1 code implementation • 2 Apr 2025 • Athena Wen, Tanush Patil, Ansh Saxena, Yicheng Fu, Sean O'Brien, Kevin Zhu
In an era where AI-driven hiring is transforming recruitment practices, concerns about fairness and bias have become increasingly important.
no code implementations • 24 Mar 2025 • Andrew Rufail, Daniel Kim, Sean O'Brien, Kevin Zhu
We introduce CLEAR (Contrasting Textual Feedback with Experts and Amateurs for Reasoning), a novel approach to language model reasoning that leverages the strengths of a larger (expert) model and smaller (amateur) model.
no code implementations • 25 Feb 2025 • Abhay Gupta, Jacob Cheung, Philip Meng, Shayan Sayyed, Austen Liao, Kevin Zhu, Sean O'Brien
The diversity of human language, shaped by social, cultural, and regional influences, presents significant challenges for natural language processing (NLP) systems.
no code implementations • 1 Feb 2025 • James Begin, Namit Agrawal, Eshan Singh, Yicheng Fu, Sean O'Brien, Vasu Sharma, Kevin Zhu
LLMs have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in understanding tasks but continue to struggle with long-context comprehension, particularly with content located in the middle of extensive inputs.
no code implementations • 28 Jan 2025 • Vivaan Sandwar, Bhav Jain, Rishan Thangaraj, Ishaan Garg, Michael Lam, Kevin Zhu
Debate is a commonly used form of human communication catered towards problem-solving because of its efficiency.
1 code implementation • 18 Dec 2024 • Vijay Goyal, Mustafa Khan, Aprameya Tirupati, Harveer Saini, Michael Lam, Kevin Zhu
We find that Ground Truth prompting results in a 55\% performance increase on GSM8K for a distilled Llama 3. 1 8B Instruct compared to the same model distilled without prompting.
no code implementations • 4 Dec 2024 • Joshua Lee, Wyatt Fong, Alexander Le, Sur Shah, Kevin Han, Kevin Zhu
Sarcasm detection is a significant challenge in sentiment analysis due to the nuanced and context-dependent nature of verbiage.
no code implementations • 29 Oct 2024 • Shrey Shah, Alex Lin, Scott Lin, Josh Patel, Michael Lam, Kevin Zhu
Accurate damage prediction is crucial for disaster preparedness and response strategies, particularly given the frequent earthquakes in Turkey.
no code implementations • 29 Oct 2024 • Kaustubh Kislay, Shlok Singh, Soham Joshi, Rohan Dutta, Jay Shim George Flint, Kevin Zhu
Symbolic Regression remains an NP-Hard problem, with extensive research focusing on AI models for this task.
no code implementations • 25 Oct 2024 • Anthony Cui, Pranav Nandyalam, Ethan Cheung, Kevin Zhu
Momentum-Aided Prompt Optimization (MAPO) enhances the efficiency and efficacy of prompt optimization for Large Language Models (LLMs).
no code implementations • 25 Oct 2024 • Ray Li, Tanishka Bagade, Kevin Martinez, Flora Yasmin, Grant Ayala, Michael Lam, Kevin Zhu
Large language models (LLMs) have achieved a degree of success in generating coherent and contextually relevant text, yet they remain prone to a significant challenge known as hallucination: producing information that is not substantiated by the input or external knowledge.
no code implementations • 25 Oct 2024 • Ishneet Sukhvinder Singh, Ritvik Aggarwal, Ibrahim Allahverdiyev, Muhammad Taha, Aslihan Akalin, Kevin Zhu, Sean O'Brien
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems using large language models (LLMs) often generate inaccurate responses due to the retrieval of irrelevant or loosely related information.
1 code implementation • 23 Oct 2024 • William Cagas, Chan Ko, Blake Hsiao, Shryuk Grandhi, Rishi Bhattacharya, Kevin Zhu, Michael Lam
The proliferation of machine learning models in diverse clinical applications has led to a growing need for high-fidelity, medical image training data.
no code implementations • 21 Oct 2024 • Kevin Zhu, Connor Mattson, Shay Snyder, Ricardo Vega, Daniel S. Brown, Maryam Parsa, Cameron Nowzari
To do this, we use evolutionary algorithms to evolve not only the parameters (the weights, biases, and delays) of a spiking neural network, but also its structure.
1 code implementation • 14 Oct 2024 • Zhumazhan Balapanov, Vanessa Matvei, Olivia Holmberg, Edward Magongo, Jonathan Pei, Kevin Zhu
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have made significant advances in computer vision tasks, yet their high inference times and latency often limit real-world applicability.
