Research - Papers
Explore a selection of our published work on a variety of key research challenges in AI.
Estimating the Causal Effect of Early ArXiving on Paper Acceptance
What is the effect of releasing a preprint of a paper before it is submitted for peer review? No randomized controlled trial has been conducted, so we turn to observational data to answer this…
FigurA11y: AI Assistance for Writing Scientific Alt Text
High-quality alt text is crucial for making scientific figures accessible to blind and low-vision readers. Crafting complete, accurate alt text is challenging even for domain experts, as published…
OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models
Language models (LMs) have become ubiquitous in both NLP research and in commercial product offerings. As their commercial importance has surged, the most powerful models have become closed off,…
Dolma: an Open Corpus of Three Trillion Tokens for Language Model Pretraining Research
Information about pretraining corpora used to train the current best-performing language models is seldom discussed: commercial models rarely detail their data, and even open models are often…
MARG: Multi-Agent Review Generation for Scientific Papers
We study the ability of LLMs to generate feedback for scientific papers and develop MARG, a feedback generation approach using multiple LLM instances that engage in internal discussion. By…
How Far Can Camels Go? Exploring the State of Instruction Tuning on Open Resources
In this work we explore recent advances in instruction-tuning language models on a range of open instruction-following datasets. Despite recent claims that open models can be on par with…
SciRepEval: A Multi-Format Benchmark for Scientific Document Representations
Learned representations of scientific documents can serve as valuable input features for downstream tasks without further fine-tuning. However, existing benchmarks for evaluating these…
A Question Answering Framework for Decontextualizing User-facing Snippets from Scientific Documents
Many real-world applications (e.g., note taking, search) require extracting a sentence or paragraph from a document and showing that snippet to a human outside of the source document. Yet, users may…
PaperMage: A Unified Toolkit for Processing, Representing, and Manipulating Visually-Rich Scientific Documents
Despite growing interest in applying natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV) models to the scholarly domain, scientific documents remain challenging to work with. They’re often in…
RCT Rejection Sampling for Causal Estimation Evaluation
Confounding is a significant obstacle to unbiased estimation of causal effects from observational data. For settings with high-dimensional covariates -- such as text data, genomics, or the…