Research - Papers
Explore a selection of our published work on a variety of key research challenges in AI.
“How’s Shelby the Turtle today?” Strengths and Weaknesses of Interactive Animal-Tracking Maps for Environmental Communication
Interactive wildlife-tracking maps on public-facing websites and apps have become a popular way to share scientific data with the public as more conservationists and wildlife researchers deploy…
Critical Thinking for Language Models
This paper takes a first step towards a critical thinking curriculum for neural auto-regressive language models. We introduce a synthetic text corpus of deductively valid arguments, and use this…
Divergence Frontiers for Generative Models: Sample Complexity, Quantization Level, and Frontier Integral
The spectacular success of deep generative models calls for quantitative tools to measure their statistical performance. Divergence frontiers have recently been proposed as an evaluation framework…
Memory-efficient Transformers via Top-k Attention
Following the success of dot-product attention in Transformers, numerous approximations have been recently proposed to address its quadratic complexity with respect to the input length. While these…
Overview and Insights from the SciVer Shared Task on Scientific Claim Verification
We present an overview of the SCIVER shared task, presented at the 2nd Scholarly Document Processing (SDP) workshop at NAACL 2021. In this shared task, systems were provided a scientific claim and a…
RobustNav: Towards Benchmarking Robustness in Embodied Navigation
As an attempt towards assessing the robustness of embodied navigation agents, we propose ROBUSTNAV, a framework to quantify the performance of embodied navigation agents when exposed to a wide…
TIMEDIAL: Temporal Commonsense Reasoning in Dialog
Everyday conversations require understanding everyday events, which in turn, requires understanding temporal commonsense concepts interwoven with those events. Despite recent progress with massive…
A Dataset of Information-Seeking Questions and Answers Anchored in Research Papers
Readers of academic research papers often read with the goal of answering specific questions. Question Answering systems that can answer those questions can make consumption of the content much more…
Choose Your Own Adventure: Paired Suggestions in Collaborative Writing for Evaluating Story Generation Models
Story generation is an open-ended and subjective task, which poses a challenge for evaluating story generation models. We present Choose Your Own Adventure, a collaborative writing setup for…
Extracting a Knowledge Base of Mechanisms from COVID-19 Papers
The urgency of mitigating COVID-19 has spawned a large and diverse body of scientific literature that is challenging for researchers to navigate. This explosion of information has stimulated…