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Alon Albalak

12 accepted papers

2026

OpenThoughts: Data Recipes for Reasoning Models

ICLR 2026oral

Reasoning models have made rapid progress on many benchmarks involving math, code, and science. Yet, there are still many open questions about the best train- ing recipes for reasoning since state-of-the-art models often rely on proprietary datasets with little to no public information available. To…

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2025

Do You Know About My Nation? Investigating Multilingual Language Models’ Cultural Literacy Through Factual Knowledge

EMNLP 2025

Most multilingual question-answering benchmarks, while covering a diverse pool of languages, do not factor in regional diversity in the information they capture and tend to be Western-centric. This introduces a significant gap in fairly evaluating multilingual models’ comprehension of factual inform

2025

Generalization v.s. Memorization: Tracing Language Models’ Capabilities Back to Pretraining Data

ICLR 2025poster

The impressive capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have sparked debate over whether these models genuinely generalize to unseen tasks or predominantly rely on memorizing vast amounts of pretraining data. To explore this issue, we introduce an extended concept of memorization, distributional…

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2025

The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB Dataset of Public Domain and Openly Licensed Text

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large language models (LLMs) are typically trained on enormous quantities of unlicensed text, a practice that has led to scrutiny due to possible intellectual property infringement and ethical concerns. Training LLMs on openly licensed text presents a first step towards addressing these issues, but…

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2024

DataComp-LM: In search of the next generation of training sets for language models

NeurIPS 2024poster

We introduce DataComp for Language Models, a testbed for controlled dataset experiments with the goal of improving language models. As part of DCLM, we provide a standardized corpus of 240T tokens extracted from Common Crawl, effective pretraining recipes based on the OpenLM framework, and a broad s…

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2023

CausalDialogue: Modeling Utterance-level Causality in Conversations

ACL 2023findings

Despite their widespread adoption, neural conversation models have yet to exhibit natural chat capabilities with humans. In this research, we examine user utterances as causes and generated responses as effects, recognizing that changes in a cause should produce a different effect. To further explor…

2023

Improving Few-Shot Generalization by Exploring and Exploiting Auxiliary Data

NeurIPS 2023poster

Few-shot learning is valuable in many real-world applications, but learning a generalizable model without overfitting to the few labeled datapoints is challenging. In this work, we focus on Few-shot Learning with Auxiliary Data (FLAD), a training paradigm that assumes access to auxiliary data during…

2023

Logic-LM: Empowering Large Language Models with Symbolic Solvers for Faithful Logical Reasoning

EMNLP 2023long findings

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown human-like reasoning abilities but still struggle with complex logical problems. This paper introduces a novel framework, Logic-LM, which integrates LLMs with symbolic solvers to improve logical problem-solving. Our method first utilizes LLMs to translate a na…

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2023

NeuPSL: Neural Probabilistic Soft Logic

IJCAI 2023poster

In this paper, we introduce Neural Probabilistic Soft Logic (NeuPSL), a novel neuro-symbolic (NeSy) framework that unites state-of-the-art symbolic reasoning with the low-level perception of deep neural networks. To model the boundary between neural and symbolic representations, we propose a family…

2023

RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era

EMNLP 2023long findings

Transformers have revolutionized almost all natural language processing (NLP) tasks but suffer from memory and computational complexity that scales quadratically with sequence length. In contrast, recurrent neural networks (RNNs) exhibit linear scaling in memory and computational requirements but st…

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2022

FETA: A Benchmark for Few-Sample Task Transfer in Open-Domain Dialogue

EMNLP 2022main

Task transfer, transferring knowledge contained in related tasks, holds the promise of reducing the quantity of labeled data required to fine-tune language models. Dialogue understanding encompasses many diverse tasks, yet task transfer has not been thoroughly studied in conversational AI. This work…

2021

Modeling Disclosive Transparency in NLP Application Descriptions

EMNLP 2021main

Broader disclosive transparency—truth and clarity in communication regarding the function of AI systems—is widely considered desirable. Unfortunately, it is a nebulous concept, difficult to both define and quantify. This is problematic, as previous work has demonstrated possible trade-offs and negat…