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Nathanael Schärli

7 accepted papers

2023

Challenging BIG-Bench Tasks and Whether Chain-of-Thought Can Solve Them

ACL 2023findings

BIG-Bench (Srivastava et al., 2022) is a diverse evaluation suite that focuses on tasks believed to be beyond the capabilities of current language models. Language models have already made good progress on this benchmark, with the best model in the BIG-Bench paper outperforming average reported huma…

2023

Compositional Semantic Parsing with Large Language Models

ICLR 2023poster

Humans can reason compositionally when presented with new tasks. Previous research shows that appropriate prompting techniques enable large language models (LLMs) to solve artificial compositional generalization tasks such as SCAN. In this work, we identify additional challenges in more realistic s…

Cited by 150SourcePDFScholar
2023

Large Language Models Can Be Easily Distracted by Irrelevant Context

ICML 2023poster

Large language models have achieved impressive performance on various natural language processing tasks. However, so far they have been evaluated primarily on benchmarks where all information in the input context is relevant for solving the task. In this work, we investigate the *distractibility* of…

2023

Least-to-Most Prompting Enables Complex Reasoning in Large Language Models

ICLR 2023poster

Chain-of-thought prompting has demonstrated remarkable performance on various natural language reasoning tasks. However, it tends to perform poorly on tasks which requires solving problems harder than the exemplars shown in the prompts. To overcome this challenge of easy-to-hard generalization, we p…

Cited by 1438SourcePDFScholar
2021

*-CFQ: Analyzing the Scalability of Machine Learning on a Compositional Task

AAAI 2021technical

We present *-CFQ ("star-CFQ"): a suite of large-scale datasets of varying scope based on the CFQ semantic parsing benchmark, designed for principled investigation of the scalability of machine learning systems in a realistic compositional task setting. Using this suite, we conduct a series of experi…

2020

Measuring Compositional Generalization: A Comprehensive Method on Realistic Data

ICLR 2020poster

State-of-the-art machine learning methods exhibit limited compositional generalization. At the same time, there is a lack of realistic benchmarks that comprehensively measure this ability, which makes it challenging to find and evaluate improvements. We introduce a novel method to systematically con…

Cited by 406SourcecodeScholar