Jon May
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Jon May
@jonathanmay
Research Associate Professor, USC Director, Center for Useful Techniques Enhancing Language Applications Based on Natural And Meaningful Evidence
In the past two months, our small Webapp Coding team have been cooking hard to make Gemini great at WedDev, and we are thrilled to claim the 👑! Yes, we saw your enthusiasm — pelican riding a bike, game controller, please keep trying and sending your best WebDev prompts to our the way! We love them! Besides Webdev Arena, we also achieved #1 on Design Arena across categories: website gen, game gen, ui component gen etc! Website lovers, designers, we can’t wait to hear your feedback!
✨ 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
📢 New Preprint! 📢 arxiv.org/abs/2510.07662 TL;DR: textual entailment and token probability behave very differently as bias evaluation metrics, even on the exact same bias definitions. Also, I'm looking for summer 2026 research internships in responsible AI - please reach out!
🎉 Excited to share our ACL 2025 paper: 🤖R2D2: Remembering, Replaying and Dynamic Decision Making with a Reflective Agentic Memory 🧠 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2501.12485 📍Poster: Hall 4/5, Session 4 Wednesday, July 30 11:00-12:30 🧵👇
Can you tell what actions are being mimed in this video? If so, you’re smarter than AI models! Check the last tweet in this thread for answers. In a new paper, we present MIME, which evaluates whether vision language models (VLMs) have a robust understanding of human actions. 🧵
@nsaphra @maria_antoniak @kylelostat Yeah I've just been doing a one take video. I don't think a single human has ever watched these videos (for my papers anyway).
