UBC NLP Group
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The NLP Group at the University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Joined February 2022
🚨How do LLMs acquire human values?🤔 We often point to preference optimization. However, in our new work, we trace how and when model values shift during post-training and uncover surprising dynamics. We ask: How do data, algorithms, and their interaction shape model values?🧵
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It’s the spooky time of year again 👻🎃 and we kept up the UBC NLP Lab’s annual pumpkin carving tradition! This year’s creations were very impressive, so much talent and creativity from everyone. 🍂✨ If you’re on campus, come check out our pumpkins displayed outside ICICS! 🏫
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Theory of Mind is key to human social intelligence, but does giving LLMs ToM make them better social reasoners?🤔 We find that ToM makes LLMs better at dialogue: more strategic, goal-oriented, enabling long-horizon adaptation! We introduce ToMA, a ToM-focused dialogue agent🧵👇
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📢 Excited to share our accepted EMNLP 2025 papers from the UBC NLP group! 🎉 See you in Suzhou! #EMNLP2025
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We are excited to host KyungHyun Cho from New York University and Genentech Research & Early Development for a talk on “Reality Checks”. Join us: 🕛 Friday, August 29, 2:00 - 3:00 PM @ ICICS X836 @UBCLangScis
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Congrats to @AmirAbaskohi, @AmrVarRamesh, @careninigiusepp and co-authors - their paper "AgentAda: Skill-Adaptive Data Analytics for Tailored Insight Discovery" received an outstanding paper award at the REALM workshop! 🎉👏 #ACL2025NLP
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Congrats to Shruthi Chockkalingam, @SoheilAlav63685, Raymond Ng, and @VeredShwartz for receiving an outstanding paper award at the SICon workshop! 🎉👏 #ACL2025NLP
🏆 Congratulation to our second Outstanding Paper winner — “Should I go vegan: Evaluating the Persuasiveness of LLMs in Persona-Grounded Dialogues”
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Congrats to Muhammad and co-authors for receiving the best resource paper award! 🎉👏🏻
Thrilled to announce that our team has won the "Best Resource Paper Award" at the 2025 Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)! 🏆 This recognition for our paper, "Palm: A Culturally Inclusive and Linguistically Diverse Dataset for Arabic LLMs,"
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We are excited to host Niket Tandon from Microsoft Research, Bangalore (ex AI2) for a talk on “Parametric Approaches to Inject Domain Knowledge in LMs”. Join us: 🕛 July 10, 1:00 - 2:00 PM 📍ICICS X836 @UBCLangScis @CAIDA_UBC
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On Friday, June 13 (5-7 pm at 202 A-C), @VeredShwartz will participate in a panel discussion about the role of communities in shaping ethics in AI and CV at the "Building Inclusive Communities in Computer Vision" social. https://t.co/GwkdHbnfJi 3/3
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On Sunday, June 15, @Sahithya_Ravi and @adityachinchure will present their Black Swan benchmark for reasoning about surprising events in videos (10:30 - 12:30 Poster Session 5 @ ExHall D). https://t.co/imIQUO0kvl 2/3
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Some of us are in Nashville for #CVPR2025! 🎸 Today we are at the @vlms4all workshop about building geo-diverse VLMs (room 104E, all day), where our GlobalRG benchmark is one of the shared tasks - @bhatia_mehar will present the results. 1/3
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Correction: the talk will happen at ICICS 146. See you soon!
We are excited to host @hideaki_joko from @informagus for a talk titled "Let’s FACE the Evaluation of Conversations that Go with the Flow". Join us on Tuesday June 3 at 11 am at ICICS x860! @UBCLangScis @CAIDA_UBC
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We are excited to host @hideaki_joko from @informagus for a talk titled "Let’s FACE the Evaluation of Conversations that Go with the Flow". Join us on Tuesday June 3 at 11 am at ICICS x860! @UBCLangScis @CAIDA_UBC
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Great food, even better company. UBC NLP’s potluck brought together flavors and stories from around the world 🌎 Thanks to everyone who joined and shared a dish!
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