Research - Papers
Explore a selection of our published work on a variety of key research challenges in AI.
NLPositionality: Characterizing Design Biases of Datasets and Models
Design biases in NLP systems, such as performance differences for different populations, often stem from their creator's positionality, i.e., views and lived experiences shaped by identity and…
Do Androids Laugh at Electric Sheep? Humor"Understanding"Benchmarks from The New Yorker Caption Contest
We challenge AI models to “demonstrate un-derstanding” of the sophisticated multimodal humor of The New Yorker Caption Contest. Concretely, we develop three carefully cir-cumscribed tasks for which…
Visual Programming: Compositional visual reasoning without training
We present VISPROG, a neuro-symbolic approach to solving complex and compositional visual tasks given natural language instructions. VISPROG avoids the need for any task-specific training. Instead,…
The Tail Wagging the Dog: Dataset Construction Biases of Social Bias Benchmarks
How reliably can we trust the scores obtained from social bias benchmarks as faithful indicators of problematic social biases in a given language model? In this work, we study this question by…
Minding Language Models' (Lack of) Theory of Mind: A Plug-and-Play Multi-Character Belief Tracker
Theory of Mind (ToM)$\unicode{x2014}$the ability to reason about the mental states of other people$\unicode{x2014}$is a key element of our social intelligence. Yet, despite their ever more…
LongEval: Guidelines for Human Evaluation of Faithfulness in Long-form Summarization
While human evaluation remains best practice for accurately judging the faithfulness of automatically-generated summaries, few solutions exist to address the increased difficulty and workload when…
CiteSee: Augmenting Citations in Scientific Papers with Persistent and Personalized Historical Context
When reading a scholarly article, inline citations help researchers contextualize the current article and discover relevant prior work. However, it can be challenging to prioritize and make sense of…
Queer In AI: A Case Study in Community-Led Participatory AI
We present Queer in AI as a case study for community-led participatory design in AI. We examine how participatory design and intersectional tenets started and shaped this community's programs over…
Abstract Visual Reasoning with Tangram Shapes
We introduce KiloGram, a resource for studying abstract visual reasoning in humans and machines. Drawing on the history of tangram puzzles as stimuli in cognitive science, we build a richly…
CONDAQA: A Contrastive Reading Comprehension Dataset for Reasoning about Negation
The full power of human language-based communication cannot be realized without negation. All human languages have some form of negation. Despite this, negation remains a challenging phenomenon for…