Search Results - "Suhr, Alane"
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Continual Learning for Grounded Instruction Generation by Observing Human Following Behavior
Published in Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (06-12-2021)“…We study continual learning for natural language instruction generation, by observing human users’ instruction execution. We focus on a collaborative scenario,…”
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TOUCHDOWN: Natural Language Navigation and Spatial Reasoning in Visual Street Environments
Published in 2019 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (01-06-2019)“…We study the problem of jointly reasoning about language and vision through a navigation and spatial reasoning task. We introduce the Touchdown task and…”
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Reasoning and Learning in Interactive Natural Language Systems
Published 01-01-2022“…Systems that support expressive, situated natural language interactions are essential for expanding access to complex computing systems, such as robots and…”
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Continual Learning for Instruction Following from Realtime Feedback
Published 19-12-2022“…We propose and deploy an approach to continually train an instruction-following agent from feedback provided by users during collaborative interactions. During…”
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Grounding Language in Multi-Perspective Referential Communication
Published 04-10-2024“…We introduce a task and dataset for referring expression generation and comprehension in multi-agent embodied environments. In this task, two agents in a…”
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Using Language Models to Disambiguate Lexical Choices in Translation
Published 08-11-2024“…In translation, a concept represented by a single word in a source language can have multiple variations in a target language. The task of lexical selection…”
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NLVR2 Visual Bias Analysis
Published 23-09-2019“…NLVR2 (Suhr et al., 2019) was designed to be robust for language bias through a data collection process that resulted in each natural language sentence…”
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Quantifying Language Models' Sensitivity to Spurious Features in Prompt Design or: How I learned to start worrying about prompt formatting
Published 17-10-2023“…As large language models (LLMs) are adopted as a fundamental component of language technologies, it is crucial to accurately characterize their performance…”
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Continual Learning for Grounded Instruction Generation by Observing Human Following Behavior
Published 10-08-2021“…We study continual learning for natural language instruction generation, by observing human users' instruction execution. We focus on a collaborative scenario,…”
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Situated Mapping of Sequential Instructions to Actions with Single-step Reward Observation
Published 25-05-2018“…We propose a learning approach for mapping context-dependent sequential instructions to actions. We address the problem of discourse and state dependencies…”
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DigiRL: Training In-The-Wild Device-Control Agents with Autonomous Reinforcement Learning
Published 14-06-2024“…Training corpuses for vision language models (VLMs) typically lack sufficient amounts of decision-centric data. This renders off-the-shelf VLMs sub-optimal for…”
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Autonomous Evaluation and Refinement of Digital Agents
Published 09-04-2024“…We show that domain-general automatic evaluators can significantly improve the performance of agents for web navigation and device control. We experiment with…”
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Minding Language Models' (Lack of) Theory of Mind: A Plug-and-Play Multi-Character Belief Tracker
Published 01-06-2023“…ACL 2023 Theory of Mind (ToM)$\unicode{x2014}$the ability to reason about the mental states of other people$\unicode{x2014}$is a key element of our social…”
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Analysis of Language Change in Collaborative Instruction Following
Published 09-09-2021“…We analyze language change over time in a collaborative, goal-oriented instructional task, where utility-maximizing participants form conventions and increase…”
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Do Embodied Agents Dream of Pixelated Sheep: Embodied Decision Making using Language Guided World Modelling
Published 27-01-2023“…Reinforcement learning (RL) agents typically learn tabula rasa, without prior knowledge of the world. However, if initialized with knowledge of high-level…”
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Abstract Visual Reasoning with Tangram Shapes
Published 29-11-2022“…We introduce KiloGram, a resource for studying abstract visual reasoning in humans and machines. Drawing on the history of tangram puzzles as stimuli in…”
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Fine-Tuning Large Vision-Language Models as Decision-Making Agents via Reinforcement Learning
Published 16-05-2024“…Large vision-language models (VLMs) fine-tuned on specialized visual instruction-following data have exhibited impressive language reasoning capabilities…”
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Fine-Grained Human Feedback Gives Better Rewards for Language Model Training
Published 02-06-2023“…Language models (LMs) often exhibit undesirable text generation behaviors, including generating false, toxic, or irrelevant outputs. Reinforcement learning…”
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We're Afraid Language Models Aren't Modeling Ambiguity
Published 27-04-2023“…Ambiguity is an intrinsic feature of natural language. Managing ambiguity is a key part of human language understanding, allowing us to anticipate…”
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UNcommonsense Reasoning: Abductive Reasoning about Uncommon Situations
Published 14-11-2023“…Language technologies that accurately model the dynamics of events must perform commonsense reasoning. Existing work evaluating commonsense reasoning focuses…”
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