Research - Papers
Explore a selection of our published work on a variety of key research challenges in AI.
Selective Annotation Makes Language Models Better Few-Shot Learners
Many recent approaches to natural language tasks are built on the remarkable abilities of large language models. Large language models can perform in-context learning, where they learn a new task…
Old dog, new trick: Reservoir computing advances machine learning for climate modeling
Physics-informed machine learning (ML) applied to geophysical simulation is developing explosively. Recently, graph neural net and vision transformer architectures have shown 1-7 day global weather…
S2abEL: A Dataset for Entity Linking from Scientific Tables
Entity linking (EL) is the task of linking a textual mention to its corresponding entry in a knowledge base, and is critical for many knowledge-intensive NLP applications. When applied to tables in…
Answering Questions by Meta-Reasoning over Multiple Chains of Thought
Modern systems for multi-hop question answering (QA) typically break questions into a sequence of reasoning steps, termed chain-of-thought (CoT), before arriving at a final answer. Often, multiple…
A Global Survey of Rotating Convective Updrafts in the GFDL X‐SHiELD 2021 Global Storm Resolving Model
We present the global characteristics of rotating convective updrafts in the 2021 version of GFDL's eXperimental System for High‐resolution prediction on Earth‐to‐Local Domains (X‐SHiELD), a…
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…
ComLittee: Literature Discovery with Personal Elected Author Committees
In order to help scholars understand and follow a research topic, significant research has been devoted to creating systems that help scholars discover relevant papers and authors. Recent approaches…
Relatedly: Scaffolding Literature Reviews with Existing Related Work Sections
Scholars who want to research a scientific topic must take time to read, extract meaning, and identify connections across many papers. As scientific literature grows, this becomes increasingly…
Toxicity in ChatGPT: Analyzing Persona-assigned Language Models
Large language models (LLMs) have shown incredible capabilities and transcended the natural language processing (NLP) community, with adoption throughout many services like healthcare, therapy,…
Beyond Summarization: Designing AI Support for Real-World Expository Writing Tasks
Large language models have introduced exciting new opportunities and challenges in designing and developing new AI-assisted writing support tools. Recent work has shown that leveraging this new…