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Vijeta Deshpande

4 accepted papers

2025

Diverse, not Short: A Length-Controlled Data Selection Strategy for Improving Response Diversity of Language Models

EMNLP 2025

Diverse language model responses are crucial for creative generation, open-ended tasks, and self-improvement training. We show that common diversity metrics, and even reward models used for preference optimization, systematically bias models toward shorter outputs, limiting expressiveness. To addres

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Emergent Abilities in Reduced-Scale Generative Language Models

NAACL 2024findings

Large language models can solve new tasks without task-specific fine-tuning. This ability, also known as in-context learning (ICL), is considered an emergent ability and is primarily seen in large language models with billions of parameters. This study investigates if such emergent properties are st…

2024

LocalTweets to LocalHealth: A Mental Health Surveillance Framework Based on Twitter Data

COLING 2024main

Prior research on Twitter (now X) data has provided positive evidence of its utility in developing supplementary health surveillance systems. In this study, we present a new framework to surveil public health, focusing on mental health (MH) outcomes. We hypothesize that locally posted tweets are ind…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2023

Honey, I Shrunk the Language: Language Model Behavior at Reduced Scale.

ACL 2023findings

In recent years, language models have drastically grown in size, and the abilities of these models have been shown to improve with scale. The majority of recent scaling laws studies focused on high-compute high-parameter count settings, leaving the question of when these abilities begin to emerge la…