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most citedBetween words and characters: A Brief History of Open-Vocabulary Modeling and Tokenization in NLP

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cs.CL2026

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…

cs.CL2026

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…

cs.CL2024★ 5 cited

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…

cs.CL2022

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…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

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…

cs.CL2021★ 106 cited

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…