Ife Adebara @IfeAdebara
PhD Candidate @UBC | Natural Language Processing Lab | Deep Learning Vancouver Joined October 2011-
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A t-shirt that says "Hallucinations in LLMs are here to stay". "Our work shows that even in an ideal, unchanging world with perfect training data and no prompts, one should expect hallucinations from LLMs" arxiv.org/pdf/2311.14648…
@LucianaBenotti @c3_nlp Thank you Luciana 🙏 Several ideas from this talk are written up in my EACL’24 paper with Dean Yibarbuk "Centering the Speech Community" aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-long…
🤔 Diãcritics: Machine Translation's Friend ôr Foe? 📷 We are happy to share that our work “Interplay of Machine Translation, Diacritics and Diacritization” has been accepted to #NAACL2024 main conference. Visit our Arxiv preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2404.05943
🤔 Diãcritics: Machine Translation's Friend ôr Foe? 📷 We are happy to share that our work “Interplay of Machine Translation, Diacritics and Diacritization” has been accepted to #NAACL2024 main conference. Visit our Arxiv preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2404.05943
New deadline (May 6) for the Cross Cultural Considerations in NLP workshop @c3_nlp (co-located w/ @aclmeeting) sites.google.com/corp/view/c3nlp Looking forward to your submissions! Co-organized w/ @sunipa17 @LucianaBenotti @daniel_hers @IfeAdebara @YongCaoPlus @LauraCabelloPi @LiZhou21
New deadline (May 6) for the Cross Cultural Considerations in NLP workshop @c3_nlp (co-located w/ @aclmeeting) sites.google.com/corp/view/c3nlp Looking forward to your submissions! Co-organized w/ @sunipa17 @LucianaBenotti @daniel_hers @IfeAdebara @YongCaoPlus @LauraCabelloPi @LiZhou21 https://t.co/PBmGSYuBcp
🤔How many languages can #ChatGPT identify? Check our latest paper accepted #naacl2024 findings. It was fun working on this with @WeiRuiChen01 taking the lead.
🤔How many languages can #ChatGPT identify? Check our latest paper accepted #naacl2024 findings. It was fun working on this with @WeiRuiChen01 taking the lead.
🎉🎉 Thrilled to introduce 🦚 Peacock: a family of Arabic Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) and Benchmarks! 🚀. 🦚 Peacock is the first family of multimodal, multidialectal Arabic LLM with incredible fluency. It can write ✍️ fluent Arabic dialects, in addition to Modern…
* Language is low bandwidth: less than 12 bytes/second. A person can read 270 words/minutes, or 4.5 words/second, which is 12 bytes/s (assuming 2 bytes per token and 0.75 words per token). A modern LLM is typically trained with 1x10^13 two-byte tokens, which is 2x10^13 bytes.…
Today, we are excited to inform the Yoruba Wikipedia community and the general public that we have launched the first versions of training materials on how to contribute to Yoruba @Wikipedia. You can now learn how to contribute to the Yoruba Wikipedia using audiovisual materials.
If you want to finetune #Gemma 7b on a free Colab instance, have a notebook! It's 2.5x faster and uses 70% less VRAM than HF with @UnslothAI - no more OOMs! The notebook also has 2x faster inference for Gemma, how to merge and save to llama.cpp GGUF, vLLM colab.research.google.com/drive/10NbwlsR…
Every native speaker uses linguistic rules but don't know what the rules are.
@StevenBird @JeffDean ☝important thread on the goals of NLP for Local and Indigenous language communities. In our #EACL2024 paper, we consider how to ethically build NLP technologies that serve the needs of Indigenous communities. x.com/benhutchinson/… @nedcpr @DrCheldreth
@StevenBird @JeffDean ☝important thread on the goals of NLP for Local and Indigenous language communities. In our #EACL2024 paper, we consider how to ethically build NLP technologies that serve the needs of Indigenous communities. x.com/benhutchinson/… @nedcpr @DrCheldreth
Twi TTS is now available in our API. translation [dot] ghananlp [dot] org If you have a chance to try it, please let us know how it goes
Twi TTS is now available in our API. translation [dot] ghananlp [dot] org If you have a chance to try it, please let us know how it goes
We have started posting CMU Advanced NLP lecture videos on YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=… Check out the first 7! 1. Overview of NLP 2. Word Representation 3. Language Modeling 4. Sequence Modeling 5. Transformers 6. Generation Algorithms (by @abertsch72) 7. Prompting
We have started posting CMU Advanced NLP lecture videos on YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=… Check out the first 7! 1. Overview of NLP 2. Word Representation 3. Language Modeling 4. Sequence Modeling 5. Transformers 6. Generation Algorithms (by @abertsch72) 7. Prompting
An overview of the noteworthy reads in Machine Translation and Multilingual #NLProc from arXiv, December 23 and January 24 edition. 📰 Take a look at the post: jlibovicky.github.io//2024/02/06/MT… or on Medium medium.com/@jlibovicky/hi…
SIB-200 is now on huggingface datasets huggingface.co/datasets/Davla…
SIB-200 is now on huggingface datasets huggingface.co/datasets/Davla…
Sharing some preliminary work published at the 4th African Human Computer Interaction Conference (AfriCHI). I became interested in this topic upon encountering a case of generative AI-produced disinformation during last year's Nigerian elections. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…
