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Pat Verga

7 accepted papers

2025

FLARE: Faithful Logic-Aided Reasoning and Exploration

EMNLP 2025

Modern Question Answering (QA) and Reasoning approaches with Large Language Models (LLMs) commonly use Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting but struggle with generating outputs faithful to their intermediate reasoning chains. While neuro-symbolic methods like Faithful CoT (F-CoT) offer higher faithfulne

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2025

Multilingual Arbitration: Optimizing Data Pools to Accelerate Multilingual Progress

ACL 2025long

Synthetic data has driven recent state-of-the-art advancements, but reliance on a single oracle teacher model can lead to model collapse and bias propagation. These issues are particularly severe in multilingual settings, where no single model excels across all languages. In this study, we propose m…

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2023

QA Is the New KR: Question-Answer Pairs as Knowledge Bases

AAAI 2023technical

We propose a new knowledge representation (KR) based on knowledge bases (KBs) derived from text, based on question generation and entity linking. We argue that the proposed type of KB has many of the key advantages of a traditional symbolic KB: in particular, it consists of small modular components…

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2023

To Adapt or to Annotate: Challenges and Interventions for Domain Adaptation in Open-Domain Question Answering

ACL 2023long

Recent advances in open-domain question answering (ODQA) have demonstrated impressive accuracy on general-purpose domains like Wikipedia. While some work has been investigating how well ODQA models perform when tested for out-of-domain (OOD) generalization, these studies have been conducted only und…

2022

Faithful to the Document or to the World? Mitigating Hallucinations via Entity-Linked Knowledge in Abstractive Summarization

EMNLP 2022finding

Existing abstractive summarization systems are hampered by content hallucinations in which models generate text that is not directly inferable from the source alone. Annotations from prior work have shown that some of these hallucinations, while being ‘unfaithful’ to the source, are nonetheless fact…

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2022

MuRAG: Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generator for Open Question Answering over Images and Text

EMNLP 2022main

While language Models store a massive amount of world knowledge implicitly in their parameters, even very large models often fail to encode information about rare entities and events, while incurring huge computational costs. Recently, retrieval-augmented models, such as REALM, RAG, and RETRO, have…

Cited by 148SourcePDFScholar
2021

Adaptable and Interpretable Neural MemoryOver Symbolic Knowledge

NAACL 2021long

Past research has demonstrated that large neural language models (LMs) encode surprising amounts of factual information: however, augmenting or modifying this information requires modifying a corpus and retraining, which is computationally expensive. To address this problem, we develop a neural LM t…

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