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Kanishka Misra

306 trust researcher @kanishka.bsky.social · 2,561 followers

Assistant Professor of Linguistics, and Harrington Fellow at UT Austin. Works on computational understanding of language, concepts, and generalization. 🕸️👁️: https://kanishka.website

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Tom McCoy @rtommccoy.bsky.social

🤖🧠 New commentary 🧠🤖 What role should large language models (LLMs) play in linguistics? I reflect on this question in a commentary now on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2605.10061 To appear in BBS as a commentary on @futrell.bsky.social and @kmahowald.bsky.social's excellent piece on LL…

[2605.10061] Not-So-Strange Love: Language Models and Generative Linguistic Theories are More Compatible than They Appear arxiv.org View on Bluesky →

I will be at #ACL2026 from July 2--7! I will be giving a keynote at CDL workshop on controlled rearing and hypothesis generation from language models! Tianyang Xu (first author) and I will present work on cross-modal generalization in VLMs on July 7! Paper: aclanthology.org/20…

Cross-Modal Taxonomic Generalization in (Vision-) Language Models aclanthology.org

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Frozen Qwen3 and Llama 3.2 language models, paired with DINOv2 or SigLIP image encoders, predicted object hypernyms they never saw during training.
On hypernymy questions alone, Qwen3-0.6B scored 78.5 F1 and Qwen3-1.7B reached 88.5 F1, against a 46.7 majority-label baseline.
The generalization broke when researchers shuffled image-label pairs across categories, dropping average visual coherence from 0.27 to 0.12.

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Kyle Mahowald @kmahowald.bsky.social

The full BBS treatment from me and @futrell.bsky.social on "How linguistics learned to stop worrying and love the LMs" is now out, with all the commentaries and our response. If you "Save PDF", it will give you the whole target article + commentary + response pdf: www.cambridg…

How linguistics learned to stop worrying and love the language models | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core cambridge.org View on Bluesky →

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@dotadotadota.bsky.social

Check out our #ACL2026 Oral paper 🗣️🤖 How do MLMs ground word usage through interactions with the physical and social world? Taking a classical human communication paradigm, we compare 7 MLMs with humans. doi.org/10.18653/v1/2026.acl-long.84

Using Perspectival Words Is Harder Than Vocabulary Words for Humans —and Even More So for Multimodal Language Models aclanthology.org View on Bluesky →

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@nyudatascience.bsky.social

Can a grammar book replace training data for AI translation? NYU Linguistics PhD student Jackson Petty (@jacksonpetty.org), CDS Assoc. Prof. Tal Linzen (@tallinzen.bsky.social), and CDS MS student Jaulie Goe tested this with synthetic languages. nyudatascience.medium.com/can-a…

Can AI Learn a Language from a Textbook? nyudatascience.medium.com View on Bluesky →

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we live in a world where if you search for "x ai" but have a typo in "x" it still returns a valid ai company 🙏

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