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Aliaksei Severyn

6 accepted papers

2025

BOND: Aligning LLMs with Best-of-N Distillation

ICLR 2025poster

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) is a key driver of quality and safety in state-of-the-art large language models. Yet, a surprisingly simple and strong inference-time strategy is Best-of-N sampling that selects the best generation among N candidates. In this paper, we propose Best-o…

Cited by 26SourcePDFScholar
2023

Teaching Small Language Models to Reason

ACL 2023short

Chain of thought prompting successfully improves the reasoning capabilities of large language models, achieving state of the art results on a range of datasets. However, these reasoning capabilities only appear to emerge in models with at least tens of billions of parameters. In this paper, we explo…

Cited by 265SourcePDFScholar
2022

EdiT5: Semi-Autoregressive Text Editing with T5 Warm-Start

EMNLP 2022finding

We present EdiT5 - a novel semi-autoregressive text-editing approach designed to combine the strengths of non-autoregressive text-editing and autoregressive decoding. EdiT5 is faster at inference times than conventional sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models, while being capable of modeling flexible…

Cited by 42SourcePDFScholar
2021

A Simple Recipe for Multilingual Grammatical Error Correction

ACL 2021short

This paper presents a simple recipe to trainstate-of-the-art multilingual Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) models. We achieve this by first proposing a language-agnostic method to generate a large number of synthetic examples. The second ingredient is to use large-scale multilingual language model…

2021

Controlled Text Generation as Continuous Optimization with Multiple Constraints

NeurIPS 2021poster

As large-scale language model pretraining pushes the state-of-the-art in text generation, recent work has turned to controlling attributes of the text such models generate. While modifying the pretrained models via fine-tuning remains the popular approach, it incurs a significant computational cost…

Cited by 85SourcePDFScholar
2019

Breaking the Softmax Bottleneck via Learnable Monotonic Pointwise Non-linearities

ICML 2019oral

The Softmax function on top of a final linear layer is the de facto method to output probability distributions in neural networks. In many applications such as language models or text generation, this model has to produce distributions over large output vocabularies. Recently, this has been shown to…