Postdoc opening in Languages group at Google Deepmind based out of Bangalore

Topics: LLMs, multilinguality, multimodality, RAI, etc.

Strong candidates may apply by sending cv to [email protected] with [LLM-Postdoc] in subject by Apr 26

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Tbc, the reason why pushing high school students to write papers is EXTREMELY bad (and even undergrads to a lesser extent) is that it inevitably creates a new bean-counting rat race, where there's tremendous information asymmetry between the coached and the non-coached!

GenAI: distilling the dumbest and saddest stereotypes of human behavior into the worst possible 'art' 🤣🤮
youtube.com/watch?v=KhQnnI…

Waiting for the world to tell me this is a hoax

In text-to-image generation, evaluating how well the generated image matches the prompt is a major challenge. We address this with VQAScore: a SOTA metric that significantly surpasses CLIPScore, PickScore, ImageReward, TIFA, and more!

VQAScore works especially well on complex

CodeGemma is out, it's fast and awesome! Check out the technical report for more details: goo.gle/codegemma.

Multitask learning (MTL) is known to enhance model performance on average, yet its effect on group fairness is under-explored. In our recent #TMLR2024 paper with Lucio Dery Jnr Mwinm Amrith Setlur Aditi Raghunathan Ameet Talwalkar & Graham Neubig, we address this gap!

openreview.net/forum?id=sPlhA…
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Recently I gave a lecture about retrieval-augmented LMs like RAG, covering their advantages, an overview of diverse methods, and current limitations & opportunities, based on this position paper.
akariasai.github.io/assets/pdf/aka…
video: shorturl.at/ahmq8
Feedback is welcomed :)

I'm excited that my PhD student, Brendon Boldt (not on X) will be presenting his paper “XferBench: a Data-Driven Benchmark for Emergent Language” in the main session at NAACL this year.

Now accepted to NAACL 2024 ❤️ Excited to present this in Mexico City and continue building upon this work🎊

In our new preprint, we ask: Do multilingual LLMs trained mostly on English use English as an “internal language”? - A key question for understanding how LLMs function.

“Do Llamas Work in English? On the Latent Language of Multilingual Transformers”
arxiv.org/abs/2402.10588