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Mohit Iyyer

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Mohit Iyyer

@MohitIyyer

assoc. prof at @umdcs, i work on nlp/llms

College Park, MD

Joined May 2017

Mohit Iyyer
@MohitIyyer
May 17, 2024
So proud to have hooded my first five PhDs today: @tuvllms, @kalpeshk2011, @simeng_ssun, @mrdrozdov, and Nader Akoury. Now, they're either training LLMs at Google, Nvidia, and Databricks, or staying in academia at Virginia Tech and Cornell. Excited to watch their careers blossom!
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Mohit Iyyer
@MohitIyyer
Aug 22, 2018
We're releasing QuAC, a large QA dataset for studying information-seeking dialog! Download the data, read our #emnlp2018 paper/datasheet, and submit systems at quac.ai w/ Eunsol Choi @hhexiy @yatskar @YejinChoinka @percyliang @scottyih @LukeZettlemoyer #NLProc
Mohit Iyyer
@MohitIyyer
Nov 8, 2024
Really excited to return to @umdcs / @ClipUmd in January... this time, as a faculty member! It's been an amazing six years @UMass_NLP, and I'm incredibly thankful to my collaborators & mentors. Prospective PhDs & postdocs: please email/DM me, or let's chat next week at EMNLP!
UMD Department of Computer Science
@umdcs
Jul 24, 2024
.@UofMaryland's CS dept is welcoming eight new tenure-track faculty members! With expertise in cutting-edge areas, they'll boost our academic & research capabilities. Welcome aboard! 🐢📚 Read more: go.umd.edu/Hires24
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Mohit Iyyer
@MohitIyyer
Jul 17, 2019
I'm looking for a postdoc at UMass! lots of freedom to define research agenda. topics of particular interest include NLP/DH applied to literary text and language generation. applicants from outside CS welcome. DM/email or find me at #acl2019nlp if interested. #nlproc
Mohit Iyyer
@MohitIyyer
Aug 10, 2023
Big congratulations to @kalpeshk2011!! It's been amazing to work with such a gifted and creative student over the past five years. Would not be surprised if Bard's long-form generation capabilities improve substantially after he joins the team :D
Kalpesh Krishna
@kalpeshk2011
Aug 10, 2023
Happy to share that I've defended my PhD thesis! A big thank you to my advisor @MohitIyyer and my committee @andrewmccallum, @HamedZamani and @YejinChoinka for all their support and feedback! Next step: I am super excited to be joining @Google Bard as a Research Scientist!
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Mohit Iyyer
@MohitIyyer
Sep 15, 2019
As another NFL Sunday begins, we're happy to release the FOOTBALL dataset (github.com/jmerullo/footb…) to study commentator bias: 1,455 transcripts of NFL/NCAA football broadcasts from 1960-2019, each tagged with player mentions linked to metadata e.g. race and position #emnlp2019
GitHub - jmerullo/football
From github.com
Mohit Iyyer
@MohitIyyer
Jul 9, 2023
Huge congrats @tuvuumass, who just became my first graduated PhD student!! He'll be starting his own group soon @VT_CS, so prospective PhD applicants interested in topics like multitask/multimodal transfer learning, or param-efficient LLM adaptation: def apply to work with him!
Tu Vu
@tuvllms
Jul 8, 2023
I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis. A special thank you to the members of my thesis committee: my wonderful advisor @MohitIyyer, @MajiSubhransu, @HamedZamani, @lmthang, and @colinraffel for their insightful feedback and advice on my research and career plans.
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Mohit Iyyer
@MohitIyyer
Nov 7, 2019
Proud of @UMassCS undergrads Jack Merullo and Luke Yeh for doing a great job presenting our #emnlp2019 work on characterizing racial bias in football commentary! This was their first time attending an #NLProc conference. Also FYI: Jack is currently applying to PhD programs!
Mohit Iyyer
@MohitIyyer
Dec 8, 2023
Today I'm presenting @shufan_wang_'s #emnlp2023 work on evaluating text generated by retrieval-augmented LMs. TLDR: a significant perplexity drop does not imply better generations! For more come find me at the 2pm poster session in the East Foyer.
arxiv.org
KNN-LM Does Not Improve Open-ended Text Generation
In this paper, we study the generation quality of interpolation-based retrieval-augmented language models (LMs). These methods, best exemplified by the KNN-LM, interpolate the LM's predicted...
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Mohit Iyyer
@MohitIyyer
Jan 28, 2025
Lots of recent work focuses on 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 detection of LLM-generated text. But how well do 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬 fare? TLDR: ppl who frequently use ChatGPT for writing tasks are elite at spotting AI text! See our paper for more (and congrats to @jennajrussell on her first paper!!)
Jenna Russell
@jennajrussell
Jan 28, 2025
People often claim they know when ChatGPT wrote something, but are they as accurate as they think? Turns out that while general population is unreliable, those who frequently use ChatGPT for writing tasks can spot even "humanized" AI-generated text with near-perfect accuracy 🎯
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Mohit Iyyer
@MohitIyyer
Oct 7, 2019
UMass is hiring in NLP (and also vision / other "data science" related fields)! See our job posting at careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/… and please feel free to contact @andrewmccallum, @brendan642, or me with any questions :) i'll also be at #emnlp2019 if you want to chat in person
Mohit Iyyer
@MohitIyyer
Nov 4, 2018
My student @kalpeshk2011 giving his first conference talk ever at #emnlp2018 on analyzing and reproducing results of sentiment models on complex syntactic constructions! tldr: people should average over more random seeds and use ELMo :) paper at arxiv.org/abs/1808.07733
Mohit Iyyer
@MohitIyyer
Jan 8, 2020
Excited that our work on characterizing racial bias in football commentary was covered by @TheUndefeated! Thanks to @big_data_kane for thoroughly explaining and contextualizing our research to a non-academic audience. We're continuing with this work, so look out for more soon!
C. Brandon Ogbunu
@big_data_kane
Jan 8, 2020
1/n I wrote about new research (by @MohitIyyer + colleagues) that uses artificial intelligence + big data to study racial bias in sports broadcasting for @TheUndefeated. theundefeated.com/features/artif…
Mohit Iyyer
@MohitIyyer
Nov 14, 2024
Happening tomorrow: our Workshop on Narrative Understanding at #emnlp2024! Please stop by if you're interested in story understanding & generation :)
Yash Kumar Lal
@lal_yash
Nov 14, 2024
#EMNLP2024 🌴 is over but there’s more to look forward to. The 📚 Narrative Understanding Workshop is happening on Fri, Nov 15 in Pearson. We have an amazing lineup of 🗣️ speakers and a host of interesting papers 📄 in the poster session. Make sure to swing by! #wnu2024 #NLProc
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