Yannis Konstas
111 posts
@sinantie
Associate Professor of Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University & Head of ML and Co-founder at Alana @HeriotWattUni. Researching #NLG #NLProc #NLP
📢 Deadline extended (24 Feb 2026) – Information Disorder Workshop (InDor) 🧠 InDor aims to advance interdisciplinary NLP research on Information Disorder, with a strong focus on theory, datasets, evaluation, cultural context and real-world impact. 🔗 …formation-disorder-workshop.github.io
What if your multimodal model succeeds when given nonsensical instructions? What if it even succeeds without being told explicitly what to do? Have we finally achieved AGI? We answer at least two of those questions w/ @NikVits @ale_suglia @sinantie (🧵for more)
Excited to announce that the Embodied AI team at @helloalana developed AlanaVLM, a new foundation model for egocentric video understanding. Best open-weight model which rivals GPT-4V on spatial reasoning questions in OpenEQA. Thread below! arxiv.org/abs/2406.13807 #AI #NLProc
🌟📣 Announcing our #TEDxYouthStGeorgesEdinburgh #VoicesOfTheFuture 2024 speaker lineup! We're excited to welcome Yannis Konstas to the #TEDxYouth stage.💻Follow TEDx Youth St Georges Edinburgh on Facebook for more updates 👉👉 ow.ly/xRqC50QOrfI #IdeasWorthSpreading #TEDx
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Another great news today: our survey paper "Visually Grounded Language Learning: a review of language games, datasets, tasks and models" was accepted by JAIR. This was part of my PhD thesis completed under the supervision of @oliverlemon and @sinantie!
