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20192026
most citedInverse Scaling: When Bigger Isn't Better

24 citations · 62 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.CL2026

Who Do Language Models Think Is Competent? A Mechanistic Analysis of Occupational Bias

Keren Fuentes, Aaron Mueller

Language models (LMs) often pass behavioral bias evaluations, but it remains unclear whether they no longer represent the underlying associations that give rise to biases, or have…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

In-context Learning Generalizes, But Not Always Robustly: The Case of Syntax

Aaron Mueller, Albert Webson, Jackson Petty +1

In-context learning (ICL) is now a common method for teaching large language models (LLMs) new tasks: given labeled examples in the input context, the LLM learns to perform the tas…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

Function Vectors in Large Language Models

Eric Todd, Millicent L. Li, Arnab Sen Sharma +3

We report the presence of a simple neural mechanism that represents an input-output function as a vector within autoregressive transformer language models (LMs). Using causal media…

cs.CL2023

Meta-training with Demonstration Retrieval for Efficient Few-shot Learning

Aaron Mueller, Kanika Narang, Lambert Mathias +2

Large language models show impressive results on few-shot NLP tasks. However, these models are memory and computation-intensive. Meta-training allows one to leverage smaller models…

cs.CL2023★ 24 cited

Inverse Scaling: When Bigger Isn't Better

Ian R. McKenzie, Alexander Lyzhov, Michael Pieler +24

Work on scaling laws has found that large language models (LMs) show predictable improvements to overall loss with increased scale (model size, training data, and compute). Here, w…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

How to Plant Trees in Language Models: Data and Architectural Effects on the Emergence of Syntactic Inductive Biases

Aaron Mueller, Tal Linzen

Accurate syntactic representations are essential for robust generalization in natural language. Recent work has found that pre-training can teach language models to rely on hierarc…