Shay Cohen
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Researches computational linguistics and statistical learning, especially predicting structure from text, spectral learning and text analysis in finance.
Shay Cohen's lab at Edinburgh works on multilingual, translation & linguistics and learning theory & optimization. 54 papers since 2023, 29 at top venues, mostly Findings of ACL and EMNLP. 7 PhD students. 16 alumni, most often to Amazon and Google.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 14/ year
- at T1 venues
- 54%
- PhD students
- 7
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 16
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 15 papers2026 · T1 8 · collecting
- 14 papers2025 · T1 8
- 15 papers2024 · T1 8
- 10 papers2023 · T1 5
T1 venuesOtherVenues: Findings of ACL, EMNLP, Findings of EMNLP, ACL, NeurIPS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Multilingual, translation & linguistics6 papers
- spectral4 papers
- Learning theory & optimization2 papers
- text1 paper
- text analysis0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202615 papers
- ICML (T1)Can I Have Your Order? Monte-Carlo Tree Search for Slot Filling Ordering in Diffusion Language Models
- Findings of ACLCan LLMs Compress (and Decompress)? Evaluating Code Understanding and Execution via Invertibility
- Findings of ACLCan VLMs Predict Future States? Bootstrapping World Models from Inverse Dynamics
- COLMDifferentiable Faithfulness Alignment for Cross-Model Circuit Transfer
- AAMAS (T1)Integrating Counterfactual Simulations with Language Models for Explaining Multi-Agent Behaviour
- COLMMoRFI: Monotonic Sparse Autoencoder Feature Identification
- ICML (T1)Old Habits Die Hard: How Conversational History Geometrically Traps LLMs
- AutoMLONNX-Net: Towards Universal Representations and Instant Performance Prediction for Neural Architectures
- Findings of ACLPiCSAR: Probabilistic Confidence Selection and Ranking for Reasoning Chains
- NeurIPS (T1)Self-Improving World Modelling with Latent Actions
- Monoclonal Antibodies in Immunodiagnosis and ImmunotherapySpeciefAI: Multi-species mRNA-level Antibody Framework Generation using Transformers
- ICLR (T1)Spectral Attention Steering for Prompt Highlighting
202514 papers
- EMNLP (T1)CoMAT: Chain of Mathematically Annotated Thought Improves Mathematical Reasoning
- ICLR (T1)DEPfold: RNA Secondary Structure Prediction as Dependency Parsing (opens in a new tab)
- ImmunoInformaticsDoggifAI: A Transformer Based Approach for Antibody Caninisation
- Findings of ACLEliciting In-context Retrieval and Reasoning for Long-context Language Models
- EMNLP (T1)Iterative Multilingual Spectral Attribute Erasure
- Findings of EMNLPOne More Question is Enough, Expert Question Decomposition (EQD) Model for Domain Quantitative Reasoning
- CHI (T1)People Attribute Purpose to Autonomous Vehicles When Explaining Their Behavior (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLPersonaLens: A Benchmark for Personalization Evaluation in Conversational AI Assistants
- ICML (T1)PoisonBench: Assessing Large Language Model Vulnerability to Poisoned Preference Data
- KDD (T1)Pre-training Time Series Models with Stock Data Customization
- ACL (T1)Theorem Prover as a Judge for Synthetic Data Generation
- AutoMLTransferrable Surrogates in Expressive Neural Architecture Search Spaces
202415 papers
- NAACL (T1)Are Large Language Models Temporally Grounded? (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLCan Large Language Model Summarizers Adapt to Diverse Scientific Communication Goals? (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLCan Large Language Models Follow Concept Annotation Guidelines? A Case Study on Scientific and Financial Domains (opens in a new tab)
- AAMAS (T1)Causal Explanations for Sequential Decision-Making in Multi-Agent Systems (opens in a new tab)
- SIGIR (T1)CivilSum: A Dataset for Abstractive Summarization of Indian Court Decisions
- NeurIPS (T1)einspace: Searching for Neural Architectures from Fundamental Operations (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPEvaluating Automatic Metrics with Incremental Machine Translation Systems (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Interpreting Context Look-ups in Transformers: Investigating Attention-MLP Interactions (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLLarge Language Models Relearn Removed Concepts (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Layer by Layer: Uncovering Where Multi-Task Learning Happens in Instruction-Tuned Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- NAACL (T1)LeanReasoner: Boosting Complex Logical Reasoning with Lean (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPModeling News Interactions and Influence for Financial Market Prediction (opens in a new tab)
202310 papers
- Findings of EMNLPA Joint Matrix Factorization Analysis of Multilingual Representations (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)AMR Parsing is Far from Solved: GrAPES, the Granular AMR Parsing Evaluation Suite (opens in a new tab)
- EACLBERT is not The Count: Learning to Match Mathematical Statements with Proofs (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Detecting and Mitigating Hallucinations in Multilingual Summarisation (opens in a new tab)
- TACL (T1)Erasure of Unaligned Attributes from Neural Representations (opens in a new tab)
- EACLGold Doesn't Always Glitter: Spectral Removal of Linear and Nonlinear Guarded Attribute Information (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Knowledge Base Question Answering for Space Debris Queries (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPPMIndiaSum: Multilingual and Cross-lingual Headline Summarization for Languages in India (opens in a new tab)
- In LRERant or Rave: Variation over Time in the Language of Online Reviews (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)The Larger They Are, the Harder They Fail: Language Models do not Recognize Identifier Swaps in Python (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went16 listed, 50% to industry
Industry 3Academia 3
Most often to
- Amazon
Also to
- University of Edinburgh
Apply to EdinburghFall 2027
Not announced yet
Informatics PhD
- Round
- Rolling (funding consideration)
- Opens
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- GRE
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- English
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- Fee
- none
Not yet confirmed for this intake.
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