Publications (4)
Scholarly use of social media and altmetrics: a review of the literature
Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Sam Work, Vincent Larivière +1
Social media has become integrated into the fabric of the scholarly communication system in fundamental ways: principally through scholarly use of social media platforms and the pr…
Tapered Off-Policy REINFORCE: Stable and efficient reinforcement learning for LLMs
Nicolas Le Roux, Marc G. Bellemare, Jonathan Lebensold +7
We propose a new algorithm for fine-tuning large language models using reinforcement learning. Tapered Off-Policy REINFORCE (TOPR) uses an asymmetric, tapered variant of importance…
#ContextMatters: Advantages and Limitations of Using Machine Learning to Support Women in Politics
Jacqueline Comer, Sam Work, Kory W Mathewson +2
The United Nations identified gender equality as a Sustainable Development Goal in 2015, recognizing the underrepresentation of women in politics as a specific barrier to achieving…
Corporate Disruption in the Science of Machine Learning
Sam Work
This MSc dissertation considers the effects of the current corporate interest on researchers in the field of machine learning. Situated within the field's cyclical history of acade…