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Assistant professor of CS, NLP and cultural analytics
How much does a language model forget when finetuned on new tasks? We show both model size and optimization matter and forgetting can be nearly eliminated with self-generated replay! arxiv.org/abs/2605.26097 w/Martin Marek, Dongkyu Cho, Shikai Qiu, Rumi Chunara, and Pavel Izma…
An exception I can think of is work studying how journalists can sensationalize scientific results. For example this paper by Jiaxin Pei and @davidjurgens.bsky.social (though more about headlines than social media) aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-m...
A side effect of a new department (founded 2015) is that we have very very few alumni donations. And I sometimes get the (very kind) question "how can I support you since you don't get paid for teaching random internet people about AI ethics?" Support my students instead :) bi…
What is "AI for libraries" beyond a catalogue chatbot? IMO: design patterns (OCR, extraction, classification, search), and agents that both run them and develop the small models behind them. As part of work with @natlibscot.bsky.social started a book on this: danielvanstrien.x…
Oh yeah, there are loads of us hanging out in the #AI4LAM community just avoiding any of the hand-wringing and getting on with building useful, ethical, and specific AI tools that improve the information environment and access to historical information… an alternative pathway …
I'm looking for 1-2 emergency reviewers for a #COLM2026 paper on LLMs and science. Paper looks like a nice read to me! Reply or message me if you might be able to write a review by end of week.