Research Scientist at Ai2, PhD in NLP 🤖 UofA. Ex GoogleDeepMind, MSFTResearch, MilaQuebec https://nouhadziri.github.io/ https://bsky.app/profile/nouhadziri.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/nouhadziri.bsky.social/post/3lqfgglzoy22yHad the great pleasure this week visiting @mbzuai for the trustworthy foundation models symposium where I spoke alongside the brilliant and humble Tomas Mikolov 😍 Tomas is a true pioneer who invented word2vec, RNNLLM toolkit and other works without which Transformers might not have emerged this fast30 May 2025 14:19 +0000at://did:plc:3hcqaiydh4fvsbo744pvbp7o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqfgglzoy22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/nouhadziri.bsky.social/post/3lpcarz6b2k2yI had the great pleasure to contribute to the Singapore Consensus on Global AI Safety Research report with the presence of *Josephine Teo*, the Minister for Digital Development and Information of Singapore 🤩🤩 🔗 Read the paper: aisafetypriorities.org16 May 2025 14:35 +0000at://did:plc:3hcqaiydh4fvsbo744pvbp7o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpcarz6b2k2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/nouhadziri.bsky.social/post/3lo23nbr7v22aSUPER thrilled that our #NAACL2025 paper got the runnerup BEST paper award 😍😍🏆🏆🏆🚀🚀 We show that people rely 30% more on LLMs when they use emphatic expressions (eg "Sure, happy to help") even though the answer is wrong and 10% more when the task involves math questions 😵 📜 arxiv.org/pdf/2407.07950 [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Apr 2025 15:16 +0000at://did:plc:3hcqaiydh4fvsbo744pvbp7o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo23nbr7v22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/nouhadziri.bsky.social/post/3lmzjzylsa224So excited about #ICLR2025 and Singapore!! will be there next week and will be presenting 3 papers: 1 Oral 😍 and 2 posters ⭐️ So excited also about our **LLM Reasoning** workshop, so many cool papers and a stellar lineup of speakers😍 workshop-llm-reasoning-planning.github.io Details: 👇 https://workshop-llm-reasoning-planning.github.io17 Apr 2025 16:36 +0000at://did:plc:3hcqaiydh4fvsbo744pvbp7o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmzjzylsa224https://bsky.app/profile/nouhadziri.bsky.social/post/3llr4ujvf3s2xSuper excited to be speaking at the #icml2025 on Computer Use Agents this summer in Vancouver 🇨🇦 alongside a stellar lineup of speakers! ⏰Submit your work by *May 18, 2025* 📄https://icml-computeruseagents.com [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Apr 2025 14:54 +0000at://did:plc:3hcqaiydh4fvsbo744pvbp7o/app.bsky.feed.post/3llr4ujvf3s2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/nouhadziri.bsky.social/post/3llef4zjmnk26I still can't comprehend how an AC (a professor) accepts the role but then never responds back to emails and never completes their tasks😖! We need urgent 5 emergency reviewers to complete reviews for ACL by the end of today. Area: Ethics, Bias, and Fairness. Please reach out if you can help! Thanks🙏27 Mar 2025 13:17 +0000at://did:plc:3hcqaiydh4fvsbo744pvbp7o/app.bsky.feed.post/3llef4zjmnk26https://bsky.app/profile/nouhadziri.bsky.social/post/3lkbaimties2hI had so much fun in this podcast 💗 I talked about: 🧪 My research journey 💡 The limits and constraints of large language models 🤯 The AI complexity/generative paradox 🧠 Challenges in model reasoning Listen here Youtube: lnkd.in/gseDzxyt Spotify: lnkd.in/gn6QMdcZ #WomenInAI #AIResearch13 Mar 2025 13:51 +0000at://did:plc:3hcqaiydh4fvsbo744pvbp7o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkbaimties2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/nouhadziri.bsky.social/post/3lgq2vestfk2hCurrently in the phase of chasing reviewers and dealing with tight deadlines🥲. If you have the bandwidth, I would greatly appreciate your help in reviewing Demo papers for NAACL 2025 (6 pages). Please fill in this form: forms.office.com/r/W3gTbhttTD Deadline: Feb 1st27 Jan 2025 13:40 +0000at://did:plc:3hcqaiydh4fvsbo744pvbp7o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgq2vestfk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/nouhadziri.bsky.social/post/3lgg3storzc2tInterested in knowing more about LLMs agents and in contributing to this topic?🚀 📢We're thrilled to announce REALM: The first Workshop for Research on Agent Language Models 🤖 #ACL2025NLP in Vienna 🎻 We have an exciting lineup of speakers 🗓️ Submit your work by *March 1st* @aclmeeting.bsky.social23 Jan 2025 14:29 +0000at://did:plc:3hcqaiydh4fvsbo744pvbp7o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgg3storzc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/nouhadziri.bsky.social/post/3lfxmkpxas22hReasoning, search & planning are trending these days so I'm thrilled to announce our #ICLR2025 Workshop on LLMs Reasoning and Planning to answer your most burning questions with our exciting lineup of speakers 🔥 ⏰ Submit your work by Feb 2nd 📄 Details: tinyurl.com/33mxwvs217 Jan 2025 20:19 +0000at://did:plc:3hcqaiydh4fvsbo744pvbp7o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfxmkpxas22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/nouhadziri.bsky.social/post/3ldjgzi7qzs2j📣 We’re looking for additional reviewers for the NAACL Demo track to review