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Promptriever: Instruction-Trained Retrievers Can Be Prompted Like Language Models
Instruction-tuned language models (LM) are able to respond to imperative commands, providing a more natural user interface compared to their base counterparts.
WildVis: Open Source Visualizer for Million-Scale Chat Logs in the Wild
The increasing availability of real-world conversation data offers exciting opportunities for researchers to study user-chatbot interactions.
Certainly Uncertain: A Benchmark and Metric for Multimodal Epistemic and Aleatoric Awareness
The ability to acknowledge the inevitable uncertainty in their knowledge and reasoning is a prerequisite for AI systems to be truly truthful and reliable.
The Art of Saying No: Contextual Noncompliance in Language Models
Chat-based language models are designed to be helpful, yet they should not comply with every user request.
How to Train Your Fact Verifier: Knowledge Transfer with Multimodal Open Models
Given the growing influx of misinformation across news and social media, there is a critical need for systems that can provide effective real-time verification of news claims.
Selective Vision is the Challenge for Visual Reasoning: A Benchmark for Visual Argument Understanding
Visual arguments, often used in advertising or social causes, rely on images to persuade viewers to do or believe something.
WildChat: 1M ChatGPT Interaction Logs in the Wild
In addition to timestamped chat transcripts, we enrich the dataset with demographic data, including state, country, and hashed IP addresses, alongside request headers.
Selective "Selective Prediction": Reducing Unnecessary Abstention in Vision-Language Reasoning
Selective prediction minimizes incorrect predictions from vision-language models (VLMs) by allowing them to abstain from answering when uncertain.
L3GO: Language Agents with Chain-of-3D-Thoughts for Generating Unconventional Objects
In this paper, we propose a language agent with chain-of-3D-thoughts (L3GO), an inference-time approach that can reason about part-based 3D mesh generation of unconventional objects that current data-driven diffusion models struggle with.
Deal, or no deal (or who knows)? Forecasting Uncertainty in Conversations using Large Language Models
Effective interlocutors account for the uncertain goals, beliefs, and emotions of others.
OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models
Given the importance of these details in scientifically studying these models, including their biases and potential risks, we believe it is essential for the research community to have access to powerful, truly open LMs.
NovaCOMET: Open Commonsense Foundation Models with Symbolic Knowledge Distillation
We present NovaCOMET, an open commonsense knowledge model, that combines the best aspects of knowledge and general task models.
Localized Symbolic Knowledge Distillation for Visual Commonsense Models
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.
UNcommonsense Reasoning: Abductive Reasoning about Uncommon Situations
To instead investigate the ability to model unusual, unexpected, and unlikely situations, we explore the task of uncommonsense abductive reasoning.
Tailoring Self-Rationalizers with Multi-Reward Distillation
Results on five difficult question-answering datasets StrategyQA, QuaRel, OpenBookQA, NumerSense and QASC show that not only does MaRio improve task accuracy, but it also improves the self-rationalization quality of small LMs across the aforementioned axes better than a supervised fine-tuning (SFT) baseline.
What's "up" with vision-language models? Investigating their struggle with spatial reasoning
Recent vision-language (VL) models are powerful, but can they reliably distinguish "right" from "left"?
Personalized Soups: Personalized Large Language Model Alignment via Post-hoc Parameter Merging
In this work, we study Reinforcement Learning from Personalized Human Feedback (RLPHF) problem, wherein LLMs are aligned to multiple (sometimes conflicting) preferences by modeling alignment as a Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning (MORL) problem.
Reading Books is Great, But Not if You Are Driving! Visually Grounded Reasoning about Defeasible Commonsense Norms
NORMLENS consists of 10K human judgments accompanied by free-form explanations covering 2K multimodal situations, and serves as a probe to address two questions: (1) to what extent can models align with average human judgment?
VisIT-Bench: A Benchmark for Vision-Language Instruction Following Inspired by Real-World Use
These descriptions enable 1) collecting human-verified reference outputs for each instance; and 2) automatic evaluation of candidate multimodal generations using a text-only LLM, aligning with human judgment.
OpenFlamingo: An Open-Source Framework for Training Large Autoregressive Vision-Language Models
We introduce OpenFlamingo, a family of autoregressive vision-language models ranging from 3B to 9B parameters.
Ranked #14 on
Visual Question Answering (VQA)
on InfiMM-Eval
FunQA: Towards Surprising Video Comprehension
Surprising videos, such as funny clips, creative performances, or visual illusions, attract significant attention.
Symbolic Chain-of-Thought Distillation: Small Models Can Also "Think" Step-by-Step
We release our corpus of chain-of-thought samples and code.
How Far Can Camels Go? Exploring the State of Instruction Tuning on Open Resources
Our evaluations show that the best model in any given evaluation reaches on average 87% of ChatGPT performance, and 73% of GPT-4 performance, suggesting that further investment in building better base models and instruction-tuning data is required to close the gap.
Text encoders bottleneck compositionality in contrastive vision-language models
We first curate CompPrompts, a set of increasingly compositional image captions that VL models should be able to capture (e. g., single object, to object+property, to multiple interacting objects).
Multimodal C4: An Open, Billion-scale Corpus of Images Interleaved with Text
We release Multimodal C4, an augmentation of the popular text-only C4 corpus with images interleaved.
