Learning from Language Lab

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2026

  • Anika will give an oral presentation at EMNLP 2026 in Budapest (Oct 24–29), on sound symbolism across 27 languages.
  • Chidaksh presented UNMASK (spurious shortcuts) and Grace presented narrative priors in LLMs at COLM 2026.
  • Our work on understanding LLM reasoning received a $160K gift from Coefficient Giving.
  • Advaith presented OPeX, on explanation generation that directly optimizes behavioral faithfulness, at ICML 2026.
  • Kerem gave an oral presentation at ACL 2026, on chain-of-thought faithfulness.
  • DiffVax, on defending images against diffusion-based editing, appeared at ICLR 2026.

2025

  • Kerem presented Causal Diagnosticity, a testbed for comparing faithfulness metrics, at EMNLP 2025.
  • Yuvraj was selected as an NCIDEA semi-finalist for his work at Kinetik.
  • Four papers accepted at EMNLP 2025 (main conference).
  • Kerem gave an oral presentation at ACL 2025, on INTERACT, which teaches language models to learn by asking questions.
  • Welcome Scott and Grace.

2024

  • Shashank gave an invited talk, “Adapting Narrative to Adapt Minds,” at WNU 2024.
  • Three papers accepted at EMNLP 2024.
  • Welcome Akshan, Jane, Rajeev, and Wisdom.
  • Shashank gave an invited lecture, “A Brief History of AI,” at Honors Carolina.

2023

  • Five papers accepted at EMNLP 2023. See the Publications page for the pre-prints.
  • Welcome Aum, Tianyi, and Anika.
  • Paper by Sayan Ghosh and Rakesh Menon presented at ACL 2023.
  • Shashank gave an invited talk, “Let’s Chat about ChatGPT,” at Carolina Science Cafe.

2022

2021

  • Papers by Sayan Ghosh, Ayush Jain, and Rakesh Menon presented at EMNLP 2021.
  • Welcome Kangda.
  • Paper by Sayan Ghosh and Zheng Qi presented at ACL 2021.
  • Welcome Anisha.

2020

  • Paper by Sayan Ghosh presented at EMNLP 2020.
  • Welcome Rakesh.
  • Paper by Shashank Srivastava presented at ACL 2020.
  • Welcome Sayan and Matthew.