Sebastian Schuster @ ACL 2025 🎡

Following long contexts in natural language requires tracking what happens to entities that have been mentioned. Can LLMs do this as new information about them is presented in text? In @najoungkim’s and my #ACL2023 paper, we present a behavioral task that targets this question.

I’ll be at #ACL2025NLP all week! Talk to me about LLM evals, semantics and pragmatics, strong opinions on what to do/where to eat/which modes of transport to avoid in Vienna, and if you are enjoying your time here, upcoming job opportunities at the University of Vienna.

🌟Job ad🌟 We (@gregd_nlp, @mattlease and I) are hiring a postdoc fellow within the CosmicAI Institute, to do galactic work with LLMs and generative AI! If you would like to push the frontiers of foundation models to help solve myths of the universe, please apply!

Looking forward to kicking off the day2 at #ACL2025NLP with my keynote! We'll be tackling new frontiers of AI alignment. 🗓️ Tuesday, 9:00 AM 🗣️ "Who's Gold? Re-imagining Alignment for Truly Beneficial AI" Here's a sneak peek of the talk. #AI #AIAlignment #NLProc #ACL2025NLP

Should have done my research before posting… S7 currently only goes to “Wien Mitte” due to construction work, so no better than the CAT at the moment. Railjets are still running to “Hauptbahnhof” though and generally the fastest and cheapest option. #ACL2025NLP

👾 Full-time research assistant position (1 year) with @sebschu and me! 👾 We're looking for someone to join the research agent evaluation team, starting Fall 2025. Application link to be available soon, but feel free to send us your CV and/or come talk to us at #ACL2025. 🧵

Or take the S7 to "Praterstern" or a Railjet to "Wien Hauptbahnhof" which are both even cheaper and directly connect to the U1🚇 which in return takes you both to the conference venue and the city center.

Our team is hiring a postdoc in (mech) interpretability! The ideal candidate will have research experience in interpretability for text and/or image generation models and be excited about open science! Please consider applying or sharing with colleagues: metacareers.com/jobs/222395396…

The Austrian Academy of Sciences is offering a pretty generous package to researchers in the US who would like to come to Austria for a postdoc. stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/en/fellowships…. Please email me if you're interested in applying for this by Jul 25 🧑‍🔬

Some personal news ✨ In September, I’m joining @ucl as Associate Professor of Computational Linguistics. I’ll be building a lab, directing the MSc programme, and continuing research at the intersection of language, cognition, and AI. 🧵

Seeing an experiment and thinking "but have they tried X? what if we do Y?" is a key part of research and a start to new discoveries. RexBench tests if coding agents can implement new extensions. It complements recent evals (eg PaperBench from @OpenAI) on replication! See 👇

I'm hiring at least one post-doc! We're interested in creating language models that process language more like humans than mainstream LLMs do, through architectural modifications and interpretability-style steering.

Excited to announce I'll be starting as an assistant professor at @TTIC_Connect for fall 2026! In the meantime, I'll be graduating and hanging around Ai2 in Seattle🏔️

Come work with me and my amazing colleagues! #nlproc #LLM

New postdoc opportunity! This project has exciting opportunities to explore different areas of fundamental LLM research: continued pre-training, post-training, coding agents, long-tail reasoning and knowledge updating, and more! Please apply!

Are you an undergrad interested in NLP research? Intern with us through the MIT summer research program! Includes stipend, travel, housing. Students from historically underserved bgs are strongly encouraged to apply. Deadline is 21 Jan 2025. More info at oge.mit.edu/msrp/.

I am looking for a postdoc at Mila/McGill. Catch me at #NeurIPS2024 if interested. Perks: . pursue own interests . mentor talented PhDs . collaborate with Mila profs and industry . access to large compute . live in a vibrant city

I’m hiring PhD students in computer science at Columbia! Our lab will tackle core challenges in understanding and controlling neural models that interact with language. for example, - methods for LLM control - discoveries of LLM properties - pretraining for understanding

📢UCL Linguistics is hiring a Computational Linguist - Up to Associate Professor.📢 Details can be found here: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

I have multiple vacancies for PhD and Masters students at @Mila_Quebec @McGill_NLP in NLP/ML focusing on representation learning, reasoning, multimodality and alignment. Deadline for applications is Dec 1st. More details: mila.quebec/en/prospective…

I'm recruiting PhD students for our new lab, coming to Boston University in Fall 2025! Our lab aims to understand, improve, and precisely control how language is learned and used in natural language systems (such as language models). Details below!