Search Results for author: Faeze Brahman

Found 31 papers, 15 papers with code

“Let Your Characters Tell Their Story”: A Dataset for Character-Centric Narrative Understanding

no code implementations Findings (EMNLP) 2021 Faeze Brahman, Meng Huang, Oyvind Tafjord, Chao Zhao, Mrinmaya Sachan, Snigdha Chaturvedi

When reading a literary piece, readers often make inferences about various characters’ roles, personalities, relationships, intents, actions, etc.

Information-Theoretic Distillation for Reference-less Summarization

no code implementations20 Mar 2024 JaeHun Jung, Ximing Lu, Liwei Jiang, Faeze Brahman, Peter West, Pang Wei Koh, Yejin Choi

The current winning recipe for automatic summarization is using proprietary large-scale language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT as is, or imitation learning from them as teacher models.

Imitation Learning

One Size Does Not Fit All: Customizing Open-Domain Procedures

no code implementations16 Nov 2023 Yash Kumar Lal, Li Zhang, Faeze Brahman, Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Peter Clark, Niket Tandon

Our approach is to test several simple multi-LLM-agent architectures for customization, as well as an end-to-end LLM, using a new evaluation set, called CustomPlans, of over 200 WikiHow procedures each with a customization need.

In Search of the Long-Tail: Systematic Generation of Long-Tail Inferential Knowledge via Logical Rule Guided Search

1 code implementation13 Nov 2023 Huihan Li, Yuting Ning, Zeyi Liao, Siyuan Wang, Xiang Lorraine Li, Ximing Lu, Wenting Zhao, Faeze Brahman, Yejin Choi, Xiang Ren

We further use the data generated by LINK to construct a dataset Logic-Induced-Long-Tail (LINT) that can be used to evaluate downstream models on the long-tail distribution; LINT contains 108K knowledge statements spanning four domains.

Language Modelling Natural Language Inference +1

STEER: Unified Style Transfer with Expert Reinforcement

1 code implementation13 Nov 2023 Skyler Hallinan, Faeze Brahman, Ximing Lu, JaeHun Jung, Sean Welleck, Yejin Choi

We propose STEER: Unified Style Transfer with Expert Reinforcement, a unified frame-work developed to overcome the challenge of limited parallel data for style transfer.

Style Transfer Text Style Transfer

Agent Lumos: Unified and Modular Training for Open-Source Language Agents

1 code implementation9 Nov 2023 Da Yin, Faeze Brahman, Abhilasha Ravichander, Khyathi Chandu, Kai-Wei Chang, Yejin Choi, Bill Yuchen Lin

To foster generalizable agent learning, we collect large-scale, unified, and high-quality training annotations derived from diverse ground-truth reasoning rationales across various complex interactive tasks.

Math Question Answering

The Generative AI Paradox: "What It Can Create, It May Not Understand"

no code implementations31 Oct 2023 Peter West, Ximing Lu, Nouha Dziri, Faeze Brahman, Linjie Li, Jena D. Hwang, Liwei Jiang, Jillian Fisher, Abhilasha Ravichander, Khyathi Chandu, Benjamin Newman, Pang Wei Koh, Allyson Ettinger, Yejin Choi

Specifically, we propose and test the Generative AI Paradox hypothesis: generative models, having been trained directly to reproduce expert-like outputs, acquire generative capabilities that are not contingent upon -- and can therefore exceed -- their ability to understand those same types of outputs.

What Makes it Ok to Set a Fire? Iterative Self-distillation of Contexts and Rationales for Disambiguating Defeasible Social and Moral Situations

no code implementations24 Oct 2023 Kavel Rao, Liwei Jiang, Valentina Pyatkin, Yuling Gu, Niket Tandon, Nouha Dziri, Faeze Brahman, Yejin Choi

From this model we distill a high-quality dataset, \delta-Rules-of-Thumb, of 1. 2M entries of contextualizations and rationales for 115K defeasible moral actions rated highly by human annotators 85. 9% to 99. 8% of the time.

Imitation Learning

Affective and Dynamic Beam Search for Story Generation

1 code implementation23 Oct 2023 Tenghao Huang, Ehsan Qasemi, Bangzheng Li, He Wang, Faeze Brahman, Muhao Chen, Snigdha Chaturvedi

Storytelling's captivating potential makes it a fascinating research area, with implications for entertainment, education, therapy, and cognitive studies.

Sentence Story Generation

Creativity Support in the Age of Large Language Models: An Empirical Study Involving Emerging Writers

no code implementations22 Sep 2023 Tuhin Chakrabarty, Vishakh Padmakumar, Faeze Brahman, Smaranda Muresan

The development of large language models (LLMs) capable of following instructions and engaging in conversational interactions sparked increased interest in their utilization across various support tools.

SwiftSage: A Generative Agent with Fast and Slow Thinking for Complex Interactive Tasks

no code implementations NeurIPS 2023 Bill Yuchen Lin, Yicheng Fu, Karina Yang, Faeze Brahman, Shiyu Huang, Chandra Bhagavatula, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Yejin Choi, Xiang Ren

The Swift module is a small encoder-decoder LM fine-tuned on the oracle agent's action trajectories, while the Sage module employs LLMs such as GPT-4 for subgoal planning and grounding.

