no code implementations • NAACL (PrivateNLP) 2021 • Shlomo Hoory, Amir Feder, Avichai Tendler, Sofia Erell, Alon Peled-Cohen, Itay Laish, Hootan Nakhost, Uri Stemmer, Ayelet Benjamini, Avinatan Hassidim, Yossi Matias
One method to guarantee the privacy of such individuals is to train a differentially-private language model, but this usually comes at the expense of model performance.
no code implementations • 22 Nov 2024 • Atilla P. Kiraly, Sebastien Baur, Kenneth Philbrick, Fereshteh Mahvar, Liron Yatziv, Tiffany Chen, Bram Sterling, Nick George, Fayaz Jamil, Jing Tang, Kai Bailey, Faruk Ahmed, Akshay Goel, Abbi Ward, Lin Yang, Andrew Sellergren, Yossi Matias, Avinatan Hassidim, Shravya Shetty, Daniel Golden, Shekoofeh Azizi, David F. Steiner, Yun Liu, Tim Thelin, Rory Pilgrim, Can Kirmizibayrak
Finally, while HAI-DEF and specifically the foundation models lower the barrier to entry for ML in healthcare, we emphasize the importance of validation with problem- and population-specific data for each desired usage setting.
no code implementations • 19 Jun 2024 • Arie Cattan, Alon Jacovi, Alex Fabrikant, Jonathan Herzig, Roee Aharoni, Hannah Rashkin, Dror Marcus, Avinatan Hassidim, Yossi Matias, Idan Szpektor, Avi Caciularu
Despite recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), their performance on tasks involving long contexts remains sub-optimal.
no code implementations • 23 May 2024 • Lior Shani, Aviv Rosenberg, Asaf Cassel, Oran Lang, Daniele Calandriello, Avital Zipori, Hila Noga, Orgad Keller, Bilal Piot, Idan Szpektor, Avinatan Hassidim, Yossi Matias, Rémi Munos
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has become the standard approach for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences, allowing LLMs to demonstrate remarkable abilities in various tasks.
no code implementations • 11 Oct 2023 • Ariel Goldstein, Eric Ham, Mariano Schain, Samuel Nastase, Zaid Zada, Avigail Dabush, Bobbi Aubrey, Harshvardhan Gazula, Amir Feder, Werner K Doyle, Sasha Devore, Patricia Dugan, Daniel Friedman, Roi Reichart, Michael Brenner, Avinatan Hassidim, Orrin Devinsky, Adeen Flinker, Omer Levy, Uri Hasson
Our results reveal a connection between human language processing and DLMs, with the DLM's layer-by-layer accumulation of contextual information mirroring the timing of neural activity in high-order language areas.
1 code implementation • 30 Jul 2023 • Grey Nearing, Deborah Cohen, Vusumuzi Dube, Martin Gauch, Oren Gilon, Shaun Harrigan, Avinatan Hassidim, Daniel Klotz, Frederik Kratzert, Asher Metzger, Sella Nevo, Florian Pappenberger, Christel Prudhomme, Guy Shalev, Shlomo Shenzis, Tadele Tekalign, Dana Weitzner, Yoss Matias
Using AI, we achieve reliability in predicting extreme riverine events in ungauged watersheds at up to a 5-day lead time that is similar to or better than the reliability of nowcasts (0-day lead time) from a current state of the art global modeling system (the Copernicus Emergency Management Service Global Flood Awareness System).
no code implementations • 1 Jun 2023 • Oran Lang, Doron Yaya-Stupp, Ilana Traynis, Heather Cole-Lewis, Chloe R. Bennett, Courtney Lyles, Charles Lau, Michal Irani, Christopher Semturs, Dale R. Webster, Greg S. Corrado, Avinatan Hassidim, Yossi Matias, Yun Liu, Naama Hammel, Boris Babenko
In this paper, we present a method for automatic visual explanations leveraging team-based expertise by generating hypotheses of what visual signals in the images are correlated with the task.
no code implementations • 31 May 2023 • Paul Roit, Johan Ferret, Lior Shani, Roee Aharoni, Geoffrey Cideron, Robert Dadashi, Matthieu Geist, Sertan Girgin, Léonard Hussenot, Orgad Keller, Nikola Momchev, Sabela Ramos, Piotr Stanczyk, Nino Vieillard, Olivier Bachem, Gal Elidan, Avinatan Hassidim, Olivier Pietquin, Idan Szpektor
Despite the seeming success of contemporary grounded text generation systems, they often tend to generate factually inconsistent text with respect to their input.
