activity
20192026
most citedHuman Feedback is not Gold Standard

7 citations · 17 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

11 papers

cs.LG2026

Learning is Forgetting: LLM Training As Lossy Compression

Henry C. Conklin, Tom Hosking, Tan Yi-Chern +5

Despite the increasing prevalence of large language models (LLMs), we still have a limited understanding of how their representational spaces are structured. This limits our abilit…

cs.CL2025

Command A: An Enterprise-Ready Large Language Model

Team Cohere, :, Aakanksha +227

In this report we describe the development of Command A, a powerful large language model purpose-built to excel at real-world enterprise use cases. Command A is an agent-optimised…

cs.CL2024

If You Can't Use Them, Recycle Them: Optimizing Merging at Scale Mitigates Performance Tradeoffs

Muhammad Khalifa, Yi-Chern Tan, Arash Ahmadian +6

Model merging has shown great promise at combining expert models, but the benefit of merging is unclear when merging "generalist" models trained on many tasks. We explore merging i…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Hierarchical Indexing for Retrieval-Augmented Opinion Summarization

Tom Hosking, Hao Tang, Mirella Lapata

We propose a method for unsupervised abstractive opinion summarization, that combines the attributability and scalability of extractive approaches with the coherence and fluency of…

cs.CL2023★ 7 cited

Human Feedback is not Gold Standard

Tom Hosking, Phil Blunsom, Max Bartolo

Human feedback has become the de facto standard for evaluating the performance of Large Language Models, and is increasingly being used as a training objective. However, it is not…

cs.CL2023

Optimal Transport Posterior Alignment for Cross-lingual Semantic Parsing

Tom Sherborne, Tom Hosking, Mirella Lapata

Cross-lingual semantic parsing transfers parsing capability from a high-resource language (e.g., English) to low-resource languages with scarce training data. Previous work has pri…

cs.CL2023

Attributable and Scalable Opinion Summarization

Tom Hosking, Hao Tang, Mirella Lapata

We propose a method for unsupervised opinion summarization that encodes sentences from customer reviews into a hierarchical discrete latent space, then identifies common opinions b…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Hierarchical Sketch Induction for Paraphrase Generation

Tom Hosking, Hao Tang, Mirella Lapata

We propose a generative model of paraphrase generation, that encourages syntactic diversity by conditioning on an explicit syntactic sketch. We introduce Hierarchical Refinement Qu…

cs.CL2021

Factorising Meaning and Form for Intent-Preserving Paraphrasing

Tom Hosking, Mirella Lapata

We propose a method for generating paraphrases of English questions that retain the original intent but use a different surface form. Our model combines a careful choice of trainin…

cs.CL2020★ 3 cited

Querent Intent in Multi-Sentence Questions

Laurie Burchell, Jie Chi, Tom Hosking +2

Multi-sentence questions (MSQs) are sequences of questions connected by relations which, unlike sequences of standalone questions, need to be answered as a unit. Following Rhetoric…

cs.CL2019★ 5 cited

Evaluating Rewards for Question Generation Models

Tom Hosking, Sebastian Riedel

Recent approaches to question generation have used modifications to a Seq2Seq architecture inspired by advances in machine translation. Models are trained using teacher forcing to…