Publications (19)
SPLA: Block Sparse Plus Linear Attention for Long Context Modeling
Bailin Wang, Dan Friedman, Tao Lei +1
Block-wise sparse attention offers significant efficiency gains for long-context modeling, yet existing methods often suffer from low selection fidelity and cumulative contextual l…
Measuring Inductive Biases of In-Context Learning with Underspecified Demonstrations
Chenglei Si, Dan Friedman, Nitish Joshi +3
In-context learning (ICL) is an important paradigm for adapting large language models (LLMs) to new tasks, but the generalization behavior of ICL remains poorly understood. We inve…
When a language model is optimized for reasoning, does it still show embers of autoregression? An analysis of OpenAI o1
R. Thomas McCoy, Shunyu Yao, Dan Friedman +2
In "Embers of Autoregression" (McCoy et al., 2023), we showed that several large language models (LLMs) have some important limitations that are attributable to their origins in ne…
ScisummNet: A Large Annotated Corpus and Content-Impact Models for Scientific Paper Summarization with Citation Networks
Michihiro Yasunaga, Jungo Kasai, Rui Zhang +4
Scientific article summarization is challenging: large, annotated corpora are not available, and the summary should ideally include the article's impacts on research community. Thi…
LensVLM: Selective Context Expansion for Compressed Visual Representation of Text
Roy Xie, Dan Friedman, Donghan Yu +7
Vision Language Models (VLMs) offer the exciting possibility of processing text as rendered images, bypassing the need for tokenizing the text into long token sequences. Since VLM…
Finding Transformer Circuits with Edge Pruning
Adithya Bhaskar, Alexander Wettig, Dan Friedman +1
The path to interpreting a language model often proceeds via analysis of circuits -- sparse computational subgraphs of the model that capture specific aspects of its behavior. Rece…