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20142025
most citedPosterior predictive checks to quantify lack-of-fit in admixture models of latent population structure

23 citations · 81 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.CL2025

Looking for the Inner Music: Probing LLMs' Understanding of Literary Style

Rebecca M. M. Hicke, David Mimno

Recent work has demonstrated that language models can be trained to identify the author of much shorter literary passages than has been thought feasible for traditional stylometry.…

cs.CL2024

Stronger Random Baselines for In-Context Learning

Gregory Yauney, David Mimno

Evaluating the in-context learning classification performance of language models poses challenges due to small dataset sizes, extensive prompt-selection using the validation set, a…

cs.CL2024

[Lions: 1] and [Tigers: 2] and [Bears: 3], Oh My! Literary Coreference Annotation with LLMs

Rebecca M. M. Hicke, David Mimno

Coreference annotation and resolution is a vital component of computational literary studies. However, it has previously been difficult to build high quality systems for fiction. C…

cs.CL2024

The Afterlives of Shakespeare and Company in Online Social Readership

Maria Antoniak, David Mimno, Rosamond Thalken +3

The growth of social reading platforms such as Goodreads and LibraryThing enables us to analyze reading activity at very large scale and in remarkable detail. But twenty-first cent…

cs.CL2023

Data Similarity is Not Enough to Explain Language Model Performance

Gregory Yauney, Emily Reif, David Mimno

Large language models achieve high performance on many but not all downstream tasks. The interaction between pretraining data and task data is commonly assumed to determine this va…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

T5 meets Tybalt: Author Attribution in Early Modern English Drama Using Large Language Models

Rebecca M. M. Hicke, David Mimno

Large language models have shown breakthrough potential in many NLP domains. Here we consider their use for stylometry, specifically authorship identification in Early Modern Engli…