

uclanlp
355 posts

@uclanlp
UCLA Natural Language Processing Research #NLProc


















🤖💬AI agents can be easily persuaded (like Anthropic’s Claudius often giving discounts). 🤔Previous study on persuasion has been exclusively on text-only modality. We wonder: are AI agents more susceptible when presented with multimodal content? Introducing MMPersuade, a comprehensive multimodal benchmark that assesses AI agents’ susceptibility to established persuasion principles, covering commercial, subjective and behavioral, and adversarial contexts.




📢Thrilled to introduce ATLAS 🗺️: scaling laws beyond English, for pretraining, finetuning, and the curse of multilinguality. The largest public, multilingual scaling study to-date—we ran 774 exps (10M-8B params, 400+ languages) to answer: 🌍Are scaling laws different by language? 🧙♂️Can we model the curse of multilinguality? ⚖️Pretrain from scratch or finetune from multilingual checkpoint? 🔀Cross-lingual transfer scores for 1444 lang pairs? 1/🧵














🚨Model editing in practice often collapses with catastrophic forgetting! Meet SPHERE🌐: an energy-regularized method that keeps weights uniformly distributed on hyperspheres, making sequential editing stable. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.01172 Code: github.com/PlusLabNLP/SPH…

🏥We introduce TemMed-Bench, the first multimodal benchmark that challenges LVLMs to reason over temporal medical images by letting LVLMs analyze changes in patients’ conditions between different clinical visits. 📰Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.25143 💻Project: temmedbench.github.io