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20172026
most citedBeyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models

565 citations · 890 across the 47 of their papers we have counts for

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51 papers

cs.CL2026

Operadic consistency: a label-free signal for compositional reasoning failures in LLMs

Nathaniel Bottman, Yinhong Liu, Kyle Richardson

Detecting LLM reasoning failures at inference time without ground-truth labels has motivated a wide range of confidence baselines, including self-consistency, semantic entropy, and…

cs.CL2026

Operads for compositional reasoning in LLMs

Nathaniel Bottman, Kyle Richardson

Question decomposition, i.e. breaking a complex query into simpler sub-queries whose answers are composed to produce a final answer, is a widely used strategy for improving LLM rea…

cs.LG2026

ArtifactLinker: Linking Scientific Artifacts for Automatic State-of-the-Art Discovery

Haofei Yu, Jiaxuan You, Peter Clark +2

Scientific artifacts such as models and datasets are foundations for research. With the rapid growth of platforms like HuggingFace, researchers now have access to a large number of…

cs.AI2026

Analytica: Soft Propositional Reasoning for Robust and Scalable LLM-Driven Analysis

Junyan Cheng, Kyle Richardson, Peter Chin

Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly tasked with complex real-world analysis (e.g., in financial forecasting, scientific discovery), yet their reasoning suffers from…

cs.CL2025

TinyScientist: An Interactive, Extensible, and Controllable Framework for Building Research Agents

Haofei Yu, Keyang Xuan, Fenghai Li +6

Automatic research with Large Language Models (LLMs) is rapidly gaining importance, driving the development of increasingly complex workflows involving multi-agent systems, plannin…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

AstaBench: Rigorous Benchmarking of AI Agents with a Scientific Research Suite

Jonathan Bragg, Mike D'Arcy, Nishant Balepur +36

AI agents hold the potential to revolutionize scientific productivity by automating literature reviews, replicating experiments, analyzing data, and even proposing new directions o…

cs.CL2025★ 4 cited

Event Causality Identification with Synthetic Control

Haoyu Wang, Fengze Liu, Jiayao Zhang +2

Event causality identification (ECI), a process that extracts causal relations between events from text, is crucial for distinguishing causation from correlation. Traditional appro…

cs.AI2025

Language Modeling by Language Models

Junyan Cheng, Peter Clark, Kyle Richardson

Can we leverage LLMs to model the process of discovering novel language model (LM) architectures? Inspired by real research, we propose a multi-agent LLM approach that simulates th…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

ZebraLogic: On the Scaling Limits of LLMs for Logical Reasoning

Bill Yuchen Lin, Ronan Le Bras, Kyle Richardson +4

We investigate the logical reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) and their scalability in complex non-monotonic reasoning. To this end, we introduce ZebraLogic, a…

cs.CL2024

Understanding the Logic of Direct Preference Alignment through Logic

Kyle Richardson, Vivek Srikumar, Ashish Sabharwal

Recent direct preference alignment algorithms (DPA), such as DPO, have shown great promise in aligning large language models to human preferences. While this has motivated the deve…

cs.AI2024

SUPER: Evaluating Agents on Setting Up and Executing Tasks from Research Repositories

Ben Bogin, Kejuan Yang, Shashank Gupta +5

Given that Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant progress in writing code, can they now be used to autonomously reproduce results from research repositories? Such a ca…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

SelfGoal: Your Language Agents Already Know How to Achieve High-level Goals

Ruihan Yang, Jiangjie Chen, Yikai Zhang +5

Language agents powered by large language models (LLMs) are increasingly valuable as decision-making tools in domains such as gaming and programming. However, these agents often fa…

cs.CL2024

TimeArena: Shaping Efficient Multitasking Language Agents in a Time-Aware Simulation

Yikai Zhang, Siyu Yuan, Caiyu Hu +3

Despite remarkable advancements in emulating human-like behavior through Large Language Models (LLMs), current textual simulations do not adequately address the notion of time. To…

cs.CL2024★ 11 cited

OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models

Dirk Groeneveld, Iz Beltagy, Pete Walsh +40

Language models (LMs) have become ubiquitous in both NLP research and in commercial product offerings. As their commercial importance has surged, the most powerful models have beco…

cs.CL2024★ 10 cited

Dolma: an Open Corpus of Three Trillion Tokens for Language Model Pretraining Research

Luca Soldaini, Rodney Kinney, Akshita Bhagia +33

Information about pretraining corpora used to train the current best-performing language models is seldom discussed: commercial models rarely detail their data, and even open model…

cs.CL2023

Catwalk: A Unified Language Model Evaluation Framework for Many Datasets

Dirk Groeneveld, Anas Awadalla, Iz Beltagy +7

The success of large language models has shifted the evaluation paradigms in natural language processing (NLP). The community's interest has drifted towards comparing NLP models ac…

cs.CL2023

Paloma: A Benchmark for Evaluating Language Model Fit

Ian Magnusson, Akshita Bhagia, Valentin Hofmann +13

Evaluations of language models (LMs) commonly report perplexity on monolithic data held out from training. Implicitly or explicitly, this data is composed of domains--varying distr…

cs.CL2023★ 5 cited

Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Evaluating Strategic Planning and Execution of LLM Agents in an Auction Arena

Jiangjie Chen, Siyu Yuan, Rong Ye +2

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) showcase advanced reasoning, yet NLP evaluations often depend on static benchmarks. Evaluating this necessitates environments th…

cs.CL2023

Language Models with Rationality

Nora Kassner, Oyvind Tafjord, Ashish Sabharwal +3

While large language models (LLMs) are proficient at question-answering (QA), it is not always clear how (or even if) an answer follows from their latent "beliefs". This lack of in…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

DISCO: Distilling Counterfactuals with Large Language Models

Zeming Chen, Qiyue Gao, Antoine Bosselut +2

Models trained with counterfactually augmented data learn representations of the causal structure of tasks, enabling robust generalization. However, high-quality counterfactual dat…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Breakpoint Transformers for Modeling and Tracking Intermediate Beliefs

Kyle Richardson, Ronen Tamari, Oren Sultan +3

Can we teach natural language understanding models to track their beliefs through intermediate points in text? We propose a representation learning framework called breakpoint mode…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

Learning to Decompose: Hypothetical Question Decomposition Based on Comparable Texts

Ben Zhou, Kyle Richardson, Xiaodong Yu +1

Explicit decomposition modeling, which involves breaking down complex tasks into more straightforward and often more interpretable sub-tasks, has long been a central theme in devel…

cs.CL2022★ 100 cited

Decomposed Prompting: A Modular Approach for Solving Complex Tasks

Tushar Khot, Harsh Trivedi, Matthew Finlayson +4

Few-shot prompting is a surprisingly powerful way to use Large Language Models (LLMs) to solve various tasks. However, this approach struggles as the task complexity increases or w…

cs.CL2022★ 565 cited

Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models

Aarohi Srivastava, Abhinav Rastogi, Abhishek Rao +448

Language models demonstrate both quantitative improvement and new qualitative capabilities with increasing scale. Despite their potentially transformative impact, these new capabil…