machine learning for health at microsoft research, based in cambridge UK 🌻 she/herhttps://bsky.app/profile/hylandsl.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/hylandsl.bsky.social/post/3mk7uca6oc224The #ICLR2026 fomo is already intense24 Apr 2026 06:06 +0000at://did:plc:jdtvwiusvyitistp225yzqh2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk7uca6oc224https://bsky.app/profile/hylandsl.bsky.social/post/3mchbid7jak27the greatest joy of being a computational scientist is having the computer work for you while you do something else15 Jan 2026 09:29 +0000at://did:plc:jdtvwiusvyitistp225yzqh2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mchbid7jak27https://bsky.app/profile/hylandsl.bsky.social/post/3m7rmvueqfs2q“Interpretability plays a special role in machine learning because instead of focusing on making the AI smarter, we focus on improving human insight. I think this is the most important category of interpretability research, and we do not do enough of it.” 😎😎😎 [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Dec 2025 08:04 +0000at://did:plc:jdtvwiusvyitistp225yzqh2/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7rmvueqfs2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/hylandsl.bsky.social/post/3m76eqhqepc2nremember to always include a QR code on your poster. spotted at #eurips04 Dec 2025 16:18 +0000at://did:plc:jdtvwiusvyitistp225yzqh2/app.bsky.feed.post/3m76eqhqepc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/hylandsl.bsky.social/post/3m6cs6uvguk2hfound a file from PhD days with the FORTY-EIGHT ways "ACE inhibitor" was encoded in the EHR system we were working wth23 Nov 2025 17:04 +0000at://did:plc:jdtvwiusvyitistp225yzqh2/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6cs6uvguk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/hylandsl.bsky.social/post/3m5r7ogsqyk2ffinally got around to booking my travel for #EurIPS2025! Looking forward to connecting with the European ML scene in Copenhagen16 Nov 2025 17:17 +0000at://did:plc:jdtvwiusvyitistp225yzqh2/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5r7ogsqyk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/hylandsl.bsky.social/post/3lzewqx76cs2zuv is so good [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Sep 2025 22:25 +0000at://did:plc:jdtvwiusvyitistp225yzqh2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzewqx76cs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/hylandsl.bsky.social/post/3lwejcaz6oc2pwhat is the purpose of VQA datasets where text-only models do better than random?14 Aug 2025 14:08 +0000at://did:plc:jdtvwiusvyitistp225yzqh2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwejcaz6oc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/hylandsl.bsky.social/post/3lwbwuyhkyk2clads can we stop13 Aug 2025 13:34 +0000at://did:plc:jdtvwiusvyitistp225yzqh2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwbwuyhkyk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/hylandsl.bsky.social/post/3lv6ztnwugc26it's frustrating how inefficient review assignments are: we target a minimum number of completed reviews per paper but in accounting for inevitable no-shows, some people end up doing technically unnecessary (if still beneficial) reviews30 Jul 2025 16:23 +0000at://did:plc:jdtvwiusvyitistp225yzqh2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv6ztnwugc26https://bsky.app/profile/hylandsl.bsky.social/post/3lua55lreg22gNew work from my team! arxiv.org/abs/2507.12950 Intersecting mechanistic interpretability and health AI 😎 We trained and interpreted sparse autoencoders on MAIRA-2, our radiology MLLM. We found a range of human-interpretable radiology reporting concepts, but also many uninterpretable SAE features. https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.1295018 Jul 2025 09:30 +0000at://did:plc:jdtvwiusvyitistp225yzqh2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lua55lreg22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/hylandsl.bsky.social/post/3lslfgmfpsk2vThis is cool arxiv.org/abs/2505.18235. Linear representation hypothesis discourse needs more differential geometry i m o https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.1823527 Jun 2025 10:07 +0000at://did:plc:jdtvwiusvyitistp225yzqh2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lslfgmfpsk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/hylandsl.bsky.social/post/3lrvftaeeak2mLimited time offer: I get an email every time someone fills in this form, so act now to add to the chaos of my inbox before I figure out how to turn this off [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Jun 2025 16:16 +0000at://did:plc:jdtvwiusvyitistp225yzqh2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrvftaeeak2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/hylandsl.bsky.social/post/3lrncphbbps2vA strange thing about living near Duxford is having WW2-era planes flying overhead on a regular basis.15 Jun 2025 10:59 +0000at://did:plc:jdtvwiusvyitistp225yzqh2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrncphbbps2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/hylandsl.bsky.social/post/3lqcelezplk2cNeurIPS 2025 call for ethics reviewers https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2025/CallForEthicsReviewers #neurips202529 May 2025 09:08 +0000at://did:plc:jdtvwiusvyitistp225yzqh2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqcelezplk2c