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Honored and humbled to receive the "𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝" 🏆 at #EMNLP2024 for our work on KidLM.
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported and encouraged me along this journey—it truly means the world! 🙏✨
#NLProc #AI #Research @emnlpmeeting
I will be in Miami at #EMNLP2024 to present our work on KidLM! 🌟
📜 KidLM: Advancing Language Models for Children (aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-…)
📅 Nov 13 (Wed) | 10:30-12:00 📍 Riverfront Hall
Come by and say hi! 🏖️ @emnlpmeeting
Work w/ my advisor @DavoodRafiei. Key details 👇
Mir Tafseer Nayeem retweeted
Mismatch between people's training and identity as CS/ML researchers and what 90% of impactful LLM work actually is (data, evals, policy, applications).
Based on what I see at #NeurIPS2026, @openreviewnet needs a cross-conference score for "responsible reviewing"
Reviewers who fail to maintain minimum standards should temporarily lose submission privileges, like a driving-license point system. Reviewing requires accountability.
Mir Tafseer Nayeem retweeted
Thrilled to share our #ACL2026 paper “Lost in Translation: Do LVLM Judges Generalize Across Languages?”
We introduce MM-JudgeBench — the first large-scale multilingual + multimodal benchmark for LVLM judges (25 languages, 60K+ preference pairs). Even SOTA models show big cross-lingual gaps; size & architecture don’t predict robustness. We also release a large multilingual training set with 100k preference instances to support domain adaptation.
Paper: aclanthology.org/2026.findin…
Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/tahm…
Code: github.com/tahmedge/mm-judge…
The paper will be presented in person by @Enamul_Hoque at ACL 2026 on Tuesday, July 7, 9:00 AM PT, Grand Hall.
@SaidulI38926695 @mtnayeem @Mizanur10107462 @JotyShafiq
Mir Tafseer Nayeem retweeted
This may be a controversial take, but I think it needs to be said: the gap between computer vision research in academia and industry is widening with every conference.
A huge fraction of @CVPR papers—especially those that boil down to "we tweaked/fine-tuned/RL'ed large-scale model X to improve on task Y"—will become obsolete with the next model release. That's not where academia creates lasting value. PIs should adapt much faster to this changing reality.
Academia should focus on fundamentally new ideas, new problem formulations, explaining emergent phenomenology, or uncovering blind spots that industry can later solve with scale, compute, and data.
Mir Tafseer Nayeem retweeted
I don’t agree. A PhD student should not prioritize work-life balance.
Getting to do a PhD is a privilege. You are paid to think. There is no pressure for you to be economically useful. It is a unique opportunity to push the boundaries of human knowledge and produce something ground breaking.
And nothing great ever happens without complete devotion. Look at everything that moved and shaped the world. Every single person who created anything meaningful, in science, in arts, in music, in movies, devoted their lives to their craft.
Extraordinary outcomes require extraordinary inputs and some degree of sacrifice. Sure, have work-life balance during your PhD. But be content a mediocre outcome.
Yesterday, I was giving an intro talk to our dept's new PhD students. Technical things aside, my number 1 suggestion has remained the same over the years: Treat your PhD like a job.
- Avoid 1.5h lunch and three tea breaks.
- Avoid gossiping and loitering at work.
- Lab at 9 am and leave at 6 pm. Being productive till 11 pm in the lab is a lie people till themselves when their day starts at 1 PM.
Everything worth doing can be done with high intensity focus during work hours. And having fun in life is the secret to being productive in a marathon.
Mir Tafseer Nayeem retweeted
Day 1 afternoon keynote talk given by Max Welling @wellingmax #ICLR2026
From Physics to AI to Materials; A Journey from Foundations to Impact
"Do we reward strange new, potentially paradigm-shifting ideas or do we focus on engineering, scaling and bold numbers?"
Who will use Opus 4.7 if all developers lose their jobs? lol 😇
*ACL authors: Remember to comment out
%\usepackage{times}
You are welcome! 📝🚀
The COLM abstract deadline is approaching fast --> March 26!
Full paper deadline is March 31
Verify using the COLM template (and font!) to avoid silly desk rejections. Careful of copy-pasting from other venue submissions, because it often overrides our template
ALT Generate an image of a llama nearing the finish line, just to realize the real finish line is a bit later... Oh, chatgpt, what is going on?!
Destiny has a very beautiful habit, that it changes when the time comes...
But for now... Perspective and patience!
Mir Tafseer Nayeem retweeted
To be a successful AI researcher it helps to be good at math but not too good.
Mir Tafseer Nayeem retweeted
ICLR has placed OpenReview in a difficult position, so I want to offer a few words about the OpenReview team working behind the scenes.
OpenReview has long been operated at UMass Amherst as a non-profit organization founded by Andrew McCallum. Each year, Andrew must raise more than $2 million to support a 20-person team that provides essential infrastructure for most major conferences.
I once asked Andrew what might have been a naïve question: whether he had considered developing a business model for OpenReview, given its prominence and the seemingly obvious opportunities. He pushed back, explaining that everything he has done for OpenReview is driven by a commitment to serve and strengthen the academic community. He is willing to devote significant personal effort to ensure the platform remains freely accessible to all.
We should not blame such a brilliant and dedicated team for an accidental issue. Otherwise, fewer people would be willing to shoulder this kind of responsibility in the future.
Deep respect to the OpenReview team! I’m grateful for their work and happy to support in any way!
Great advice from the master 🫡
Excited to be in Montreal to present our work OpinioRAG at #COLM2025 🇨🇦 @COLM_conf
🔗 Project Page: tafseer-nayeem.github.io/Opi…
🗓️ Tue, Oct 7
🕓 4:30–6:30 PM
📍 Room 710 — Poster #50
Come say hi! Always happy to chat about Language Modeling and User-Centric NLP.
After two years of on-and-off work, I finally wrapped up a project. These days, many researchers chase deadlines instead of problems, and then serve as reviewers at major AI/ML conferences.
What can we really expect from the system? Interesting times!
Mir Tafseer Nayeem retweeted
Excited to announce that our paper has been selected for a Best Paper Award at IEEE VIS 🏆
I would like to extend my gratitude to my co-authors, specifically to my supervisor Dr. @Enamul_Hoque . This achievement would not have been possible without their support.
#IEEEVIS2025
🚨 New Paper Alert!
Excited to share that one of our latest works, "The Perils of Chart Deception: How Misleading Visualizations Affect Vision-Language Models", has been accepted at IEEE VIS 2025
📄 Preprint link: arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09716
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