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Benoit Favre

5 accepted papers

2025

Statistical Deficiency for Task Inclusion Estimation

ACL 2025long

Tasks are central in machine learning, as they are the most natural objects to assess the capabilities of current models. The trend is to build general models able to address any task. Even though transfer learning and multitask learning try to leverage the underlying task space, no well-founded too…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Automatic Coding of Contingency in Child-Caregiver Conversations

COLING 2024main

One of the most important communicative skills children have to learn is to engage in meaningful conversations with people around them. At the heart of this learning lies the mastery of contingency, i.e., the ability to contribute to an ongoing exchange in a relevant fashion (e.g., by staying on top…

Cited by 6SourcePDFScholar
2024

CHICA: A Developmental Corpus of Child-Caregiver’s Face-to-face vs. Video Call Conversations in Middle Childhood

COLING 2024main

Existing studies of naturally occurring language-in-interaction have largely focused on the two ends of the developmental spectrum, i.e., early childhood and adulthood, leaving a gap in our knowledge about how development unfolds, especially across middle childhood. The current work contributes to f…

Cited by 5SourcePDFScholar
2022

Are Vision-Language Transformers Learning Multimodal Representations? A Probing Perspective

AAAI 2022technical

In recent years, joint text-image embeddings have significantly improved thanks to the development of transformer-based Vision-Language models. Despite these advances, we still need to better understand the representations produced by those models. In this paper, we compare pre-trained and fine-tune…

2022

Do Vision-and-Language Transformers Learn Grounded Predicate-Noun Dependencies?

EMNLP 2022main

Recent advances in vision-and-language modeling have seen the development of Transformer architectures that achieve remarkable performance on multimodal reasoning tasks.Yet, the exact capabilities of these black-box models are still poorly understood. While much of previous work has focused on study…