Daniel Hershcovich

Decoding Alignment: A Critical Survey of LLM Development Initiatives through Value-setting and Data-centric Lens AI Alignment, primarily in the form of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), has been a cornerstone of the post-training phase in developing Large Language Models (LLMs). It has also been...

New preprint: "Decoding Alignment: A Critical Survey of LLM Development Initiatives through Value-setting and Data-centric Lens" 🔍 Beyond a survey, this is a presentation of a series of concerns on what we could frame as "corporate" alignment #llms #ai arxiv.org/abs/2508.16982

Paper title "Cultural Evaluations of Vision-Language Models Have a Lot to Learn from Cultural Theory"

I am excited to announce our latest work 🎉 "Cultural Evaluations of Vision-Language Models Have a Lot to Learn from Cultural Theory". We review recent works on culture in VLMs and argue for deeper grounding in cultural theory to enable more inclusive evaluations.

Paper 🔗: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.22793

🚀New Preprint🚀
Can Multimodal Retrieval Enhance Cultural Awareness in Vision-Language Models?

Excited to introduce RAVENEA, a new benchmark aimed at evaluating cultural understanding in VLMs through RAG.
arxiv.org/abs/2505.14462

More details:👇

This incredible workshop is starting now! Join at room "Pecos" if you're at @naaclmeeting.bsky.social

📣 Excited that our C3NLP 2025 Workshop program is finalized — just one week to go! 🎉

Full program: c3nlp.github.io

Co-organized with @vinodkpg.bsky.social @sunipadev.bsky.social @lucianabenotti.bsky.social @yongcao.bsky.social @danielhers.bsky.social Laura Cabello, Ife Adebara, and Li Zhou. ❤️

@yongcao.bsky.social, Haijiang Liu, @rnv.bsky.social, @iaugenstein.bsky.social, @paul-rottger.bsky.social, @danielhers.bsky.social. Specializing Large Language Models to Simulate Survey Response Distributions for Global Populations.
arxiv.org/abs/2502.07068
#NAACL2025 #NLProc

3-year Postdoc in Natural Language Processing and Law

We are hiring a law+NLP postdoc in Copenhagen! Deadline April 7:
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Culture is not trivia: sociocultural theory for cultural NLP. By Naitian Zhou and David Bamman from the Berkeley School of Information and Isaac L. Bleaman from Berkeley Linguistics.

There's been a lot of work on "culture" in NLP, but not much agreement on what it is.

A position paper by me, @dbamman.bsky.social, and @ibleaman.bsky.social on cultural NLP: what we want, what we have, and how sociocultural linguistics can clarify things.

Website: naitian.org/culture-not-...

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📣 C3NLP 2025 CFP now out 🎉

We’re thrilled to announce C3NLP will be at NAACL 2025 in Albuquerque, New Mexico! 🌎

📅 Workshop Details: c3nlp.github.io