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Alex James Chan

7 accepted papers

2024

Dense Reward for Free in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

ICML 2024poster

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has been credited as the key advance that has allowed Large Language Models (LLMs) to effectively follow instructions and produce useful assistance. Classically, this involves generating completions from the LLM in response to a query before using a…

2024

Discovering Preference Optimization Algorithms with and for Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Offline preference optimization is a key method for enhancing and controlling the quality of Large Language Model (LLM) outputs. Typically, preference optimization is approached as an offline supervised learning task using manually crafted convex loss functions. While these methods are based on theo…

Cited by 16SourcePDFScholar
2024

How to Catch an AI Liar: Lie Detection in Black-Box LLMs by Asking Unrelated Questions

ICLR 2024poster

Large language models (LLMs) can “lie”, which we define as outputting false statements when incentivised to, despite “knowing” the truth in a demonstrable sense. LLMs might “lie”, for example, when instructed to output misinformation. Here, we develop a simple lie detector that requires neither acce…

2023

AllSim: Simulating and Benchmarking Resource Allocation Policies in Multi-User Systems

NeurIPS 2023poster

Numerous real-world systems, ranging from healthcare to energy grids, involve users competing for finite and potentially scarce resources. Designing policies for resource allocation in such real-world systems is challenging for many reasons, including the changing nature of user types and their (pos…

Cited by 5SourcePDFScholar
2023

GAUCHE: A Library for Gaussian Processes in Chemistry

NeurIPS 2023poster

We introduce GAUCHE, an open-source library for GAUssian processes in CHEmistry. Gaussian processes have long been a cornerstone of probabilistic machine learning, affording particular advantages for uncertainty quantification and Bayesian optimisation. Extending Gaussian processes to molecular repr…