Sepideh Mamooler

🚀 Introducing PICLe: a framework for in-context named-entity detection (NED) using pseudo-annotated demonstrations. 🎯 No human labeling needed—yet it outperforms few-shot learning with human annotations! #AI #NLProc #LLMs #ICL #NER

Footage published by Iranian media today shows damage to Chehel Sotoun Palace, a Safavid-era cultural landmark located in the historic centre of Isfahan, following air strikes in the area. Two more landmarks, Golestan Palace and Tehran Grand Bazaar, sustained damage last week.

Happy to share that our paper “Mixture of Cognitive Reasoners: Modular Reasoning with Brain-Like Specialization” (aka MiCRo) has been accepted to #ICLR2026!!🎉 See you in Rio 🇧🇷🏝️

The Iranian Foreign Minister will not be attending Davos. Although he was invited last fall, the tragic loss of lives of civilians in Iran over the past few weeks means that it is not right for the Iranian government to be represented at Davos this year.

⚠️ Update: Internet connectivity continues to flatline in #Iran despite a minor short-lived bump in access earlier today, when new reports of atrocities emerged. As the shutdown enters day ten, confusion surrounds whether the regime intends to restore service soon, or at all.

Great to see our "From Language to Cognition" work featured in @mordecwhy's latest piece on language models and the brain. Glad to contribute to the conversation! foommagazine.org/language-model…

I really don't think most people understand the scale of the horror that has unfolded in Iran this last week.

⚠️ Update: #Iran has now been offline for 120 hours. Despite some phone calls now connecting, there is no secure way to communicate and the general public remain cut off from the outside world. What footage makes it through shows extensive use of force against civilians 📵

The fact that this is an AI’s researcher’s reaction to someone’s lived tragic experience - and what millions of people are going through right now - is deeply concerning. If you’re incapable of empathy how can you be trusted to build technology meant to benefit humanity?

Imagine the profound lack of character - that your first instinct is to use tech to prove you’re incapable of empathy for someone’s lived experience. block this midwit

Doctor says more than 200 reported dead in Tehran as regime opens fire on mass protests time.com/7345092/iran-p…

36 hours of internet blackout! #IranBlackout

The people who gave humanity these wonders deserve better governance, more freedoms.

While we’re obsessed with America’s petty fights and disagreements, the people of Iran are in a fight for their freedom. I have so many amazing friends from this region — in fact, some of the best, most fun and joyful humans I’ve ever met — that I’m rooting deeply for their country to be free… …and what a thrill it will be to experience the homeland they talk so lovingly about. 🙏

⚠️ Update: It has now been 24 hours since #Iran implemented a nationwide internet shutdown, with connectivity flatlining at 1% of ordinary levels. The ongoing digital blackout violates the fundamental rights and liberties of Iranians while masking regime violence ⏱

🎉 Re-Align is back for its 4th edition at ICLR 2026! 📣 We invite submissions on representational alignment, spanning ML, Neuroscience, CogSci, and related fields. 📝 Tracks: Short (≤5p), Long (≤10p), Challenge (blog) ⏰ Feb 5, 2026 for papers 🔗 representational-alignment.github.io/2026/

1/ 🌍 How does mixing data from hundreds of languages affect LLM training? In our new paper "Revisiting Multilingual Data Mixtures in Language Model Pretraining" we revisit core assumptions about multilinguality using 1.1B-3B models trained on up to 400 languages. 🧵👇

🎉 Congratulations to Assistant Professors @ABosselut (IC), @_bunnech (IC & @epflSV), and @martin_schrimpf (IC & @epflSV) for being selected as #AI2050 Early Career Fellows by @schmidtsciences! 🤩 Each receive $500K in funding to support a 3-year project that advances their research along with additional support, such as connections to stakeholders. @EPFL has become the first university in mainland Europe to have researchers admitted to the Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows Community, this year receiving three fellowships, more than any other institute globally in 2025. 🔗 Full article: actu.epfl.ch/news/epfl-prof… #EPFL #AI2050 #ArtificialIntelligence #ResearchExcellence #Innovation #Congratulations

@SianGooding @GoogleDeepMind @RodrigomiraA Hi Sian :) is this the application link for this position: google.com/about/careers/…?

DEADLINE TOMORROW! 🚨 I’m co-hosting a Student Researcher (Summer 2026) @GoogleDeepMind with @RodrigomiraA ! 🚀 Join us if you're excited about: 🗣️ Speech simulation, 🎛️ Adaptive speech, 💬 LLM interaction Apply here: google.com/students

Excited to attend #COLM2025 in Montreal next week! I’ll be presenting our work on fine-tuning VLMs for animal behavior understanding at the LM4Sci workshop on Friday.