Does anybody have a favourite lecture “overview” of the history of NLP? Eg from symbolic to statistical to DL (then to maybe LLMs)? Would love to know!

Video editing made easy!
We propose AnyV2V to address any video editing tasks without any training.
1. Choose your favorite image editing model to edit the first frame of a video.
2. Use an image-to-video model to propagate the edit results to other frames through feature…

I don't think people have fully internalized just how broken public evaluation of models is.

There'd be less brain drain if more schools enabled the sort of fundamental curiosity-driven research that should be academia's strength. If the only viable research style is make-number-go-up, you might as well do that at a company.

# on shortification of 'learning'

There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely they are really just entertainment. This is very convenient for everyone involved : the people watching enjoy thinking they are…

Happy to share In-Context Pretraining 🖇️ is accepted as an #ICLR2024 spotlight. We study how to pretrain LLMs with improved context understanding ability

paper📄: arxiv.org/pdf/2310.10638…
code: github.com/swj0419/in-con…

Text2reward has been accepted to #ICLR2024 as a spotlight🎉~
Great thanks to all my amazing collaborators!! Siheng Zhao Chen Wu Yitao Liu 罗倩 Victor Zhong @yanchaoyang Tao Yu 💪💪

I'll give an oral talk about Tree of Thoughts NeurIPS Conference at 3:45-4pm CST on Dec 13 (4C), with the poster session right after (#410).

I'm also on the faculty job market this year, so DM me if you wanna chat😃

(Other posters: InterCode #522, Reflexion #508, 5-7pm Dec 14)

📢 I am hiring PhD interns at Microsoft Research New York across several themes: fairness assessment, foundations of convex analysis, and learning theory of autoregressive models.

More info ⬇️. If you’re at #NeurIPS2023 , DM me to chat.

Hi @[email protected] on Mastodon, I'm one of the lead authors of MMMU. I can certify that 1) Google didn't fund this work, and 2) Google didn't have early access. They really like the benchmark after our release and worked very hard to get the results. It doesn't take that long to eval on a…

It's time to revamp VQA!
Check out our recent work on MMMU (massive multi-task multimodal understanding). MMMU covers a broad 30 subjects across science, engineering, humanities, art, health, business. The problems in MMMU require extensive domain knowledge and reasoning to solve

📢Life update:📢
I moved to Toronto, where I'm now an associate professor at the University of Toronto and an associate research director at the Vector Institute.
I wrote a blog post about the long winding path that led me here: colinraffel.com/blog/moving-to…

I am hiring NLP/ML PhD students at UWaterloo, home to 5 NLP professors! Apply by Dec 1

Strong consideration will be given to those who can tackle the below challenge: Can we use LM's hidden states to reason multiple problems simultaneously?

​​Retweets/shares appreciated🥰

Well… welcome to Microsoft, friends!

I am hiring strong PhD students in ML and NLP at the University of Waterloo to start in 2024. This is an excellent opportunity to be a part of a vibrant new NLP group w/ 5 professors. Please see more details here: victorzhong.com. Deadline is Dec 1!

Introducing COLM (colmweb.org) the Conference on Language Modeling. A new research venue dedicated to the theory, practice, and applications of language models.

Submissions: March 15 (it's pronounced 'collum' 🕊️)

🎬+🎥->🎞️🎞️
VideoDirectorGPT.github.io

(1) LLM creates detailed “video plan” to describe entities/layouts/background + their “consistency-groups” ➡️

(2) plan guides “layout2vid” to generate long multi-scene videos w/ layout+movement control & temporal cross-scene consistency!
🧵👇

Text2Reward: Automated Dense Reward Function Generation for Reinforcement Learning

proj: text-to-reward.github.io
abs: arxiv.org/abs/2309.11489

Wow, gzip-embedding is wild. IMHO, this paper is more creative than 95% of ACL's main conference papers. How come it was only accepted as findings? #ACL2023NLP #NLProc