Rada Mihalcea

Tomorrow at #AAAI25 we’ll present our paper “Why AI is W.E.I.R.D.* and why it shouldn’t be”— a position paper on challenges & opportunities in developing AI that works equally well for everyone. 🌍🌎🌏 arxiv.org/pdf/2410.16315 This is the result of a truly global collaboration,…

Pls R/T! 📢 Unsure about Ethics? Hoping to attend #ACL2025? How about applying for a virtual registration subsidy? All 3? We hear you!✨Tutorial: Navigating Ethical Challenges in NLP✨🗓️Sun, Jul 27, 14:00–17:30 CEST📍@ Hall M, Vienna + 🌍Online (hybrid!) ethics.aclweb.org/tutorials/ACL_…

Excited to share our #ACL2025NLP Findings paper Rethinking Table Instruction Tuning. ⚠️ Table LLMs fail at out-of-domain tasks & lose general skills? Our fix: 🔥 Less data + smarter tuning = Better Table LLMs! We show: 🔍 Hyperparameters (e.g., learning rate) make/break…

[Implicit Personalization of #LLMs] How do we answer the question "What colo(u)r is a football?" Answer 1: "Brown🏈 ". Answer 2: "Black and white⚽". We propose a #Causal framework to test if LLMs adjust its answers depending on the cultural background inferred from the question.…

New RAG-empowered tool for cancer care prep. Helps patients go from uninformed to visit-ready - by guiding knowledge, value reflection, and visit question preparation, integrated with the Ottawa Patient Decision Guide 👇 Demo arxiv.org/abs/2507.04026 #CancerCare #RAG #AI4Health

Excited to finally share MOMENTS!! A new human-annotated benchmark to evaluate Theory of Mind in multimodal LLMs using long-form videos with real human actors. 📽️ 2.3K+ MCQA items from 168 short films 🧠 Tests 7 different ToM abilities 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2507.04415

Check out our 3 papers on Testing LLM Moral Reasoning via Multi-Agent Simulations! ✍️ Our summary blogpost: lesswrong.com/posts/2WAire3L… 📑Our series of 3 papers:1️⃣GovSim (NeurIPS 2024) arxiv.org/abs/2404.16698 2️⃣SanctSim zhijing-jin.com/files/papers/2… 3️⃣MoralSim arxiv.org/abs/2505.19212

🏛️Can we trust #LLMs to value democracy? 🎉Check our paper "Democratic or Authoritarian? Probing a New Dimension of Political Biases in LLMs". We find Llama4 has a stronger authoritarian bias, and all models show more bias in Mandarin than in English📜arxiv.org/abs/2506.12758…

Excited to receive an NSF CAREER award, feeling really lucky!! This grant will support our lab's work on human-AI collaborative techniques to create intelligent tutors, and methods to help experts express expertise with simulated students.

I'm excited to receive the NSF CAREER award! 🎉🎉 The funding will support our ongoing work to empower blind people to DIY personal assistive technology. Thanks to my students, mentors, collaborators, and @NSF for making this possible. nsf.gov/awardsearch/sh…

Join us at #CVPR2025 Demographic Diversity in Computer Vision workshop tomorrow! 📅 Wednesday, June 11, 9am-6pm 📍 room 213 (main session) + Hall D (poster sessions), the Music City Center We have an amazing lineup of speakers and panelists! Can't wait to meet you all there :)

Really excited about our recent large collaboration work on NLP for Social Good. The work stems from our discussions at the @NLP4PosImpact Workshop at #EMNLP2024 @emnlpmeeting. Thanks to all our awesome collaborators, workshop attendees and all supporters!

Those of you in Ann Arbor: why not do “AI & dinner” tonight? With the flurry of AI tools coming out any day, chances are that your (and your data’s) privacy are on your mind. Join us for a conversation with top experts on AI & Privacy—Profs. @RoyaEnsafi and Florian Schaub ⬇️

Very proud of all of Do June’s accomplishments, all the way to his successful PhD defense this week! 🎓👏 He not only developed new NLP methods to address key challenges in counselor training, but also saw them through to real-world deployment, directly supporting counselors in…

Excited to present some of our work on “Agentic AI ecosystems: Navigating cross-cultural awareness, biases and misinformation in multi-agent LLM and human-LLM interactions” tomorrow 8am ET at MSR Africa and AI4Good seminar! 🤗🌍 More details here: microsoft.com/en-us/research…

We are extremely excited to announce mCLM, a Modular Chemical Language Model that is friendly to automatable block-based chemistry and mimics bilingual speakers by “code-switching” between functional molecular modules and natural language descriptions of the functions. 1/2

Over the jet lag but missing #NAACL2025 and the famous gazebo - best time for highlights! 1. @radamihalcea 's “long tail of the world” metaphor really stuck with me: most of us are from small, often-overlooked cultures. Many papers in special track try to bridge this gap

Officially Dr. Bao🤗 #DevelopmentalAI is yet to be developed. #Objective is set to be redefined & optimized. Incredibly grateful for all the #Training and #HumanInLoop guidance and support from my mentors&friends&fam. Real World #ZeroShotGeneralization starts today 💙💛

So honored to have won the Outstanding Paper award at @c3_nlp today. ❤️ Many thanks to my wonderful collaborators @AparnaGarimell2 and @radamihalcea! What an amazing way to end #NAACL2025! 😊

Super excited to win the Best Paper Award @c3_nlp #NAACL2025 with @GGaneshL and @radamihalcea! Cross-cultural AI is a research topic I deeply care about, so this recognition means a lot to me. 🥳😍✨ Leaving #NAACL2025 with a ton of motivation and energy!🤠