viktorkewenig.bsky.social
@viktorkewenig.bsky.social
Thank you Gabriella!
July 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
But see for yourself! concreteness.eu

All the thanks to my collaborators @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social and @thelablab.bsky.social and big shout-out to the excellent Stanford NLU online course (this project started as my final submission).
Concreteness Rating
concreteness.eu
July 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Another bonus: these ratings can be generated "in-context", because transformer word embeddings change depending on surrounding semantic information. (Think "I go to the bank to get money" vs "I walk on the sandbank" -> previous methods were not able to differentiate btw these)
July 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The result surpasses SOTA and even the reliability of human raters (at least in English). Interestingly, we were able to extend ratings to other languages with a simple translation step (suggesting that there may be something universal about these ratings).
July 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Why a multimodal transformer? We know that visual information is important for accurately rating concrete words. And because emotional information is important for accurately rating abstract words, we fine-tuned our model on a dataset of emotional image descriptions.
July 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
@emollick.bsky.social you might be interested in this paper of ours! It was a very nice collab across different orgs.
Effects of LLM Use and Note-Taking On Reading Comprehension and Memory: A Randomised Experiment in Secondary Schools
The rapid uptake of Generative AI, particularly large language models (LLMs), by students raises urgent questions about their effects on learning. We compared t
papers.ssrn.com
May 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I should say I mean this in a positive way for you, big fan of your work.
March 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I think the lesson here is that most likely what you are projecting onto someone is more telling of who you are than who that person is.
March 8, 2025 at 10:59 AM
also that’s such an arrogant statement.
February 16, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I guess attention is all you need after all
February 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
…but true
February 15, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I wish a smart mind like yours would not focus on the negative side for likes, but instead try to think about what we can do with the technology we have.
February 15, 2025 at 11:33 PM
that’s personal and not to the point.
February 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
what are those other approaches and what impact have they had? I 100% appreciate the skepticism but it just works. No matter how many failures you quote it’s absolutely incredible we have a model as capable as today’s.
February 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
why always so negative, Gary?
February 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
@hugospiers.bsky.social yes it really was a great review process, can only recommend.
December 5, 2024 at 9:41 PM
thanks for your support 💪
December 5, 2024 at 9:39 PM