CHAMPAGNE: Learning Real-world Conversation from Large-Scale Web Videos
To train CHAMPAGNE, we collect and release YTD-18M, a large-scale corpus of 18M video-based dialogues.
Breaking Common Sense: WHOOPS! A Vision-and-Language Benchmark of Synthetic and Compositional Images
We introduce WHOOPS!, a new dataset and benchmark for visual commonsense.
Ranked #1 on
Image-to-Text Retrieval
on WHOOPS!
(using extra training data)
Fusing Pre-Trained Language Models With Multimodal Prompts Through Reinforcement Learning
Language models are capable of commonsense reasoning: while domain-specific models can learn from explicit knowledge (e. g. commonsense graphs [6], ethical norms [25]), and larger models like GPT-3 manifest broad commonsense reasoning capacity.
SODA: Million-scale Dialogue Distillation with Social Commonsense Contextualization
Data scarcity has been a long standing issue in the field of open-domain social dialogue.
Is Reinforcement Learning (Not) for Natural Language Processing: Benchmarks, Baselines, and Building Blocks for Natural Language Policy Optimization
To help answer this, we first introduce an open-source modular library, RL4LMs (Reinforcement Learning for Language Models), for optimizing language generators with RL.
Do Androids Laugh at Electric Sheep? Humor "Understanding" Benchmarks from The New Yorker Caption Contest
Large neural networks can now generate jokes, but do they really "understand" humor?
Quark: Controllable Text Generation with Reinforced Unlearning
Large-scale language models often learn behaviors that are misaligned with user expectations.
Multimodal Knowledge Alignment with Reinforcement Learning
Large language models readily adapt to novel settings, even without task-specific training data.
The Abduction of Sherlock Holmes: A Dataset for Visual Abductive Reasoning
We present Sherlock, an annotated corpus of 103K images for testing machine capacity for abductive reasoning beyond literal image contents.
MERLOT Reserve: Neural Script Knowledge through Vision and Language and Sound
Given a video, we replace snippets of text and audio with a MASK token; the model learns by choosing the correct masked-out snippet.
Ranked #6 on
Action Classification
on Kinetics-600
(using extra training data)
Reframing Human-AI Collaboration for Generating Free-Text Explanations
We create a pipeline that combines GPT-3 with a supervised filter that incorporates binary acceptability judgments from humans in the loop.
Connecting the Dots between Audio and Text without Parallel Data through Visual Knowledge Transfer
In a difficult zero-shot setting with no paired audio-text data, our model demonstrates state-of-the-art zero-shot performance on the ESC50 and US8K audio classification tasks, and even surpasses the supervised state of the art for Clotho caption retrieval (with audio queries) by 2. 2\% R@1.
Symbolic Knowledge Distillation: from General Language Models to Commonsense Models
We apply this to the ATOMIC resource, and share our new symbolic knowledge graph and commonsense models.
How effective is BERT without word ordering? Implications for language understanding and data privacy
Ordered word sequences contain the rich structures that define language.
MERLOT: Multimodal Neural Script Knowledge Models
As humans, we understand events in the visual world contextually, performing multimodal reasoning across time to make inferences about the past, present, and future.
CLIPScore: A Reference-free Evaluation Metric for Image Captioning
Image captioning has conventionally relied on reference-based automatic evaluations, where machine captions are compared against captions written by humans.
Ranked #1 on
Hallucination Pair-wise Detection (4-ref)
on FOIL
Hallucination Pair-wise Detection (1-ref)
Hallucination Pair-wise Detection (4-ref)
+3
Domain-Specific Lexical Grounding in Noisy Visual-Textual Documents
Images can give us insights into the contextual meanings of words, but current image-text grounding approaches require detailed annotations.
Does my multimodal model learn cross-modal interactions? It's harder to tell than you might think!
Modeling expressive cross-modal interactions seems crucial in multimodal tasks, such as visual question answering.
Beyond Instructional Videos: Probing for More Diverse Visual-Textual Grounding on YouTube
Pretraining from unlabelled web videos has quickly become the de-facto means of achieving high performance on many video understanding tasks.
Automatic Speech Recognition
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
+2
A Case Study on Combining ASR and Visual Features for Generating Instructional Video Captions
Instructional videos get high-traffic on video sharing platforms, and prior work suggests that providing time-stamped, subtask annotations (e. g., "heat the oil in the pan") improves user experiences.
Automatic Speech Recognition
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
+1
Unsupervised Discovery of Multimodal Links in Multi-image, Multi-sentence Documents
Images and text co-occur constantly on the web, but explicit links between images and sentences (or other intra-document textual units) are often not present.
Something's Brewing! Early Prediction of Controversy-causing Posts from Discussion Features
Controversial posts are those that split the preferences of a community, receiving both significant positive and significant negative feedback.
Quantifying the visual concreteness of words and topics in multimodal datasets
Multimodal machine learning algorithms aim to learn visual-textual correspondences.
Cats and Captions vs. Creators and the Clock: Comparing Multimodal Content to Context in Predicting Relative Popularity
The content of today's social media is becoming more and more rich, increasingly mixing text, images, videos, and audio.
Image Representations and New Domains in Neural Image Captioning
We examine the possibility that recent promising results in automatic caption generation are due primarily to language models.
