9 citations · 11 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
3 papers
cs.CL2024
Explaining vague language
Paul Égré, Benjamin Spector
Why is language vague? Vagueness may be explained and rationalized if it can be shown that vague language is more useful to speaker and hearer than precise language. In a well-know…
cs.AI2023★ 9 cited
Accelerating LLM Inference with Staged Speculative Decoding
Benjamin Spector, Chris Re
Recent advances with large language models (LLM) illustrate their diverse capabilities. We propose a novel algorithm, staged speculative decoding, to accelerate LLM inference in sm…
cs.CL2022★ 2 cited
Exhaustivity and anti-exhaustivity in the RSA framework: Testing the effect of prior beliefs
Alexandre Cremers, Ethan G. Wilcox, Benjamin Spector
During communication, the interpretation of utterances is sensitive to a listener's probabilistic prior beliefs, something which is captured by one currently influential model of p…