Nathaniel Weir
@Nathaniel_Weir
NLP/AI Scientist at AWS | PhD from @jhuclsp. Formerly @ai2_aristo, MS Semantic Machines, @MSFTResearch, @BrownCSDept.
Come to learn about instructions and reasoning in retrieval 🚀
This is happening today with @orionweller ! If you want to know the latest on how reasoning affects RAG this is for you! Recording + notes + slides + other goodies sent to everyone who signs up!
**Certified Mitigation of Worst-Case LLM Copyright Infringement** TL;DR: We propose BloomScrub a framework to certifiably remove long verbatim quotes to reduce the risk of copyright violations. Challenge: Most existing copyright mitigation techniques for LLMs address…
I'm recruiting a PhD student in AI & Scientific Discovery (start August 2025), particularly where scientific discovery intersects with code generation. If interested, please e-mail your CV. I'll also be at @naacl organizing the AI & Scientific Discovery Workshop (AISD) & can chat
🚨 New preprint on transparent, tree-adaptive grounded reasoning! We introduce Bonsai, a versatile reasoning system that generates interpretable, grounded, and uncertainty-aware reasoning traces while enabling state-of-the-art performance on text and video benchmarks.
I’ll be presenting CoGEX today at # NeurIPS — stop by East Exhibit Hall at 4:30 to chat about code-based reasoning! Also, my team at AWS is seeking interns and full-time RS on similar topics (reasoning x agents x code), so reach out if interested!
LLMs can generate executable code to solve algorithmic tasks, but what about “softer” NL tasks such as commonsense reasoning? We present CoGEX, which trains LLMs to generate Python programs with undefined function calls, and then emulates their execution. arxiv.org/abs/2405.16337
I'm looking for a student (MSc/PhD) who is interested in working on assessing the feasibility of scientific claims using simulations, to work with me at @uarizona. Start date as early as January. Please get in touch if you're interested.
Congratulations to all @JohnsHopkins researchers participating in #NeurIPS2024! Check out all @JohnsHopkins accepted papers, tutorials, and workshops at ai.jhu.edu/news/johns-hop….
🤖🧠 I'll be considering applications for postdocs & PhD students to start at Yale in Fall 2025! If you are interested in the intersection of linguistics, cognitive science, & AI, I encourage you to apply! Postdoc link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_po… PhD link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_st…
I’m presenting my Microsoft internship work today at #EMNLP2024! I’ll be in Riverfront from 2-3:30. Come say hi and chat about structured document generation and evaluation! TLDR: We unify the generation and evaluation of templatic views of documents. aclanthology.org/2024.findings-…
I'm in Miami for #EMNLP2024! Presenting posters at sessions 9 and 12. I'll also be presenting at the Future of Event Detection workshop on Friday. Please reach out if you want to chat about reasoning or multimodality! ☕️ I'm also looking for 2025 summer internships.
Also, check out @Nathaniel_Weir's poster (also session 9) on this project here to learn more about our work on decompositional entailment and reasoning :) arxiv.org/abs/2402.14798