up to 3 papers. The papers are short (6 pages) and fun/entertaining to read as they include videos Please submit your interest here: forms.office.com/r/W3gTbhttTD ⏰ Review start: Dec 19th, 2024 🔚 Review due: Jan 24th, 2025 https://forms.office.com/r/W3gTbhttTD17 Dec 2024 18:12 +0000at://did:plc:3hcqaiydh4fvsbo744pvbp7o/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldjgzi7qzs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/nouhadziri.bsky.social/post/3ldgwusx6ek2nAnd that was a wrap #NeurIPS2024 was intense, fast-paced, rich, packed🔥 Super happy with the success of Sys2 Reasoning: a true concentration of top AI figures who pioneered the field Yoshua Benjio@yoshuabengio.bsky.social Dima Bahdaneau, Melanie Mitchel, Jason Weston, Dawn Song, Joshua Tenenbaum👇16 Dec 2024 18:18 +0000at://did:plc:3hcqaiydh4fvsbo744pvbp7o/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldgwusx6ek2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/nouhadziri.bsky.social/post/3ldec2p7vgc2lSuper excited today for the System 2 Reasoning at Scale workshop, come join us to discover how to equip AI systems with reasoning that's optimized for renewable energy and not fossil fuel 🔥🚀 ⏰When? today, 9am-5:30pm 📍West Ballroom B s2r-at-scale-workshop.github.io #NeurIPS202415 Dec 2024 17:00 +0000at://did:plc:3hcqaiydh4fvsbo744pvbp7o/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldec2p7vgc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/nouhadziri.bsky.social/post/3ldbxto4kks2nCome to the Language Gamification workshop to learn about multi-agent learning, LLMs search, inference-time algorithms, the talks are really high quality and the speakers are top-notch🔥 ⏰When? today 📍Where? West Meeting Room 220-222 language-gamification.github.io #NeurIPS202414 Dec 2024 18:52 +0000at://did:plc:3hcqaiydh4fvsbo744pvbp7o/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldbxto4kks2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/nouhadziri.bsky.social/post/3lczuz74lyk22We need potential emergency reviewers for the Ethics, Bias, & Fairness track at #ACL2025 Emergency reviewing will happen around March 16-28. Please sign in if you can review: https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/e/1FAIpQLSfcL6s2qu6ymOCB0YFvJl92o0X83Epe7kxGDBCjawBk5s6-0w/viewform?usp=header&pli=111 Dec 2024 13:40 +0000at://did:plc:3hcqaiydh4fvsbo744pvbp7o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lczuz74lyk22https://bsky.app/profile/nouhadziri.bsky.social/post/3lcxycgip2c2bCome to the inference-time tutorial today🔥 ⏰When? Today at 1:30pm PST 📍Where? West Exhibition Hall C #NeurIPS2024 https://cmu-l3.github.io/neurips2024-inference-tutorial/10 Dec 2024 19:34 +0000at://did:plc:3hcqaiydh4fvsbo744pvbp7o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcxycgip2c2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/nouhadziri.bsky.social/post/3lcl4wx5nlk2a#NeurIPS2024 remains my favorite venue, excited to be there next week🥳Reach out to chat, I will *Speak at the panel of the Inference-Time Algorithms tutorial ⏰Dec 10 *Give a talk at the Language Gamification workshop: in-context learning /scaling inference ⏰Dec 14 More👇05 Dec 2024 16:52 +0000at://did:plc:3hcqaiydh4fvsbo744pvbp7o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcl4wx5nlk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/nouhadziri.bsky.social/post/3lcj5rg2xjc22Enjoying being at Mountain View today and feeling like summer with Christmassy vibe 18C🏖️😎 Had the pleasure to speak at the MLCommons panel for the release of their first safety benchmark AlLuminate v1.0. It’s incredible to witness such great open community work coming together🎉 Use AlLuminate!04 Dec 2024 22:02 +0000at://did:plc:3hcqaiydh4fvsbo744pvbp7o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcj5rg2xjc22https://bsky.app/profile/nouhadziri.bsky.social/post/3lcg6us3j622a🎊Excited for #neurips2024 and our "System 2 Reasoning at Scale" workshop. We have an excited lineup of speakers who will answer your most burning questions about AI and reasoning 🚀 🔥Got spicy questions? Submit & vote here: https://app.sli.do/event/dJNU63bWxzk2UwpqMFVnNL03 Dec 2024 17:43 +0000at://did:plc:3hcqaiydh4fvsbo744pvbp7o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcg6us3j622ahttps://bsky.app/profile/nouhadziri.bsky.social/post/3lbkmu57nts2h🚀New work🔥 CREATIVITY Index 🔥 This work is SO close to my heart, I loved every part of the experiments. It provided me with so much scientific fulfillment. Intellectual works have become so rare in the hysterical race of AI, so if you care about science give this work a read! Read below hot takes: [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Nov 2024 18:39 +0000at://did:plc:3hcqaiydh4fvsbo744pvbp7o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbkmu57nts2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/nouhadziri.bsky.social/post/3lbhxrniqy42yOk ✨an inaugural post✨ l had the pleasure yesterday to lead the agentic AI safety sessions in Columbia/Mozilla safety convening and meet with the 🇫🇷French Minister of AI, Madame Clara Chappaz with whom I discussed the urgency of regulatory frameworks to enable safe deployment of agents👇21 Nov 2024 17:17 +0000at://did:plc:3hcqaiydh4fvsbo744pvbp7o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbhxrniqy42y