7 papers
LABOR-LLM: Language-Based Occupational Representations with Large Language Models
Susan Athey, Herman Brunborg, Tianyu Du +2
This paper builds an empirical model that predicts a worker's next occupation as a function of the worker's occupational history. Because histories are sequences of occupations, th…
What Has a Foundation Model Found? Using Inductive Bias to Probe for World Models
Keyon Vafa, Peter G. Chang, Ashesh Rambachan +1
Foundation models are premised on the idea that sequence prediction can uncover deeper domain understanding, much like how Kepler's predictions of planetary motion later led to the…
What's Producible May Not Be Reachable: Measuring the Steerability of Generative Models
Keyon Vafa, Sarah Bentley, Jon Kleinberg +1
How should we evaluate the quality of generative models? Many existing metrics focus on a model's producibility, i.e. the quality and breadth of outputs it can generate. However, t…
Potemkin Understanding in Large Language Models
Marina Mancoridis, Bec Weeks, Keyon Vafa +1
Large language models (LLMs) are regularly evaluated using benchmark datasets. But what justifies making inferences about an LLM's capabilities based on its answers to a curated se…
Estimating Wage Disparities Using Foundation Models
Keyon Vafa, Susan Athey, David M. Blei
The rise of foundation models marks a paradigm shift in machine learning: instead of training specialized models from scratch, foundation models are first trained on massive datase…
Using large language models to promote health equity
Emma Pierson, Divya Shanmugam, Rajiv Movva +12
Advances in large language models (LLMs) have driven an explosion of interest about their societal impacts. Much of the discourse around how they will impact social equity has been…