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Peiran Yao

3 accepted papers

2024

Can LLMs Learn by Teaching for Better Reasoning? A Preliminary Study

NeurIPS 2024poster

Teaching to improve student models (e.g., knowledge distillation) is an extensively studied methodology in LLMs. However, in human education, teaching enhances not only the students but also the teachers by fostering more rigorous and clearer reasoning, as well as deeper knowledge building. We ask:…

2022

WordTies: Measuring Word Associations in Language Models via Constrained Sampling

EMNLP 2022finding

Word associations are widely used in psychology to provide insights on how humans perceive and understand concepts. Comparing word associations in language models (LMs) to those generated by human subjects can serve as a proxy to uncover embedded lexical and commonsense knowledge in language models.…

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