When you say, "This is a reinforcement learning problem," you should say it with the same excitement as "This is NP-hard."

@ReviewAcl Why does every author have to fill out the registration form if they already have an OpenReview profile?

It’s deployment time! You’ve done the pre-deployment evals. You THINK your model is safe, so you ship it 🚀 🚨 After deployment, reports of misbehavior start trickling in What happened?? How could you have caught it?? 🤔 @icmlconf 2026 Spotlight! 🧵

Our paper "Autoregressive Language Models are Secretly Energy-Based Models: Insights into the Lookahead Capabilities of Next-Token Prediction" was accepted for publication at #ICML2026 arxiv.org/abs/2512.15605

We made LLM inference a lot faster. 1/n Speculative decoding throws away draft tokens when they don't match. What if you re-weighted your samples instead using importance sampling? We introduce SMC-SD, sequential Monte Carlo speculative decoding, an approximate sampler that speeds up inference by 2.36× over SOTA speculative decoding, while producing a controllable Pareto frontier of speed and approximation accuracy. ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2604.15672 minimal repo release: github.com/abdelfattah-lab/s… Joint work with Mauricio Barba da Costa (@mauricio_b25181), Chi-Chih Chang (@CCCCC1009CCC ), Cameron Freer, Tim Vieira (@xtimv), Ryan Cotterell, and Mohamed Abdelfattah (@mohsaied).

Claude Code is really bad at f-strings. I can't tell you how many times a day I see some version of this error message a day. Please fix!

Some more vibe-coding fun - every math major's favorite party trick: the wobbly table theorem as an interactive 3D visualization. timvieira.github.io/table-th…

Ok, AI-assisted coding is pretty rad. Here's something I built to explore the stuff I've written (blog posts and publications). It's still a bit of work in progress, but it's pretty fun, especially the "semantic" tab sliders. I'd love some feedback! timvieira.github.io/experime…

Congratulations to our researchers (including @leoduw and alum @xtimv) on winning an Outstanding Paper Award at the most recent @COLM_conf! Learn more about their award-winning paper here: cs.jhu.edu/news/hopkins-comp…

Claude Chic: A Claude drop-in with updated UX and multi-agent support. Also what I've been obsessively building the last two weeks 🙂. Enjoy! matthewrocklin.com/introduci…

Congrats to @adveisner and @leoduw on their Outstanding Paper at COLM 2025! 🎉 Extra shoutout to @xtimv and Ryan — both proud @jhuclsp alums — for co-authoring this amazing work led by @ben_lipkin and Ben LeBrun. 👏

Good morning @COLM_conf! Excited to present our poster on Self-Steering LMs (#50, 11AM-1PM). If you’re thinking about codegen, probabilistic inference, or parallel scaling, stop by for a chat!

Having a hard time controlling your LM? Want a fast approach to get high-quality constraint-satisfying generations? Come to COLM tomorrow morning to learn about our new decoding algorithm! Oral spotlight @ 10:15-10:30am Poster #49 @ 11:00am-1:00pm

Outstanding paper 🏆 1: Fast Controlled Generation from Language Models with Adaptive Weighted Rejection Sampling openreview.net/forum?id=3BmP…

Thanks to everyone at COLM for the awesome discussions so far and to the amazing team that made this paper happen :) Ben LeBrun @postylem @JoaoLoula @DRMacIver @leoduw @adveisner Ryan Cotterell @vmansinghka Tim O'Donnell @alexanderklew @xtimv

Excited to share that this paper has been accepted to #NeurIPS2025 main track 🎉!

Vibe coding be like

Is there a name for the following effect? There exists a cognitive bias whereby the perceived reliability of an argument increases with its presentation quality, leading to a decrease in verification effort.

Has anyone tried running AI models (CNNs/LLMs, ViTs/ Diffusion) on weird chips? Edge: Qualcomm AR1, Ambarella, TensTorrent Cloud: Trainium, Inferentia, AMD Or even just porting Ampere → Hopper → Blackwell? Curious: how painful was it? Did it kill your project before it started?