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most citedAre Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?

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cs.CL2025

Min-p, Max Exaggeration: A Critical Analysis of Min-p Sampling in Language Models

Rylan Schaeffer, Joshua Kazdan, Yegor Denisov-Blanch

Sampling from language models impacts the quality and diversity of outputs, affecting both research and real-world applications. Recently, Nguyen et al. 2024's "Turning Up the Heat…

cs.CL2025

Correlating and Predicting Human Evaluations of Language Models from Natural Language Processing Benchmarks

Rylan Schaeffer, Punit Singh Koura, Binh Tang +11

The explosion of high-performing conversational language models (LMs) has spurred a shift from classic natural language processing (NLP) benchmarks to expensive, time-consuming and…

cs.CL2024

Best-of-N Jailbreaking

John Hughes, Sara Price, Aengus Lynch +7

We introduce Best-of-N (BoN) Jailbreaking, a simple black-box algorithm that jailbreaks frontier AI systems across modalities. BoN Jailbreaking works by repeatedly sampling variati…

cs.CL2024

Failures to Find Transferable Image Jailbreaks Between Vision-Language Models

Rylan Schaeffer, Dan Valentine, Luke Bailey +12

The integration of new modalities into frontier AI systems offers exciting capabilities, but also increases the possibility such systems can be adversarially manipulated in undesir…

cs.CL2024★ 6 cited

Investigating Data Contamination for Pre-training Language Models

Minhao Jiang, Ken Ziyu Liu, Ming Zhong +4

Language models pre-trained on web-scale corpora demonstrate impressive capabilities on diverse downstream tasks. However, there is increasing concern whether such capabilities mig…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

Pretraining on the Test Set Is All You Need

Rylan Schaeffer

Inspired by recent work demonstrating the promise of smaller Transformer-based language models pretrained on carefully curated data, we supercharge such approaches by investing hea…

cs.CL2023★ 6 cited

Beyond Scale: The Diversity Coefficient as a Data Quality Metric for Variability in Natural Language Data

Brando Miranda, Alycia Lee, Sudharsan Sundar +4

Current trends in pre-training Large Language Models (LLMs) primarily focus on the scaling of model and dataset size. While the quality of pre-training data is considered an import…

cs.CL2023★ 62 cited

DecodingTrust: A Comprehensive Assessment of Trustworthiness in GPT Models

Boxin Wang, Weixin Chen, Hengzhi Pei +16

Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) models have exhibited exciting progress in their capabilities, capturing the interest of practitioners and the public alike. Yet, while the…