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cs.CL2024
Isolated Causal Effects of Natural Language
Victoria Lin, Louis-Philippe Morency, Eli Ben-Michael
As language technologies become widespread, it is important to understand how changes in language affect reader perceptions and behaviors. These relationships may be formalized as…
cs.LG2024
Optimizing Language Models for Human Preferences is a Causal Inference Problem
Victoria Lin, Eli Ben-Michael, Louis-Philippe Morency
As large language models (LLMs) see greater use in academic and commercial settings, there is increasing interest in methods that allow language models to generate texts aligned wi…