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Michela Paganini

6 accepted papers

2026

Decoding Safety Feedback from Diverse Raters: A Data-driven Lens on Responsiveness to Severity

ICML 2026poster

Ensuring the safety of Generative AI requires a nuanced understanding of pluralistic viewpoints. In this paper, we introduce a novel data-driven approach for analyzing ordinal safety ratings in pluralistic settings. Specifically, we address the challenge of interpreting nuanced differences in safety…

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2025

Whose View of Safety? A Deep DIVE Dataset for Pluralistic Alignment of Text-to-Image Models

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Current text-to-image (T2I) models often fail to account for diverse human experiences, leading to misaligned systems. We advocate for pluralism in AI alignment, where an AI understands and is steerable towards diverse, and often conflicting, human values. Our work provides three core contributions…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

Neural Algorithmic Reasoning with Causal Regularisation

ICML 2023poster

Recent work on neural algorithmic reasoning has investigated the reasoning capabilities of neural networks, effectively demonstrating they can learn to execute classical algorithms on unseen data coming from the train distribution. However, the performance of existing neural reasoners significantly…

Cited by 30SourcePDFScholar
2022

Improving Language Models by Retrieving from Trillions of Tokens

ICML 2022spotlight

We enhance auto-regressive language models by conditioning on document chunks retrieved from a large corpus, based on local similarity with preceding tokens. With a 2 trillion token database, our Retrieval-Enhanced Transformer (RETRO) obtains comparable performance to GPT-3 and Jurassic-1 on the Pil…

2022

Unified Scaling Laws for Routed Language Models

ICML 2022oral

The performance of a language model has been shown to be effectively modeled as a power-law in its parameter count. Here we study the scaling behaviors of Routing Networks: architectures that conditionally use only a subset of their parameters while processing an input. For these models, parameter c…

2019

One ticket to win them all: generalizing lottery ticket initializations across datasets and optimizers

NeurIPS 2019poster

The success of lottery ticket initializations (Frankle and Carbin, 2019) suggests that small, sparsified networks can be trained so long as the network is initialized appropriately. Unfortunately, finding these "winning ticket'' initializations is computationally expensive. One potential solution is…

Cited by 284SourcePDFScholar