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Kanishka Misra Tom McCoy

“For much more, read the paper, in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Due to space constraints, we couldn't fit all of the discussion and citations that we ideally would have - very sorry to the many excellent paper…”

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Tom McCoy: 🤖🧠NEW PAPER🧠🤖 What is the relationship between neural networks & symbolic systems? Based on evidence from mechanistic interpretability, we argue for a quasi-symbolic view of cognition: Neural nets …
Tom McCoy: This paper is a review-slash-opinion piece. We first review evidence that neural networks trained in AI display emergent symbolic representations, algorithms, and learnig. 2/n
Tom McCoy: On the side of representations, meaningful symbolic units can often be found inside the vector representations of neural networks as shown by (e.g.) sparse autoencoders, additive analogies, and Ten…
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Cross-modal taxonomic generalization VLM paper

Cross-Modal Taxonomic Generalization in (Vision-) Language Models

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Kanishka Misra B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)

“2) disentangle linguistic vs extra-linguistic sources of meaning — here I’m looking for students who can get their coding agents’ hands dirty with controlled training investigations into multimodal LMs… e.g., aclanthology.org/2026.acl-lon...”

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Kanishka Misra: I will also be recruiting for my lab alongside @lindiatjuatja.bsky.social who will be starting her own group at UT Ling in Fall '27! (proper UT Ling recruitment tweet coming soon!)
Kanishka Misra: 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 …
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