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20182024
most citedThe Goldilocks of Pragmatic Understanding: Fine-Tuning Strategy Matters for Implicature Resolution by LLMs

21 citations · 39 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.AI2024★ 2 cited

BALROG: Benchmarking Agentic LLM and VLM Reasoning On Games

Davide Paglieri, Bartłomiej Cupiał, Samuel Coward +10

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision Language Models (VLMs) possess extensive knowledge and exhibit promising reasoning abilities, however, they still struggle to perform well i…

cs.AI2024★ 11 cited

Debating with More Persuasive LLMs Leads to More Truthful Answers

Akbir Khan, John Hughes, Dan Valentine +7

Common methods for aligning large language models (LLMs) with desired behaviour heavily rely on human-labelled data. However, as models grow increasingly sophisticated, they will s…

cs.LG2023

Leading the Pack: N-player Opponent Shaping

Alexandra Souly, Timon Willi, Akbir Khan +4

Reinforcement learning solutions have great success in the 2-player general sum setting. In this setting, the paradigm of Opponent Shaping (OS), in which agents account for the lea…

cs.AI2023

Scaling Opponent Shaping to High Dimensional Games

Akbir Khan, Timon Willi, Newton Kwan +5

In multi-agent settings with mixed incentives, methods developed for zero-sum games have been shown to lead to detrimental outcomes. To address this issue, opponent shaping (OS) me…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

JaxMARL: Multi-Agent RL Environments and Algorithms in JAX

Alexander Rutherford, Benjamin Ellis, Matteo Gallici +18

Benchmarks are crucial in the development of machine learning algorithms, with available environments significantly influencing reinforcement learning (RL) research. Traditionally,…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

MAESTRO: Open-Ended Environment Design for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Mikayel Samvelyan, Akbir Khan, Michael Dennis +5

Open-ended learning methods that automatically generate a curriculum of increasingly challenging tasks serve as a promising avenue toward generally capable reinforcement learning a…

cs.CL2022★ 21 cited

The Goldilocks of Pragmatic Understanding: Fine-Tuning Strategy Matters for Implicature Resolution by LLMs

Laura Ruis, Akbir Khan, Stella Biderman +3

Despite widespread use of LLMs as conversational agents, evaluations of performance fail to capture a crucial aspect of communication: interpreting language in context -- incorpora…

stat.AP2020

Latent Racial Bias -- Evaluating Racism in Police Stop-and-Searches

Akbir Khan

In this paper, we introduce the latent racial bias, a metric and method to evaluate the racial bias within specific events. For the purpose of this paper we explore the British Hom…

cs.CV2018

Considering Race a Problem of Transfer Learning

Akbir Khan, Marwa Mahmoud

As biometric applications are fielded to serve large population groups, issues of performance differences between individual sub-groups are becoming increasingly important. In this…