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20222026
most citedBeyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models

565 citations · 565 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.CL2026

UNMASK: Discovering and Causally Verifying Spurious Shortcuts in Text Classifiers

Chidaksh Ravuru, Shashank Srivastava

Neural language models trained on large crowdsourced corpora frequently exploit spurious surface patterns tied to target labels without true linguistic or causal relevance, boostin…

cs.CL2025

Is Chain-of-Thought Really Not Explainability? Chain-of-Thought Can Be Faithful without Hint Verbalization

Kerem Zaman, Shashank Srivastava

Recent work, using the Biasing Features metric, labels a CoT as unfaithful if it omits a prompt-injected hint that affected the prediction. We argue this metric adopts a narrow not…

cs.CL2025

A Causal Lens for Evaluating Faithfulness Metrics

Kerem Zaman, Shashank Srivastava

Large Language Models (LLMs) offer natural language explanations as an alternative to feature attribution methods for model interpretability. However, despite their plausibility, t…

cs.CL2024

INTERACT: Enabling Interactive, Question-Driven Learning in Large Language Models

Aum Kendapadi, Kerem Zaman, Rakesh R. Menon +1

Large language models (LLMs) excel at answering questions but remain passive learners-absorbing static data without the ability to question and refine knowledge. This paper explore…

cs.CV2024

DiffVax: Optimization-Free Image Immunization Against Diffusion-Based Editing

Tarik Can Ozden, Ozgur Kara, Oguzhan Akcin +4

Current image immunization defense techniques against diffusion-based editing embed imperceptible noise into target images to disrupt editing models. However, these methods face sc…

cs.CL2024

DISCERN: Decoding Systematic Errors in Natural Language for Text Classifiers

Rakesh R. Menon, Shashank Srivastava

Despite their high predictive accuracies, current machine learning systems often exhibit systematic biases stemming from annotation artifacts or insufficient support for certain cl…

cs.CL2024

SocialGaze: Improving the Integration of Human Social Norms in Large Language Models

Anvesh Rao Vijjini, Rakesh R. Menon, Jiayi Fu +2

While much research has explored enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in the last few years, there is a gap in understanding the alignment of these…

cs.CL2023

Leveraging Multiple Teachers for Test-Time Adaptation of Language-Guided Classifiers

Kangda Wei, Sayan Ghosh, Rakesh R. Menon +1

Recent approaches have explored language-guided classifiers capable of classifying examples from novel tasks when provided with task-specific natural language explanations, instruc…

cs.AI2023

Pragmatic Reasoning Unlocks Quantifier Semantics for Foundation Models

Yiyuan Li, Rakesh R. Menon, Sayan Ghosh +1

Generalized quantifiers (e.g., few, most) are used to indicate the proportions predicates are satisfied (for example, some apples are red). One way to interpret quantifier semantic…

cs.CL2023

Beyond Labels: Empowering Human Annotators with Natural Language Explanations through a Novel Active-Learning Architecture

Bingsheng Yao, Ishan Jindal, Lucian Popa +8

Real-world domain experts (e.g., doctors) rarely annotate only a decision label in their day-to-day workflow without providing explanations. Yet, existing low-resource learning tec…

cs.CL2022★ 565 cited

Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models

Aarohi Srivastava, Abhinav Rastogi, Abhishek Rao +448

Language models demonstrate both quantitative improvement and new qualitative capabilities with increasing scale. Despite their potentially transformative impact, these new capabil…