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Yi-An Lai

5 accepted papers

2025

DeAL: Decoding-time Alignment for Large Language Models

ACL 2025long

Large Language Models (LLMs) are nowadays expected to generate content aligned with human preferences. Current work focuses on alignment at model training time, through techniques such as Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF). However, it is unclear if such methods are an effective choic…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2022

Measuring and Reducing Model Update Regression in Structured Prediction for NLP

NeurIPS 2022accept

Recent advance in deep learning has led to rapid adoption of machine learning based NLP models in a wide range of applications. Despite the continuous gain in accuracy, backward compatibility is also an important aspect for industrial applications, yet it received little research attention. Backward…

Cited by 10SourcePDFScholar
2022

Multi-Task Pre-Training for Plug-and-Play Task-Oriented Dialogue System

ACL 2022long

Pre-trained language models have been recently shown to benefit task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems. Despite their success, existing methods often formulate this task as a cascaded generation problem which can lead to error accumulation across different sub-tasks and greater data annotation overhea…

2021

Regression Bugs Are In Your Model! Measuring, Reducing and Analyzing Regressions In NLP Model Updates

ACL 2021long

Behavior of deep neural networks can be inconsistent between different versions. Regressions during model update are a common cause of concern that often over-weigh the benefits in accuracy or efficiency gain. This work focuses on quantifying, reducing and analyzing regression errors in the NLP mode…

Cited by 15SourcePDFScholar
2017

PRUNE: Preserving Proximity and Global Ranking for Network Embedding

NeurIPS 2017poster

We investigate an unsupervised generative approach for network embedding. A multi-task Siamese neural network structure is formulated to connect embedding vectors and our objective to preserve the global node ranking and local proximity of nodes. We provide deeper analysis to connect the proposed pr…