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Jessica Zosa Forde

5 accepted papers

2025

Position: Machine Learning Conferences Should Establish a "Refutations and Critiques" Track

NeurIPS 2025oral

Science progresses by iteratively advancing and correcting humanity's understanding of the world. In machine learning (ML) research, rapid advancements have led to an explosion of publications, but have also led to misleading, incorrect, flawed or perhaps even fraudulent studies being accepted and s…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

SHADES: Towards a Multilingual Assessment of Stereotypes in Large Language Models

NAACL 2025long

Large Language Models (LLMs) reproduce and exacerbate the social biases present in their training data, and resources to quantify this issue are limited. While research has attempted to identify and mitigate such biases, most efforts have been concentrated around English, lagging the rapid advanceme…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

Re-Evaluating Evaluation for Multilingual Summarization

EMNLP 2024main

Automatic evaluation approaches (ROUGE, BERTScore, LLM-based evaluators) have been widely used to evaluate summarization tasks. Despite the complexities of script differences and tokenization, these approaches have been indiscriminately applied to summarization across multiple languages. While previ…

2022

Evaluation beyond Task Performance: Analyzing Concepts in AlphaZero in Hex

NeurIPS 2022accept

AlphaZero, an approach to reinforcement learning that couples neural networks and Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS), has produced state-of-the-art strategies for traditional board games like chess, Go, shogi, and Hex. While researchers and game commentators have suggested that AlphaZero uses concepts t…

2021

Hyperparameter Optimization Is Deceiving Us, and How to Stop It

NeurIPS 2021poster

Recent empirical work shows that inconsistent results based on choice of hyperparameter optimization (HPO) configuration are a widespread problem in ML research. When comparing two algorithms J and K searching one subspace can yield the conclusion that J outperforms K, whereas searching another can…