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Vinay Venkatesh Ramasesh

7 accepted papers

2024

Plot Twist: Multimodal Models Don’t Comprehend Simple Chart Details

EMNLP 2024finding

Recent advances in multimodal models show remarkable performance in real-world benchmarks for chart and figure understanding like ChartQA that involve interpreting trends, comparing data points, and extracting insights from visuals.In this paper, we investigate the extent to which these models truly…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2022

Effect of scale on catastrophic forgetting in neural networks

ICLR 2022poster

Catastrophic forgetting presents a challenge in developing deep learning models capable of continual learning, i.e. learning tasks sequentially. Recently, both computer vision and natural-language processing have witnessed great progress through the use of large-scale pretrained models. In this work…

Cited by 204SourcePDFScholar
2022

Exploring Length Generalization in Large Language Models

NeurIPS 2022accept

The ability to extrapolate from short problem instances to longer ones is an important form of out-of-distribution generalization in reasoning tasks, and is crucial when learning from datasets where longer problem instances are rare. These include theorem proving, solving quantitative mathematics pr…

Cited by 226SourcePDFScholar
2022

Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models

NeurIPS 2022accept

Language models have achieved remarkable performance on a wide range of tasks that require natural language understanding. Nevertheless, state-of-the-art models have generally struggled with tasks that require quantitative reasoning, such as solving mathematics, science, and engineering questions at…

Cited by 815SourcePDFScholar
2021

Anatomy of Catastrophic Forgetting: Hidden Representations and Task Semantics

ICLR 2021poster

Catastrophic forgetting is a recurring challenge to developing versatile deep learning models. Despite its ubiquity, there is limited understanding of its connections to neural network (hidden) representations and task semantics. In this paper, we address this important knowledge gap. Through quanti…

Cited by 211SourcePDFScholar
2021

The geometry of integration in text classification RNNs

ICLR 2021poster

Despite the widespread application of recurrent neural networks (RNNs), a unified understanding of how RNNs solve particular tasks remains elusive. In particular, it is unclear what dynamical patterns arise in trained RNNs, and how those pat-terns depend on the training dataset or task. This work…

Cited by 14SourcePDFScholar
2021

Understanding How Encoder-Decoder Architectures Attend

NeurIPS 2021poster

Encoder-decoder networks with attention have proven to be a powerful way to solve many sequence-to-sequence tasks. In these networks, attention aligns encoder and decoder states and is often used for visualizing network behavior. However, the mechanisms used by networks to generate appropriate atten…

Cited by 33SourcePDFScholar