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20222026
most citedStructured, flexible, and robust: benchmarking and improving large language models towards more human-like behavior in out-of-distribution reasoning tasks

14 citations · 19 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.SD2026

Harmonic Representations in Symbolic Music Transformers are Localized and Controllable

Adi Silberschein, Megan Wei, Tamar Rott Shaham

Transformer models trained on symbolic music have become remarkably capable. However, it is yet unclear how they represent music structure, and whether understanding their internal…

cs.AI2026

Ownership in AI-Assisted Everyday Tasks

Megan Wei, Melanie Subbiah, Audrey Lee +4

When does work done with AI still feel like ours? As AI becomes woven into everyday tasks, we must examine what happens to our sense of ownership and contribution when a machine sh…

cs.CL2026

Do Speech Emphasis Models Generalize across Languages and Emotions?

Megan Wei, Deepali Aneja, Jiaqi Su +3

Prosodic emphasis varies across languages, emotions, and speaking styles, yet existing emphasis detection models are largely trained and evaluated on monolingual neutral read speec…

cs.CV2025

You May Speak Freely: Improving the Fine-Grained Visual Recognition Capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models with Answer Extraction

Logan Lawrence, Oindrila Saha, Megan Wei +3

Despite the renewed interest in zero-shot visual classification due to the rise of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), the problem of evaluating free-form responses of auto-r…

cs.CL2025

Language-Informed Synthesis of Rational Agent Models for Grounded Theory-of-Mind Reasoning On-The-Fly

Lance Ying, Ryan Truong, Katherine M. Collins +6

Drawing real world social inferences usually requires taking into account information from multiple modalities. Language is a particularly powerful source of information in social…

cs.SD2024

Do Music Generation Models Encode Music Theory?

Megan Wei, Michael Freeman, Chris Donahue +1

Music foundation models possess impressive music generation capabilities. When people compose music, they may infuse their understanding of music into their work, by using notes an…

cs.SD2024★ 1 cited

Prevailing Research Areas for Music AI in the Era of Foundation Models

Megan Wei, Mateusz Modrzejewski, Aswin Sivaraman +1

Parallel to rapid advancements in foundation model research, the past few years have witnessed a surge in music AI applications. As AI-generated and AI-augmented music become incre…

cs.AI2023★ 4 cited

The Neuro-Symbolic Inverse Planning Engine (NIPE): Modeling Probabilistic Social Inferences from Linguistic Inputs

Lance Ying, Katherine M. Collins, Megan Wei +5

Human beings are social creatures. We routinely reason about other agents, and a crucial component of this social reasoning is inferring people's goals as we learn about their acti…

cs.CL2022★ 14 cited

Structured, flexible, and robust: benchmarking and improving large language models towards more human-like behavior in out-of-distribution reasoning tasks

Katherine M. Collins, Catherine Wong, Jiahai Feng +2

Human language offers a powerful window into our thoughts -- we tell stories, give explanations, and express our beliefs and goals through words. Abundant evidence also suggests th…