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20152026
most citedCTRL: A Conditional Transformer Language Model for Controllable Generation

789 citations · 3.9k across the 31 of their papers we have counts for

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34 papers

cs.CL2026★ 18 cited

OpenAI GPT-5 System Card

Aaditya Singh, Adam Fry, Adam Perelman +483

This is the system card published alongside the OpenAI GPT-5 launch, August 2025. GPT-5 is a unified system with a smart and fast model that answers most questions, a deeper reason…

cs.CL2025

Balancing Knowledge Delivery and Emotional Comfort in Healthcare Conversational Systems

Shang-Chi Tsai, Yun-Nung Chen

With the advancement of large language models, many dialogue systems are now capable of providing reasonable and informative responses to patients' medical conditions. However, whe…

cs.CL2024★ 164 cited

GPT-4o System Card

OpenAI, :, Aaron Hurst +416

GPT-4o is an autoregressive omni model that accepts as input any combination of text, audio, image, and video, and generates any combination of text, audio, and image outputs. It's…

cs.CL2023

GPT-4 Technical Report

OpenAI, Josh Achiam, Steven Adler +278

We report the development of GPT-4, a large-scale, multimodal model which can accept image and text inputs and produce text outputs. While less capable than humans in many real-wor…

cs.IR2022★ 1 cited

Generating Negative Samples for Sequential Recommendation

Yongjun Chen, Jia Li, Zhiwei Liu +4

To make Sequential Recommendation (SR) successful, recent works focus on designing effective sequential encoders, fusing side information, and mining extra positive self-supervisio…

cs.CL2022★ 565 cited

Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models

Aarohi Srivastava, Abhinav Rastogi, Abhishek Rao +448

Language models demonstrate both quantitative improvement and new qualitative capabilities with increasing scale. Despite their potentially transformative impact, these new capabil…

cs.CL2022

Modeling Multi-hop Question Answering as Single Sequence Prediction

Semih Yavuz, Kazuma Hashimoto, Yingbo Zhou +2

Fusion-in-decoder (Fid) (Izacard and Grave, 2020) is a generative question answering (QA) model that leverages passage retrieval with a pre-trained transformer and pushed the state…

cs.CL2021★ 3 cited

Combining Data-driven Supervision with Human-in-the-loop Feedback for Entity Resolution

Wenpeng Yin, Shelby Heinecke, Jia Li +7

The distribution gap between training datasets and data encountered in production is well acknowledged. Training datasets are often constructed over a fixed period of time and by c…

cs.CL2020★ 5 cited

GeDi: Generative Discriminator Guided Sequence Generation

Ben Krause, Akhilesh Deepak Gotmare, Bryan McCann +4

While large-scale language models (LMs) are able to imitate the distribution of natural language well enough to generate realistic text, it is difficult to control which regions of…

cs.CL2020

Unsupervised Paraphrasing with Pretrained Language Models

Tong Niu, Semih Yavuz, Yingbo Zhou +3

Paraphrase generation has benefited extensively from recent progress in the designing of training objectives and model architectures. However, previous explorations have largely fo…

cs.CL2020

Char2Subword: Extending the Subword Embedding Space Using Robust Character Compositionality

Gustavo Aguilar, Bryan McCann, Tong Niu +3

Byte-pair encoding (BPE) is a ubiquitous algorithm in the subword tokenization process of language models as it provides multiple benefits. However, this process is solely based on…

cs.CL2020★ 13 cited

Mirostat: A Neural Text Decoding Algorithm that Directly Controls Perplexity

Sourya Basu, Govardana Sachitanandam Ramachandran, Nitish Shirish Keskar +1

Neural text decoding is important for generating high-quality texts using language models. To generate high-quality text, popular decoding algorithms like top-k, top-p (nucleus), a…

cs.CV2020★ 27 cited

Improving out-of-distribution generalization via multi-task self-supervised pretraining

Isabela Albuquerque, Nikhil Naik, Junnan Li +2

Self-supervised feature representations have been shown to be useful for supervised classification, few-shot learning, and adversarial robustness. We show that features obtained us…

q-bio.BM2020★ 33 cited

ProGen: Language Modeling for Protein Generation

Ali Madani, Bryan McCann, Nikhil Naik +5

Generative modeling for protein engineering is key to solving fundamental problems in synthetic biology, medicine, and material science. We pose protein engineering as an unsupervi…

stat.ML2019★ 2 cited

Global Capacity Measures for Deep ReLU Networks via Path Sampling

Ryan Theisen, Jason M. Klusowski, Huan Wang +3

Classical results on the statistical complexity of linear models have commonly identified the norm of the weights as a fundamental capacity measure. Generalizations of this…

cs.CL2019★ 789 cited

CTRL: A Conditional Transformer Language Model for Controllable Generation

Nitish Shirish Keskar, Bryan McCann, Lav R. Varshney +2

Large-scale language models show promising text generation capabilities, but users cannot easily control particular aspects of the generated text. We release CTRL, a 1.63 billion-p…

cs.CY2019★ 18 cited

Pretrained AI Models: Performativity, Mobility, and Change

Lav R. Varshney, Nitish Shirish Keskar, Richard Socher

The paradigm of pretrained deep learning models has recently emerged in artificial intelligence practice, allowing deployment in numerous societal settings with limited computation…

cs.CL2019

Neural Text Summarization: A Critical Evaluation

Wojciech Kryściński, Nitish Shirish Keskar, Bryan McCann +2

Text summarization aims at compressing long documents into a shorter form that conveys the most important parts of the original document. Despite increased interest in the communit…

cs.CL2019★ 61 cited

XLDA: Cross-Lingual Data Augmentation for Natural Language Inference and Question Answering

Jasdeep Singh, Bryan McCann, Nitish Shirish Keskar +2

While natural language processing systems often focus on a single language, multilingual transfer learning has the potential to improve performance, especially for low-resource lan…

cs.CL2019★ 26 cited

Unifying Question Answering, Text Classification, and Regression via Span Extraction

Nitish Shirish Keskar, Bryan McCann, Caiming Xiong +1

Even as pre-trained language encoders such as BERT are shared across many tasks, the output layers of question answering, text classification, and regression models are significant…

cs.CL2019★ 48 cited

Coarse-grain Fine-grain Coattention Network for Multi-evidence Question Answering

Victor Zhong, Caiming Xiong, Nitish Shirish Keskar +1

End-to-end neural models have made significant progress in question answering, however recent studies show that these models implicitly assume that the answer and evidence appear c…

cs.LG2018★ 67 cited

A Closer Look at Deep Learning Heuristics: Learning rate restarts, Warmup and Distillation

Akhilesh Gotmare, Nitish Shirish Keskar, Caiming Xiong +1

The convergence rate and final performance of common deep learning models have significantly benefited from heuristics such as learning rate schedules, knowledge distillation, skip…

cs.LG2018★ 37 cited

Identifying Generalization Properties in Neural Networks

Huan Wang, Nitish Shirish Keskar, Caiming Xiong +1

While it has not yet been proven, empirical evidence suggests that model generalization is related to local properties of the optima which can be described via the Hessian. We conn…

cs.CL2018★ 333 cited

The Natural Language Decathlon: Multitask Learning as Question Answering

Bryan McCann, Nitish Shirish Keskar, Caiming Xiong +1

Deep learning has improved performance on many natural language processing (NLP) tasks individually. However, general NLP models cannot emerge within a paradigm that focuses on the…