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most citedExplaining Classifiers with Causal Concept Effect (CaCE)

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cs.CL2024

Distributional reasoning in LLMs: Parallel reasoning processes in multi-hop reasoning

Yuval Shalev, Amir Feder, Ariel Goldstein

Large language models (LLMs) have shown an impressive ability to perform tasks believed to require thought processes. When the model does not document an explicit thought process,…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Can LLMs Learn Macroeconomic Narratives from Social Media?

Almog Gueta, Amir Feder, Zorik Gekhman +2

This study empirically tests the hypothesis, which posits that narratives (ideas that are spread virally and affect public beliefs) can influence eco…

cs.CL2024★ 14 cited

Does Fine-Tuning LLMs on New Knowledge Encourage Hallucinations?

Zorik Gekhman, Gal Yona, Roee Aharoni +4

When large language models are aligned via supervised fine-tuning, they may encounter new factual information that was not acquired through pre-training. It is often conjectured th…

cs.CL2023★ 60 cited

LLMs Accelerate Annotation for Medical Information Extraction

Akshay Goel, Almog Gueta, Omry Gilon +10

The unstructured nature of clinical notes within electronic health records often conceals vital patient-related information, making it challenging to access or interpret. To uncove…

cs.CL2023★ 7 cited

Faithful Explanations of Black-box NLP Models Using LLM-generated Counterfactuals

Yair Gat, Nitay Calderon, Amir Feder +3

Causal explanations of the predictions of NLP systems are essential to ensure safety and establish trust. Yet, existing methods often fall short of explaining model predictions eff…

cs.CL2023★ 22 cited

The Temporal Structure of Language Processing in the Human Brain Corresponds to The Layered Hierarchy of Deep Language Models

Ariel Goldstein, Eric Ham, Mariano Schain +17

Deep Language Models (DLMs) provide a novel computational paradigm for understanding the mechanisms of natural language processing in the human brain. Unlike traditional psycholing…

cs.CL2023★ 22 cited

Evaluating the Moral Beliefs Encoded in LLMs

Nino Scherrer, Claudia Shi, Amir Feder +1

This paper presents a case study on the design, administration, post-processing, and evaluation of surveys on large language models (LLMs). It comprises two components: (1) A stati…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

An Invariant Learning Characterization of Controlled Text Generation

Carolina Zheng, Claudia Shi, Keyon Vafa +2

Controlled generation refers to the problem of creating text that contains stylistic or semantic attributes of interest. Many approaches reduce this problem to training a predictor…

cs.CL2022★ 16 cited

Measuring Causal Effects of Data Statistics on Language Model's `Factual' Predictions

Yanai Elazar, Nora Kassner, Shauli Ravfogel +6

Large amounts of training data are one of the major reasons for the high performance of state-of-the-art NLP models. But what exactly in the training data causes a model to make a…

cs.CL2022★ 6 cited

CEBaB: Estimating the Causal Effects of Real-World Concepts on NLP Model Behavior

Eldar David Abraham, Karel D'Oosterlinck, Amir Feder +5

The increasing size and complexity of modern ML systems has improved their predictive capabilities but made their behavior harder to explain. Many techniques for model explanation…

cs.CL2022

DoCoGen: Domain Counterfactual Generation for Low Resource Domain Adaptation

Nitay Calderon, Eyal Ben-David, Amir Feder +1

Natural language processing (NLP) algorithms have become very successful, but they still struggle when applied to out-of-distribution examples. In this paper we propose a controlla…

cs.CL2021★ 15 cited

Causal Inference in Natural Language Processing: Estimation, Prediction, Interpretation and Beyond

Amir Feder, Katherine A. Keith, Emaad Manzoor +10

A fundamental goal of scientific research is to learn about causal relationships. However, despite its critical role in the life and social sciences, causality has not had the same…

cs.CL2021

Model Compression for Domain Adaptation through Causal Effect Estimation

Guy Rotman, Amir Feder, Roi Reichart

Recent improvements in the predictive quality of natural language processing systems are often dependent on a substantial increase in the number of model parameters. This has led t…

cs.CL2020★ 38 cited

CausaLM: Causal Model Explanation Through Counterfactual Language Models

Amir Feder, Nadav Oved, Uri Shalit +1

Understanding predictions made by deep neural networks is notoriously difficult, but also crucial to their dissemination. As all machine learning based methods, they are as good as…

cs.CL2019

Predicting In-game Actions from Interviews of NBA Players

Nadav Oved, Amir Feder, Roi Reichart

Sports competitions are widely researched in computer and social science, with the goal of understanding how players act under uncertainty. While there is an abundance of computati…