Search Results for author: Peter West

Found 31 papers, 15 papers with code

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

Localized Symbolic Knowledge Distillation for Visual Commonsense Models

2 code implementations NeurIPS 2023 Jae Sung Park, Jack Hessel, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Paul Pu Liang, Ximing Lu, Peter West, Youngjae Yu, Qiuyuan Huang, Jianfeng Gao, Ali Farhadi, Yejin Choi

Empirical results and human evaluations in a zero-shot setup demonstrate that our distillation method results in more precise VL models of reasoning compared to a baseline of passing a generated referring expression to an LLM.

Instruction Following Knowledge Distillation +3

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.

Value Kaleidoscope: Engaging AI with Pluralistic Human Values, Rights, and Duties

1 code implementation2 Sep 2023 Taylor Sorensen, Liwei Jiang, Jena Hwang, Sydney Levine, Valentina Pyatkin, Peter West, Nouha Dziri, Ximing Lu, Kavel Rao, Chandra Bhagavatula, Maarten Sap, John Tasioulas, Yejin Choi

To improve AI systems to better reflect value pluralism, the first-order challenge is to explore the extent to which AI systems can model pluralistic human values, rights, and duties as well as their interaction.

Decision Making

Generative Models as a Complex Systems Science: How can we make sense of large language model behavior?

no code implementations31 Jul 2023 Ari Holtzman, Peter West, Luke Zettlemoyer

Coaxing out desired behavior from pretrained models, while avoiding undesirable ones, has redefined NLP and is reshaping how we interact with computers.

Language Modelling Large Language Model

Minding Language Models' (Lack of) Theory of Mind: A Plug-and-Play Multi-Character Belief Tracker

no code implementations1 Jun 2023 Melanie Sclar, Sachin Kumar, Peter West, Alane Suhr, Yejin Choi, Yulia Tsvetkov

We present SymbolicToM, a plug-and-play approach to reason about the belief states of multiple characters in reading comprehension tasks via explicit symbolic representation.

Reading Comprehension

Faith and Fate: Limits of Transformers on Compositionality

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2023 Nouha Dziri, Ximing Lu, Melanie Sclar, Xiang Lorraine Li, Liwei Jiang, Bill Yuchen Lin, Peter West, Chandra Bhagavatula, Ronan Le Bras, Jena D. Hwang, Soumya Sanyal, Sean Welleck, Xiang Ren, Allyson Ettinger, Zaid Harchaoui, Yejin Choi

We formulate compositional tasks as computation graphs to systematically quantify the level of complexity, and break down reasoning steps into intermediate sub-procedures.

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

We're Afraid Language Models Aren't Modeling Ambiguity

1 code implementation27 Apr 2023 Alisa Liu, Zhaofeng Wu, Julian Michael, Alane Suhr, Peter West, Alexander Koller, Swabha Swayamdipta, Noah A. Smith, Yejin Choi

We find that the task remains extremely challenging, including for GPT-4, whose generated disambiguations are considered correct only 32% of the time in human evaluation, compared to 90% for disambiguations in our dataset.

Sentence

I2D2: Inductive Knowledge Distillation with NeuroLogic and Self-Imitation

no code implementations19 Dec 2022 Chandra Bhagavatula, Jena D. Hwang, Doug Downey, Ronan Le Bras, Ximing Lu, Lianhui Qin, Keisuke Sakaguchi, Swabha Swayamdipta, Peter West, Yejin Choi

Here, we investigate an alternative that a priori seems impossible: can smaller language models (e. g., GPT-2) win over models that are orders of magnitude larger and better (e. g., GPT-3), if powered with novel commonsense distillation algorithms?

Imitation Learning Knowledge Distillation

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

Referee: Reference-Free Sentence Summarization with Sharper Controllability through Symbolic Knowledge Distillation

no code implementations25 Oct 2022 Melanie Sclar, Peter West, Sachin Kumar, Yulia Tsvetkov, Yejin Choi

Moreover, we uniquely propose iterative distillation of knowledge, where student models from the previous iteration of distillation serve as teacher models in the next iteration.

Knowledge Distillation Sentence +1

Probing Factually Grounded Content Transfer with Factual Ablation

no code implementations Findings (ACL) 2022 Peter West, Chris Quirk, Michel Galley, Yejin Choi

Particularly, this domain allows us to introduce the notion of factual ablation for automatically measuring factual consistency: this captures the intuition that the model should be less likely to produce an output given a less relevant grounding document.

