2 papers
cs.LG2026
When Do Models Admit They Are Wrong? Failure Disclosure Is Unstable Under Reinforcement Learning
Steven Y. Feng, Noah D. Goodman, Michael C. Frank +3
Outcome-based reinforcement learning can produce models with similar task performance but very different ways of communicating about their mistakes. We study failure disclosure: wh…
cs.CL2024
Is Child-Directed Speech Effective Training Data for Language Models?
Steven Y. Feng, Noah D. Goodman, Michael C. Frank
While high-performing language models are typically trained on hundreds of billions of words, human children become fluent language users with a much smaller amount of data. What a…