Leshem (Legend) Choshen @EMNLP

Yet another reason to share the evaluations you've ran with the community, HF will also host it and refer to the source. huggingface.co/blog/eee-com...

Featuring Every Eval Ever Results on Hugging Face Model Pages huggingface.co

Effective language identification based on a tokenizer UnigramLM tokenizer already gives probabilities, testing those to identify a language is fast and effective. Whiceh leads me to wonder, can we identify language during training and affect behavior? arxiv.org/abs/2602.17655…

What Language is This? Ask Your Tokenizer arxiv.org

This also raises the differences between the two (hypotheses in pic). Why do models need so much more data for a similar result? Why can humans learn much more efficiently (better is debatable)? (Known as the babyLM challenge c.f. babylm.github.io if you're interested)

babylm.github.io

Sota on 89 languages speech models. There's plenty of speech data it appears, so the simplest fine-tuning plus tokenization on public data just improves everything substantially. And it's not even with any tricks or all the data... #conll #acl @catherinearnett.bsky.social @alexwarstadt.bsky.social

Livetweet @mcxfrank.bsky.social talk: If we care about intelligence and cognition, AI has recently allowed a change; we now have two ways to study them. AI is of course allowing us a lot that we wouldn't dare on our Children (brain surgery, never tell a child about cats...) #acl #conll

At last, a way to unlock mulitlingual knowledge sharing in LLMs! 🌍 ​By pretraining an English/Arabic model and swapping Arabic for a word-wise, 1-to-1 translation mapping to English, we saw a massive boost in cross-lingual knowledge transfer 🚀

Counterfactual futures are the holy Grail of, well of a lot, right? It's predicting the future plus making A/B tests. Humanities come with this question now. Can we now use AI to reimagine history and see how it would unfold differently?

AI language acquisition. Geniuses debated how humans learn language, what their stimulus is, and what kind of rules do they apply. Why is the way AI learns language, less legitimate field of study? I want the theory of AI language acquisition

If you reimagined how AI science should be done in Academia, what would you change? I keep posing this question to people I meet lately (and I am going to act on the answers), and thought, there are so many people I don't physically meet...