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most citedScaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models

1.2k citations · 2.4k across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

cs.AI2026

Self-Organizing Agent Teams Learn to Reason Together

Aneesh Pappu, Mirac Suzgun, Yongchan Kwon +5

Collective intelligence depends not only on what team members know, but also on how they organize their work. When the structure of a solution is unknown, useful roles and division…

cs.CL2026

string2string Studio: An Interactive, In-Browser Platform for String-to-String Algorithms

Mirac Suzgun, James Zou, Stuart M. Shieber +1

We present string2string Studio, an interactive in-browser platform for string-to-string analysis across natural language processing, computational biology, and the digital humanit…

cs.CL2026

Evaluating Commercial AI Chatbots as News Intermediaries

Mirac Suzgun, Emily Shen, Federico Bianchi +5

AI chatbots are rapidly shaping how people encounter the news, yet no prior study has systematically measured how accurately these systems, with their proprietary search integratio…

cs.LG2025

Dynamic Cheatsheet: Test-Time Learning with Adaptive Memory

Mirac Suzgun, Mert Yuksekgonul, Federico Bianchi +2

Despite their impressive performance on complex tasks, current language models (LMs) typically operate in a vacuum: Each input query is processed separately, without retaining insi…

cs.AI2025

Cost-of-Pass: An Economic Framework for Evaluating Language Models

Mehmet Hamza Erol, Batu El, Mirac Suzgun +2

Widespread adoption of AI systems hinges on their ability to generate economic value that outweighs their inference costs. Evaluating this tradeoff requires metrics accounting for…

cs.CL2025

AI for Scaling Legal Reform: Mapping and Redacting Racial Covenants in Santa Clara County

Faiz Surani, Mirac Suzgun, Vyoma Raman +3

Legal reform can be challenging in light of the volume, complexity, and interdependence of laws, codes, and records. One salient example of this challenge is the effort to restrict…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Belief in the Machine: Investigating Epistemological Blind Spots of Language Models

Mirac Suzgun, Tayfun Gur, Federico Bianchi +4

As language models (LMs) become integral to fields like healthcare, law, and journalism, their ability to differentiate between fact, belief, and knowledge is essential for reliabl…

cs.CL2024★ 38 cited

Hallucination-Free? Assessing the Reliability of Leading AI Legal Research Tools

Varun Magesh, Faiz Surani, Matthew Dahl +3

Legal practice has witnessed a sharp rise in products incorporating artificial intelligence (AI). Such tools are designed to assist with a wide range of core legal tasks, from sear…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

When Benchmarks are Targets: Revealing the Sensitivity of Large Language Model Leaderboards

Norah Alzahrani, Hisham Abdullah Alyahya, Yazeed Alnumay +9

Large Language Model (LLM) leaderboards based on benchmark rankings are regularly used to guide practitioners in model selection. Often, the published leaderboard rankings are take…

cs.CL2024★ 18 cited

Meta-Prompting: Enhancing Language Models with Task-Agnostic Scaffolding

Mirac Suzgun, Adam Tauman Kalai

We introduce meta-prompting, an effective scaffolding technique designed to enhance the functionality of language models (LMs). This approach transforms a single LM into a multi-fa…

cs.CL2024★ 272 cited

Large Legal Fictions: Profiling Legal Hallucinations in Large Language Models

Matthew Dahl, Varun Magesh, Mirac Suzgun +1

Do large language models (LLMs) know the law? These models are increasingly being used to augment legal practice, education, and research, yet their revolutionary potential is thre…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

A Benchmark for Learning to Translate a New Language from One Grammar Book

Garrett Tanzer, Mirac Suzgun, Eline Visser +2

Large language models (LLMs) can perform impressive feats with in-context learning or lightweight finetuning. It is natural to wonder how well these models adapt to genuinely new t…

cs.CL2023★ 12 cited

Safety-Tuned LLaMAs: Lessons From Improving the Safety of Large Language Models that Follow Instructions

Federico Bianchi, Mirac Suzgun, Giuseppe Attanasio +4

Training large language models to follow instructions makes them perform better on a wide range of tasks and generally become more helpful. However, a perfectly helpful model will…

cs.CL2023★ 23 cited

Do Language Models Know When They're Hallucinating References?

Ayush Agrawal, Mirac Suzgun, Lester Mackey +1

State-of-the-art language models (LMs) are notoriously susceptible to generating hallucinated information. Such inaccurate outputs not only undermine the reliability of these model…

cs.CL2023

string2string: A Modern Python Library for String-to-String Algorithms

Mirac Suzgun, Stuart M. Shieber, Dan Jurafsky

We introduce string2string, an open-source library that offers a comprehensive suite of efficient algorithms for a broad range of string-to-string problems. It includes traditional…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Follow the Wisdom of the Crowd: Effective Text Generation via Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding

Mirac Suzgun, Luke Melas-Kyriazi, Dan Jurafsky

In open-ended natural-language generation, existing text decoding methods typically struggle to produce text which is both diverse and high-quality. Greedy and beam search are know…

cs.CL2022★ 128 cited

Holistic Evaluation of Language Models

Percy Liang, Rishi Bommasani, Tony Lee +47

Language models (LMs) are becoming the foundation for almost all major language technologies, but their capabilities, limitations, and risks are not well understood. We present Hol…

cs.CL2022★ 44 cited

Challenging BIG-Bench Tasks and Whether Chain-of-Thought Can Solve Them

Mirac Suzgun, Nathan Scales, Nathanael Schärli +8

BIG-Bench (Srivastava et al., 2022) is a diverse evaluation suite that focuses on tasks believed to be beyond the capabilities of current language models. Language models have alre…

cs.CL2022★ 54 cited

Language Models are Multilingual Chain-of-Thought Reasoners

Freda Shi, Mirac Suzgun, Markus Freitag +9

We evaluate the reasoning abilities of large language models in multilingual settings. We introduce the Multilingual Grade School Math (MGSM) benchmark, by manually translating 250…

cs.LG2022★ 1.2k cited

Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models

Hyung Won Chung, Le Hou, Shayne Longpre +32

Finetuning language models on a collection of datasets phrased as instructions has been shown to improve model performance and generalization to unseen tasks. In this paper we expl…

cs.CL2022★ 14 cited

The Harvard USPTO Patent Dataset: A Large-Scale, Well-Structured, and Multi-Purpose Corpus of Patent Applications

Mirac Suzgun, Luke Melas-Kyriazi, Suproteem K. Sarkar +2

Innovation is a major driver of economic and social development, and information about many kinds of innovation is embedded in semi-structured data from patents and patent applicat…

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…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

Prompt-and-Rerank: A Method for Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Arbitrary Textual Style Transfer with Small Language Models

Mirac Suzgun, Luke Melas-Kyriazi, Dan Jurafsky

We propose a method for arbitrary textual style transfer (TST)--the task of transforming a text into any given style--utilizing general-purpose pre-trained language models. Our met…

cs.CL2022

Monte Carlo Tree Search for Interpreting Stress in Natural Language

Kyle Swanson, Joy Hsu, Mirac Suzgun

Natural language processing can facilitate the analysis of a person's mental state from text they have written. Previous studies have developed models that can predict whether a pe…