Research - Papers
Explore a selection of our published work on a variety of key research challenges in AI.
Diverging Preferences: When do Annotators Disagree and do Models Know?
We examine diverging preferences in human-labeled preference datasets. We develop a taxonomy of disagreement sources spanning 10 categories across four high-level classes -- task underspecification,…
SafetyAnalyst: Interpretable, transparent, and steerable safety moderation for AI behavior
The ideal AI safety moderation system would be both structurally interpretable (so its decisions can be reliably explained) and steerable (to align to safety standards and reflect a community's…
Holodeck: Language Guided Generation of 3D Embodied AI Environments
3D simulated environments play a critical role in Embodied AI, but their creation requires expertise and extensive manual effort, restricting their diversity and scope. To miti-gate this limitation,…
RewardBench: Evaluating Reward Models for Language Modeling
Reward models (RMs) are at the crux of successfully using RLHF to align pretrained models to human preferences, yet there has been relatively little study that focuses on evaluation of those models.…
Superlatives in Context: Modeling the Implicit Semantics of Superlatives
Superlatives are used to single out elements with a maximal/minimal property. Semantically, superlatives perform a set comparison: something (or some things) has the min/max property out of a set.…
Re-evaluating Automatic LLM System Ranking for Alignment with Human Preference
Evaluating and ranking the capabilities of different LLMs is crucial for understanding their performance and alignment with human preferences. Due to the high cost and time-consuming nature of human…
Social-RAG: Retrieving from Group Interactions to Socially Ground Proactive AI Generation to Group Preferences
AI agents are increasingly tasked with making proactive suggestions in online spaces where groups collaborate, but can be unhelpful or even annoying, due to not fitting the group's preferences or…
Answer, Assemble, Ace: Understanding How LMs Answer Multiple Choice Questions
Multiple-choice question answering (MCQA) is a key competence of performant transformer language models that is tested by mainstream benchmarks. However, recent evidence shows that models can have…
DiscoveryBench: Towards Data-Driven Discovery with Large Language Models
Can the rapid advances in code generation, function calling, and data analysis using large language models (LLMs) help automate the search and verification of hypotheses purely from a set of…
Generalization v.s. Memorization: Tracing Language Models' Capabilities Back to Pretraining Data
The impressive capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have sparked debate over whether these models genuinely generalize to unseen tasks or predominantly rely on memorizing vast amounts of…