NLP lecturer (assistant professor)@King's College London, also do a bit IR, ML, and Stats for fun.
Joined July 2025
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Thanks for the suggestion. BTW, do remember to estimate the reviewer's time zone. Don’t time your reply to land exactly 12 hours after their comment. No one likes openreview notifications at midnight.
ICLR rebuttal strategy meeting:
🕐 30 min discussing the OPTIMAL time to ping reviewers
📊 Must be after Thanksgiving but before the weekend
🧠 Late enough they can't ask for more experiments
⏰ Early enough they still have time to respond
Lead author right after the call: "I just sent it"
Everyone: "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE. THIS IS NOT WHAT WE AGREED ON. YOU RUINED EVERYTHING. WE'RE COOKED 💀"
5 minutes later
Two reviewers raise their scores by 4 points each 😱😱😱
New work from our KCL NLP group @kclnlp in collaboration with the Centre for AI @ASTRAZENECAUK !
We introduce Latent Refinement Decoding (LRD), a two-stage parallel generation framework that achieves up to 10.6× faster decoding while improving accuracy across coding and reasoning tasks.
LRD addresses key limitations of diffusion-inspired approaches by maintaining distributional mixtures and iterative feedback for more globally consistent generation.
🧠 A strong and versatile alternative to standard autoregressive decoding!
Paper: huggingface.co/papers/2510.1…
#AI #NLP #LLMs #GenerativeAI #Research
Steer LLM reasoning using a single continuous token, without relying on SFT or RL. Check out our #ICML2025 poster E-2024 from the KCL NLP group: Soft Reasoning: Navigating Solution Spaces in Large Language Models through Controlled Embedding Exploration.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.24688
GitHub: github.com/alickzhu/Soft-Rea…
