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Paul N. Bennett

5 accepted papers

2023

Augmenting Zero-Shot Dense Retrievers with Plug-in Mixture-of-Memories

EMNLP 2023long main

In this paper we improve the zero-shot generalization ability of language models via Mixture-Of-Memory Augmentation (MoMA), a mechanism that retrieves augmentation documents from multiple information corpora (external memories), with the option to ''plug in'' unseen memory at inference time. We deve…

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2023

Axiomatic Preference Modeling for Longform Question Answering

EMNLP 2023long main

The remarkable abilities of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and GPT-4 partially stem from the post-training processes involving human preferences encoded within a reward model as part of a Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) regimen. These reward models (RMs) often lack dire…

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2022

Pretraining Text Encoders with Adversarial Mixture of Training Signal Generators

ICLR 2022poster

We present a new framework AMOS that pretrains text encoders with an Adversarial learning curriculum via a Mixture Of Signals from multiple auxiliary generators. Following ELECTRA-style pretraining, the main encoder is trained as a discriminator to detect replaced tokens generated by auxiliary maske…

2021

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Negative Contrastive Learning for Dense Text Retrieval

ICLR 2021poster

Conducting text retrieval in a learned dense representation space has many intriguing advantages. Yet dense retrieval (DR) often underperforms word-based sparse retrieval. In this paper, we first theoretically show the bottleneck of dense retrieval is the domination of uninformative negatives sample…

2021

COCO-LM: Correcting and Contrasting Text Sequences for Language Model Pretraining

NeurIPS 2021poster

We present a self-supervised learning framework, COCO-LM, that pretrains Language Models by COrrecting and COntrasting corrupted text sequences. Following ELECTRA-style pretraining, COCO-LM employs an auxiliary language model to corrupt text sequences, upon which it constructs two new tasks for pret…