@germank

Interested in the emergence of living, evolutionary, and cognitive systems.

germank.github.io
Joined December 2007
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What conditions should a system meet for life to emerge in it? This is the question that we tackled in this Artificial Life journal paper, available at direct.mit.edu/artl/article/…. I am very proud of this work!👇Below, a walkthrough 🧵over its main aspects: 1/n
Artificial Life journal@ARTL_journal16 Mar 2022
NEW EARLY ONLINE, "Emergence of Self-Reproducing Metabolisms as Recursive Algorithms in an Artificial Chemistry" by @germank & Tomáš Mikolov ...an article tackling a classic/fundamental #alife and #evolutionary problem. @alifeofficial @mitpress direct.mit.edu/artl/online-e…
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Dongyoung Go@dongyoung409125 Oct 2023
Preference models (PMs), used in RLHF and best-of-n, are vulnerable to reward hacking. We show how to combine LM capabilities with human insight to make PMs more interpretable and reliable. A thread about our paper at arxiv.org/abs/2310.13011.
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laurent besacier@laurent_besacie19 Sep 2023
I have the feeling that the toolkit created by my talented colleagues hasn't yet received the attention it deserves, so I'm reintroducing their blog post on disco, designed for controling LLMs and other generative models! europe.naverlabs.com/blog/di…

NAVER @CVPR 2022

NAVER, LINE, WEBTOON and NAVER LABS Europe will be in New Orleans June 19-24. Visit the NAVER booth for job opportunities, internships, tech demos and more! 17 papers, workshop keynotes. 

europe.naverlabs.com
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OMFG. Turns out The Day After Tomorrow could possibly be the Year After Next? We're hanging by a thread from full-scale #climate collapse that will be far, far worse than even our direst imaginings. theguardian.com/environment/…

Gulf Stream could collapse as early as 2025, study suggests

A collapse would bring catastrophic climate impacts but scientists disagree over the new analysis

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Eternal sunshine of the spotless to-do list
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Greta Thunberg
@GretaThunberg23 Jul 2023
Take that in. Then try wrapping your head around the fact that we’re only seeing the beginning of a destabilising planet, while remembering that GHG emissions are still rising and the companies largely causing this are making record profits. A bit concerning, don’t you think?
Prof. Eliot Jacobson
@EliotJacobson23 Jul 2023
Our favorite planet has now seen 20 days in a row breaking the modern-day record high-temperature of 16.924°C (62.46°F) set on July 24, 2022. This global heatwave is likely the hottest 20-day stretch in the last 100,000+ years.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry@ThierryAaron20 Jul 2023
1/ Here's a🧵on why the record shattering extremes in Europe are so unsettling for climate scientists. It's increasingly looking that we've underestimated the impacts of #ClimateBreakdown... xitter.cf/WxNB_/status/168132472…
Nahel Belgherze
@WxNB_18 Jul 2023
BREAKING: Rome, Italy just experienced its highest temperature in recorded history with 42.9°C (109.2°F). This beats the previous record from 2022 by 2 full degrees Celsius. That is a huge margin.
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Life is not an accident
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Melanie Sclar@melaniesclar16 Jul 2023
I wasn't aware of this, I just updated my settings! Truly a bummer right to have these changes happen right during ACL.
NLPurr@NLPurr15 Jul 2023
If you keep your DMs open to everyone (as message requests), please note that twitter has changed the default option to requests from verified users only+people you follow. Make sure to shift it to the last option (if you did not keep it at the first option previously).
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laurent besacier@laurent_besacie12 Jul 2023
Presented this week at ACL (from NLP@NLE) (Outstanding demo paper) : disco: a toolkit for Distributional Control of Generative Models - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org/2023.acl-de…

disco: a toolkit for Distributional Control of Generative Models

Germán Kruszewski, Jos Rozen, Marc Dymetman. Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations). 2023.

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Grant Sanderson@3blue1brown11 Jul 2023
Here's a short dynamics-based explanation of the equation e^(πi)=-1
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In BPE any given string can be tokenized in (exponentially) many ways, but when you want to score the string's probability your language model tokenizer uses just one. Are you losing much by discarding all the rest? If you are at #ACL, go chat with @nadiinchi to find out!
Nadia Chirkova@nadiinchi10 Jul 2023
I will present our #ACL paper “Should you marginalize over possible tokenizations?” on Wednesday, Jul 12, 11:00-12:30, at Poster session 7! Come to chat about tokenization in LMs. w/ @germank @josrzn @MarcDymetman. arxiv.org/abs/2306.17757
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Very happy that 🪩#disco received an outstanding demo paper award at #ACL! You can check it out at github.com/naver/disco

GitHub - naver/disco: A Toolkit for Distributional Control of Generative Models

A Toolkit for Distributional Control of Generative Models - naver/disco

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Germán Kruszewski@germank10 Jul 2023
Today at 11am @josrzn will be demoing our #disco library at #ACL! #disco is a one-stop solution for the control of language models that generalizes RLHF in an elegant way, providing much more fine-grained control. Don't miss it if you are there!
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By "it" I meant the library, but also the paper is available at aclanthology.org/2023.acl-de…

disco: a toolkit for Distributional Control of Generative Models

Germán Kruszewski, Jos Rozen, Marc Dymetman. Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations). 2023.

aclanthology.org
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Jos Rozen@josrzn10 Jul 2023
Outstanding!
Jos Rozen@josrzn10 Jul 2023
If you happen to be in Toronto for ACL, you might want to disco on July 10 at 11am virtual2023.aclweb.org/paper…
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Today at 11am @josrzn will be demoing our #disco library at #ACL! #disco is a one-stop solution for the control of language models that generalizes RLHF in an elegant way, providing much more fine-grained control. Don't miss it if you are there!
Jos Rozen@josrzn10 Jul 2023
If you happen to be in Toronto for ACL, you might want to disco on July 10 at 11am virtual2023.aclweb.org/paper…
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Today's global 2m temperature blasted through yesterday's all time record global high, reaching a new record high of 17.18°C. This is a full 1.64°C above the 1850-1900 IPCC baseline temperature for the day. Hang on folks.
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Leon Simons 🌍
@LeonSimons822 Jun 2023
🔥🌊The whole 40,000,000 km² of the North Atlantic Ocean is 0.7°C warmer than ever on this date!🌊🔥 And 1.3°C warmer than average!😳📈
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Check the news where you are. Is anyone covering this? Nothing in the UK #ClimateCrisis
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Rosanne Liu@savvyRL8 Jun 2023
I've been hearing from people that it's a very challenging year for AI/CS grad school application. A few words: First, I'm sorry many of you have to live through this; it's never fun receiving rejections. Second, I don't expect the situation to improve in foreseeable future.
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Over 100 governments in low- and middle-income countries have introduced anti-poverty cash transfer programs over the last 3 decades In new research, we examined the effects of these initiatives on the ultimate health outcome — mortality Published today in @Nature /1
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