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Adam Davies

4 accepted papers

2025

Can LLMs Reliably Simulate Human Learner Actions? A Simulation Authoring Framework for Open-Ended Learning Environments

AAAI 2025technical

Simulating learner actions helps stress-test open-ended interactive learning environments and prototype new adaptations before deployment. While recent studies show the promise of using large language models (LLMs) for simulating human behavior, such approaches have not gone beyond rudimentary proof…

2025

Focus On This, Not That! Steering LLMs with Adaptive Feature Specification

ICML 2025poster

Despite the success of Instruction Tuning (IT) in training large language models (LLMs), such models often leverage spurious or biased features learnt from their training data and can become misaligned, leading to undesired behaviours. While existing techniques can steer model behaviour at inference…

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2024

Hidden in Plain Sight: Evaluating Abstract Shape Recognition in Vision-Language Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Despite the importance of shape perception in human vision, early neural image classifiers relied less on shape information for object recognition than other (often spurious) features. While recent research suggests that current large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) exhibit more reliance on shape, we…

2024

Not Just Pretty Pictures: Toward Interventional Data Augmentation Using Text-to-Image Generators

ICML 2024poster

Neural image classifiers are known to undergo severe performance degradation when exposed to inputs that are sampled from environmental conditions that differ from their training data. Given the recent progress in Text-to-Image (T2I) generation, a natural question is how modern T2I generators can be…