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Violet Peng
@VioletNPeng
Associated Professor@UCLA-CS. Research NLP, AI creativity, controllable generation, model evaluation, computational journalism, event. (she/her/hers)
Los Angeles, CA
violetpeng.github.io
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    Violet Peng
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    Nov 15, 2024
    Thrilled, grateful, and humbled to have won 3 outstanding paper awards at #EMNLP2024!!! Not even in my wildest dreams. Immense thanks to my amazing students and collaborators! All three works are on evaluating LLM’ abilities in creative narrative generation. 🧵👇
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    uclanlp
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    Nov 15, 2024
    Big congrats 🎉🎊🍾 to UCLA PLUS lab @VioletNPeng and collaborators won 3! !outstanding paper awards at #EMNLP2024 👏👏👏
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    Violet Peng
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    Apr 7, 2020
    I almost feel shy to share personal news during this pandemic time: I'll join UCLA CS as an assist. prof. with my PlusLab this summer. I'm excited about the upcoming collaborations with new colleagues and continuing to contribute to SoCal-NLP. @CS_UCLA #SoCalNLP 1/2
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    Violet Peng
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    May 2, 2024
    Two weeks ago, I heard back officially from NSF that my CAREER proposal was award. Today, I heard back from the Vice Chancellor's office that I've been granted tenure! 🎉 I guess now I can finally say that I have a career and I go tenure! (1/n)
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    Violet Peng
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    Sep 13, 2025
    One of my most exciting results lately! We identify experts in MoE models for properties like safety and faithfulness, and steer them to improve/hurt model faithfulness and safety. Most shockingly, with stearMoE, we can jailbreak 100% safety guardrails for open models. Details 👇
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    Mohsen Fayyaz
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    Sep 12, 2025
    🚨 You can bypass ALL safety guardrails of GPT-OSS-120B 🚨❗🤯 How? By detecting behavior-associated experts and switching them on/off. 📄 Steering MoE LLMs via Expert (De)Activation 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2509.09660 🧵👇
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    Violet Peng
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    Nov 6, 2019
    Interested in knowing whether/how the open-domain NLG is biased? First, you need to go beyond sentiment analysis. Come to Emily’s talk at 4:00pm at #emnlp2019 session 7C AWE 203-205 to learn more.
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    Violet Peng
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    Dec 21, 2024
    I’m grateful for the enormous support from the community! It’s an honor to serve, and I’m excited to work hard alongside all of you to make a meaningful impact!
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    NAACL
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    Dec 21, 2024
    🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to new #NAACL board members: Steven Bethard @stevenbethard (Treasurer) Nanyun (Violet) Peng @VioletNPeng Helena Gómez-Adorno @helen_py naacl.org/posts/2024-12-… Thank you all for voting!
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    Violet Peng
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    Jul 4, 2020
    For this special @aclmeeting, we created special 24 handbooks for 24 timezones bit.ly/3fbi1XL with links to paper PDF and presentation website for each paper. Should be very handy; please check out the one for your time zone! #NLProc Credit to @mingyu_ma
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    Official website for the 2020 Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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    Violet Peng
    @VioletNPeng
    Dec 10, 2023
    Wrapping up #EMNLP23 with a tutorial, a workshop best paper, and a dozen of presentations from awesome @uclanlp lab members! See everyone in the next conference!
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    Violet Peng
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    Nov 11, 2025
    It’s a wrap! I hope y’all enjoyed #EMNLP25 as much as I did! Big shoutout to the photography team! All my photos in this post are taking from their websites. To all attendees: you should check out if you haven’t already!!
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    Violet Peng
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    Nov 29, 2024
    This Thanksgiving, I’m deeply grateful for opportunity to run for NAACL Board Member alongside so many incredible candidates who share a passion for making a difference! I hope to earn your support as we work together to shape the future of our community! #NLProc #Gratitude
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    Violet Peng
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    Feb 13, 2023
    I’m organizing a workshop on Creative AI Across Modalities #CreativeAI at #AAAI23 in DC, great lineup of speakers touching creative generation for language, image, video, audio, and more. If you’re around and are interested, please come by!
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    Violet Peng
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    Nov 5, 2025
    Excited to kick start #EMNLP25 with my awesome co-chairs @c_christodoulop Carolyn Rose, @Tanmoy_Chak in Suzhou for the 30th anniversary! Especially happy to have hosted one of my favorite researchers @hengjinlp on a super inspiring keynote talk with a full house!
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    uclanlp
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    Nov 5, 2025
    @VioletNPeng served as the Program Co-Chair for #EMNLP25, one of the largest NLP conferences, which received over 8,000 submissions and drew 6,000 participants.
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    Violet Peng
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    Oct 4, 2022
    Excited to share our #Neurips2022 paper on controllable text generation with theoretical guarantees. We decompose a sequence-level oracle into token-level guidance to steer the generation to consider future constraints. Impressive results for incorporating OOVs.
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    Tao Meng
    @TaoMeng10
    Oct 4, 2022
    Happy to share our work on Controllable Text Generation with NeurAlly-Decomposed Oracle (NADO) accepted at #Neurips2022! Looks like our model is excited about NeurIPS as much as we do. See more in arxiv.org/abs/2205.14219
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    Violet Peng
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    Oct 11, 2022
    I’m super excited to share several fresh off the press works on controllable (creative) generation this Thursday at Stanford. It’ll be hybrid with zoom livestream. Please register if you’re interested!
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    Stanford NLP Group
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    Oct 11, 2022
    This Thursday at 11 AM PT, we are beyond excited to host @VioletNPeng for our weekly NLP Seminar! Nanyun will be talking about Controllable Text Generation For Open-World Creativity. Registration form is here: forms.gle/GBeHq4nAiawN56…