Our paper, "Cultural Considerations in AI Systems for the Global South," is now published in the ACM Digital Library! Are you interested in exploring how the HCI and AI communities have been addressing culture and the design of AI systems focused on the Global South? Our #AfriCHI…
OLMo-7b is finally out 🎉, and we are releasing everything; weights, intermediate checkpoints, training code and logs, training data and toolkit, evaluation and adaptation code and data. Most of it has been released, and the rest is coming soon. OLMo-65b and Adapted OLMo-7b are…
The 5th AfricaNLP Workshop co-located at #ICLR2024 is still open to receiving your papers. Deadline for submission is 9th of February AoE. Visit for more details: sites.google.com/view/africanlp…
The 5th AfricaNLP Workshop co-located at #ICLR2024 is still open to receiving your papers. Deadline for submission is 9th of February AoE. Visit for more details: sites.google.com/view/africanlp…
Following NAACL 2022 D&I efforts, we are launching a call for affinity group workshops. Please find more details in the following link: docs.google.com/document/d/13g…
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Finally, my time as a 2023-24 fellow of the Wallace House Center for Journalists, University of Michigan, is officially over. Sharing the past eight months with the faces in these pictures has been the honour of a lifetime. Each of them is extraordinary in their own way, but…
Nigeria desperately needs an elite. The current excuse for an elite are just poverty-stricken people who happen to have a lot of money. There's no difference between this stunt by Yahaya Bello and an office assistant who steals the diesel money to buy Frisocrem for his hungry…
Yahaya Bello's contract with American International School of Abuja to pay $845,000 school fees in advance. Will my dear Kogi state ever recover from this ? There was a time civil servants were being paid as low as N6,000 I remember when friends and relatives back home who were…
28 years ago, I dropped out of high school in small town Canada. After much meandering, 16 years ago I got a BA in psychology & philosophy, moved to NYC to do research, and decided to try this grad school thing. 9 years ago I got a PhD from Yale... and today I got tenure at…
Two. More. Weeks. Looking forward to your submissions to the C3NLP workshop.
📣 In response to popular demand, we have now pushed back our deadline for direct submissions to May 6th, 2024! 🎉 Excited for all the great work coming our way!
Learn more about the Nigerian Multilingual Large Language Model launched in partnership with @awarritech and @DataDotOrg. Really looking forward to this taking off as we develop stronger language representation in developing Artificial Intelligence solutions #NAIS…
ANNOUNCEMENT 3 - Nigerian Multilingual Large Language Model The launch of Nigeria’s first Multilingual Large Language Model (LLM) through a partnership between @awarritech, @DataDotOrg, @NITDANigeria and @NCAIRNigeria. The LLM will be trained on 5 low resource languages and…
God has told us to move mountains with our words, but many of us are actually building mountains against ourselves with our tongue. Death and life are in the power of the tongue. When you speak, you create an image within that either makes things easier or much more difficult.
@bosuntijani @awarritech @DataDotOrg Great project, why not collect the data on Mozilla Common Voice commonvoice.mozilla.org/yo instead of creating a new platform.
@davlanade @bosuntijani @awarritech @DataDotOrg This is what I was thinking yesterday and surprisingly, @AbrahamOwos been saying same. CommonVoice has largely solve this but maybe they just want to own their own platform too.
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@LucianaBenotti @c3_nlp Thank you Luciana 🙏 Several ideas from this talk are written up in my EACL’24 paper with Dean Yibarbuk "Centering the Speech Community" aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-long…
got flown into new york by @jpmorgan to work at their NYC HQ to tackle an operations expansion problem for a firm. trained a couple models, ran a couple MCMC simulations, did some linear programming optimization & few other simple concepts, very intriguing problem but ……
On my way to Nouakchott University, Mauritania, to give a keynote at the "I2COMSAPP" International Conference - Artificial Intelligence and its Applications in the Age of Digital Transformation" where I am also organizing a workshop on “Generative AI in the Era of LLMs”. This is…
Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate Tunde Onakoya has broken the record for the longest chess marathon after playing for an extraordinary 60 hours nonstop under the bright lights of New York City’s Times Square cnn.it/3JqLptC
Nigerias Fisayo @fisayosoyombo at #IJF24 @journalismfest
60 Hours for those who dare to dream! 60 Hours for the millions of children who have been told to abandon their dreams! 60 Hours because one person decided that there is no future worth dreaming of that does not include them! It is now #Tunde60HoursofChess @Tunde_OD
Nigeria’s Fisayo Soyombo @fisayosoyombo at @journalismfest #IJF24
Congratulations to Chess Master Tunde Onakoya on breaking the world chess marathon record in Times Square, New York. Your journey from Lagos, Nigeria to global recognition embodies the spirit of our great city. @Tunde_OD continues to demonstrate that greatness can emerge from…