Abdelrahman Zayed
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Abdelrahman Zayed
@AbdelZayed1
Research scientist at Amazon. Interested in language models and responsible AI. Studied at @Mila_Quebec during my Ph.D. and interned at Microsoft Research.
Montreal, Canada Katılım Şubat 2024
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🚀 Exciting PhD Internship Opportunity at Amazon Toronto!
My team works on conversational and generative AI, and is looking for exceptional PhD students with research experience in top ML conferences to join this summer (start date is flexible)!
Email: abdel.zayed.1@gmail.com
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I am attending EACL in Morocco! If you are going and want to chat, please let me know! I will present SafeSearch: a reinforcement learning approach for safe LLM agents, proposed by @AmazonScience's amazing intern @ZhanQiusi1 and our great team!
Paper📄: lnkd.in/e342i9WK
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I am attending @COLM_conf to present our paper:
“Do Biased Models Have Biased Thoughts?”: arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06671
Let me know if you want to chat! You can find me at the @amazon booth on Tuesday, Oct 7, 1:30-2:00 pm; or at poster #42 in room 710 on Wednesday, Oct 8, 4:30-6:30 pm
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A new paper accepted in @COLM_conf 2025! I led a group of 3 brilliant students to dive deep into the problem of discrimination in language models. We discovered that models that take racist decisions don’t always have biased thoughts!
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I really enjoyed working with Sarath! This is a great opportunity if you are looking for a post-doc :)
Sarath Chandar@apsarathchandar
In my lab, we have not one but four open postdoc positions! These positions cover developing foundation models for text, proteins, small molecules, genomic data, time series data, and astrophysics data! If you have strong research expertise and a PhD in LLMs and Foundation Models, and you are willing to learn about domain-specific problems and collaborate with domain experts, this is an ideal position for you! Actual links in the next tweet! 1/2
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Abdelrahman Zayed retweetledi
What's the foundational model for generative chemistry? Our work, BindGPT, is a good candidate, and it will be presented at #AAAI2025 today! We built a simple transformer language model that beats diffusion models by just generating 3D molecules as text! Led by @artemZholus 1/n
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Participating and being among the winners of the Speed Science contest at @Mila_Quebec was a great experience for me! I learned how to communicate my research ideas and what other Mila researchers are working on!
Mila - Institut québécois d'IA@Mila_Quebec
Congratulations to the winners of the first Scientific communication contest “Speed Science” that was held yesterday at Mila. 🥇 Dounia Shaaban Kabakibo 🥈 Arna Ghosh (@arna_ghosh) 🥉 Abdelrahman Zayed (@AbdelZayed1) This contest has been designed to highlight Mila’s academic excellence and cultivate its community’s science communication skills for a broader audience.
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In addition to his research, Alex is a great person, and I highly recommend applying :)
Alex Hernandez-Garcia@alexhdezgcia
I'll be hiring PhD and MSc students for Fall 2025 to do research on machine learning for science (details in 🧵) I especially encourage applicants from under-represented groups and regions in conflict (Palestine, Ukraine, Sudan, Myanmar...) See 🧵 for how to apply.
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@apsarathchandar @Mila_Quebec Thank you so much, Sarath!!
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I am proud of my PhD student @AbdelZayed1, who won the first scientific communication contest at @Mila_Quebec! Communicating your research ideas effectively to various target audiences is an essential skill for becoming a successful researcher. Congratulations @AbdelZayed1!
Abdel is graduating soon and is looking for a postdoc or industry position. If you have an opening for an expert in bias/fairness/trustworthy AI, please reach out to him.
Mila - Institut québécois d'IA@Mila_Quebec
Congratulations to the winners of the first Scientific communication contest “Speed Science” that was held yesterday at Mila. 🥇 Dounia Shaaban Kabakibo 🥈 Arna Ghosh (@arna_ghosh) 🥉 Abdelrahman Zayed (@AbdelZayed1) This contest has been designed to highlight Mila’s academic excellence and cultivate its community’s science communication skills for a broader audience.
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I learned a lot from Sarath and highly recommend anyone looking for good supervision to apply :)
Sarath Chandar@apsarathchandar
I am recruiting MSc and PhD students for Fall 2025. The application deadline is December 01. Please apply through the @Mila_Quebec supervision request process here: mila.quebec/en/prospective…. More details about the recruitment process here: chandar-lab.github.io/join/
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Abdelrahman Zayed retweetledi
At @ChandarLab, we are happy to announce the second edition of our assistance program to provide feedback for members of communities underrepresented in AI who want to apply to high-profile graduate programs. Want feedback? Details: chandar-lab.github.io/grad-app-help/. Deadline: Nov 15!
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Abdelrahman Zayed retweetledi
Friends! I am looking for PhD and Masters students to join my group for Fall 2025, Please share with students you may know who are interested in the intersection of language, CogSci, and AI! first deadline is Dec 1st, see my page for more info: evaportelance.github.io/prosstudents.h…
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With the help of Goncalo Mordido, @SamiraShabanian, and my supervisor @apsarathchandar, I am excited to share that I have an accepted paper in @COLM_conf! We show that attending to wider/narrower contexts improves fairness in language models!
Paper📰:arxiv.org/pdf/2305.13088
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Abdelrahman Zayed retweetledi
Our @McGill_NLP postdoc Karolina Stanczak receives outstanding thesis award for her PhD work at @CopeNLU. Well deserved and congratulations! Grateful to have you in the group. 💐💐💐
Karolina Stanczak@karstanczak
I am incredibly honored to receive a PhD Award from the UCPH's Faculty of Science! 🤩My PhD journey was an amazing experience that would not have been the same without the unwavering support of my supervisors @IAugenstein and @ryandcotterell!
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If you want to know why fairness metrics don’t agree, and how to make them correlate with CAIRO, come to our ACL poster in Bangkok (room A1) on August 12 from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm!
arxiv.org/abs/2406.05918
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Abdelrahman Zayed retweetledi
🚀 Introducing VisMin arxiv.org/abs/2407.16772 – a benchmark for Visual Minimal Change Understanding! Evaluates VLMs' fine-grained understanding of objects, attributes, relationships, and counting. Code, models & datasets at vismin.net 📷📷[1/13]🧵
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Check out our paper on benchmarking vision language models for cultural understanding! 🌍 Such a great project to start my postdoc @Mila_Quebec ✨ shoutout to @PShravannayak!
P Shravan Nayak@PShravannayak
Are vision language models culturally aware? Excited to share our latest paper on benchmarking VLMs for cultural understanding. 🌍 Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2407.10920 Project Webpage: culturalvqa.org
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Abdelrahman Zayed retweetledi
Are you a working professional looking to get started with machine learning and AI? I am teaching a 2-day master class in ML foundations in August!
This is an ideal training program for doctors, lawyers, policymakers, software engineers, and financial analysts who want to learn the fundamentals of machine learning, understand how it can impact their field, and start applying ML in their work.
Link to register: eventbrite.com/e/machine-lear…
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Andreas Madsen@andreas_madsen
Spotlight award at ICML 2024. Introducing a new direction for interpretability: Faithfulness Measurable Models. 2x-5x better explanations, more accurate faithfulness metrics, no cost, and optimal explanations. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2401.07927. Hall C 4-9, 24 Jul (11:30 - 13:00).
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