5 papers
Read the Paper, Write the Code: Agentic Reproduction of Social-Science Results
Benjamin Kohler, David Zollikofer, Johanna Einsiedler +2
Recent work has used LLM agents to reproduce empirical social science results with access to both the data and code. We broaden this scope by asking: Can they reproduce results giv…
Apertus: Democratizing Open and Compliant LLMs for Global Language Environments
Project Apertus, Alejandro Hernández-Cano, Alexander Hägele +100
We present Apertus, a fully open suite of large language models (LLMs) designed to address two systemic shortcomings in today's open model ecosystem: data compliance and multilingu…
The Medium Is Not the Message: Deconfounding Document Embeddings via Linear Concept Erasure
Yu Fan, Yang Tian, Shauli Ravfogel +3
Embedding-based similarity metrics between text sequences can be influenced not just by the content dimensions we most care about, but can also be biased by spurious attributes lik…
Measuring Scalar Constructs in Social Science with LLMs
Hauke Licht, Rupak Sarkar, Patrick Y. Wu +4
Many constructs that characterize language, like its complexity or emotionality, have a naturally continuous semantic structure; a public speech is not just "simple" or "complex,"…
Co-DETECT: Collaborative Discovery of Edge Cases in Text Classification
Chenfei Xiong, Jingwei Ni, Yu Fan +10
We introduce Co-DETECT (Collaborative Discovery of Edge cases in TExt ClassificaTion), a novel mixed-initiative annotation framework that integrates human expertise with automatic…