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Daniel Wontae Nam

3 accepted papers

2025

Binary Classifier Optimization for Large Language Model Alignment

ACL 2025long

In real-world services such as ChatGPT, aligning models based on user feedback is crucial for improving model performance. However, due to the simplicity and convenience of providing feedback, users typically offer only basic binary signals, such as ‘thumbs-up’ or ‘thumbs-down’. Most existing alignm…

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2023

Efficient Latent Variable Modeling for Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation

EMNLP 2023long findings

Knowledge-grounded dialogue generation requires first retrieving appropriate external knowledge based on a conversational context and then generating a response grounded on the retrieved knowledge. In general, these two sequential modules, a knowledge retriever and a response generator, have been se…

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2022

LECO: Learnable Episodic Count for Task-Specific Intrinsic Reward

NeurIPS 2022accept

Episodic count has been widely used to design a simple yet effective intrinsic motivation for reinforcement learning with a sparse reward. However, the use of episodic count in a high-dimensional state space as well as over a long episode time requires a thorough state compression and fast hashing,…