Ali Bahrainian

1/ Controlling LLMs with steering vectors is unreliable, but why?  Our paper, "Understanding (Un)Reliability of Steering Vectors in Language Models," at the #ICLR2025 @FM_in_Wild Workshop investigates this! What did we find?

Happy to share that our paper titled “SIMSUM: Document-level Text Simplification via Simultaneous Summarization” with Sofia Blinova, Xinyu Zhou, Martin Jaggi, @CarstenEickhoff was accepted as a long paper at #ACL2023. Code and datasets will be released soon.

The ability to control text generation is an important factor in the usefulness of language models. The NEWTS dataset (#ACL2022 w/ @sheridan_feucht, @CarstenEickhoff) is the only human-annotated dataset for controlled topic-based abstractive summarization. aclanthology.org/2022.findings-…

One size summary does not fit all! @ABH878 and Sheridan Feucht present a new dataset to train and evaluate customizable generative summarization models. Preview their ACL 2022 talk now. #NLProc @aclmeeting youtu.be/3c6Tr87ByyY

@maliannejadi @UvA_Amsterdam @irlab_amsterdam Great News! Congrats Mohammad jan!

I'm thrilled to announce that I am starting a new role at the IRLab at the University of Amsterdam as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in IR. I will continue working on conversational IR and recommender systems. @UvA_Amsterdam @irlab_amsterdam

Happy to share that our full paper titled "Self-Supervised Neural Topic Modeling" in collaboration with @CarstenEickhoff and Martin Jaggi, has been accepted at #EMNLP2021. Pre-print will be released soon.

Happy to share that our paper titled "CATS: Customizable Abstractive Topic-based Summarization" has been accepted at the Transactions on Information Systems Journal. Preprint will follow soon. Co-authors: George Zerveas, @fcrestani and @CarstenEickhoff

Quarter-century anniversary: 25 years ago we received a message from N(eur)IPS 1995 informing us that our submission on LSTM got rejected. (Don’t worry about rejections. They mean little.) #NeurIPS2020 #Sec.%204" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">people.idsia.ch/~juergen/deep-…

Our work on predicting acute kidney injury in real time is appearing in Nature - Digital Medicine. #npjdigitalmed nature.com/articles/s4174…

Our work on predicting fluid responsiveness in critically ill patients is appearing in the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine. @AIUMultrasound dx.doi.org/10.1002/jum.15…

Curious what the other half of the country is really talking about? Our work on disentangling denotation and connotation in embedding space will appear at #emnlp2020 . Are "Undocumented Workers" the Same as "Illegal Aliens"? arxiv.org/abs/2010.02976

if you are applying to PhD programs in CS, this is for you! specifically, we've seen lots of opportunities tailored towards applicants from underrepresented groups, so several grad students at @browncs compiled a list that we hope is generally helpful cs.brown.edu/degrees/doctor… 1/6

@HamedZamani @LTIatCMU Thanks for the great presentation Hamed! It was very interesting.

In about an hour, I'll be giving a talk at @LTIatCMU. It seems to be open, feel free to join. The talk info and the zoom meeting details can be found here:

@sajastu Congrats! Do you plan to release a preprint any time soon?

Our paper: "Attend to Medical Ontologies: Content Selection for Clinical Abstractive Summarization" w/ Nazli Goharian got accepted at #acl2020nlp. So excited as to being my first ACL! #NLProc

@krisztianbalog @DGarigliotti Congrats @DGarigliotti !

Congratulations @DGarigliotti on your successful PhD defense #proudsupervisor

#WSDM2020 Workshop on Health Search and Data Mining The deadline is less than two weeks away. Get your papers ready at: sites.google.com/view/hsdm20/

#WSDM2020 Workshop on Health Search and Data Mining submissions are due Nov. 11th. Tell your friends! sites.google.com/view/hsdm20

This is the rejection letter for the work that just won the Nobel Prize. Don’t stop believing! I should save all of mine and maybe one day some stranger will think it’s an amazing relic and tweet it...

Google's AI Plays Football…For Science! ▶️Full video: youtube.com/watch?v=Uk9p4K…

My personal #sigir2019 favorites: brown.edu/Research/AI/po…