Rotem Dror

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@nlopitz lol😅 maybe...maybe not

@DrorRotem The question now is if there are many researchers who'd say their theme is using LLMs in unstructured, non-evaluable, useless ways 😅

🚨 New Paper(s) Alert 🚨 I’m excited to share papers I’ve recently published, exploring a different application of LLMs: mdpi.com/2673-2688/7/2/… arxiv.org/abs/2603.12710 mdpi.com/2079-8954/14/2… dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.11… (Sorry for the paper drop — I’ve been offline for a while.)

All very different, but the common theme is: using LLMs in structured, evaluable, and purpose-driven ways.

• Adaptive surveys + LLMs for measuring extreme psychological constructs • Planning-based view + evaluation of LLM web agents • BET: detecting behavioral & emotional themes in narratives • Lilo: multi-agent system for children’s digital communication

[1/7] Why do frontier LLMs make factual errors? Is it because they never learned the fact… or because they can’t access knowledge they already encoded? In our new paper, we show: The bottleneck is not encoding; it is recall. 🧵👇 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2602.14080 Many thanks to @_galyo @bd_eyal @zorikgekhman @eran_ofek59358 @GoogleResearch

A strange trend I've noticed at #ACL2025 is that people are hesitant to reach out to papers/"academic products" authors. This is unfortunate for both parties! A simple email can save a lot of time to the sender, but is also one of my favorite kind of email as the receiver!

Tomorrow morning (9AM🌅) I'll be giving a keynote talk at LAW (linguistic annotation workshop) at #ACL2025 on annotations in the era of LLMs - see you there!!🌟🌟

The Alternative Annotator Test (alt-test) is a new statistical procedure proposed in our ACL 2025 paper! 🇦🇹🇦🇹 @DrorRotem @roireichart The goal? To help justify using LLMs over humans. If the LLM passes the test, its annotations can be trusted 😎 arxiv.org/abs/2501.10970

Everyone uses LLMs to annotate data or evaluate models in their research. But how can we convince others (readers, collaborators, reviewers!!!) that LLMs are reliable? 🤖 Here’s a simple (and low-effort) solution: show the LLM is a *comparable alternative annotator* ✅

🔥הסקירות ממשיכות לזרום ל-X🔥 🧵 המאמר היומי של מייק: 25.06.25 The Alternative Annotator Test for LLM-as-a-Judge: How to Statistically Justify Replacing Human Annotators with LLMs מאמר 🇮🇱 תפנית מעניינת מתרחשת בתקופה האחרונה בעולם של הערכת ביצועי מודלים. אנחנו כבר לא שואלים רק עד כמה המודל מצליח במבחן כלשהו, אלא שאלה מהותית יותר: האם ניתן לסמוך על מודל שפה שיחליף מתייג אנושי? זו לא שאלה שמדדים מסורתיים כמו דיוק, F1 או הסכמה בין מתייגים יכולים לענות עליה כראוי. תחת זאת, המאמר שנסקור היום מציג שיטה מבוססת סטטיסטיקה לפתרון ביעה זו. בלב המאמר עומדת קריאה להתרחק ממדדי התאמה שטחיים, ולעבור לנימוקים מבוססי השערות סטטיסטיות וניתוח עלות-תועלת.

Preferences drive modern LLM research and development: from model alignment to evaluation. But how well do we understand them? Excited to share our new preprint: Multi-domain Explainability of Preferences arxiv.org/abs/2505.20088 @roireichart @LiatEinDor 🧵👇 1/11

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@VeredShwartz AI is also old...now it's agents😆

My "AI-backed" washer sorts cycles by frequency of use and suggests the most common cycle. When were "computer programs" rebranded as "AI" and why didn't I get the memo?

@jkkummerfeld @VeredShwartz @LChoshen @GabiStanovsky what load is that? Review load or AC load? or to be more clear - if I'm an AC and I submitted a paper, am I expected to be the AC of at least 4 papers, or, in addition to the AC load, also review 4 papers?

@VeredShwartz @LChoshen @GabiStanovsky ACs are expected to have a load of 4 per submission they are the volunteer for (this was unclear in the form and will be clarified in future cycles)

The ARR policy requiring a qualified author (3 main *CL papers) to review 4 papers per submission makes it impossible for junior faculty to submit papers. I have 9 students, only 2 are qualified reviewers. I will need to review 16 papers in this cycle to avoid desk rejects. 1/2

@VeredShwartz That's amazing Vered! Congrats! 👏 🎉

I'm excited to announce that my nonfiction book, "Lost in Automatic Translation: Navigating Life in English in the Age of Language Technologies", will be published this summer by Cambridge University Press. I can't wait to share it with you! 📖🤖 #fndtn-information" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cambridge.org/core/books/los…