4 papers
Exploring Sparse Autoencoders in Text-Based Causal Confounding Adjustment
Mian Zhong, Katherine A. Keith, Anjalie Field
In many settings, studying causal questions based on text data requires adjusting for confounding information within texts. Yet there is a tradeoff in constructing text representat…
The Effect of Document Selection on Query-focused Text Analysis
Sandesh S Rangreji, Mian Zhong, Anjalie Field
Analyses of document collections often require selecting what data to analyze, as not all documents are relevant to a particular research question and computational constraints pre…
HICode: Hierarchical Inductive Coding with LLMs
Mian Zhong, Pristina Wang, Anjalie Field
Despite numerous applications for fine-grained corpus analysis, researchers continue to rely on manual labeling, which does not scale, or statistical tools like topic modeling, whi…
From Queries to Criteria: Understanding How Astronomers Evaluate LLMs
Alina Hyk, Kiera McCormick, Mian Zhong +7
There is growing interest in leveraging LLMs to aid in astronomy and other scientific research, but benchmarks for LLM evaluation in general have not kept pace with the increasingl…