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Aaron Chan

10 accepted papers

2024

RESPROMPT: Residual Connection Prompting Advances Multi-Step Reasoning in Large Language Models

NAACL 2024long

Chain-of-thought (CoT) has impressively unlocked the reasoning potential of large language models (LLMs). Yet, it falls short when tackling problems that require multiple reasoning steps. This limitation arises from the complex nature of multi-step reasoning processes: later stages often depend not…

2024

Tailoring Self-Rationalizers with Multi-Reward Distillation

ICLR 2024poster

Large language models (LMs) are capable of generating free-text rationales to aid question answering. However, prior work 1) suggests that useful self-rationalization is emergent only at significant scales (e.g., 175B parameter GPT-3); and 2) focuses largely on downstream performance, ignoring the s…

2023

Are Machine Rationales (Not) Useful to Humans? Measuring and Improving Human Utility of Free-text Rationales

ACL 2023long

Among the remarkable emergent capabilities of large language models (LMs) is free-text rationalization; beyond certain scale, large LMs are capable of generating seemingly useful rationalizations, which in turn, can dramatically enhance their performances on leaderboards. This phenomenon raises a qu…

2023

PINTO: Faithful Language Reasoning Using Prompt-Generated Rationales

ICLR 2023poster

Neural language models (LMs) have achieved impressive results on various language-based reasoning tasks by utilizing latent knowledge encoded in their own pretrained parameters. To make this reasoning process more explicit, recent works retrieve a rationalizing LM's internal knowledge by training or…

2022

ER-Test: Evaluating Explanation Regularization Methods for Language Models

EMNLP 2022finding

By explaining how humans would solve a given task, human rationales can provide strong learning signal for neural language models (NLMs). Explanation regularization (ER) aims to improve NLM generalization by pushing the NLM’s machine rationales (Which input tokens did the NLM focus on?) to align wit…

2022

UNIREX: A Unified Learning Framework for Language Model Rationale Extraction

ICML 2022spotlight

An extractive rationale explains a language model’s (LM’s) prediction on a given task instance by highlighting the text inputs that most influenced the prediction. Ideally, rationale extraction should be faithful (reflective of LM’s actual behavior) and plausible (convincing to humans), without comp…

2021

Learning to Deceive Knowledge Graph Augmented Models via Targeted Perturbation

ICLR 2021poster

Knowledge graphs (KGs) have helped neural models improve performance on various knowledge-intensive tasks, like question answering and item recommendation. By using attention over the KG, such KG-augmented models can also "explain" which KG information was most relevant for making a given prediction…

2021

SalKG: Learning From Knowledge Graph Explanations for Commonsense Reasoning

NeurIPS 2021poster

Augmenting pre-trained language models with knowledge graphs (KGs) has achieved success on various commonsense reasoning tasks. However, for a given task instance, the KG, or certain parts of the KG, may not be useful. Although KG-augmented models often use attention to focus on specific KG componen…

2017

6-DoF object pose from semantic keypoints

ICRA 2017poster

This paper presents a novel approach to estimating the continuous six degree of freedom (6-DoF) pose (3D translation and rotation) of an object from a single RGB image. The approach combines semantic keypoints predicted by a convolutional network (convnet) with a deformable shape model. Unlike prior…

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