Research - Papers
Explore a selection of our published work on a variety of key research challenges in AI.
From Centralized to Ad-Hoc Knowledge Base Construction for Hypotheses Generation.
Objective To demonstrate and develop an approach enabling individual researchers or small teams to create their own ad-hoc, lightweight knowledge bases tailored for specialized scientific interests,…
TESS: Text-to-Text Self-Conditioned Simplex Diffusion
Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for generation, obtaining strong performance in various domains with continuous-valued inputs. Despite the promises of fully non-autoregressive…
Are Machine Rationales (Not) Useful to Humans? Measuring and Improving Human Utility of Free-Text Rationales
Among the remarkable emergent capabilities of large language models (LMs) is free-text rationalization; beyond a certain scale, large LMs are capable of generating seemingly useful rationalizations,…
Embedding Recycling for Language Models
Training and inference with large neural models is expensive. However, for many application domains, while new tasks and models arise frequently, the underlying doc-uments being modeled remain…
Decomposed Prompting: A Modular Approach for Solving Complex Tasks
Few-shot prompting is a surprisingly powerful way to use Large Language Models (LLMs) to solve various tasks. However, this approach struggles as the task complexity increases or when the individual…
Complexity-Based Prompting for Multi-Step Reasoning
We study the task of prompting large-scale language models to perform multi-step reasoning. Existing work shows that when prompted with a chain of thoughts (CoT), sequences of short sentences…
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…
ArK: Augmented Reality with Knowledge Interactive Emergent Ability
Despite the growing adoption of mixed reality and interactive AI agents, it remains challenging for these systems to generate high quality 2D/3D scenes in unseen environments. The common practice…
Is Reinforcement Learning (Not) for Natural Language Processing?: Benchmarks, Baselines, and Building Blocks for Natural Language Policy Optimization
We tackle the problem of aligning pre-trained large language models (LMs) with human preferences. If we view text generation as a sequential decision-making problem, reinforcement learning (RL)…
Editing Models with Task Arithmetic
Changing how pre-trained models behave -- e.g., improving their performance on a downstream task or mitigating biases learned during pre-training -- is a common practice when developing machine…