NeuroLogic A*esque Decoding: Constrained Text Generation with Lookahead Heuristics

1 code implementation NAACL 2022 Ximing Lu, Sean Welleck, Peter West, Liwei Jiang, Jungo Kasai, Daniel Khashabi, Ronan Le Bras, Lianhui Qin, Youngjae Yu, Rowan Zellers, Noah A. Smith, Yejin Choi

To enable constrained generation, we build on NeuroLogic decoding (Lu et al., 2021), combining its flexibility in incorporating logical constraints with A*esque estimates of future constraint satisfaction.

Machine Translation Table-to-Text Generation

Generated Knowledge Prompting for Commonsense Reasoning

1 code implementation ACL 2022 Jiacheng Liu, Alisa Liu, Ximing Lu, Sean Welleck, Peter West, Ronan Le Bras, Yejin Choi, Hannaneh Hajishirzi

It remains an open question whether incorporating external knowledge benefits commonsense reasoning while maintaining the flexibility of pretrained sequence models.

Language Modelling Open-Ended Question Answering

Symbolic Brittleness in Sequence Models: on Systematic Generalization in Symbolic Mathematics

1 code implementation28 Sep 2021 Sean Welleck, Peter West, Jize Cao, Yejin Choi

Neural sequence models trained with maximum likelihood estimation have led to breakthroughs in many tasks, where success is defined by the gap between training and test performance.

Out-of-Distribution Generalization Systematic Generalization

Surface Form Competition: Why the Highest Probability Answer Isn't Always Right

2 code implementations16 Apr 2021 Ari Holtzman, Peter West, Vered Shwartz, Yejin Choi, Luke Zettlemoyer

Large language models have shown promising results in zero-shot settings (Brown et al., 2020; Radford et al., 2019).

Multiple-choice valid

The massless irreducible representation in E theory and how bosons can appear as spinors

no code implementations3 Feb 2021 Keith Glennon, Peter West

We study in detail the irreducible representation of E theory that corresponds to massless particles.

High Energy Physics - Theory

Supersymmetry anomalies and the Wess-Zumino Model in a supergravity background

no code implementations16 Dec 2020 Giorgos Eleftheriou, Peter West

We briefly recall the procedure for computing the Ward Identities in the presence of a regulator which violates the symmetry being considered.

High Energy Physics - Theory

NeuroLogic Decoding: (Un)supervised Neural Text Generation with Predicate Logic Constraints

no code implementations NAACL 2021 Ximing Lu, Peter West, Rowan Zellers, Ronan Le Bras, Chandra Bhagavatula, Yejin Choi

While the dominant recipe for conditional text generation has been large-scale pretrained language models that are finetuned on the task-specific training data, such models do not learn to follow the underlying constraints reliably, even when supervised with large amounts of task-specific examples.

Conditional Text Generation

Reflective Decoding: Beyond Unidirectional Generation with Off-the-Shelf Language Models

no code implementations ACL 2021 Peter West, Ximing Lu, Ari Holtzman, Chandra Bhagavatula, Jena Hwang, Yejin Choi

In this paper, we present Reflective Decoding, a novel unsupervised algorithm that allows for direct application of unidirectional LMs to non-sequential tasks.

Conditional Text Generation Sentence +1

Back to the Future: Unsupervised Backprop-based Decoding for Counterfactual and Abductive Commonsense Reasoning

1 code implementation EMNLP 2020 Lianhui Qin, Vered Shwartz, Peter West, Chandra Bhagavatula, Jena Hwang, Ronan Le Bras, Antoine Bosselut, Yejin Choi

Abductive and counterfactual reasoning, core abilities of everyday human cognition, require reasoning about what might have happened at time t, while conditioning on multiple contexts from the relative past and future.

counterfactual Counterfactual Reasoning +1

Adjusting for Confounders with Text: Challenges and an Empirical Evaluation Framework for Causal Inference

no code implementations21 Sep 2020 Galen Weld, Peter West, Maria Glenski, David Arbour, Ryan Rossi, Tim Althoff

Across 648 experiments and two datasets, we evaluate every commonly used causal inference method and identify their strengths and weaknesses to inform social media researchers seeking to use such methods, and guide future improvements.

Causal Inference

BottleSum: Unsupervised and Self-supervised Sentence Summarization using the Information Bottleneck Principle

no code implementations IJCNLP 2019 Peter West, Ari Holtzman, Jan Buys, Yejin Choi

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to unsupervised sentence summarization by mapping the Information Bottleneck principle to a conditional language modelling objective: given a sentence, our approach seeks a compressed sentence that can best predict the next sentence.

Abstractive Text Summarization Extractive Summarization +4

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