5 papers
Beyond Manual Planning: Seating Allocation for Large Organizations
Anton Ipsen, Michael Cashmore, Kirsty Fielding +4
We introduce the Hierarchical Seating Allocation Problem (HSAP) which addresses the optimal assignment of hierarchically structured organizational teams to physical seating arrange…
To Steer or Not to Steer? Mechanistic Error Reduction with Abstention for Language Models
Anna Hedström, Salim I. Amoukou, Tom Bewley +2
We introduce Mechanistic Error Reduction with Abstention (MERA), a principled framework for steering language models (LMs) to mitigate errors through selective, adaptive interventi…
Capacity Planning and Scheduling for Jobs with Uncertainty in Resource Usage and Duration
Sunandita Patra, Mehtab Pathan, Mahmoud Mahfouz +4
Organizations around the world schedule jobs (programs) regularly to perform various tasks dictated by their end users. With the major movement towards using a cloud computing infr…
Sequential Harmful Shift Detection Without Labels
Salim I. Amoukou, Tom Bewley, Saumitra Mishra +3
We introduce a novel approach for detecting distribution shifts that negatively impact the performance of machine learning models in continuous production environments, which requi…
Interpreting Language Reward Models via Contrastive Explanations
Junqi Jiang, Tom Bewley, Saumitra Mishra +2
Reward models (RMs) are a crucial component in the alignment of large language models' (LLMs) outputs with human values. RMs approximate human preferences over possible LLM respons…