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Laura Ruis
@LauraRuis
Postdoc with @jacobandreas @MIT_CSAIL. PhD from @ucl_dark with @_rockt and @egrefen. Anon feedback: admonymous.co/laura-ruis
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    Nov 20, 2024
    How do LLMs learn to reason from data? Are they ~retrieving the answers from parametric knowledge🦜? In our new preprint, we look at the pretraining data and find evidence against this: Procedural knowledge in pretraining drives LLM reasoning ⚙️🔢 🧵⬇️
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    Laura Ruis
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    Dec 7, 2022
    "Is your name GPT-3? Because you're the third most impressive thing I've seen today."
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    Laura Ruis
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    Feb 9, 2023
    when you debug your NN for 2 days until you realise the lr is 1e3 instead of 1e-3 🙂🆒
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    Nov 20, 2022
    Some of the best #advice I got early in my PhD was from @rockt urging me to set up a good note-keeping system. 1 year in my notes have helped me in so many situations! It took a few iterations, and I'll share the things that were most helpful for me personally here ⬇️🐊 1/13
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    Laura Ruis
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    Oct 28, 2022
    Before giving up on Twitter, check out our recent finding 🔥 LLMs are *not* zero-shot communicators! We show a limitation of #LLMs in interpreting language given the context of shared experience of the world, a ubiquitous part of communication ⬇️🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2210.14986 1/22
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    The Goldilocks of Pragmatic Understanding: Fine-Tuning Strategy...
    Despite widespread use of LLMs as conversational agents, evaluations of performance fail to capture a crucial aspect of communication: interpreting language in context -- incorporating its...
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    Laura Ruis
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    May 12, 2025
    Excited to announce that this fall I'll be joining @jacobandreas's amazing lab at MIT for a postdoc to work on interp. for reasoning (with @ev_fedorenko 🤯 among others). Cannot wait to think more about this direction in such a dream academic context!
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    Laura Ruis
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    Mar 21, 2023
    Just ran 5 km without ChatGPTs help
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    Laura Ruis
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    Jun 16, 2021
    When you have 2 phd advisors.
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    Laura Ruis
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    Jun 24, 2025
    LLMs can be programmed by backprop 🔎 In our new preprint, we show they can act as fuzzy program interpreters and databases. After being ‘programmed’ with next-token prediction, they can retrieve, evaluate, and even *compose* programs at test time, without seeing I/O examples.
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    Laura Ruis
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    Jul 19, 2023
    ok sorry llama2
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    Laura Ruis
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    Jul 23, 2024
    Sooo cool to receive the best paper award today at #ICML2024 for our debate work 😲! Massively proud of @akbirkhan, @danvalentine256, @McHughes288 and team! Check out the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2402.06782
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    Laura Ruis
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    Nov 7, 2021
    I reproduced part of the Learning in High Dimension paper by @randall_balestr, @an_open_mind, & @ylecun. Join me on my journey towards understanding that *we shouldn't use interpolation (as def. in the paper) to explain models' generalization skills*: lauraruis.github.io/2021/11/06/ext…
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    Laura Ruis
    @LauraRuis
    Feb 17, 2021
    Yay! I accepted a PhD @ucl_dark with the most awesome advisors (@egrefen & @_rockt)🥳! My mom thinks that after my PhD this image 👇will be classified as 'tiny horse', exhibiting clear common-sense knowledge of the size of microphones and horses so nothing but great expectations.
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    Laura Ruis
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    Dec 6, 2022
    This was *definitely* my highlight of NeurIPS 2022! After watching ML street talk countless hours myself (proof: see my recent raving tweet on their Chomsky episode), it’s pretty crazy to see myself featured. Thanks @MLStreetTalk, it was fun to talk to you!
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    Dec 6, 2022
    At #NeurIPS2022 we spoke with @LauraRuis about her paper "Large language models are not zero-shot communicators" and implicatures with LLMS, co-authors @AkbirKhan @BlancheMinerva @sarahookr @_rockt @egrefen youtu.be/5Yd28ssDutA