Ofir Press Marks a Decade of Language Modeling with Old Rejection Letter

Ofir Press marked ten years in language modeling by sharing a rejection letter for his first paper, which proposed weight tying and was dismissed as language modeling being an unrealistic task.

2026-09-06 ~ 2026-09-06 · 2 related posts

• OfirPress marks 10 years in language modeling; his weight tying paper was once rejected as unrealistic — OfirPress · 2026-09-06
• Ofir Press shares the 2016 EMNLP rejection of his now-canonical weight-tying paper — OfirPress · 2026-09-06