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Shengnan An

7 accepted papers

2025

STAND-Guard: A Small Task-Adaptive Content Moderation Model

COLING 2025industry

Content moderation, the process of reviewing and monitoring the safety of generated content, is important for development of welcoming online platforms and responsible large language models. Content moderation contains various tasks, each with its unique requirements tailored to specific scenarios.…

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2024

Can LLMs Learn From Mistakes? An Empirical Study on Reasoning Tasks

EMNLP 2024finding

Towards enhancing the chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning of large language models (LLMs), much existing work has revealed the effectiveness of straightforward learning on annotated/generated CoT paths. However, there is less evidence yet that reasoning capabilities can be enhanced through a reverse le…

2024

Make Your LLM Fully Utilize the Context

NeurIPS 2024poster

While many contemporary large language models (LLMs) can process lengthy input, they still struggle to fully utilize information within the long context, known as the *lost-in-the-middle* challenge. We hypothesize that it stems from insufficient explicit supervision during the long-context training,…

2023

Does Deep Learning Learn to Abstract? A Systematic Probing Framework

ICLR 2023poster

Abstraction is a desirable capability for deep learning models, which means to induce abstract concepts from concrete instances and flexibly apply them beyond the learning context. At the same time, there is a lack of clear understanding about both the presence and further characteristics of this ca…

2023

How Do In-Context Examples Affect Compositional Generalization?

ACL 2023long

Compositional generalization–understanding unseen combinations of seen primitives–is an essential reasoning capability in human intelligence. The AI community mainly studies this capability by fine-tuning neural networks on lots of training samples, while it is still unclear whether and how in-conte…

2023

Skill-Based Few-Shot Selection for In-Context Learning

EMNLP 2023long main

*In-context learning* is the paradigm that adapts large language models to downstream tasks by providing a few examples. *Few-shot selection*---selecting appropriate examples for each test instance separately---is important for in-context learning. In this paper, we propose **Skill-KNN**, a skill-ba…

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2020

Compositional Generalization by Learning Analytical Expressions

NeurIPS 2020spotlight

Compositional generalization is a basic and essential intellective capability of human beings, which allows us to recombine known parts readily. However, existing neural network based models have been proven to be extremely deficient in such a capability. Inspired by work in cognition which argues c…