How much does an LM depend on information provided in-context vs its prior knowledge?

Check out how Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson, Niklas Stoehr, Jennifer White, Aaron Schein, Ryan David Cotterell + I answer this by measuring a *context's persuasiveness* and an *entity's susceptibility*🧵

Does this make LLMs biased? Idk maybe. But here's our new paper on when PageRank (dev by Larry Page and Sergey Brin) and other ranking algs are indeed biased! ➡️arxiv.org/abs/2402.13787

Accepted at The Web Conference'24, who else is joining in Singapore this May?

I spoke at a pro-peace vigil in San Francisco where people from diverse backgrounds, including Israelis, Palestinians & Arabs shared their perspectives & grievances. The goal was to listen to one another & seek common ground across our disagreements to promote a new path forward.

Preprint for this work (led by sean) is now online: arxiv.org/pdf/2312.09203…

Feedback very welcome!

4:00pm*** !! Looking forward!

📢 Excited to deliver an oral presentation at #NeurIPS2023 Workshop on CRL tomorrow!

📄 The Linear Representation Hypothesis and the Geometry of Large Language Models (arxiv.org/abs/2311.03658)
🕒 09:50 am - 10:05 am (Poster: 10:30 am - 12:00 pm)
📍 Room 243 - 245

If you want a respite from OpenAI drama, how about joining academia?

I'm starting Conceptualization Lab, recruiting PhDs & Postdocs!

We need new abstractions to understand LLMs. Conceptualization is the act of building abstractions to see something new.

conceptualization.ai

Excited to reunite with everyone at
#NeurIPS2023 next month! Don't forget to check out our workshop I Can't Believe It's Not Better! on the failure modes of foundation models: shorturl.at/qrtJM (Looks like we added one more foundation model failure mode after last weekend!) 🤓

Some of you guys who i like very much are quote-tweeting completely unverified news sources about an active conflict as if it’s verified fact, and it’s driving me completely nuts. Anyone can write “breaking news” at the front of a tweet - lots of random people are doing it!

Did you know that The University of Chicago just launched a new PhD in #DataScience and #AI ? Join the info session on 11/16 to learn more about this new program!
The University of ChicagoPSD datascience.uchicago.edu/events/phd-in-…

I am very excited to share our new NBER WP with Ilyana Kuziemko and Suresh: “Compensate the Losers”: Economic Policy and Partisan Realignment in the U.S.
A short summary of the paper below.
nber.org/papers/w31794

My father’s family is Irish-American. He’d tell me it wasn’t the Irish ppl who unequivocally supported the Provisional IRA’s violence but the Irish-Americans in Boston, NYC, etc cheering for bloodshed from a safe distance. They’d little skin in the game & played it like sport. 4/

I have said this over and over again but it still boggles my mind: The far left and far right seem wholly set on conflating Hamas and Palestinians. The former then do atrocity denial and cheer on a monstrous terrorist group as “freedom fighters.” It’s truly amazing. 1/

I’m hitting the job market looking mainly for tenure-track asst. professor positions (2024)! 🚨👨‍🔬

My core research informs how we should curate content on online platforms — and I’m also interested in how large language models will impact on the Web in the upcoming years.

warontherocks.com/2023/10/israel…

For one second compare the clear tone of Standing Together, a massive movement including both Palestinian and Jewish citizens of Israel, with statements from leftist orgs in the West