2 papers
cs.CL2024
The Afterlives of Shakespeare and Company in Online Social Readership
Maria Antoniak, David Mimno, Rosamond Thalken +3
The growth of social reading platforms such as Goodreads and LibraryThing enables us to analyze reading activity at very large scale and in remarkable detail. But twenty-first cent…
cs.CL2023
Data Similarity is Not Enough to Explain Language Model Performance
Gregory Yauney, Emily Reif, David Mimno
Large language models achieve high performance on many but not all downstream tasks. The interaction between pretraining data and task data is commonly assumed to determine this va…