Researcher Profile
Editor reviewedHybrid Transformer–Mamba language models (Jamba)
Associate professor at the Technion and visiting researcher at the Kempner Institute for the 2025-2026 academic year
A high-signal researcher for understanding what large language models represent internally, especially where interpretability, robustness, and multilingual NLP meet.
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March 18, 2026
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Interpretability and probing of neural language models
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Robustness, safety, and controllability in NLP
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Multilingual and multimodal language-model analysis
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Hybrid Transformer–Mamba language models (Jamba)
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Jamba: A Hybrid Transformer-Mamba Language Model
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Jamba-1.5: Hybrid Transformer-Mamba Models at Scale
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