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Deniz Bayazit

4 accepted papers

2024

Discovering Knowledge-Critical Subnetworks in Pretrained Language Models

EMNLP 2024main

Pretrained language models (LMs) encode implicit representations of knowledge in their parameters. However, localizing these representations and disentangling them from each other remains an open problem. In this work, we investigate whether pretrained language models contain various *knowledge-crit…

2023

PeaCoK: Persona Commonsense Knowledge for Consistent and Engaging Narratives

ACL 2023long

Sustaining coherent and engaging narratives requires dialogue or storytelling agents to understandhow the personas of speakers or listeners ground the narrative. Specifically, these agents must infer personas of their listeners to produce statements that cater to their interests. They must also lear…

2020

Grounding Language to Landmarks in Arbitrary Outdoor Environments

ICRA 2020poster

Robots operating in outdoor, urban environments need the ability to follow complex natural language commands which refer to never-before-seen landmarks. Existing approaches to this problem are limited because they require training a language model for the landmarks of a particular environment before…

Cited by 29SourceScholar
2019

Flight, Camera, Action! Using Natural Language and Mixed Reality to Control a Drone

ICRA 2019poster

With increasing autonomy, robots like drones are increasingly accessible to untrained users. Most users control drones using a low-level interface, such as a radio-controlled (RC) controller. For a wider adoption of these technologies by the public, a much higher-level interface, such as natural lan…

Cited by 45SourceScholar