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Matthias Lindemann

6 accepted papers

2025

Language Agents Meet Causality -- Bridging LLMs and Causal World Models

ICLR 2025poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently shown great promise in planning and reasoning applications. These tasks demand robust systems, which arguably require a causal understanding of the environment. While LLMs can acquire and reflect common sense causal knowledge from their pretraining data, th…

2024

Cache & Distil: Optimising API Calls to Large Language Models

ACL 2024findings

Large-scale deployment of generative AI tools often depends on costly API calls to a Large Language Model (LLM) to fulfil user queries, a process that also exposes the request stream to external providers. To curtail the frequency of these calls, one can employ a local smaller language model -a stud…

2024

SIP: Injecting a Structural Inductive Bias into a Seq2Seq Model by Simulation

ACL 2024long

Strong inductive biases enable learning from little data and help generalization outside the training distribution. Popular neural architectures such as Transformers lack strong structural inductive biases for seq2seq NLP tasks on their own. Consequently, they struggle with systematic generalization…

2024

Strengthening Structural Inductive Biases by Pre-training to Perform Syntactic Transformations

EMNLP 2024main

Models need appropriate inductive biases to effectively learn from small amounts of data and generalize systematically outside of the training distribution. While Transformers are highly versatile and powerful, they can still benefit from enhanced structural inductive biases for seq2seq tasks, espec…

2023

Compositional Generalization without Trees using Multiset Tagging and Latent Permutations

ACL 2023long

Seq2seq models have been shown to struggle with compositional generalization in semantic parsing, i.e. generalizing to unseen compositions of phenomena that the model handles correctly in isolation. We phrase semantic parsing as a two-step process: we first tag each input token with a multiset of ou…

2020

Normalizing Compositional Structures Across Graphbanks

COLING 2020main

The emergence of a variety of graph-based meaning representations (MRs) has sparked an important conversation about how to adequately represent semantic structure. MRs exhibit structural differences that reflect different theoretical and design considerations, presenting challenges to uniform lingui…