MilaNLP Lab
@milanlp
The Milan Natural Language Processing Group #NLProc #AI milanlproc.github.io
It was a pleasure to host @radamihalcea.bsky.social at our weekly lab seminar. Thank you for the inspiring talk and thought-provoking discussion on the importance of the long tail in NLP. We really enjoyed the conversation!
For today's reading group, @veraneplenbroek.bsky.social presented "Old Habits Die Hard: How Conversational History Geometrically Traps LLMs" by Simhi et al. (2026) Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.03308 #NLProc
🧠🤖 It was a pleasure to host @andreadevarda.bsky.social for his talk, "Large Language Models as Models of Human Language(s) and Higher-Level Cognition." A truly inspiring talk! #NLProc
🏆 Congrats to @zeerak.bsky.social and @dirkhovy.bsky.social on the 2016 Test of Time Award! 🎉 "Hateful Symbols or Hateful People? Predictive Features for Hate Speech Detection on Twitter" has shaped research on #hatespeech! Paper: aclanthology.org/N16-2013/ #NLProc
For our last reading group, @pranav-nlp.bsky.social presented "Enhancing University Curricula with Integrated AI Ethics Education: A Comprehensive Approach" by Deb et al. (2025) Link: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #AIEthics #NLProc
For today's reading group, @esradonmez.bsky.social presented "RLHF May Not Reflect Genuine Preferences" by Ghafouri et al. (2026). Interesting thoughts on whether annotations are actually real preferences! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.03238 #NLProc #RLHF
For today's reading group, @marlutz.bsky.social presented "State media control influences large language models" by Waight et al. (2026) Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #NLProc
We were honored to welcome Giulia Barbareschi to our lab for an inspiring conversation on inclusive technology and what NLP should learn from it. Thank you for sharing your insights and vision! #InclusiveTech #Accessibility #NLProc
For today's reading group, Urs Zaberer presented "Toward universal steering and monitoring of AI models" by Beaglehole et al. (2026) Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #NLProc
@taniseceron.bsky.social is presenting her work about political content in pre-training and post-training data at the AI & Society conference. #AIandSociety #NLProc
For today's reading group, @pia-p.bsky.social presented "When Personalization Meets Reality: A Multi-Faceted Analysis of Personalized Preference Learning" by Yijiang River Dong et al. (2025) Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.finding... #NLProc
🎉 Excited to welcome Lorena Calvo Bartolomé to our lab! Her expertise in NLP and signal processing will bring fresh perspectives to our research. She will be working on TOLD, a project exploring voice-based data collection as a richer alternative to written annotation. #NLProc
We had the pleasure of hosting @tresiwald.bsky.social and Alireza Salemi at our latest seminar. Andreas spoke about the reliability of language models through computational argumentation, while Alireza presented his work on personalizing LLMs. Thank you both for the inspiring talks! #NLProc
Welcome @esradonmez.bsky.social! We’re excited to have her with us over the next few months, where she’ll be working on pluralistic alignment.
For today's reading group, @knewmikel.bsky.social presented "Multitask-Bench: Unveiling and Mitigating Safety Gaps in LLMs Fine- tuning" by Essa Jan et al. (2025) Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.coling-... #NLProc
Sending beach vibes, recently @milanlp.bsky.social attended #LREC in beautiful Palma! #NLProc
It was a pleasure to host @marcostranisci.bsky.social and hear about his newly awarded Marie Curie project “DISHARM” - inspiring work and a great discussion! #NLProc
Great discussion in today’s reading group! 📚 @a-lauscher.bsky.social presented “Synthetic Eggs in Many Baskets: The Impact of Synthetic Data Diversity on LLM Fine-Tuning” Link: arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01490 #NLProc
📚 For today's reading group Yujie Ren presented "Safe + Safe = Unsafe? Exploring How Safe Images Can Be Exploited to Jailbreak Large Vision-Language Models" by Cui et al. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.11496 #NLProc
📚 For today's reading group Serena Pugliese presented "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence" by Cheng et al. (2026) Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #NLProc
We were thrilled to host @alexanderhoyle.bsky.social at our lab! His insightful talk on topic modeling sparked great discussions and fresh perspectives across the team. Thanks for the visit, we hope to welcome you back soon! #NLProc
We are delighted to welcome @marlutz.bsky.social to our lab over the next few months! 🎉 She'll work on the representation of different demographic groups in LLMs. #NLProc
For today's Reading Group @carolin-holtermann.bsky.social presented "REL-A.I.: An Interaction-Centered Approach To Measuring Human-LM Reliance" by @kaitlynzhou.bsky.social and colleagues. Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-l... #NLProc
For today’s lab seminar, we had the pleasure of hearing an inspiring talk by Heather Lent on Emerging Ethical Challenges in NLP Research and NLP Security, wherein researchers should strive to uphold the ethical best practices of both NLP and cybersecurity. #NLProc
We're excited to welcome @pia-p.bsky.social who will be visiting our lab for the upcoming months! She is working on personalizing content moderation beyond sociodemographics. #NLProc
Excited to share that @milanlp.bsky.social will be presenting 5 new papers at #EACL2026 and workshops in Rabat 🇲🇦!
🗣️ Last Friday, we had the pleasure of hosting @dustinbwright.com for an insightful talk on “LLMs Lack Perspective and Epistemic Diversity.” The talk explored how diverse are the information and perspectives that people are being exposed to in this new era. #NLProc
📚Yesterday in our reading group, Mareike Lisker presented "Artificial Hivemind: The Open-Ended Homogeneity of Language Models (and Beyond)" by Liwei Jiang et al. (2025) Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.22954 #NLProc