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Youbin Ahn

4 accepted papers

2026

Characterizing Pattern Matching and Its Limits on Compositional Task Structures

ICLR 2026poster

Despite impressive capabilities, LLMs' successes often rely on pattern-matching behaviors, yet these are also linked to OOD generalization failures in compositional tasks. However, behavioral studies commonly employ task setups that allow multiple generalization sources (e.g., algebraic invariances,…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Knowledge Entropy Decay during Language Model Pretraining Hinders New Knowledge Acquisition

ICLR 2025oral

In this work, we investigate how a model's tendency to broadly integrate its parametric knowledge evolves throughout pretraining, and how this behavior affects overall performance, particularly in terms of knowledge acquisition and forgetting. We introduce the concept of knowledge entropy, which qua…

2022

Active Learning on Pre-trained Language Model with Task-Independent Triplet Loss

AAAI 2022technical

Active learning attempts to maximize a task model’s performance gain by obtaining a set of informative samples from an unlabeled data pool. Previous active learning methods usually rely on specific network architectures or task-dependent sample acquisition algorithms. Moreover, when selecting a batc…

Cited by 18SourcePDFScholar
2022

Emp-RFT: Empathetic Response Generation via Recognizing Feature Transitions between Utterances

NAACL 2022long

Each utterance in multi-turn empathetic dialogues has features such as emotion, keywords, and utterance-level meaning. Feature transitions between utterances occur naturally. However, existing approaches fail to perceive the transitions because they extract features for the context at the coarse-gra…