Yanai Elazar
Assistant Professor at Bar-Ilan University
yanaiela.github.io
- Excited to have the Big Picture workshop back for another iteration this year at @aclmeeting.bsky.social Submit your big picture ideas, consolidation work, phd thesis distillation, etc. by March 5th! www.bigpictureworkshop.com w/ Allyson Ettinger, @norakassner.bsky.social, @sebruder.bsky.social
- Job application process in 2026: Applicant: I have written 3 papers Interviewer: where? Applicant: arXiv Interviewer: hired!
- Reposted by Yanai ElazarCS ArXiv recently banned “review and position” papers, but what are those? Do they include more generated content? Who is most affected by this change? @yanai.bsky.social and I dug into the data to find out! Nearly 50% of Computers & Society papers might be censored, vs 3% of Computer Vision ‼️
- 🚨 New Study 🚨 @arxiv.bsky.social has recently decided to prohibit any 'position' paper from being submitted to its CS servers. Why? Because of the "AI slop", and allegedly higher ratios of LLM-generated content in review papers, compared to non-review papers.
- 🚨 New Study 🚨 @arxiv.bsky.social has recently decided to prohibit any 'position' paper from being submitted to its CS servers. Why? Because of the "AI slop", and allegedly higher ratios of LLM-generated content in review papers, compared to non-review papers.
- I think I'm in a secret competition with my co-author about who uses more footnotes in the paper.
- Any good tutorials/guides on how to code with LLMs? What I found so far targeted folks who don't know what they are, mostly setting expectations and saying what LLMs can or cannot do. I'm beyond that. I'm looking for best practices. Kind of design patterns for vibe coding.
- Interested in interpretability, data attribution, evaluation, and similar topics? Interested in doing a postdoc with me? Apply to the prestigious Azrieli program! Link below 👇 DMs are open (email is good too!)
- You had one job!
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- Reposted by Yanai ElazarI did a QA with Quanta about interpretability and training dynamics! I got to talk about a bunch of research hobby horses and how I got into them.
- I really enjoyed talking to @nsaphra.bsky.social about her thoughts on what much language model interpretability research misses. My latest in @quantamagazine.bsky.social:
- The new Tahoe UI is so bad. Everything just looks so blurred...
- Interesting opportunity for a research visit through the Azrieli foundation - azrielifoundation.org/azrieli-fell... Let me know if you're interested!
- Organizing a workshop? Checkout our compiled material for organizing one: www.bigpictureworkshop.com/open-workshop (and hopefully we'll be back for another iteration of the Big Picture next year w/ Allyson Ettinger, @norakassner.bsky.social, @sebruder.bsky.social)
- I’m excited to share that I'm joining Bar-Ilan University as an assistant professor!
- A strange trend I've noticed at #ACL2025 is that people are hesitant to reach out to papers/"academic products" authors. This is unfortunate for both parties! A simple email can save a lot of time to the sender, but is also one of my favorite kind of email as the receiver!
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- I had a lot of fun contemplating about memorization questions at the @l2m2workshop.bsky.social panel yesterday together with Niloofar Mireshghallah and Reza Shokri, moderated by @pietrolesci.bsky.social who did a fantastic job! #ACL2025
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- It's crazy that people give more than a single invited talk during the same conference (diff workshops). A single talk (done right) is challenging enough.
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- I really like this take. Academia and the open source community should embrace transparency in data, even in the cost of the issues that come with it. These issues should be of course studied and documented, but not used as an indicator or a signal to shut down the whole operation.
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- What's up with @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social Wasn't the entire premise of this website to allow uploading of papers w/o the official peer review process??
