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Sumanth Dathathri

6 accepted papers

2022

Characteristics of Harmful Text: Towards Rigorous Benchmarking of Language Models

NeurIPS 2022accept

Large language models produce human-like text that drive a growing number of applications. However, recent literature and, increasingly, real world observations, have demonstrated that these models can generate language that is toxic, biased, untruthful or otherwise harmful. Though work to evalua…

Cited by 55SourcePDFScholar
2021

Challenges in Detoxifying Language Models

EMNLP 2021finding

Large language models (LM) generate remarkably fluent text and can be efficiently adapted across NLP tasks. Measuring and guaranteeing the quality of generated text in terms of safety is imperative for deploying LMs in the real world; to this end, prior work often relies on automatic evaluation of L…

Cited by 256SourcePDFScholar
2021

Make Sure You're Unsure: A Framework for Verifying Probabilistic Specifications

NeurIPS 2021spotlight

Most real world applications require dealing with stochasticity like sensor noise or predictive uncertainty, where formal specifications of desired behavior are inherently probabilistic. Despite the promise of formal verification in ensuring the reliability of neural networks, progress in the direc…

2020

Enabling certification of verification-agnostic networks via memory-efficient semidefinite programming

NeurIPS 2020poster

Convex relaxations have emerged as a promising approach for verifying properties of neural networks, but widely used using Linear Programming (LP) relaxations only provide meaningful certificates when networks are specifically trained to facilitate verification. This precludes many important applica…

2020

Plug and Play Language Models: A Simple Approach to Controlled Text Generation

ICLR 2020poster

Large transformer-based language models (LMs) trained on huge text corpora have shown unparalleled generation capabilities. However, controlling attributes of the generated language (e.g. switching topic or sentiment) is difficult without modifying the model architecture or fine-tuning on attribute-…

Cited by 1069SourcecodeScholar
2019

Counter-example Guided Learning of Bounds on Environment Behavior

CoRL 2019

There is a growing interest in building autonomous systems that interact with complex environments. The difficulty associated with obtaining an accurate model for such environments poses a challenge to the task of assessing and guaranteeing the system’s performance. We present a data-driven solution