Abstractive Text Summarization Natural Language Inference +3
no code implementations • 25 Jul 2022 • Deborah Cohen, MoonKyung Ryu, Yinlam Chow, Orgad Keller, Ido Greenberg, Avinatan Hassidim, Michael Fink, Yossi Matias, Idan Szpektor, Craig Boutilier, Gal Elidan
Despite recent advances in natural language understanding and generation, and decades of research on the development of conversational bots, building automated agents that can carry on rich open-ended conversations with humans "in the wild" remains a formidable challenge.
2 code implementations • NAACL 2022 • Or Honovich, Roee Aharoni, Jonathan Herzig, Hagai Taitelbaum, Doron Kukliansy, Vered Cohen, Thomas Scialom, Idan Szpektor, Avinatan Hassidim, Yossi Matias
Grounded text generation systems often generate text that contains factual inconsistencies, hindering their real-world applicability.
no code implementations • 4 Nov 2021 • Sella Nevo, Efrat Morin, Adi Gerzi Rosenthal, Asher Metzger, Chen Barshai, Dana Weitzner, Dafi Voloshin, Frederik Kratzert, Gal Elidan, Gideon Dror, Gregory Begelman, Grey Nearing, Guy Shalev, Hila Noga, Ira Shavitt, Liora Yuklea, Moriah Royz, Niv Giladi, Nofar Peled Levi, Ofir Reich, Oren Gilon, Ronnie Maor, Shahar Timnat, Tal Shechter, Vladimir Anisimov, Yotam Gigi, Yuval Levin, Zach Moshe, Zvika Ben-Haim, Avinatan Hassidim, Yossi Matias
During the 2021 monsoon season, the flood warning system was operational in India and Bangladesh, covering flood-prone regions around rivers with a total area of 287, 000 km2, home to more than 350M people.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2021 • Vladimir Braverman, Avinatan Hassidim, Yossi Matias, Mariano Schain, Sandeep Silwal, Samson Zhou
In this paper, we introduce adversarially robust streaming algorithms for central machine learning and algorithmic tasks, such as regression and clustering, as well as their more general counterparts, subspace embedding, low-rank approximation, and coreset construction.
2 code implementations • ICCV 2021 • Oran Lang, Yossi Gandelsman, Michal Yarom, Yoav Wald, Gal Elidan, Avinatan Hassidim, William T. Freeman, Phillip Isola, Amir Globerson, Michal Irani, Inbar Mosseri
A natural source for such attributes is the StyleSpace of StyleGAN, which is known to generate semantically meaningful dimensions in the image.
no code implementations • 29 Nov 2020 • Sella Nevo, Gal Elidan, Avinatan Hassidim, Guy Shalev, Oren Gilon, Grey Nearing, Yossi Matias
Floods are among the most common and deadly natural disasters in the world, and flood warning systems have been shown to be effective in reducing harm.
no code implementations • 16 Oct 2020 • Péter Biró, Avinatan Hassidim, Assaf Romm, Ran I. Shorrer, Sándor Sóvágó
In Hungary, where such heterogeneity is present, a non-merit-based stable allocation would increase the number of assigned applicants by 1. 9%, and affect 8. 3% of the applicants relative to any merit-based stable allocation.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2020 • Avinatan Hassidim, Ron Kupfer, Yaron Singer
We consider the classic problem of $(\epsilon,\delta)$-PAC learning a best arm where the goal is to identify with confidence $1-\delta$ an arm whose mean is an $\epsilon$-approximation to that of the highest mean arm in a multi-armed bandit setting.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2020 • Avinatan Hassidim, Haim Kaplan, Yishay Mansour, Yossi Matias, Uri Stemmer
A streaming algorithm is said to be adversarially robust if its accuracy guarantees are maintained even when the data stream is chosen maliciously, by an adaptive adversary.
no code implementations • 27 Oct 2019 • Yotam Gigi, Ami Wiesel, Sella Nevo, Gal Elidan, Avinatan Hassidim, Yossi Matias
In this scenario sharing a low-rank component between the tasks translates to a shared spectral reflection of the water, which is a true underlying physical model.
1 code implementation • 31 Jul 2019 • Joel Shor, Dotan Emanuel, Oran Lang, Omry Tuval, Michael Brenner, Julie Cattiau, Fernando Vieira, Maeve McNally, Taylor Charbonneau, Melissa Nollstadt, Avinatan Hassidim, Yossi Matias
In this paper, we present and evaluate finetuning techniques to improve ASR for users with non-standard speech.
