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,…
MIB: A Mechanistic Interpretability Benchmark
How can we know whether new mechanistic interpretability methods achieve real improvements? In pursuit of meaningful and lasting evaluation standards, we propose MIB, a benchmark with two tracks…
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…
Language Modeling by Language Models
Can we leverage LLMs to model the process of discovering novel language model (LM) architectures? Inspired by real research, we propose a multi-agent LLM approach that simulates the conventional…
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,…
Multi-Attribute Constraint Satisfaction via Language Model Rewriting
Obeying precise constraints on top of multiple external attributes is a common computational problem underlying seemingly different domains, from controlled text generation to protein engineering.…
ACE2: accurately learning subseasonal to decadal atmospheric variability and forced responses
Existing machine learning models of weather variability are not formulated to enable assessment of their response to varying external boundary conditions such as sea surface temperature and…
Applying the ACE2 Emulator to SST Green's Functions for the E3SMv3 Global Atmosphere Model
Green's functions are a useful technique for interpreting atmospheric state responses to changes in the spatial pattern of sea surface temperature (SST). Here we train version 2 of the Ai2 Climate…
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.…