The Natural Language Learning (NLL) reading group is a student-run group at UT Austin and part of the
UT Austin NLP and Computational Linguistics community.
We discuss recent papers in NLP, ML, and Computational Linguistics, and occasionally host invited talks.
All students, postdocs, and faculty interested in
language technologies are welcome to join!
The group is currently organized by Juan Diego Rodriguez.
September 12, Transformers Represent Belief State Geometry in their Residual Stream. NeurIPS 2024 (pdf)
.September 26, PoE-World: Compositional World Modeling with Products of Programmatic Experts. arXiv 2025 (pdf)
.October 3, Do Vision-Language Models Represent Space and How? Evaluating Spatial Frame of Reference Under Ambiguities. ICLR 2025 (pdf)
.October 24, TBD
November 7, Isha Puri and Mehul Damani (invited talk)
November 21, Benno Krojer (invited talk)
December 5, TBD