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My co-lead @KaufCarina and I present: an in-depth investigation of event plausibility judgments in language models.
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arxiv.org/abs/2212.01488
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arxiv.org/abs/2212.01488
Knowledge of event schemas is a vital component of world knowledge. How much of it can be acquired from text corpora via the word-in-context prediction objective?
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We test this Q using a controlled minimal pairs paradigm, with simple event descriptions. We manipulate plausibility by swapping the agent and the patient (The teacher bought the laptop / The laptop bought the teacher) or changing the patient (The actor won the award/battle). 3/
RL with KL penalties – a powerful approach to aligning language models with human preferences – is better seen as Bayesian inference. A thread about our paper (with @EthanJPerez and @drclbuckley) to be presented at #emnlp2022 🧵arxiv.org/pdf/2205.11275… 1/11 
@EthanJPerez @drclbuckley RL with KL penalties is a powerful algorithm behind RL from human feedback (RLHF), the methodology heavily used by @OpenAI (InstructGPT), @AnthropicAI (helpful assistant) and @DeepMind (Sparrow) for aligning LMs with human preferences such as being helpful and avoiding harm. 2/14
@EthanJPerez @drclbuckley @OpenAI @AnthropicAI @DeepMind Aligning language models through RLHF consists of (i) training a reward model to predict human preference scores (reward) and (ii) fine-tuning a pre-trained LM to maximise predicted reward. 3/14
đź“Ł 9 papers accepted at #emnlp2022 (7 main conference + 2 Findings)
🧵 with links to camera ready preprints 👇
🧵 with links to camera ready preprints 👇
1) “Does Corpus Quality Really Matter for Low-Resource Languages?”
We introduce a new corpus for Basque that has a higher quality according to annotators, but find that this improvement does not carry over to downstream NLU tasks.
arxiv.org/abs/2203.08111
We introduce a new corpus for Basque that has a higher quality according to annotators, but find that this improvement does not carry over to downstream NLU tasks.
arxiv.org/abs/2203.08111
2) “Efficient Large Scale Language Modeling with Mixtures of Experts”
We study how MoE LMs scale in comparison with dense LMs in a wide range of settings. MoEs are more efficient, but their advantage reduces at scale and varies greatly across tasks!
arxiv.org/abs/2112.10684
We study how MoE LMs scale in comparison with dense LMs in a wide range of settings. MoEs are more efficient, but their advantage reduces at scale and varies greatly across tasks!
arxiv.org/abs/2112.10684
Can instruction tuning improve zero and few-shot performance on dialogue tasks? We introduce InstructDial, a framework that consists of 48 dialogue tasks created from 59 openly available dialogue datasets
#EMNLP2022🚀
Paper 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2205.12673
Work done at @LTIatCMU
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#EMNLP2022🚀
Paper 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2205.12673
Work done at @LTIatCMU
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Instruction tuning involves fine-tuning a model on a collection of tasks specified through natural language instructions (T0, Flan models). We systematically studied instruction tuning for dialogue tasks and show it works a lot better than you might expect!
The InstructDial framework consists of 48 diverse dialogue tasks varying from classification, grounded and controlled generation, safety, QA, pretraining, summarization, NLI, and other miscellaneous tasks. All tasks are specified through instructions in a seq-2-seq format.
New work! :D
We show evidence that DALL-E 2, in stark contrast to humans, does not respect the constraint that each word has a single role in its visual interpretation.
Work with @ravfogel and @yoav.
BlackboxNLP @ #emnlp2022
Below, "a person is hearing a bat"
We show evidence that DALL-E 2, in stark contrast to humans, does not respect the constraint that each word has a single role in its visual interpretation.
Work with @ravfogel and @yoav.
BlackboxNLP @ #emnlp2022
Below, "a person is hearing a bat"
We detail three types of behaviors that are inconsistent with the single role per word constraint
(1) A noun with multiple senses in an ambiguous prompt may cause DALL-E 2 to generate the same noun twice, but with different senses. In “a bat is flying over a baseball stadium”, “bat” is visualized as both: a flying mammal and a wooden stick.
Want a performant, freely available search engine for chemical synthesis protocols? Check out our #EMNLP2022 demo paper: “SynKB: Semantic Search for Synthetic Procedures”. 👇
Demo: tinyurl.com/synkb
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2208.07400
Code: github.com/bflashcp3f/Syn…
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Demo: tinyurl.com/synkb
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2208.07400
Code: github.com/bflashcp3f/Syn…
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In this paper, we present SynKB, the largest open-source, automatically extracted knowledge base of chemical synthesis protocols, which searches over 6 million chemical synthesis procedures collected from patents.
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By taking advantage of recent NLP advances for procedural texts, SynKB supports more flexible queries about reaction conditions and thus has the potential to help chemists search the literature for conditions used in relevant reactions as they design new synthetic routes.
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