Nigel Collier

Full Professor, University of Cambridge

Joined

July 2019

Names

Nigel Collier

Emails

****@cam.ac.uk (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Full Professor

University of Cambridge (cam.ac.uk)

2018 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

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Expertise

natural language processing

information extraction

text mining

language grounding

machine learning for NLP

resources and evaluation

lexical semantics

NLP applications

1995 – 2021

Publications

SimBench: Benchmarking the Ability of Large Language Models to Simulate Human Behaviors
Tiancheng Hu, Joachim Baumann, Lorenzo Lupo, Nigel Collier, Dirk Hovy, Paul Röttger
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
TRIDENT: Benchmarking LLM Safety in Finance, Medicine, and Law
Zheng Hui, Yijiang River Dong, Ehsan Shareghi, Nigel Collier
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
When Should AI Ask: Decision-theoretic Adaptive Communication for LLM Agents
Yijiang River Dong, Tiancheng Hu, Zheng Hui, Caiqi Zhang, Ivan Vulić, Andreea Bobu, Nigel Collier
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Breaking Training Bottlenecks: Effective Reinforcement Learning for Modern Coding Models
Zongqian Li, Shaohan Huang, Zewen Chi, Yixuan Su, Lexin Zhou, Li Dong, Nigel Collier, Furu Wei
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Reinforcement Learning for Better Verbalized Confidence in Long-Form Generation
Caiqi Zhang, Xiaochen Zhu, Chengzu Li, Nigel Collier, Andreas Vlachos
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Beyond the Final Layer: Intermediate Representations for Better Multilingual Calibration in Large Language Models
Ej Zhou, Caiqi Zhang, Tiancheng Hu, Chengzu Li, Nigel Collier, Ivan Vulić, Anna Korhonen
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Beyond the Final Layer: Intermediate Representations for Better Multilingual Calibration in Large Language Models
Ej Zhou, Caiqi Zhang, Tiancheng Hu, Chengzu Li, Nigel Collier, Ivan Vulić, Anna Korhonen
- Mech Interp Workshop (NeurIPS 2025) Poster
- Readers: Everyone
SimBench: Benchmarking the Ability of Large Language Models to Simulate Human Behaviors
Tiancheng Hu, Joachim Baumann, Lorenzo Lupo, Nigel Collier, Dirk Hovy, Paul Röttger
- Social Sim'25
- Readers: Everyone
SimBench: Benchmarking the Ability of Large Language Models to Simulate Human Behaviors
Tiancheng Hu, Joachim Baumann, Lorenzo Lupo, Nigel Collier, Dirk Hovy, Paul Röttger
- NLPOR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Flexi-LoRA: Efficient LoRA Finetuning with Input-Adaptive Dynamic Ranks
Zongqian Li, Yixuan Su, Han Zhou, Zihao Fu, Nigel Collier
- ES-FoMo III
- Readers: Everyone

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