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1
no code implementations • NAACL 2019 • Ido Cohn, Itay Laish, Genady Beryozkin, Gang Li, Izhak Shafran, Idan Szpektor, Tzvika Hartman, Avinatan Hassidim, Yossi Matias
To this end, we define the task of audio de-ID, in which audio spans with entity mentions should be detected.
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +5
no code implementations • ICLR 2019 • Eliav Buchnik, Edith Cohen, Avinatan Hassidim, Yossi Matias
We make a principled argument for the properties of our arrangements that accelerate the training and present efficient algorithms to generate microbatches that respect the marginal distribution of training examples.
no code implementations • 17 Mar 2019 • Ido Cohn, Itay Laish, Genady Beryozkin, Gang Li, Izhak Shafran, Idan Szpektor, Tzvika Hartman, Avinatan Hassidim, Yossi Matias
To this end, we define the task of audio de-ID, in which audio spans with entity mentions should be detected.
Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +5
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2019 • Alon Cohen, Avinatan Hassidim, Haim Kaplan, Yishay Mansour, Shay Moran
(ii) In the second variant it is assumed that before the process starts, the algorithm has an access to a training set of $n$ items drawn independently from the same unknown distribution (e. g.\ data of candidates from previous recruitment seasons).
no code implementations • 28 Jan 2019 • Sella Nevo, Vova Anisimov, Gal Elidan, Ran El-Yaniv, Pete Giencke, Yotam Gigi, Avinatan Hassidim, Zach Moshe, Mor Schlesinger, Guy Shalev, Ajai Tirumali, Ami Wiesel, Oleg Zlydenko, Yossi Matias
We propose to build on these strengths and develop ML systems for timely and accurate riverine flood prediction.
no code implementations • 3 Jan 2019 • Yotam Gigi, Gal Elidan, Avinatan Hassidim, Yossi Matias, Zach Moshe, Sella Nevo, Guy Shalev, Ami Wiesel
We demonstrate the efficacy of our approach for the problem of discharge estimation using simulations.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2018 • Yaron Singer, Avinatan Hassidim
We consider the problem of maximizing a submodular function when given access to its approximate version.
no code implementations • ICML 2018 • Alon Cohen, Avinatan Hassidim, Tomer Koren, Nevena Lazic, Yishay Mansour, Kunal Talwar
We study the problem of controlling linear time-invariant systems with known noisy dynamics and adversarially chosen quadratic losses.
no code implementations • 7 May 2018 • Craig Boutilier, Alon Cohen, Amit Daniely, Avinatan Hassidim, Yishay Mansour, Ofer Meshi, Martin Mladenov, Dale Schuurmans
From an RL perspective, we show that Q-learning with sampled action sets is sound.
4 code implementations • 10 Apr 2018 • Ariel Ephrat, Inbar Mosseri, Oran Lang, Tali Dekel, Kevin Wilson, Avinatan Hassidim, William T. Freeman, Michael Rubinstein
Solving this task using only audio as input is extremely challenging and does not provide an association of the separated speech signals with speakers in the video.
no code implementations • ICLR 2019 • Eliav Buchnik, Edith Cohen, Avinatan Hassidim, Yossi Matias
Optimization of machine learning models is commonly performed through stochastic gradient updates on randomly ordered training examples.
2 code implementations • 19 Dec 2017 • Erel Segal-haLevi, Avinatan Hassidim, Yonatan Aumann
In a seminal paper, McAfee (1992) presented a truthful mechanism for double auctions, attaining asymptotically-optimal gain-from-trade without any prior information on the valuations of the traders.
Computer Science and Game Theory
no code implementations • ICML 2017 • Avinatan Hassidim, Yaron Singer
In this paper we analyze the robustness of stochastic variants of the greedy algorithm for submodular maximization.
1 code implementation • 22 May 2017 • Erel Segal-haLevi, Haris Aziz, Avinatan Hassidim
We give a full characterization of allocations that are necessarily-proportional or possibly-proportional according to this assumption.
Computer Science and Game Theory
no code implementations • 12 Jan 2016 • Avinatan Hassidim, Yaron Singer
We provide initial answers, by focusing on the question of maximizing a monotone submodular function under a cardinality constraint when given access to a noisy oracle of the function.
4 code implementations • 19 Nov 2008 • Aram W. Harrow, Avinatan Hassidim, Seth Lloyd
Solving linear systems of equations is a common problem that arises both on its own and as a subroutine in more complex problems: given a matrix A and a vector b, find a vector x such that Ax=b.
Quantum Physics