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Nevan Wichers

5 accepted papers

2026

Recontextualization Mitigates Specification Gaming Without Modifying the Specification

ICML 2026poster

Developers often struggle to specify correct training labels and rewards. Perhaps they don't need to. We propose recontextualization, which reduces how often language models "game" training signals, performing misbehaviors those signals fail to penalize. We show recontextualization prevents models f…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Enhancing Reinforcement Learning with Dense Rewards from Language Model Critic

EMNLP 2024main

Reinforcement learning (RL) can align language models with non-differentiable reward signals, such as human preferences. However, a major challenge arises from the sparsity of these reward signals - typically, there is only a single reward for an entire output. This sparsity of rewards can lead to i…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2024

Fusion-Eval: Integrating Assistant Evaluators with LLMs

EMNLP 2024industry

Evaluating natural language generation (NLG) systems automatically poses significant challenges.Recent studies have employed large language models (LLMs) as reference-free metrics for NLG evaluation, enhancing adaptability to new tasks tasks. However, these methods still show lower correspondence wi…

2021

ActionBert: Leveraging User Actions for Semantic Understanding of User Interfaces

AAAI 2021technical

As mobile devices are becoming ubiquitous, regularly interacting with a variety of user interfaces (UIs) is a common aspect of daily life for many people. To improve the accessibility of these devices and to enable their usage in a variety of settings, building models that can assist users and accom…

Cited by 82SourcePDFScholar
2018

Hierarchical Long-term Video Prediction without Supervision

ICML 2018oral

Much of recent research has been devoted to video prediction and generation, yet most of the previous works have demonstrated only limited success in generating videos on short-term horizons. The hierarchical video prediction method by Villegas et al. (2017) is an example of a state-of-the-art metho…

Cited by 164SourcePDFScholar