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Yoni Halpern

4 accepted papers

2025

Small Models, Big Results: Achieving Superior Intent Extraction through Decomposition

EMNLP 2025

Understanding user intents from UI interaction trajectories remains a challenging, yet crucial, frontier in intelligent agent development. While massive, datacenter-based, multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) possess greater capacity to handle the complexities of such sequences, smaller models

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

FRAPPÉ: A Group Fairness Framework for Post-Processing Everything

ICML 2024poster

Despite achieving promising fairness-error trade-offs, in-processing mitigation techniques for group fairness cannot be employed in numerous practical applications with limited computation resources or no access to the training pipeline of the prediction model. In these situations, post-processing i…

Cited by 8SourcePDFScholar
2022

Causally motivated shortcut removal using auxiliary labels

AISTATS 2022poster

Shortcut learning, in which models make use of easy-to-represent but unstable associations, is a major failure mode for robust machine learning. We study a flexible, causally-motivated approach to training robust predictors by discouraging the use of specific shortcuts, focusing on a common setting…

2020

Empirical Study of the Benefits of Overparameterization in Learning Latent Variable Models

ICML 2020poster

One of the most surprising and exciting discoveries in supervised learning was the benefit of overparameterization (i.e. training a very large model) to improving the optimization landscape of a problem, with minimal effect on statistical performance (i.e. generalization). In contrast, unsupervised…