LLMs can retrieve knowledge — but can they connect it in *creative* ways to solve problems?
Introducing CresOWLve 🦉, a new benchmark that evaluates creative problem-solving over real-world knowledge, using puzzles that require multiple creative thinking strategies.👇
If you're interested in doing a postdoc at @icepfl.bsky.social , there's still time to apply for the @epfl-ai-center.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowships.
Apart from this, I'm also recruiting postdocs in developing novel training algorithms for reasoning models and agentic AI.
Join us again at #MELT workshop (520D) at #COLM2025 to hear from @ImanolSchlag about #Apertus, the largest multilingual LLM trained on over 1000 languages.
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.
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🎤 Prof. Iryna Gurevych, Distinguished Professor at the National Center for Cybersecurity @athenecenter.bsky.social and Director of the UKP Lab at @tuda.bsky.social, delivered a keynote on “How to Make AI-Native Internet Content Secure? Coping with Synthetic and Misleading Data.”
Recruiting PhDs & postdocs for:
🤖 agents "taking over" science (hypogenic.ai and 📌)
🧪 Real scientists ➡️AI (e.g., materials, chem, physics)
📜 Theory + incentives for H-AI collab & credit (e.g., formalizing tacit knowledge)
new adventures for me, 🔄 if you can! 🙌
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🎉 Congratulations to Assistant Professors @abosselut.bsky.social (IC), @bunnech.bsky.social (IC & SV), and @mschrimpf.bsky.social (IC & SV) for being selected as #AI2050 Early Career Fellows by @schmidtsciences.bsky.social !
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EPFL AI Center Postdocs: www.epfl.ch/research/fun...
NLP Lab Postdoc: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Kicking off #MELT workshop at #COLM2025 with Monojit Choudhury talking about "Meta-Cultural Competence: What LLMs Should Know About Culture to Serve the Next Billion Users" !
Come join us in 520D (all the way down the hall and around the corner) at #COLM2025 for the first workshop on multilingual and equitable language technologies!