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

565 citations · 1.1k across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.CL2026

On the Role of Citations in Preference Data

Yu Hou, Hal Daumé, Rachel Rudinger +1

Many NLP tasks require systems to provide attribution in their outputs--i.e. citations to grounding sources. Attribution serves as a bulwark against model hallucination and as a me…

cs.AI2026

AI, Take the Wheel: What Drives Delegation and Trust in Human-Computer Cooperative Question Answering?

Maharshi Gor, Yoo Yeon Sung, Yu Hou +4

AI systems are fallible, and humans can make mistakes in deciding whether to trust AI over their own judgment. Thus, improving human-AI collaboration requires understanding when, w…

cs.CL2025

Language Models Predict Empathy Gaps Between Social In-groups and Out-groups

Yu Hou, Hal Daumé, Rachel Rudinger

Studies of human psychology have demonstrated that people are more motivated to extend empathy to in-group members than out-group members (Cikara et al., 2011). In this study, we i…

cs.CL2025

GRACE: A Granular Benchmark for Evaluating Model Calibration against Human Calibration

Yoo Yeon Sung, Eve Fleisig, Yu Hou +2

Language models are often miscalibrated, leading to confidently incorrect answers. We introduce GRACE, a benchmark for language model calibration that incorporates comparison with…

cs.CL2024

Natural Language Inference Improves Compositionality in Vision-Language Models

Paola Cascante-Bonilla, Yu Hou, Yang Trista Cao +2

Compositional reasoning in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) remains challenging as these models often struggle to relate objects, attributes, and spatial relationships. Recent methods…

cs.CV2023

ACQUIRED: A Dataset for Answering Counterfactual Questions In Real-Life Videos

Te-Lin Wu, Zi-Yi Dou, Qingyuan Hu +5

Multimodal counterfactual reasoning is a vital yet challenging ability for AI systems. It involves predicting the outcomes of hypothetical circumstances based on vision and languag…

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

Are Akpans Trick or Treat: Unveiling Helpful Biases in Assistant Systems

Jiao Sun, Yu Hou, Jiin Kim +1

Information-seeking AI assistant systems aim to answer users' queries about knowledge in a timely manner. However, both the human-perceived helpfulness of information-seeking assis…

cs.CL2021★ 9 cited

On Measures of Biases and Harms in NLP

Sunipa Dev, Emily Sheng, Jieyu Zhao +8

Recent studies show that Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies propagate societal biases about demographic groups associated with attributes such as gender, race, and nati…

cs.CL2021

COM2SENSE: A Commonsense Reasoning Benchmark with Complementary Sentences

Shikhar Singh, Nuan Wen, Yu Hou +4

Commonsense reasoning is intuitive for humans but has been a long-term challenge for artificial intelligence (AI). Recent advancements in pretrained language models have shown prom…