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20162023
most citedExploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer

3.7k citations · 8.3k across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cs.CL2023★ 7 cited

Statistical Rejection Sampling Improves Preference Optimization

Tianqi Liu, Yao Zhao, Rishabh Joshi +4

Improving the alignment of language models with human preferences remains an active research challenge. Previous approaches have primarily utilized Reinforcement Learning from Huma…

cs.CL2023★ 11 cited

SLiC-HF: Sequence Likelihood Calibration with Human Feedback

Yao Zhao, Rishabh Joshi, Tianqi Liu +3

Learning from human feedback has been shown to be effective at aligning language models with human preferences. Past work has often relied on Reinforcement Learning from Human Feed…

cs.CL2022

Improving the Robustness of Summarization Models by Detecting and Removing Input Noise

Kundan Krishna, Yao Zhao, Jie Ren +4

The evaluation of abstractive summarization models typically uses test data that is identically distributed as training data. In real-world practice, documents to be summarized may…

cs.CL2022★ 38 cited

Calibrating Sequence likelihood Improves Conditional Language Generation

Yao Zhao, Misha Khalman, Rishabh Joshi +3

Conditional language models are predominantly trained with maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), giving probability mass to sparsely observed target sequences. While MLE trained mod…

cs.CL2022★ 12 cited

Out-of-Distribution Detection and Selective Generation for Conditional Language Models

Jie Ren, Jiaming Luo, Yao Zhao +4

Machine learning algorithms typically assume independent and identically distributed samples in training and at test time. Much work has shown that high-performing ML classifiers c…

cs.CL2022★ 4 cited

Investigating Efficiently Extending Transformers for Long Input Summarization

Jason Phang, Yao Zhao, Peter J. Liu

While large pretrained Transformer models have proven highly capable at tackling natural language tasks, handling long sequence inputs continues to be a significant challenge. One…