New post on my #EMNLP2018 Highlights: Inductive bias, cross-lingual learning, and more blog.aylien.com/emnlp-2018-hig…

Kyunghyun Cho Visits ILPS, with talk on November 29, 3pm, Amsterdam Science Park, ilps.science.uva.nl/kyunghyun-cho-… via @ILPS_Amsterdam

"A Tutorial on Deep Latent Variable Models of Natural Language" arxiv.org/abs/1812.06834 including notes and derivations. EMNLP slides and code are also available nlp.seas.harvard.edu/latent-nlp-tut…

"Tensor Considered Harmful" (nlp.seas.harvard.edu/NamedTensor). A polemic against numpy / pytorch and a proposal for a named tensor (github.com/harvardnlp/nam…). (New year's goal, be more troublesome.)

New work with the Pyro team (arxiv.org/abs/1902.03210) on efficient batched discrete variable inference through tensor variable elimination. Practically generalizes 'einsum' with batching, semirings (log-space, max, etc), and marginals. Powers Pyro's discrete directed inference.

I'm hiring! uva.nl/en/content/vac…

My colleague Christof Monz Christof Monz is looking for a PhD student to work on NLP for Responsible Data Science in his team. This is a fully funded position. Starting date: ASAP. Deadline: March 28, 2019. See ivi.uva.nl/shared/uva/en/…

amsterdam is an amazing city :p

About a week left to apply to join my group as a postdoc on NMT probabll.github.io/vacancies/ Required: PhD (MT/NLP), experience developing NN models. Plus: unsup learning, fluent in a under-resourced language (eg tr/gu/sw/kk). Drop me a message if you have questions.

We're looking for a talented PhD student to work on the Responsible Processing of Text Data, at the intersection of #NLP and #privacy, supervised by Fatih Turkmen @[email protected] Bart Verheij and myself at University of Groningen. Details here: cs.rug.nl/~bisazza/misc/… Application deadline: April 1st!

gained two more happy days by deciding to read the reviews on Sunday.

Me: In this work, we bake a bread. Reviewer 2a: Reject! Snorting coffee via ears is not novel. Reviewer 2b: Wearing mask is not a good motivation for using ears. Also you can't snort two lines at the same time. Useless! Me: ... 🤦‍♂️

I am extremely excited and proud to share with you the ELLIS PhD program. To students around the world: please apply. This will hopefully become one of the most competitive PhD programs in the world. ellis.eu/en/news/ellis-…

Are these enormous English language models or multilingual 🤔?

I'm looking for a bright and enthusiastic student that will join me and the GroNLP group, to design more Interpretable Neural MT models! 4-year salaried PhD position in beautiful Groningen (northern Netherlands), deadline 22 March rug.nl/about-ug/work-… #NLProc University of Groningen

I'm recruiting for 3 Phd + 2 post-doc positions in #NLProc on multilingual neural machine translation at the University of Amsterdam. Apply by Feb 13. PhD positions: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-Po… Post-doc positions: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Postdo… For questions DM or email me. AmsterdamNLP

Does Vocabulary Selection cause human perceived translation quality degradations not visible in BLEU? Yes! Find out more in our #NAACL2022 paper: arxiv.org/abs/2205.06618 Code: github.com/awslabs/sockey… joint work with Eva Hasler Sony Trénous Ke Tran Felix Hieber Bill Byrne

1/4 #ACL2024 Excited to share our new paper on the impact of fine-tuning on the qualitative advantages of LLMs in machine translation! 🤖 Our work highlights the importance of preserving LLM capabilities during fine-tuning. arxiv.org/abs/2405.20089