more in it.

When it comes to deep learning optimization, it sometimes feels like people are talking past each other. So, as part of the talk, I decided to survey lots of different ideas and show how they can be put on common footing through a simple algorithmic pattern (4/6)

Holy shit, these San Diego residents kicking ICE the fuck out of their neighborhood. THIS IS POWERFUL.✊💪

Can an AI model predict perfectly and still have a terrible world model? What would that even mean? Our new ICML paper formalizes these questions One result tells the story: A transformer trained on 10M solar systems nails planetary orbits. But it botches gravitational laws 🧵

If you’re at ICML, please come check out the World Models workshop I am co-organizing tomorrow!

Generative AI is going to be a total game-changer for airlines like Southwest Airlines because it’s letting them automatically rewrite synopses of their inflight entertainment with new ones that sound weird and aren’t true! (The Chinese vice-premier isn’t even a character in this.)