Language Technologies Institute | @CarnegieMellon
@LTIatCMU
The Language Technologies Institute in Carnegie Mellon University's @SCSatCMU
Unfortunately, I won't be at @aclmeeting this year, but my advisor @gneubig will thankfully be presenting this work! (It's so cool to have an advisor who presents your paper☺️) 📆 July 29th (Tuesday), 10:30AM-12:00PM 📍Hall 4/5, Session 7: IP-Posters (Poster Session 2)
#NLProc Just because GPT-4o is 17 times more expensive than GPT-4o-mini, does that mean it generates synthetic data 17 times better? Introducing the AgoraBench, a benchmark for evaluating data generation capabilities of LMs.
SpeechIQ: Speech Intelligence Quotient Across Cognitive Levels in Voice Understanding LLMs, Monday 28, 11 to 12:30 pm aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.… (with Z. Wan, Y Yu, et al. @shinjiw_at_cmu, @LTIatCMU @kyotouniv_data, Prof. Cheng, Prof. Chu, Prof. Kurohashi)
RL with verifiable rewards? Works great ✨ Realistic or non-verifiable tasks? Still a mess 📉 Reward models and AI judges? Fragile and inconsistent 💔 Our proposal? RL from Checklist Feedback 📜 arxiv.org/abs/2507.18624 👇
I’m gonna be recruiting students thru both @LTIatCMU (NLP) and @CMU_EPP (Engineering and Public Policy) for fall 2026! If you are interested in reasoning, memorization, AI for science & discovery and of course privacy, u can catch me at ACL! Prospective students fill this form:
📣Thrilled to announce I’ll join Carnegie Mellon University (@CMU_EPP & @LTIatCMU) as an Assistant Professor starting Fall 2026! Until then, I’ll be a Research Scientist at @AIatMeta FAIR in SF, working with @kamalikac’s amazing team on privacy, security, and reasoning in LLMs!
Congrats (and well done!) to LTI PhD student Shaily Bhatt on her plenary lightning talk at @IC2S2 #IC2S2
Congratulations and welcome!
Some updates 🚨 I finished my Ph.D at @uwcse in June 2025! After a year at AI2 as a Research Scientist, I am joining CMU @LTIatCMU & @mldcmu (courtesy) as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2026. The journey, acknowledgments & recruiting in 🧵
At @MIT's recent AI & Energy: Peril & Promise symposium, Emma Strubell, assistant professor in the Language Technology Institute, joined the conversation warning against efficiency gains triggering greater overall consumption. news.mit.edu/2025/confronti…
We’ve launched the official SLTC X account!
🚀 We’re excited to announce the launch of the official X account for the IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee: @ieeesltc! Follow us for updates, discussions, and announcements in speech and language processing. Let’s connect and grow the community!
✈️ 🇺🇸 A research team led by Shinji Watanabe, Associate Professor at the @LTIatCMU, recently visited Lisbon under the scope of #CMUPortugal, to launch the "ACE-FM" project, at @InescID. 👉 Read the story at cmuportugal.org/oi3o
Hand gestures are a major mode of human communication, but they don't always translate well across cultures. New research from @akhila_yerukola, @MaartenSap and others is aimed at giving AI systems a hand with overcoming cultural biases: lti.cmu.edu/news-and-event…
New research from LTI, @allen_ai & @umsi: LLMs don’t just hallucinate – sometimes, they lie. When truthfulness clashes with utility (pleasing users, boosting brands), models often mislead. @nlpxuhui and @MaartenSap discuss the paper: lti.cmu.edu/news-and-event…
.@niloofar_mire, incoming @CyLab, @CMU_EPP, and @LTIatCMU professor, shares tips with @ShiraOvide and @heatherkelly of @washingtonpost that individuals can use to help protect their #privacy when utilizing chatbots. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
Afternoon session of the #SLT #CDT Annual #Conference is underway! Kicking off with another exciting #keynote: @BussoCarlos from @LTIatCMU talking about “Improving Generalization in Speech Emotion Recognition” slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annual-confere…
My keynote happening in a few minutes. Looking forward to talking about insights to build robust speech emotion recognition systems.
Not long until our #SLT #CDT Annual #Conference on 23 June! #Keynotes from @SimonDobnik (@goteborgsuni) & @BussoCarlos (@LTIatCMU). Talks and posters on our #PhD students’ #AI, #ML, #speech, #NLProc research! Find out more and #register (by end TODAY) at slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annual-confere…
🖋️ Curious how writing differs across (research) cultures? 🚩 Tired of “cultural” evals that don't consult people? We engaged with researchers to identify & measure ✨cultural norms✨in scientific writing, and show that❗LLMs flatten them❗ 📜 arxiv.org/abs/2506.00784 1/11
Future AI systems interacting with humans will need to perform social reasoning that is grounded in behavioral cues and external knowledge. We introduce Social Genome to study and advance this form of reasoning in models! New paper w/ Marian Qian, @pliang279, & @lpmorency!
Congratulations to LTI Assistant Prof @ybisk on his Amazon Research Award! lti.cmu.edu/news-and-event…
Not long until our #SLT #CDT Annual #Conference on 23 June! #Keynote Spotlight: @BussoCarlos from @LTIatCMU will be giving a talk entitled "Improving Generalization in #Speech #Emotion Recognition". Find out more and #register (by 15 June) at slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annual-confere…
New paper by Andre He: Rewarding the Unlikely: Lifting GRPO Beyond Distribution Sharpening arxiv.org/abs/2506.02355 Tired of sharpening the distribution? Try unlikeliness reward to learn new things from the roads less traveled