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cs.CL2026

Test-Time Adaptation of Reasoning Strategies with Bayesian Nonparametric Memory

Keshav Ramji, Tahira Naseem, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo

While modern large language models (LLMs) have been trained to reason through verbalized chains-of-thought, the generation cost grows substantially due to suboptimal paths to reach…

cs.CL2026

Thinking Without Words: Efficient Latent Reasoning with Abstract Chain-of-Thought

Keshav Ramji, Tahira Naseem, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo

While long, explicit chains-of-thought (CoT) have proven effective on complex reasoning tasks, they are costly to generate during inference. Non-verbal reasoning methods have emerg…

cs.CL2025

Latent Principle Discovery for Language Model Self-Improvement

Keshav Ramji, Tahira Naseem, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo

When language model (LM) users aim to improve the quality of its generations, it is crucial to specify concrete behavioral attributes that the model should strive to reflect. Howev…

cs.CL2025

Insertion Language Models: Sequence Generation with Arbitrary-Position Insertions

Dhruvesh Patel, Aishwarya Sahoo, Avinash Amballa +3

Autoregressive models (ARMs), which predict subsequent tokens one-by-one ``from left to right,'' have achieved significant success across a wide range of sequence generation tasks.…

cs.CL2024

Self-Refinement of Language Models from External Proxy Metrics Feedback

Keshav Ramji, Young-Suk Lee, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo +5

It is often desirable for Large Language Models (LLMs) to capture multiple objectives when providing a response. In document-grounded response generation, for example, agent respon…

cs.CL2023

Scalable Learning of Latent Language Structure With Logical Offline Cycle Consistency

Maxwell Crouse, Ramon Astudillo, Tahira Naseem +4

We introduce Logical Offline Cycle Consistency Optimization (LOCCO), a scalable, semi-supervised method for training a neural semantic parser. Conceptually, LOCCO can be viewed as…

cs.CL2023

Slide, Constrain, Parse, Repeat: Synchronous SlidingWindows for Document AMR Parsing

Sadhana Kumaravel, Tahira Naseem, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo +2

The sliding window approach provides an elegant way to handle contexts of sizes larger than the Transformer's input window, for tasks like language modeling. Here we extend this ap…

cs.CL2023

Laziness Is a Virtue When It Comes to Compositionality in Neural Semantic Parsing

Maxwell Crouse, Pavan Kapanipathi, Subhajit Chaudhury +4

Nearly all general-purpose neural semantic parsers generate logical forms in a strictly top-down autoregressive fashion. Though such systems have achieved impressive results across…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

AMR Parsing with Instruction Fine-tuned Pre-trained Language Models

Young-Suk Lee, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo, Radu Florian +2

Instruction fine-tuned language models on a collection of instruction annotated datasets (FLAN) have shown highly effective to improve model performance and generalization to unsee…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Inducing and Using Alignments for Transition-based AMR Parsing

Andrew Drozdov, Jiawei Zhou, Radu Florian +4

Transition-based parsers for Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) rely on node-to-word alignments. These alignments are learned separately from parser training and require a compl…

cs.CL2022★ 8 cited

CBR-iKB: A Case-Based Reasoning Approach for Question Answering over Incomplete Knowledge Bases

Dung Thai, Srinivas Ravishankar, Ibrahim Abdelaziz +7

Knowledge bases (KBs) are often incomplete and constantly changing in practice. Yet, in many question answering applications coupled with knowledge bases, the sparse nature of KBs…

cs.CL2021

DocAMR: Multi-Sentence AMR Representation and Evaluation

Tahira Naseem, Austin Blodgett, Sadhana Kumaravel +7

Despite extensive research on parsing of English sentences into Abstraction Meaning Representation (AMR) graphs, which are compared to gold graphs via the Smatch metric, full-docum…

cs.CL2021★ 3 cited

Learning to Transpile AMR into SPARQL

Mihaela Bornea, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo, Tahira Naseem +5

We propose a transition-based system to transpile Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) into SPARQL for Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA). This allows us to delegate part of…

cs.CL2021

Maximum Bayes Smatch Ensemble Distillation for AMR Parsing

Young-Suk Lee, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo, Thanh Lam Hoang +3

AMR parsing has experienced an unprecendented increase in performance in the last three years, due to a mixture of effects including architecture improvements and transfer learning…

cs.CL2021

A Two-Stage Approach towards Generalization in Knowledge Base Question Answering

Srinivas Ravishankar, June Thai, Ibrahim Abdelaziz +5

Most existing approaches for Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) focus on a specific underlying knowledge base either because of inherent assumptions in the approach, or becau…

cs.CL2021

Structural Guidance for Transformer Language Models

Peng Qian, Tahira Naseem, Roger Levy +1

Transformer-based language models pre-trained on large amounts of text data have proven remarkably successful in learning generic transferable linguistic representations. Here we s…