michaelwhanna.bsky.social
PhD Student at the ILLC / UvA doing work at the intersection of (mechanistic) interpretability and cognitive science. Current Anthropic Fellow. hannamw.github.io
👤 Joined on 12 October 2023
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@michaelwhanna.bsky.socialSeems like a good time to share our new preprint about model openness! (with @catherinearnett.bsky.social @tylerachang.bsky.social Pamela D. Rivière, Samuel M. Taylor @camrobjones.bsky.social @seantrott.bsky.social @rplevy.bsky.social Ben Bergen, and Micah Altman): arxiv.org/abs/2603.26539
Show Post"She'll go to France or Spain or Germany or France" sounds redundant—unless licensed with context like "She will go to an art program in France or Spain or a math program in Germany or France" In new work w/ @qyao.bsky.social and @kmahowald.bsky.social: an LM-based 'Neural Semantics' account 🧵👇
Show PostDo current LLMs with fast-improving functional linguistic abilities exhibit distinct localization of formal (e.g., producing fluent, grammatical text) and functional (e.g., reasoning and consistent fact retrieval) linguistic mechanisms? Answer in: doi.org/10.1162/COLI... @michaelwhanna.bsky.social
Show PostNew work to appear @ TACL! Language models (LMs) are remarkably good at generating novel well-formed sentences, leading to claims that they have mastered grammar. Yet they often assign higher probability to ungrammatical strings than to grammatical strings. How can both things be true? 🧵👇
Show PostJust got back from Hawaii, where I presented a workshop paper on image memorability at @iccv.bsky.social 🌺 Coming from multimodal NLP, it was my first time attending a CV conference. Everywhere I looked, there were talks and posters that were incredibly interesting!
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