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Melanie Kambadur

4 accepted papers

2025

A Systematic Examination of Preference Learning through the Lens of Instruction-Following

NAACL 2025long

In this work we systematically investigate how specific attributes of preference datasets affect the alignment and downstream performance of LLMs in instruction-following tasks. We use a novel synthetic data generation pipeline to generate 48,000 unique instruction-following prompts with combination…

2025

Law of the Weakest Link: Cross Capabilities of Large Language Models

ICLR 2025poster

The development and evaluation of Large Language Models (LLMs) have largely focused on individual capabilities. However, this overlooks the intersection of multiple abilities across different types of expertise that are often required for real-world tasks, which we term **cross capabilities**. To sy…

2025

Self-Generated Critiques Boost Reward Modeling for Language Models

NAACL 2025long

Reward modeling is crucial for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences, especially in reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). However, current reward models mainly produce scalar scores and struggle to incorporate critiques in a natural language format. We hypothesize…

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2022

“I’m sorry to hear that”: Finding New Biases in Language Models with a Holistic Descriptor Dataset

EMNLP 2022main

As language models grow in popularity, it becomes increasingly important to clearly measure all possible markers of demographic identity in order to avoid perpetuating existing societal harms. Many datasets for measuring bias currently exist, but they are restricted in their coverage of demographic…