Violet Peng
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@VioletNPeng
Associated Professor@UCLA-CS. Research NLP, AI creativity, controllable generation, model evaluation, computational journalism, event. (she/her/hers)
Big congrats 🎉🎊🍾 to UCLA PLUS lab @VioletNPeng and collaborators won 3! !outstanding paper awards at #EMNLP2024 👏👏👏
(2/4) Nanyun (Violet) Peng @VioletNPeng @UCLA is developing MAP-SE, a Multi-Agent Persuasion Simulation Engine that studies how influence emerges across adaptive agents with long-term memory—moving beyond simple one-on-one interactions. #AIResearch #AgenticAI
Today we introduce humans&, a human-centric frontier AI lab. We believe AI can be reimagined, centering around people and their relationships with each other. At its best, AI should serve as a deeper connective tissue that strengthens organizations and communities
Congratulations to Siva Reddy (@sivareddyg), Core Academic Member at Mila, who has received the prestigious Outstanding Early Career Computer Science Researcher Award from @CSCan_InfoCan , the leading organization for the computer science community in Canada. mila.quebec/en/news/siva-r…
✨ Very overdue update: I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor in CS at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Fall 2026. I will be recruiting PhD students!! Please help me spread the word! [Thread] 1/n
🌏How culturally safe are large vision-language models? 👉LVLMs often miss the mark. We introduce CROSS, a benchmark of 1,284 image-query pairs across 16 countries & 14 languages, revealing how LVLMs violate cultural norms in context. ⚖️ Evaluation via CROSS-EVAL 🧨 Safety fine-tuning & DPO for alignment 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.14972 🔗 Data & Code: github.com/haoyiq114/CROSS
🧐Are values in LLMs aligned with humans? 1️⃣ And if they are — do LLMs stay honest to those values, or sometimes say one thing but act another? 2️⃣ ✨ We explore these questions in two papers presented at #EMNLP2025: 1️⃣ ValueCompass: hua-shen.org/assets/files/a… (WiNLP Workshop) 2️⃣ Mind the Value–Action Gap: arxiv.org/pdf/2501.15463 (Main Track) 🔍 Dataset & Code: github.com/huashen218/val… 🌱 I’m also #Hiring multiple PhD students for Fall 2026 @ NYU Courant Computer Science! If you’re passionate about #Human_AI_Alignment, #Value_Alignment, or broad #AI + #Human (society) research, let’s connect at EMNLP2025, NeurIPS2025, or over Zoom! 🎓 NYU CS PhD Apply (NYU Shanghai Track): cs.nyu.edu/dynamic/phd/ad… 💜 This year I’m also co-organizing the #EMNLP2025 WiNLP Workshop and supporting the amazing #Tutorial on Spoken Conversational Agents with LLMs (a short 15min talk)! Come say hi 👋 — I’d love to chat and connect with old and new friends at #EMNLP2025! 🔗 WiNLP Workshop: winlp-workshop.github.io 🔗Tutorial on Spoken Conversational Agents: aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-tut… 💗Huge thanks to my wonderful paper collaborators — @tanmit,@YunHuang_HCI,@tknearem,@reshmigh,Nicholas Clark,Yu-Ju Yang — and my inspiring workshop/tutorial collaborators @huckiyang, Andreas Stolcke,@TYSSSantosh2,@therealthapa,@MeryemMhamdi1,Chen Zhang, Peerat Limkonchotiwat, Wiem Ben Rim.... 🤗Truly grateful and enjoyable to work with you all! 💫 #HumanAIAlignment #PhDOpening #NYU #NYUShanghai #ValueAlignment #HAI
@VioletNPeng served as the Program Co-Chair for #EMNLP25, one of the largest NLP conferences, which received over 8,000 submissions and drew 6,000 participants.
¡Bienvenid@s a MWAHAHA!, la tarea de SemEval 2026, primera dedicada a avanzar el estado del arte de la generación computacional de humor. Invitamos a los participantes a desarrollar sistemas capaces de generar contenido genuinamente humorístico bajo diversas restricciones.
