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20182025
most citedBeyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models

565 citations · 590 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.CL2025

Machine Text Detectors are Membership Inference Attacks

Ryuto Koike, Liam Dugan, Masahiro Kaneko +2

Although membership inference attacks (MIAs) and machine-generated text detection target different goals, their methods often exploit similar signals based on a language model's pr…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Toward Beginner-Friendly LLMs for Language Learning: Controlling Difficulty in Conversation

Meiqing Jin, Liam Dugan, Chris Callison-Burch

Practicing conversations with large language models (LLMs) presents a promising alternative to traditional in-person language learning. However, most LLMs generate text at a near-n…

cs.CL2025

Domain Gating Ensemble Networks for AI-Generated Text Detection

Arihant Tripathi, Liam Dugan, Charis Gao +6

As state-of-the-art language models continue to improve, the need for robust detection of machine-generated text becomes increasingly critical. However, current state-of-the-art ma…

cs.CL2025

Group-Adaptive Threshold Optimization for Robust AI-Generated Text Detection

Minseok Jung, Cynthia Fuertes Panizo, Liam Dugan +4

The advancement of large language models (LLMs) has made it difficult to differentiate human-written text from AI-generated text. Several AI-text detectors have been developed in r…

cs.CL2025

GenAI Content Detection Task 3: Cross-Domain Machine-Generated Text Detection Challenge

Liam Dugan, Andrew Zhu, Firoj Alam +3

Recently there have been many shared tasks targeting the detection of generated text from Large Language Models (LLMs). However, these shared tasks tend to focus either on cases wh…

cs.CV2024

MiRAGeNews: Multimodal Realistic AI-Generated News Detection

Runsheng Huang, Liam Dugan, Yue Yang +1

The proliferation of inflammatory or misleading "fake" news content has become increasingly common in recent years. Simultaneously, it has become easier than ever to use AI tools t…

cs.CL2024

ReDel: A Toolkit for LLM-Powered Recursive Multi-Agent Systems

Andrew Zhu, Liam Dugan, Chris Callison-Burch

Recently, there has been increasing interest in using Large Language Models (LLMs) to construct complex multi-agent systems to perform tasks such as compiling literature reviews, d…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

RAID: A Shared Benchmark for Robust Evaluation of Machine-Generated Text Detectors

Liam Dugan, Alyssa Hwang, Filip Trhlik +5

Many commercial and open-source models claim to detect machine-generated text with extremely high accuracy (99% or more). However, very few of these detectors are evaluated on shar…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

FanOutQA: A Multi-Hop, Multi-Document Question Answering Benchmark for Large Language Models

Andrew Zhu, Alyssa Hwang, Liam Dugan +1

One type of question that is commonly found in day-to-day scenarios is ``fan-out'' questions, complex multi-hop, multi-document reasoning questions that require finding information…

cs.CL2023

Interpretable-by-Design Text Understanding with Iteratively Generated Concept Bottleneck

Josh Magnus Ludan, Qing Lyu, Yue Yang +3

Black-box deep neural networks excel in text classification, yet their application in high-stakes domains is hindered by their lack of interpretability. To address this, we propose…

cs.SE2023★ 1 cited

Kani: A Lightweight and Highly Hackable Framework for Building Language Model Applications

Andrew Zhu, Liam Dugan, Alyssa Hwang +1

Language model applications are becoming increasingly popular and complex, often including features like tool usage and retrieval augmentation. However, existing frameworks for suc…

cs.CL2023

Learning When to Speak: Latency and Quality Trade-offs for Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation with Offline Models

Liam Dugan, Anshul Wadhawan, Kyle Spence +3

Recent work in speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) has focused primarily on offline settings, where the full input utterance is available before any output is given. This, however,…

cs.CL2023

Exploring the Curious Case of Code Prompts

Li Zhang, Liam Dugan, Hainiu Xu +1

Recent work has shown that prompting language models with code-like representations of natural language leads to performance improvements on structured reasoning tasks. However, su…

cs.CL2022★ 7 cited

Real or Fake Text?: Investigating Human Ability to Detect Boundaries Between Human-Written and Machine-Generated Text

Liam Dugan, Daphne Ippolito, Arun Kirubarajan +2

As text generated by large language models proliferates, it becomes vital to understand how humans engage with such text, and whether or not they are able to detect when the text t…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

The Case for a Single Model that can Both Generate Continuations and Fill in the Blank

Daphne Ippolito, Liam Dugan, Emily Reif +3

The task of inserting text into a specified position in a passage, known as fill in the blank (FitB), is useful for a variety of applications where writers interact with a natural…

cs.CL2022★ 565 cited

Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models

Aarohi Srivastava, Abhinav Rastogi, Abhishek Rao +448

Language models demonstrate both quantitative improvement and new qualitative capabilities with increasing scale. Despite their potentially transformative impact, these new capabil…

cs.CL2022★ 5 cited

A Feasibility Study of Answer-Agnostic Question Generation for Education

Liam Dugan, Eleni Miltsakaki, Shriyash Upadhyay +5

We conduct a feasibility study into the applicability of answer-agnostic question generation models to textbook passages. We show that a significant portion of errors in such syste…

cs.CL2020

RoFT: A Tool for Evaluating Human Detection of Machine-Generated Text

Liam Dugan, Daphne Ippolito, Arun Kirubarajan +1

In recent years, large neural networks for natural language generation (NLG) have made leaps and bounds in their ability to generate fluent text. However, the tasks of evaluating q…

cs.CV2018★ 8 cited

Cloud Chaser: Real Time Deep Learning Computer Vision on Low Computing Power Devices

Zhengyi Luo, Austin Small, Liam Dugan +1

Internet of Things(IoT) devices, mobile phones, and robotic systems are often denied the power of deep learning algorithms due to their limited computing power. However, to provide…