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Pol van Rijn

3 accepted papers

2024

Characterizing Similarities and Divergences in Conversational Tones in Humans and LLMs by Sampling with People

ACL 2024long

Conversational tones — the manners and attitudes in which speakers communicate — are essential to effective communication. As Large Language Models (LLMs) become increasingly popular, it is necessary to characterize the divergences in their conversational tones relative to humans. Prior research rel…

2023

Words are all you need? Language as an approximation for human similarity judgments

ICLR 2023poster

Human similarity judgments are a powerful supervision signal for machine learning applications based on techniques such as contrastive learning, information retrieval, and model alignment, but classical methods for collecting human similarity judgments are too expensive to be used at scale. Recent m…

Cited by 21SourcePDFScholar
2020

Gibbs Sampling with People

NeurIPS 2020oral

A core problem in cognitive science and machine learning is to understand how humans derive semantic representations from perceptual objects, such as color from an apple, pleasantness from a musical chord, or seriousness from a face. Markov Chain Monte Carlo with People (MCMCP) is a prominent method…

Cited by 97SourcePDFScholar