Impossible Distillation: from Low-Quality Model to High-Quality Dataset & Model for Summarization and Paraphrasing

no code implementations26 May 2023 JaeHun Jung, Peter West, Liwei Jiang, Faeze Brahman, Ximing Lu, Jillian Fisher, Taylor Sorensen, Yejin Choi

We present Impossible Distillation, a novel framework for paraphrasing and sentence summarization, that distills a high-quality dataset and model from a low-quality teacher that itself cannot perform these tasks.

Paraphrase Generation Sentence +1

Leftover Lunch: Advantage-based Offline Reinforcement Learning for Language Models

1 code implementation24 May 2023 Ashutosh Baheti, Ximing Lu, Faeze Brahman, Ronan Le Bras, Maarten Sap, Mark Riedl

However, RLHF is an unstable and data-hungry process that continually requires new high-quality LM-generated data for finetuning.

Language Modelling Offline RL +2

Grounded Keys-to-Text Generation: Towards Factual Open-Ended Generation

no code implementations4 Dec 2022 Faeze Brahman, Baolin Peng, Michel Galley, Sudha Rao, Bill Dolan, Snigdha Chaturvedi, Jianfeng Gao

We propose a new grounded keys-to-text generation task: the task is to generate a factual description about an entity given a set of guiding keys, and grounding passages.

Data-to-Text Generation

NarraSum: A Large-Scale Dataset for Abstractive Narrative Summarization

1 code implementation2 Dec 2022 Chao Zhao, Faeze Brahman, Kaiqiang Song, Wenlin Yao, Dian Yu, Snigdha Chaturvedi

To encourage research in this direction, we propose NarraSum, a large-scale narrative summarization dataset.

Natural Language Understanding

Towards Inter-character Relationship-driven Story Generation

no code implementations1 Nov 2022 Anvesh Rao Vijjini, Faeze Brahman, Snigdha Chaturvedi

In this paper, we introduce the task of modeling interpersonal relationships for story generation.

Sentence Story Generation

Generating Sequences by Learning to Self-Correct

no code implementations31 Oct 2022 Sean Welleck, Ximing Lu, Peter West, Faeze Brahman, Tianxiao Shen, Daniel Khashabi, Yejin Choi

Sequence generation applications require satisfying semantic constraints, such as ensuring that programs are correct, using certain keywords, or avoiding undesirable content.

Language Modelling Program Synthesis

REV: Information-Theoretic Evaluation of Free-Text Rationales

1 code implementation10 Oct 2022 Hanjie Chen, Faeze Brahman, Xiang Ren, Yangfeng Ji, Yejin Choi, Swabha Swayamdipta

More concretely, we propose a metric called REV (Rationale Evaluation with conditional V-information), to quantify the amount of new, label-relevant information in a rationale beyond the information already available in the input or the label.

Revisiting Generative Commonsense Reasoning: A Pre-Ordering Approach

1 code implementation Findings (NAACL) 2022 Chao Zhao, Faeze Brahman, Tenghao Huang, Snigdha Chaturvedi

In particular, we hypothesize that the order of the input concepts can affect the PTM's ability to utilize its commonsense knowledge.

Sentence Text Generation

Maieutic Prompting: Logically Consistent Reasoning with Recursive Explanations

no code implementations24 May 2022 JaeHun Jung, Lianhui Qin, Sean Welleck, Faeze Brahman, Chandra Bhagavatula, Ronan Le Bras, Yejin Choi

Despite their impressive capabilities, large pre-trained language models (LMs) struggle with consistent reasoning; recently, prompting LMs to generate explanations that self-guide the inference has emerged as a promising direction to amend this.

Uncovering Implicit Gender Bias in Narratives through Commonsense Inference

1 code implementation Findings (EMNLP) 2021 Tenghao Huang, Faeze Brahman, Vered Shwartz, Snigdha Chaturvedi

Pre-trained language models learn socially harmful biases from their training corpora, and may repeat these biases when used for generation.

"Let Your Characters Tell Their Story": A Dataset for Character-Centric Narrative Understanding

no code implementations12 Sep 2021 Faeze Brahman, Meng Huang, Oyvind Tafjord, Chao Zhao, Mrinmaya Sachan, Snigdha Chaturvedi

When reading a literary piece, readers often make inferences about various characters' roles, personalities, relationships, intents, actions, etc.

Is Everything in Order? A Simple Way to Order Sentences

1 code implementation EMNLP 2021 Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury, Faeze Brahman, Snigdha Chaturvedi

We perform evaluations in a zero-shot setting, showcasing that our model is able to generalize well across other datasets.

Conditional Text Generation Sentence +1

Learning to Rationalize for Nonmonotonic Reasoning with Distant Supervision

no code implementations14 Dec 2020 Faeze Brahman, Vered Shwartz, Rachel Rudinger, Yejin Choi

In this paper, we investigate the extent to which neural models can reason about natural language rationales that explain model predictions, relying only on distant supervision with no additional annotation cost for human-written rationales.

Cue Me In: Content-Inducing Approaches to Interactive Story Generation

no code implementations Asian Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020 Faeze Brahman, Alexandru Petrusca, Snigdha Chaturvedi

Previous approaches in this domain have focused largely on one-shot generation, where a language model outputs a complete story based on limited initial input from a user.

Language Modelling Sentence +1

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