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most citedOn the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models

2.3k citations · 4.9k across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

Olmo 3

Team Olmo, :, Allyson Ettinger +66

We introduce Olmo 3, a family of state-of-the-art, fully-open language models at the 7B and 32B parameter scales. Olmo 3 model construction targets long-context reasoning, function…

cs.CV2023★ 71 cited

OpenFlamingo: An Open-Source Framework for Training Large Autoregressive Vision-Language Models

Anas Awadalla, Irena Gao, Josh Gardner +13

We introduce OpenFlamingo, a family of autoregressive vision-language models ranging from 3B to 9B parameters. OpenFlamingo is an ongoing effort to produce an open-source replicati…

cs.CL2023★ 25 cited

Are aligned neural networks adversarially aligned?

Nicholas Carlini, Milad Nasr, Christopher A. Choquette-Choo +8

Large language models are now tuned to align with the goals of their creators, namely to be "helpful and harmless." These models should respond helpfully to user questions, but ref…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

Proximity-Informed Calibration for Deep Neural Networks

Miao Xiong, Ailin Deng, Pang Wei Koh +4

Confidence calibration is central to providing accurate and interpretable uncertainty estimates, especially under safety-critical scenarios. However, we find that existing calibrat…

cs.CL2023★ 15 cited

FActScore: Fine-grained Atomic Evaluation of Factual Precision in Long Form Text Generation

Sewon Min, Kalpesh Krishna, Xinxi Lyu +6

Evaluating the factuality of long-form text generated by large language models (LMs) is non-trivial because (1) generations often contain a mixture of supported and unsupported pie…

cs.LG2023

On the Trade-off of Intra-/Inter-class Diversity for Supervised Pre-training

Jieyu Zhang, Bohan Wang, Zhengyu Hu +2

Pre-training datasets are critical for building state-of-the-art machine learning models, motivating rigorous study on their impact on downstream tasks. In this work, we study the…

cs.CV2023★ 74 cited

DataComp: In search of the next generation of multimodal datasets

Samir Yitzhak Gadre, Gabriel Ilharco, Alex Fang +31

Multimodal datasets are a critical component in recent breakthroughs such as Stable Diffusion and GPT-4, yet their design does not receive the same research attention as model arch…

cs.LG2023

Out-of-Domain Robustness via Targeted Augmentations

Irena Gao, Shiori Sagawa, Pang Wei Koh +2

Models trained on one set of domains often suffer performance drops on unseen domains, e.g., when wildlife monitoring models are deployed in new camera locations. In this work, we…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Improving Domain Generalization with Domain Relations

Huaxiu Yao, Xinyu Yang, Xinyi Pan +3

Distribution shift presents a significant challenge in machine learning, where models often underperform during the test stage when faced with a different distribution than the one…

cs.LG2022★ 101 cited

Impossibility Theorems for Feature Attribution

Blair Bilodeau, Natasha Jaques, Pang Wei Koh +1

Despite a sea of interpretability methods that can produce plausible explanations, the field has also empirically seen many failure cases of such methods. In light of these results…

cs.LG2022★ 22 cited

Wild-Time: A Benchmark of in-the-Wild Distribution Shift over Time

Huaxiu Yao, Caroline Choi, Bochuan Cao +3

Distribution shift occurs when the test distribution differs from the training distribution, and it can considerably degrade performance of machine learning models deployed in the…

cs.LG2021★ 12 cited

Extending the WILDS Benchmark for Unsupervised Adaptation

Shiori Sagawa, Pang Wei Koh, Tony Lee +17

Machine learning systems deployed in the wild are often trained on a source distribution but deployed on a different target distribution. Unlabeled data can be a powerful point of…

cs.LG2021★ 2.3k cited

On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models

Rishi Bommasani, Drew A. Hudson, Ehsan Adeli +111

AI is undergoing a paradigm shift with the rise of models (e.g., BERT, DALL-E, GPT-3) that are trained on broad data at scale and are adaptable to a wide range of downstream tasks.…

cs.LG2021★ 70 cited

Just Train Twice: Improving Group Robustness without Training Group Information

Evan Zheran Liu, Behzad Haghgoo, Annie S. Chen +5

Standard training via empirical risk minimization (ERM) can produce models that achieve high accuracy on average but low accuracy on certain groups, especially in the presence of s…

cs.LG2021★ 30 cited

Accuracy on the Line: On the Strong Correlation Between Out-of-Distribution and In-Distribution Generalization

John Miller, Rohan Taori, Aditi Raghunathan +6

For machine learning systems to be reliable, we must understand their performance in unseen, out-of-distribution environments. In this paper, we empirically show that out-of-distri…

cs.LG2020★ 157 cited

Concept Bottleneck Models

Pang Wei Koh, Thao Nguyen, Yew Siang Tang +4

We seek to learn models that we can interact with using high-level concepts: if the model did not think there was a bone spur in the x-ray, would it still predict severe arthritis?…

cs.CL2020★ 3 cited

ExpBERT: Representation Engineering with Natural Language Explanations

Shikhar Murty, Pang Wei Koh, Percy Liang

Suppose we want to specify the inductive bias that married couples typically go on honeymoons for the task of extracting pairs of spouses from text. In this paper, we allow model d…

cs.LG2019★ 359 cited

Distributionally Robust Neural Networks for Group Shifts: On the Importance of Regularization for Worst-Case Generalization

Shiori Sagawa, Pang Wei Koh, Tatsunori B. Hashimoto +1

Overparameterized neural networks can be highly accurate on average on an i.i.d. test set yet consistently fail on atypical groups of the data (e.g., by learning spurious correlati…

cs.LG2019★ 21 cited

Temporal FiLM: Capturing Long-Range Sequence Dependencies with Feature-Wise Modulations

Sawyer Birnbaum, Volodymyr Kuleshov, Zayd Enam +2

Learning representations that accurately capture long-range dependencies in sequential inputs -- including text, audio, and genomic data -- is a key problem in deep learning. Feed-…

cs.LG2019★ 82 cited

On the Accuracy of Influence Functions for Measuring Group Effects

Pang Wei Koh, Kai-Siang Ang, Hubert H. K. Teo +1

Influence functions estimate the effect of removing a training point on a model without the need to retrain. They are based on a first-order Taylor approximation that is guaranteed…

stat.ML2018★ 96 cited

Stronger Data Poisoning Attacks Break Data Sanitization Defenses

Pang Wei Koh, Jacob Steinhardt, Percy Liang

Machine learning models trained on data from the outside world can be corrupted by data poisoning attacks that inject malicious points into the models' training sets. A common defe…

cs.LG2018★ 9 cited

Inferring Multidimensional Rates of Aging from Cross-Sectional Data

Emma Pierson, Pang Wei Koh, Tatsunori Hashimoto +4

Modeling how individuals evolve over time is a fundamental problem in the natural and social sciences. However, existing datasets are often cross-sectional with each individual obs…

cs.LG2017★ 82 cited

Certified Defenses for Data Poisoning Attacks

Jacob Steinhardt, Pang Wei Koh, Percy Liang

Machine learning systems trained on user-provided data are susceptible to data poisoning attacks, whereby malicious users inject false training data with the aim of corrupting the…

stat.ML2017★ 1.3k cited

Understanding Black-box Predictions via Influence Functions

Pang Wei Koh, Percy Liang

How can we explain the predictions of a black-box model? In this paper, we use influence functions -- a classic technique from robust statistics -- to trace a model's prediction th…