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Capable but Unreliable: Canonical Path Deviation as a Causal Mechanism of Agent Failure in Long-Horizon Tasks
Wilson Y. Lee
Why do language agents fail on tasks they are capable of solving? We argue that many such failures are reliability failures caused by stochastic drift from a task's latent solution…
Queer NLP: A Critical Survey on Literature Gaps, Biases and Trends
Sabine Weber, Angelina Wang, Ankush Gupta +16
Natural language processing (NLP) technologies are rapidly reshaping how language is created, processed, and interpreted by humans. With current and potential applications in hirin…
How Many Human Judgments Are Enough? Feasibility Limits of Human Preference Evaluation
Wilson Y. Lee
Human preference evaluations are widely used to compare generative models, yet it remains unclear how many judgments are required to reliably detect small improvements. We show tha…
Lessons from the Trenches on Reproducible Evaluation of Language Models
Stella Biderman, Hailey Schoelkopf, Lintang Sutawika +27
Reliable evaluation of language models (LMs) remains an open challenge. Re- searchers and engineers face methodological issues such as the sensitivity of models to evaluation setup…
BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model
BigScience Workshop, :, Teven Le Scao +391
Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be able to perform new tasks based on a few demonstrations or natural language instructions. While these capabilities have led to wi…
Evolving Label Usage within Generation Z when Self-Describing Sexual Orientation
Wilson Y. Lee, J. Nicholas Hobbs
Evaluating change in ranked term importance in a growing corpus is a powerful tool for understanding changes in vocabulary usage. In this paper, we analyze a corpus of free-respons…
Between words and characters: A Brief History of Open-Vocabulary Modeling and Tokenization in NLP
Sabrina J. Mielke, Zaid Alyafeai, Elizabeth Salesky +8
What are the units of text that we want to model? From bytes to multi-word expressions, text can be analyzed and generated at many granularities. Until recently, most natural langu…
The MAIEI Learning Community Report
Brittany Wills, Christina Isaicu, Heather von Stackelberg +10
This is a labor of the Learning Community cohort that was convened by MAIEI in Winter 2021 to work through and discuss important research issues in the field of AI ethics from a mu…