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Arkil Patel

8 accepted papers

2025

SafeArena: Evaluating the Safety of Autonomous Web Agents

ICML 2025poster

LLM-based agents are becoming increasingly proficient at solving web-based tasks. With this capability comes a greater risk of misuse for malicious purposes, such as posting misinformation in an online forum or selling illicit substances on a website. To evaluate these risks, we propose SafeArena, a…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2024

Evaluating In-Context Learning of Libraries for Code Generation

NAACL 2024long

Contemporary Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit a high degree of code generation and comprehension capability. A particularly promising area is their ability to interpret code modules from unfamiliar libraries for solving user-instructed tasks. Recent work has shown that large proprietary LLMs can…

2024

Understanding In-Context Learning in Transformers and LLMs by Learning to Learn Discrete Functions

ICLR 2024oral

In order to understand the in-context learning phenomenon, recent works have adopted a stylized experimental framework and demonstrated that Transformers can match the performance of gradient-based learning algorithms for various classes of real-valued functions. However, the limitations of Transfor…

Cited by 44SourcePDFScholar
2023

MAGNIFICo: Evaluating the In-Context Learning Ability of Large Language Models to Generalize to Novel Interpretations

EMNLP 2023long main

Humans possess a remarkable ability to assign novel interpretations to linguistic expressions, enabling them to learn new words and understand community-specific connotations. However, Large Language Models (LLMs) have a knowledge cutoff and are costly to finetune repeatedly. Therefore, it is crucia…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2023

Simplicity Bias in Transformers and their Ability to Learn Sparse Boolean Functions

ACL 2023long

Despite the widespread success of Transformers on NLP tasks, recent works have found that they struggle to model several formal languages when compared to recurrent models. This raises the question of why Transformers perform well in practice and whether they have any properties that enable them to…

2022

Revisiting the Compositional Generalization Abilities of Neural Sequence Models

ACL 2022short

Compositional generalization is a fundamental trait in humans, allowing us to effortlessly combine known phrases to form novel sentences. Recent works have claimed that standard seq-to-seq models severely lack the ability to compositionally generalize. In this paper, we focus on one-shot primitive g…

2022

When Can Transformers Ground and Compose: Insights from Compositional Generalization Benchmarks

EMNLP 2022main

Humans can reason compositionally whilst grounding language utterances to the real world. Recent benchmarks like ReaSCAN (Wu et al., 2021) use navigation tasks grounded in a grid world to assess whether neural models exhibit similar capabilities. In this work, we present a simple transformer-based m…

2021

Are NLP Models really able to Solve Simple Math Word Problems?

NAACL 2021long

The problem of designing NLP solvers for math word problems (MWP) has seen sustained research activity and steady gains in the test accuracy. Since existing solvers achieve high performance on the benchmark datasets for elementary level MWPs containing one-unknown arithmetic word problems, such prob…