Shadab Choudhury

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(He/Him). Incoming PhD at LARA Lab @UMBC, previously at Mohsin Lab @BRACU | Accessibility, Explainability and Multimodal DL. My opinions are mine. www.shadabchy.com

A list of 18 reddit posts posts under the result of searching for "EMNLP" in the r/LanguageTechnology subreddit.
A twitter post: Kyunghyun Cho @kchonyc i was made aware of miscitations thanks to the GPTZero team (cc @alexcdot ). ji won and i quickly checked them ourselves and have posted what happened on openreview: https://openreview.net/forum?id=IiEtQPGVyV&noteId=W66rrM5XPk. we have already notified NeurIPS'25 PC's about this issue. i truly thank the GPTZero team for bringing this to our attention as well as raising the awareness of this serious issue (https://gptzero.me/news/neurips/), and at the same time i sincerely apologize to all for our error. There is an image inside the post: We identify the causes of miscitations in this work and provide fixes for them. These miscitations were identified and reported by the GPTZero team. The full report can be found at Nazar Shmatko, Alex Adam and Paul Esau. GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers. January 2026. https://gptzero.me/news/neurips/ We (Park & Cho) used a large-scale language model (LLM; specifically ChatGPT) to generate the citations after giving it author-year in-text citations, titles, or their paraphrases. Most, if not all, of these miscitations, either hallucinated, typoed or misattributed, are incorrect or non-existent bibtex entries fetched by the LLM. We categorize and analyze these citations below. We are submitting an updated version to arXiv (https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21310) and have already uploaded the updated version at https://tinyurl.com/ymb99d7s. We will shortly reach out to the program chairs of NeurIPS'25 as well. We sincerely apologize to the whole community, especially the authors affected, for this grave mistake and thank the GPTZero team for bringing this issue to our attention. (1) Prior work directly relevant to the paper Below are miscitations for papers. Methods in these papers were implemented, or considered for implementation, in our paper as baseline uncertainty quantification methods, baseline sampling methods, or as the base LMs.
Poster titled "Launching HCCS: Inauguration and research dialogue with the HCI Pioneers of Bangladesh". On the bottom left, there are 3 portraits, named Dr Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Dr. Hasan Shahid Ferdous and Dr. Sharifa Sultana
Primary Paper Initiative: IJCAI-ECAI 2026 is launching the Primary Paper Initiative in response to the international AI research community’s call to address challenges and to revitalize the peer review process, while strengthening the reviewers and authors in the process. Under the IJCAI-ECAI 2026 Primary Paper Initiative, every submission is subject to a fee of USD 100. That paper submission fee is waived for primary papers, i.e., papers for which none of the authors appear as an author on any other submission to IJCAI-ECAI 2026. The initiative applies to the main track, Survey Track, and all special tracks, excluding the Journal Track, the Sister Conferences Track, Early Career Highlights, Competitions, Demos, and the Doctoral Consortium. All proceeds generated from the Primary Paper Initiative will be exclusively directed toward the support of the reviewing community of IJCAI-ECAI 2026. To recognize the reviewers’ contributions, the initiative introduces Peer Reviewer Recognition Policy with clearly defined standards (which will be published on the conference web site). The initiative aims to enhance review quality, strengthen accountability, and uphold the scientific excellence of the conference. Details and the FAQ will be published on the IJCAI-ECAI 2026 website.
A twitter post by Lorenzo Xiao with the text: "this shit is real...". An image is attached, and the following text is from the image, translated from Chinese to English: "got an anonymous death threat, need to cancel my trip to NeurIPS. Looking for someone who will take my hotel reservation."
Weitao Tan, @WeihaoTan64 on Twitter, posts: 🚀Introducing Lumine, a generalist AI agent trained within Genshin Impact that can perceive, reason, and act in real time, completing hours-long missions and following diverse instructions within complex 3D open-world environments.🎮 Website: http://lumine-ai.org
The two-men-on-bus meme. The man on the left is staring at a depressing, dark wall, labelled "Submitted to AAAI". The man on the right is happily staring at a bright landscape, labelled "Went to COLM".
the virgin "AGI existential risk" vs the Chad Global Warming Under virgin AGI existential risk: - programmer LARP fantasy that makes coding the single most important skill for saving humanity - fake and made up - entirely based on thought experiments - Zero evidence - assumes that there's this vaguely defined concept known as "intelligence" that can be linearly increased as if it were a mathematical quantity -projects an anthropomorphic drive toward control and power onto algorithms that just do statistics to spit out words; colonialist self-report - sponsored by billionaires who want to make their technology seem more important than it is - blackmails you from the future using faulty logic; doesn't actually make any sense - "oh no, i guess we have to build the Doom Machine now. i guess the course of technological progress is inevitable, oh well" Under "the chad global warming" - incomprehensibly complex and interconnected polycrisis - verified by the entire scientific community - resists ideological simplification - will actually kill you - doesn't even need intelligence to threaten humanity's survival - divine retribution for fossil capital's greed and wanton exploitation of the natural world - reveals deep-rooted flaws with the dominant politico-economic paradigm; demands a fundamental shift of human value systems by its sheer physical existence - billionaires don't want you to think about it because it is too scary
Screenshot that reads: 97.18% of reviews were submitted on time! Unfortunately, 95 author-reviewers missed the deadline, risking desk rejection for up to 112 submissions (if those papers are accepted).
Two screenshots from Twitter showing a Post and a screenshot of a Grok response. Grok includes the phrase "The post analysis only discusses" repeatedly.
Julia Kempe claims: 3/ However, then we understood! We were part of a meta model collapse experiment! After we pointed out the most glaring omissions, Gerstgrasser et al sent a report implying we were being used as the human feedback in a synthetic AI-paper generation loop. Impressive! They simply anticipated our follow-up paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07515) showing that things can be salvaged with human feedback. Indeed, after our feedback, their paper got into COLM - a beautiful confirmation of our theory on feedback-assisted synthetic data :)!
The front page of reuters.com. The top article is titled Black Sea ceasefire on agenda as US talks with Russia begin in Saudi Arabia and shows an image of Patrol boats of Ukraine’s coast guard. The bottom article is Turkey jails Istanbul mayor before trial, stoking opposition anger, with an image of Police using pepper spray on a demonstrator in Istanbul.
frog-goblin-wizard-ahh statue in Sedona
Discussing a paper that uses LLMs to verify claims in research papers by following a chain of references automatically back.
A screenshot showing two prompts between GPT 4 and 4.5 asking GPT 4.5 to playfully roast GPT-4 for its inferior capabilities. People say the left option was better 32% of the time and the right option 25.2% of the time, and the remainder opted to skip.
Image showing Paper title and abstract: Quantifying Monomer–Dimer Distribution of Nanoparticles from Uncorrelated Optical Images Using Deep Learning
Graph of citations from google scholar showing 12 Citations total and a h-index of 2 with 1 citation in 2021, 1 citation in 2022, 4 citations in 2023 and 6 citations in 2024.
A screenshot from AO3 listing several erotic fanfiction of the UHC assassin.
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
A score of 10/10 for the aforementioned quiz.