🦁📢We're hiring a PhD student to work on interpretability for Protein Language Models, and there are now two weeks left to apply! Find out more on our website: lionlabnlp.github.io/jobs/ai…

🏹 Job alert: PhD student position in Interpretability for Protein Language Models at Leipzig University 📍 Leipzig 🇩🇪 ⏰ 15 October 🔗 bit.ly/3V63Gpm

🦁LION Lab is hiring! 🧑‍🔬One fully funded PhD student (TVL-13 100%) for 3 years 🧪Topic: Interpretability for Protein Language Models 👥Advised by @LAWeissweiler together with Clara Schoeder 🌍Leipzig, Germany 🔗Apply by Oct 15 lionlabnlp.github.io/jobs/ai… Please share! #NLProc #NLP

Yesterday we had @anja_reu from Technion visiting us to give a talk on Interpretability for Generative Information Retrieval. The talk was a cool example to show that interpretability can also be actionable. Thank you very much for joining us, Anja!

🗣️Today we had the pleasure of hosting Bastian Bunzeck for a talk on how LLMs are not usage-based (yet). We learned a lot about the challenges of training smaller language models on dialogue data and evaluating from a production-based perspective. Thanks for coming, Bastian!

🗣️We were delighted yesterday to welcome Nina Böbel to our lab for a talk on Language as a Linguistic Network. Thanks for coming and patiently teaching us about construction networks, Nina!

🔗You can find more information about our work on our website: lionlabnlp.github.io

Toshiki Nakai has a B.A. in interdisciplinary studies from Waseda University🇯🇵 and an M.Sc. in Language Science and Technology from Saarland🇩🇪. He's interested in mechanistic interpretability for multilingual LLMs. Welcome, Toshiki!🥳

Jacob Lee Suchardt has a B.A. in Computational Linguistics and Japanese from Bochum🇩🇪 and an M.A. in Language Technology from Gothenburg🇸🇪. He's interested in multilinguality and linguistic competency of language models, as well as speech processing. Welcome, Jacob! 🥳

Hello world! We are LION(Linguistically-Oriented NLP) Lab, a new research group at Leipzig University, working on interpretability and evaluation of (multilingual) language models, and the application of NLP methods to linguistics, esp. typology! Meet our PhD students below🧵