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Skyler Hallinan

11 accepted papers

2025

AI as Humanity’s Salieri: Quantifying Linguistic Creativity of Language Models via Systematic Attribution of Machine Text against Web Text

ICLR 2025oral

Creativity has long been considered one of the most difficult aspect of human intelligence for AI to mimic. However, the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, has raised questions about whether AI can match or even surpass human creativity. We present CREATIVITY INDEX as the first step…

2025

Amulet: Putting Complex Multi-Turn Conversations on the Stand with LLM Juries

EMNLP 2025

Today, large language models are widely used as judges to evaluate responses from other language models. Hence, it is imperative to benchmark and improve these LLM-judges on real-world language model usage: a typical human-assistant conversation is lengthy, and shows significant diversity in topics,

2025

Prismatic Synthesis: Gradient-based Data Diversification Boosts Generalization in LLM Reasoning

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Data diversity is crucial for training a strong language model. Yet metrics of diversity often diverge from this goal, measuring variations in heuristic features—like n-grams or embeddings—that are detached from how the model actually performs on a target task. This motivates us to ask: *Can we rede…

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2024

StyleRemix: Interpretable Authorship Obfuscation via Distillation and Perturbation of Style Elements

EMNLP 2024main

Authorship obfuscation, rewriting a text to intentionally obscure the identity of the author, is important yet challenging. Current methods using large language models (LLMs) lack interpretability and controllability, often ignoring author-specific stylistic features, resulting in less robust perfor…

2024

Tailoring Self-Rationalizers with Multi-Reward Distillation

ICLR 2024poster

Large language models (LMs) are capable of generating free-text rationales to aid question answering. However, prior work 1) suggests that useful self-rationalization is emergent only at significant scales (e.g., 175B parameter GPT-3); and 2) focuses largely on downstream performance, ignoring the s…

2023

Detoxifying Text with MaRCo: Controllable Revision with Experts and Anti-Experts

ACL 2023short

Text detoxification has the potential to mitigate the harms of toxicity by rephrasing text to remove offensive meaning, but subtle toxicity remains challenging to tackle. We introduce MaRCo, a detoxification algorithm that combines controllable generation and text rewriting methods using a Product o…

2023

Inference-Time Policy Adapters (IPA): Tailoring Extreme-Scale LMs without Fine-tuning

EMNLP 2023long main

While extreme-scale language models have demonstrated exceptional performance on a variety of language tasks, the degree of control over these language models through pure prompting can often be limited. Directly fine-tuning such language models can be effective for tailoring them, but it can be eit…

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2023

STEER: Unified Style Transfer with Expert Reinforcement

EMNLP 2023long findings

While text style transfer has many applications across natural language processing, the core premise of transferring from a single source style is unrealistic in a real-world setting. In this work, we focus on arbitrary style transfer: rewriting a text from an arbitrary, unknown style to a target st…

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2023

Self-Refine: Iterative Refinement with Self-Feedback

NeurIPS 2023poster

Like humans, large language models (LLMs) do not always generate the best output on their first try. Motivated by how humans refine their written text, we introduce Self-Refine, an approach for improving initial outputs from LLMs through iterative feedback and refinement. The main idea is to generat…

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2022

Misinfo Reaction Frames: Reasoning about Readers’ Reactions to News Headlines

ACL 2022long

Even to a simple and short news headline, readers react in a multitude of ways: cognitively (e.g. inferring the writer’s intent), emotionally (e.g. feeling distrust), and behaviorally (e.g. sharing the news with their friends). Such reactions are instantaneous and yet complex, as they rely on factor…

2022

Rainier: Reinforced Knowledge Introspector for Commonsense Question Answering

EMNLP 2022main

Knowledge underpins reasoning. Recent research demonstrates that when relevant knowledge is provided as additional context to commonsense question answering (QA), it can substantially enhance the performance even on top of state-of-the-art. The fundamental challenge is where and how to find such kno…