Abstract Just as instructions have enabled complex user tasks and zero-shot optimization via prompts, so can instructions in retrieval enable complex information needs with zero-shot adaptation. In this talk, we describe efforts to build a[…]

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Abstract Language model pretraining has been a remarkably strong recipe for cross-task and cross-domain generalization in NLP. However, these gains have come at the expense of control: we rarely control the training data for language[…]

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Abstract Information dissemination for current events has traditionally consisted of professionally collected and produced materials, leading to large collections of well-written news articles and high-quality videos. As a result, most prior work in event analysis[…]

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Abstract Effective models of human attitudes and behavior can empower applications ranging from immersive environments to social policy simulation. However, traditional simulations have struggled to capture the complexity and contingency of human behavior. I argue[…]

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Abstract In the high-stakes world of critical care, every second counts. Traditional manual patient monitoring, while effective, strains our healthcare system’s resources. Nurses, already stretched thin, repetitively assess acute care indices like physical function. Meanwhile,[…]

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Abstract The philosophical distinction between intension and extension is relevant to many problems in mathematics and the sciences (including linguistics and computational linguistics). Intention refers to the definitional properties of a construct and extension refers[…]

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Abstract Recently, we have seen tremendous progress in the field of language models (LMs), with the release of numerous open models and closed API systems. However, fewer and fewer disclose how they are created: Which[…]

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