Search Results for author: Matthew Finlayson

Found 7 papers, 6 papers with code

Logits of API-Protected LLMs Leak Proprietary Information

no code implementations14 Mar 2024 Matthew Finlayson, Xiang Ren, Swabha Swayamdipta

The commercialization of large language models (LLMs) has led to the common practice of high-level API-only access to proprietary models.

Closing the Curious Case of Neural Text Degeneration

1 code implementation2 Oct 2023 Matthew Finlayson, John Hewitt, Alexander Koller, Swabha Swayamdipta, Ashish Sabharwal

We provide a theoretical explanation for the effectiveness of the truncation sampling by proving that truncation methods that discard tokens below some probability threshold (the most common type of truncation) can guarantee that all sampled tokens have nonzero true probability.

Text Generation

Increasing Probability Mass on Answer Choices Does Not Always Improve Accuracy

1 code implementation24 May 2023 Sarah Wiegreffe, Matthew Finlayson, Oyvind Tafjord, Peter Clark, Ashish Sabharwal

For example, both normalization and prompting methods for reducing SFC can be ineffective or even detrimental to task performance for some LMs.

In-Context Learning Multiple-choice +1

Decomposed Prompting: A Modular Approach for Solving Complex Tasks

1 code implementation5 Oct 2022 Tushar Khot, Harsh Trivedi, Matthew Finlayson, Yao Fu, Kyle Richardson, Peter Clark, Ashish Sabharwal

On symbolic reasoning tasks, we can further decompose sub-tasks that are hard for LLMs into even simpler solvable sub-tasks.

Information Retrieval Retrieval

What Makes Instruction Learning Hard? An Investigation and a New Challenge in a Synthetic Environment

1 code implementation19 Apr 2022 Matthew Finlayson, Kyle Richardson, Ashish Sabharwal, Peter Clark

We propose Hard RegSet as a challenging instruction learning task, and a controlled environment for studying instruction learning.

Out-of-Distribution Generalization

Causal Analysis of Syntactic Agreement Mechanisms in Neural Language Models

1 code implementation ACL 2021 Matthew Finlayson, Aaron Mueller, Sebastian Gehrmann, Stuart Shieber, Tal Linzen, Yonatan Belinkov

Targeted syntactic evaluations have demonstrated the ability of language models to perform subject-verb agreement given difficult contexts.

Sentence

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