Our new paper in #PNAS (bit.ly/4fcWfma) presents a surprising findingβwhen words change meaning, older speakers rapidly adopt the new usage; inter-generational differences are often minor.
w/ Michelle Yang, βͺ@sivareddyg.bsky.socialβ¬ , @msonderegger.bsky.socialβ¬ and @dallascard.bsky.socialβ¬π(1/12)
What do systematic hallucinations in LLMs tell us about their generalization abilities?
Come to our poster at #ACL2025 on July 29th at 4 PM in Level 0, Halls X4/X5. Would love to chat about interpretability, hallucinations, and reasoning :)
@mcgill-nlp.bsky.social @mila-quebec.bsky.social
Gaurav Kamath
Ziling Cheng
A new paper accepted in @colmweb.org COLM 2025! I led a group of 3 brilliant students to dive deep into the problem of discrimination in language models. We discovered that models that take racist decisions donβt always have biased thoughts!
Other cool findings:
1. We prove that (RSA)^2 is more expressive than QUD-based RSA.
2. Naively applying RSA to LLMs leads to probability π΄π±π³π¦π’π₯πͺπ―π¨, not π―π’π³π³π°πΈπͺπ―π¨! Are there better ways to use RSA with LLMs?
3. What if we don't know the rhetorical strategies? We develop a clustering algorithm too!
