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

565 citations · 1.2k across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.LG2026

Aligning LLMs with Human Uncertainty: A Beta-Bernoulli Calibrator for LLM Forecasting

Hui Dai, Ryan Teehan, Parsa Torabian +1

Probabilistic forecasting estimates the likelihood of uncertain future events. To improve LLM forecasting, existing methods typically learn from binary outcomes to output verbalize…

cs.CL2025

When Does Verification Pay Off? A Closer Look at LLMs as Solution Verifiers

Jack Lu, Ryan Teehan, Jinran Jin +1

Large language models (LLMs) can act as both problem solvers and solution verifiers, where the latter select high-quality answers from a pool of solver-generated candidates. This r…

cs.CL2025

Context Tuning for In-Context Optimization

Jack Lu, Ryan Teehan, Zhenbang Yang +1

We introduce Context Tuning, a simple and effective method to significantly enhance few-shot adaptation of large language models (LLMs) without weight updates. In-Context Learning…

cs.LG2025★ 5 cited

A General Framework for Inference-time Scaling and Steering of Diffusion Models

Raghav Singhal, Zachary Horvitz, Ryan Teehan +4

Diffusion models produce impressive results in modalities ranging from images and video to protein design and text. However, generating samples with user-specified properties remai…

cs.CL2024

Are LLMs Prescient? A Continuous Evaluation using Daily News as the Oracle

Hui Dai, Ryan Teehan, Mengye Ren

Many existing evaluation benchmarks for Large Language Models (LLMs) quickly become outdated due to the emergence of new models and training data. These benchmarks also fall short…

cs.CV2024

ProCreate, Don't Reproduce! Propulsive Energy Diffusion for Creative Generation

Jack Lu, Ryan Teehan, Mengye Ren

In this paper, we propose ProCreate, a simple and easy-to-implement method to improve sample diversity and creativity of diffusion-based image generative models and to prevent trai…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

CoLLEGe: Concept Embedding Generation for Large Language Models

Ryan Teehan, Brenden Lake, Mengye Ren

Current language models are unable to quickly learn new concepts on the fly, often requiring a more involved finetuning process to learn robustly. Prompting in-context is not robus…

cs.CL2022

BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model

BigScience Workshop, :, Teven Le Scao +391

Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be able to perform new tasks based on a few demonstrations or natural language instructions. While these capabilities have led to wi…

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.CL2021★ 25 cited

NL-Augmenter: A Framework for Task-Sensitive Natural Language Augmentation

Kaustubh D. Dhole, Varun Gangal, Sebastian Gehrmann +122

Data augmentation is an important component in the robustness evaluation of models in natural language processing (NLP) and in enhancing the diversity of the data they are trained…

cs.CL2021

Cut the CARP: Fishing for zero-shot story evaluation

Shahbuland Matiana, JR Smith, Ryan Teehan +4

Recent advances in large-scale language models (Raffel et al., 2019; Brown et al., 2020) have brought significant qualitative and quantitative improvements in machine-driven text g…

cs.LG2021★ 563 cited

Multitask Prompted Training Enables Zero-Shot Task Generalization

Victor Sanh, Albert Webson, Colin Raffel +38

Large language models have recently been shown to attain reasonable zero-shot generalization on a diverse set of tasks (Brown et al., 2020). It has been hypothesized that this is a…