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20192026
most citedBeyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models

565 citations · 1.2k across the 49 of their papers we have counts for

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51 papers

cs.LG2026

Multimodal Unlearning Across Vision, Language, Video, and Audio: Survey of Methods, Datasets, and Benchmarks

Nobin Sarwar, Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Zheyuan Liu +1

With the growing adoption of VLMs, DMs, LLMs, and AFMs, these multimodal foundation models can inadvertently encode sensitive, copyrighted, biased, or unsafe cross-modal associatio…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

In-Context Principle Learning from Mistakes

Tianjun Zhang, Aman Madaan, Luyu Gao +5

In-context learning (ICL, also known as few-shot prompting) has been the standard method of adapting LLMs to downstream tasks, by learning from a few input-output examples. Nonethe…

cs.AI2024★ 9 cited

Self-Discover: Large Language Models Self-Compose Reasoning Structures

Pei Zhou, Jay Pujara, Xiang Ren +7

We introduce SELF-DISCOVER, a general framework for LLMs to self-discover the task-intrinsic reasoning structures to tackle complex reasoning problems that are challenging for typi…

cs.HC2023★ 2 cited

Beyond ChatBots: ExploreLLM for Structured Thoughts and Personalized Model Responses

Xiao Ma, Swaroop Mishra, Ariel Liu +6

Large language model (LLM) powered chatbots are primarily text-based today, and impose a large interactional cognitive load, especially for exploratory or sensemaking tasks such as…

cs.CL2023★ 33 cited

Instruction-Following Evaluation for Large Language Models

Jeffrey Zhou, Tianjian Lu, Swaroop Mishra +5

One core capability of Large Language Models (LLMs) is to follow natural language instructions. However, the evaluation of such abilities is not standardized: Human evaluations are…

cs.CL2023

InstructExcel: A Benchmark for Natural Language Instruction in Excel

Justin Payan, Swaroop Mishra, Mukul Singh +7

With the evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) we can solve increasingly more complex NLP tasks across various domains, including spreadsheets. This work investigates whether L…

cs.CL2023★ 6 cited

How FaR Are Large Language Models From Agents with Theory-of-Mind?

Pei Zhou, Aman Madaan, Srividya Pranavi Potharaju +9

"Thinking is for Doing." Humans can infer other people's mental states from observations--an ability called Theory-of-Mind (ToM)--and subsequently act pragmatically on those infere…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

TarGEN: Targeted Data Generation with Large Language Models

Himanshu Gupta, Kevin Scaria, Ujjwala Anantheswaran +5

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has sparked interest in data synthesis techniques, aiming to generate diverse and high-quality synthetic datasets. However, th…

cs.CL2023★ 5 cited

AutoMix: Automatically Mixing Language Models

Pranjal Aggarwal, Aman Madaan, Ankit Anand +10

Large language models (LLMs) are now available from cloud API providers in various sizes and configurations. While this diversity offers a broad spectrum of choices, effectively le…

cs.LG2023★ 23 cited

Take a Step Back: Evoking Reasoning via Abstraction in Large Language Models

Huaixiu Steven Zheng, Swaroop Mishra, Xinyun Chen +4

We present Step-Back Prompting, a simple prompting technique that enables LLMs to do abstractions to derive high-level concepts and first principles from instances containing speci…

cs.CL2023★ 38 cited

Large Language Models Cannot Self-Correct Reasoning Yet

Jie Huang, Xinyun Chen, Swaroop Mishra +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a groundbreaking technology with their unparalleled text generation capabilities across various applications. Nevertheless, concerns pe…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

Let's Do a Thought Experiment: Using Counterfactuals to Improve Moral Reasoning

Xiao Ma, Swaroop Mishra, Ahmad Beirami +2

Language models still struggle on moral reasoning, despite their impressive performance in many other tasks. In particular, the Moral Scenarios task in MMLU (Multi-task Language Un…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

Instruction Tuned Models are Quick Learners

Himanshu Gupta, Saurabh Arjun Sawant, Swaroop Mishra +4

Instruction tuning of language models has demonstrated the ability to enhance model generalization to unseen tasks via in-context learning using a few examples. However, typical su…

cs.CL2023

Real-Time Visual Feedback to Guide Benchmark Creation: A Human-and-Metric-in-the-Loop Workflow

Anjana Arunkumar, Swaroop Mishra, Bhavdeep Sachdeva +2

Recent research has shown that language models exploit `artifacts' in benchmarks to solve tasks, rather than truly learning them, leading to inflated model performance. In pursuit…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

InstructABSA: Instruction Learning for Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis

Kevin Scaria, Himanshu Gupta, Siddharth Goyal +3

We introduce InstructABSA, an instruction learning paradigm for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) subtasks. Our method introduces positive, negative, and neutral examples to e…

cs.CL2022★ 118 cited

Self-Instruct: Aligning Language Models with Self-Generated Instructions

Yizhong Wang, Yeganeh Kordi, Swaroop Mishra +4

Large "instruction-tuned" language models (i.e., finetuned to respond to instructions) have demonstrated a remarkable ability to generalize zero-shot to new tasks. Nevertheless, th…

cs.CL2022★ 215 cited

Learn to Explain: Multimodal Reasoning via Thought Chains for Science Question Answering

Pan Lu, Swaroop Mishra, Tony Xia +6

When answering a question, humans utilize the information available across different modalities to synthesize a consistent and complete chain of thought (CoT). This process is norm…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Pretrained Transformers Do not Always Improve Robustness

Swaroop Mishra, Bhavdeep Singh Sachdeva, Chitta Baral

Pretrained Transformers (PT) have been shown to improve Out of Distribution (OOD) robustness than traditional models such as Bag of Words (BOW), LSTMs, Convolutional Neural Network…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Hardness of Samples Need to be Quantified for a Reliable Evaluation System: Exploring Potential Opportunities with a New Task

Swaroop Mishra, Anjana Arunkumar, Chris Bryan +1

Evaluation of models on benchmarks is unreliable without knowing the degree of sample hardness; this subsequently overestimates the capability of AI systems and limits their adopti…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

A Survey of Parameters Associated with the Quality of Benchmarks in NLP

Swaroop Mishra, Anjana Arunkumar, Chris Bryan +1

Several benchmarks have been built with heavy investment in resources to track our progress in NLP. Thousands of papers published in response to those benchmarks have competed to t…

cs.CL2022

Investigating the Failure Modes of the AUC metric and Exploring Alternatives for Evaluating Systems in Safety Critical Applications

Swaroop Mishra, Anjana Arunkumar, Chitta Baral

With the increasing importance of safety requirements associated with the use of black box models, evaluation of selective answering capability of models has been critical. Area un…

cs.CL2022★ 4 cited

Lila: A Unified Benchmark for Mathematical Reasoning

Swaroop Mishra, Matthew Finlayson, Pan Lu +8

Mathematical reasoning skills are essential for general-purpose intelligent systems to perform tasks from grocery shopping to climate modeling. Towards evaluating and improving AI…

cs.CL2022

"John is 50 years old, can his son be 65?" Evaluating NLP Models' Understanding of Feasibility

Himanshu Gupta, Neeraj Varshney, Swaroop Mishra +5

In current NLP research, large-scale language models and their abilities are widely being discussed. Some recent works have also found notable failures of these models. Often these…

cs.CL2022

HELP ME THINK: A Simple Prompting Strategy for Non-experts to Create Customized Content with Models

Swaroop Mishra, Elnaz Nouri

Controlling the text generated by language models and customizing the content has been a long-standing challenge. Existing prompting techniques proposed in pursuit of providing con…