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evaluation

The Evolving Landscape of LLM Evaluation

This post explores problems contributing to a benchmark crisis in LLM evaluation and potential solutions.

rag

Command R+

This post discusses Command R and Command R+, the top open-weights model on Chatbot Arena at the time of its release and highlights their RAG and multilingual capabilities.

multilingual

True Zero-shot MT

This post discusses recent results on extremely long-context benchmarks, explores true zero-shot machine translation (MT), and considers how to teach LLMs a new language like humans.

Thoughts on the 2024 AI Job Market

This post discusses macro trends I observed regarding the AI job market in 2024 and the reasons I joined my new company.

The Big Picture of AI Research

This post gives an overview of the Big Picture Workshop at EMNLP 2023.

NLP Research in the Era of LLMs

This post discusses compute as the main constraint for doing research in NLP and highlights five key research directions that do not require much compute.

EMNLP 2023 Primer

An overview of EMNLP 2023 papers covering QA, instruction tuning, task adaptation, NLG evaluation, and multilingual models and datasets.

NeurIPS 2023 Primer

A round-up of 20 exciting NeurIPS 2023 papers related to LLMs.

An Overview of Instruction Tuning Data

This post covers a range of widely used instruction tuning datasets, as well as important characteristics of instruction tuning data and best practices for using the datasets.

Modular Deep Learning

An overview of modular deep learning across four dimensions (computation function, routing function, aggregation function, and training setting).

cross-lingual

The State of Multilingual AI

This post takes a closer look at the state of multilingual AI. How multilingual are current models in NLP, computer vision, and speech? What are the main recent contributions in this area? What challenges remain and how we can we address them?

events

ACL 2022 Highlights

This post discusses my highlights of ACL 2022, including language diversity and multimodality, prompting, the next big ideas and keynotes, my favorite papers, and the hybrid conference experience.

ML and NLP Research Highlights of 2021

This post summarizes progress across multiple impactful areas in ML and NLP in 2021.

Multi-domain Multilingual Question Answering

This post expands on the EMNLP 2021 tutorial on Multi-domain Multilingual Question Answering and highlights key insights and takeaways.

natural language processing

Challenges and Opportunities in NLP Benchmarking

Over the last years, models in NLP have become much more powerful, driven by advances in transfer learning. A consequence of this drastic increase in performance is that existing benchmarks have been left behind. Recent models "have outpaced the benchmarks to test for them" (AI Index Report 2021)

ACL 2021 Highlights

This post discusses my highlights of ACL 2021, including challenges in benchmarking, machine translation, model understanding, and multilingual NLP.

language models

Recent Advances in Language Model Fine-tuning

This article provides an overview of recent methods to fine-tune large pre-trained language models.

transfer learning

ML and NLP Research Highlights of 2020

This post summarizes progress in 10 exciting and impactful directions in ML and NLP in 2020.

cross-lingual

Why You Should Do NLP Beyond English

7000+ languages are spoken around the world but NLP research has mostly focused on English. This post outlines why you should work on languages other than English.

advice

10 Tips for Research and a PhD

This post outlines 10 things that I did during my PhD and found particularly helpful in the long run.

natural language processing

10 ML & NLP Research Highlights of 2019

This post gathers ten ML and NLP research directions that I found exciting and impactful in 2019.

cross-lingual

Unsupervised Cross-lingual Representation Learning

This post expands on the ACL 2019 tutorial on Unsupervised Cross-lingual Representation Learning. It highlights key insights and takeaways and provides updates based on recent work, particularly unsupervised deep multilingual models.

transfer learning

The State of Transfer Learning in NLP

This post expands on the NAACL 2019 tutorial on Transfer Learning in NLP. It highlights key insights and takeaways and provides updates based on recent work.

events

EurNLP

The first European NLP Summit (EurNLP) will take place in London on October 11, 2019. It is an opportunity to foster discussion and collaboration between researchers in and around Europe.

events

NAACL 2019 Highlights

This post discusses highlights of NAACL 2019. It covers transfer learning, common sense reasoning, natural language generation, bias, non-English languages, and diversity and inclusion.