3 papers
cs.LG2025
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…
cs.CL2024
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…
cs.CL2024
Toward In-Context Teaching: Adapting Examples to Students' Misconceptions
Alexis Ross, Jacob Andreas
When a teacher provides examples for a student to study, these examples must be informative, enabling a student to progress from their current state toward a target concept or skil…