8 papers
LEXam: Benchmarking Legal Reasoning on 340 Law Exams
Yu Fan, Jingwei Ni, Jakob Merane +14
Long-form legal reasoning remains a key challenge for large language models (LLMs) in spite of recent advances in test-time scaling. To address this, we introduce LEXam, a novel be…
Can Reasoning Help Large Language Models Capture Human Annotator Disagreement?
Jingwei Ni, Yu Fan, Vilém Zouhar +6
Variation in human annotation (i.e., disagreements) is common in NLP, often reflecting important information like task subjectivity and sample ambiguity. Modeling this variation is…
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…
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…
Balancing Truthfulness and Informativeness with Uncertainty-Aware Instruction Fine-Tuning
Tianyi Wu, Jingwei Ni, Bryan Hooi +5
Instruction fine-tuning (IFT) can increase the informativeness of large language models (LLMs), but may reduce their truthfulness. This trade-off arises because IFT steers LLMs to…
DIRAS: Efficient LLM Annotation of Document Relevance in Retrieval Augmented Generation
Jingwei Ni, Tobias Schimanski, Meihong Lin +3
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is widely employed to ground responses to queries on domain-specific documents. But do RAG implementations leave out important information when…