Fernanda Viégas

@viegasf

Human/AI Interaction and data visualization. Professor at Harvard. Co-founder of Google's People+AI Research initiative (PAIR)

fernandaviegas.com Joined February 2009

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Fernanda Viégas @viegasf Jan 21, 2024

Great work by @ghandeharioun and others in PAIR on a new interpretability framework: 🩺Patchscopes

Asma Ghandeharioun @ghandeharioun Jan 15, 2024

🧵Can we “ask” an LLM to “translate” its own hidden representations into natural language? We propose 🩺Patchscopes, a new framework for decoding specific information from a representation by “patching” it into a separate inference pass, independently of its original context. 1/9

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Fernanda Viégas @viegasf May 12, 2023

Visualize transformer attention! ✨

AttentionViz, created by Catherine Yeh and expanded by Yida Chen, helps you explore transformer self-attention by visualizing query and key vectors in a joint embedding.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2305.03210
Website: attentionviz.com

Fernanda Viégas @viegasf May 5, 2023

Toasters have blinking lights, cars have speedometers. Should chatbots have dashboards too?

A speculative essay👉 The System Model and the User Model: Exploring AI Dashboard Design
arxiv.org/abs/2305.02469

Fernanda Viégas @viegasf Mar 28, 2022

The Wind Map turns 10 today! I'm still mesmerized by the powerful force it depicts. hint.fm/wind

Rachel Bara @rachsturges Mar 28, 2022

Ten years ago #OTD, @viegasf and @wattenberg released "wind map." Then came @cambecc's earth.nullschool.net.

My story for Earth Island Journal.

earthisland.org/journal/index.…
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Fernanda Viégas @viegasf Dec 1, 2021

Looking for a postdoc position in data visualization, human-centered machine learning, or both? Consider joining our lab at Harvard!

Here’s the official announcement: main.hercjobs.org/jobs/15670780/…