1 code implementation • 14 Oct 2024 • Aryan Singhal, Veronica Shao, Gary Sun, Ryan Ding, Jonathan Lu, Kevin Zhu
The rise of digital misinformation has heightened interest in using multilingual Large Language Models (LLMs) for fact-checking.
no code implementations • 10 Oct 2024 • Tim Knappe, Ryan Li, Ayush Chauhan, Kaylee Chhua, Kevin Zhu, Sean O'Brien
Standard methods based on this framework aggregate the final decisions of these rationales but fail to utilize the semantic information detailed in the step-by-step reasoning paths.
no code implementations • 10 Oct 2024 • Pranav Senthilkumar, Visshwa Balasubramanian, Prisha Jain, Aneesa Maity, Jonathan Lu, Kevin Zhu
Significant improvements were observed after fine-tuning, with notable enhancements in both cross-entropy and Dirichlet scores, particularly in the latter.
no code implementations • 10 Oct 2024 • William Tan, Kevin Zhu
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional promise in translation tasks for high-resource languages.
no code implementations • 2 Sep 2024 • Rajat Rawat, Hudson McBride, Dhiyaan Nirmal, Rajarshi Ghosh, Jong Moon, Dhruv Alamuri, Sean O'Brien, Kevin Zhu
As large language models (LLMs) gain traction in healthcare, concerns about their susceptibility to demographic biases are growing.
no code implementations • 1 Sep 2024 • Patricia Dao, Jashmitha Sappa, Saanvi Terala, Tyson Wong, Michael Lam, Kevin Zhu
Traditional crime prediction techniques are slow and inefficient when generating predictions as crime increases rapidly \cite{r15}.
no code implementations • 27 Aug 2024 • Abhay Gupta, Philip Meng, Ece Yurtseven, Sean O'Brien, Kevin Zhu
Detecting biases in natural language understanding (NLU) for African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is crucial to developing inclusive natural language processing (NLP) systems.
no code implementations • 27 Aug 2024 • Kaylee Chhua, Zhoujinyi Wen, Vedant Hathalia, Kevin Zhu, Sean O'Brien
This study addresses the racial biases in facial expression recognition (FER) systems within Large Multimodal Foundation Models (LMFMs).
Facial Expression Recognition
Facial Expression Recognition (FER)
no code implementations • 27 Aug 2024 • Samir Kassam, Angelo Markham, Katie Vo, Yashas Revanakara, Michael Lam, Kevin Zhu
Preoperative Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) images are often ineffective during surgery due to factors such as brain shift, which alters the position of brain structures and tumors.
no code implementations • 26 Aug 2024 • Elysia Shi, Adithri Manda, London Chowdhury, Runeema Arun, Kevin Zhu, Michael Lam
When using AI to detect signs of depressive disorder, AI models habitually draw preemptive conclusions.
no code implementations • 26 Aug 2024 • Rohin Sood, Kevin Zhu
Effective water quality monitoring in coastal regions is crucial due to the progressive deterioration caused by pollution and human activities.
no code implementations • 25 Aug 2024 • Miguel Tjia, Artem Kim, Elaine Wynette Wijaya, Hanna Tefara, Kevin Zhu
Through the utilizations of YOLO, we were able to run different weather conditions and lighting from our augmented dataset for training.
no code implementations • 4 Jul 2024 • Dharunish Yugeswardeenoo, Kevin Zhu, Sean O'Brien
The value of $n$ influences the length of response generated by the model.
no code implementations • 4 Jul 2024 • Jay Shim, Grant Kruttschnitt, Alyssa Ma, Daniel Kim, Benjamin Chek, Athul Anand, Kevin Zhu, Sean O'Brien
Rapidly increasing model scales coupled with steering methods such as chain-of-thought prompting have led to drastic improvements in language model reasoning.
no code implementations • 3 Jul 2024 • Sundesh Donthi, Maximilian Spencer, Om Patel, Joon Doh, Eid Rodan, Kevin Zhu, Sean O'Brien
Our research performs translations using two methods: The first method employs the SentenceTransformers model to semantically generate cosine similarity scores between the meanings of the original and target language idioms, selecting the best idiom (Cosine Similarity method).
no code implementations • 16 Aug 2023 • Daniel Flam-Shepherd, Kevin Zhu, Alán Aspuru-Guzik
However, they are constrained to generate proteins with only the set of amino acids represented in their vocabulary.
no code implementations • 20 Apr 2022 • Kevin Zhu, Alexander Wong, John McPhee
FenceNet takes 2D pose data as input and classifies actions using a skeleton-based action recognition approach that incorporates temporal convolutional networks to capture temporal information.
1 code implementation • 6 Dec 2021 • Daniel Flam-Shepherd, Kevin Zhu, Alán Aspuru-Guzik
In this work, we investigate the capacity of simple language models to learn distributions of molecules.
no code implementations • 25 Mar 2019 • Cody Griffith, Varoon Mathur, Catherine Lin, Kevin Zhu
Understanding the community conditions that best support universal access and improved childhood outcomes allows ultimately to improve decision-making in the areas of planning and investment across the early stages of childhood development.