4 papers
Learning to Make MISTAKEs: Modeling Incorrect Student Thinking And Key Errors
Alexis Ross, Jacob Andreas
Research on reasoning in language models (LMs) predominantly focuses on improving the correctness of their outputs. But some important applications require modeling reasoning patte…
Modeling Student Learning with 3.8 Million Program Traces
Alexis Ross, Megha Srivastava, Jeremiah Blanchard +1
As programmers write code, they often edit and retry multiple times, creating rich "interaction traces" that reveal how they approach coding tasks and provide clues about their lev…
Language Modeling with Editable External Knowledge
Belinda Z. Li, Emmy Liu, Alexis Ross +3
When the world changes, so does the text that humans write about it. How do we build language models that can be easily updated to reflect these changes? One popular approach is re…
Learning Phonotactics from Linguistic Informants
Canaan Breiss, Alexis Ross, Amani Maina-Kilaas +2
We propose an interactive approach to language learning that utilizes linguistic acceptability judgments from an informant (a competent language user) to learn a grammar. Given a g…