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48 results for human language comprehension

Bayesian EnKF improves sentence comprehension uncertainty modeling.

problem Uncertainty in human language comprehension, especially with ambiguous inputs.
method Bayesian framework using ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) for uncertainty quantification.
result Enhanced model's ability to approximate human cognitive processing with linguistic ambiguities.

Language-based methods improve human similarity approximations without requiring many human judgments.

problem Approximating human similarity judgments using pre-trained deep neural networks (DNNs) is challenging and expensive.
method Developed language-based methods to approximate human similarity judgments, validated with adaptive tag collection pipeline.
result Language-based methods significantly improve performance over DNN-based methods with fewer human judgments.

A novel memory mechanism for reinforcement learning agents that stores past events in human-readable language.

problem Lack of interpretability in reinforcement learning agent's memory mechanisms.
method Uses CLIP to associate visual inputs with language tokens, then feeds these tokens to a pretrained language model.
result Significantly faster convergence on challenging continuous recognition tasks.

Framework enhances AI explainability by aligning with human cognitive models.

problem Lack of explainability in AI models hinders trust and accountability.
method Integrates explainability techniques with Malle's five category model of behavior explanation.
result Demonstrates practical relevance in credit risk assessment and regulatory analysis.

We provide an online RLHF workflow for large language models.

problem Lack of online RLHF workflow for large language models.
method Construct preference models using open-source datasets, approximate human feedback, and implement online iterative RLHF.
result Our LLM achieves state-of-the-art performance on various benchmarks.

Quriosity analyzes curiosity-driven questions from diverse sources.

problem Understanding and analyzing human curiosity-driven questions.
method Collection of 13.5K questions from various sources, development of an iterative prompt improvement framework.
result 42% of questions are causal, revealing unique linguistic properties.

We are increasingly surrounded by artificially intelligent technology that takes decisions and executes actions on our behalf. This creates a pressing need for general means to communicate with, instruct and guide artificial agents, with human language the most compelling means for such communication. To achieve this i…

2017-06-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops a statistical framework to measure uncertainty in model rankings based on human preferences.

problem Uncertainty in model rankings based on human preferences due to mismatch between human and model preferences.
method Statistical framework using pairwise comparisons by humans and models to provide rank-sets for each model.
result Rank-sets constructed using only pairwise comparisons by strong models often do not cover the true ranking of human preferences.

Reward learning enables the application of reinforcement learning (RL) to tasks where reward is defined by human judgment, building a model of reward by asking humans questions. Most work on reward learning has used simulated environments, but complex information about values is often expressed in natural language, and…

2019-09-18abs ↗pdf ↗

LR-Robot automates SLRs with AI, expert oversight, and multidimensional analysis.

problem Efficient but contextually limited outputs from existing SLR frameworks.
method Human-in-the-loop process, structured knowledge sources, retrieval-augmented generation.
result Empirical demonstration of AI-driven literature synthesis in option pricing.

In text classification, dictionaries can be used to define human-comprehensible features. We propose an improvement to dictionary features called smoothed dictionary features. These features recognize document contexts instead of n-grams. We describe a principled methodology to solicit dictionary features from a teache…

2016-06-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Stable and consistent model alignment for language models without assuming human preference models.

problem Lack of statistical consistency in existing alignment methods.
method Relative density ratio optimization between preferred and mixture of preferred and non-preferred data distributions.
result Our approach achieves statistical consistency and stability, providing tighter convergence guarantees.

Large language models predict human sensory judgments across multiple modalities.

problem Determining the extent of perceptual information in language.
method State-of-the-art large language models were used to predict sensory judgments across six psychophysical datasets.
result Large language models can predict human sensory judgments across multiple modalities with significant correlation to human data.

Paper proposes a new RLHF framework for human preference learning.

problem Handling dependent online human preference outcomes with dynamic contexts.
method Two-stage algorithm with εε-greedy followed by exploitation; anti-concentration inequalities and matrix martingale concentration techniques.
result Our method achieves optimal regret bound and asymptotic normality of estimators.

The sample inefficiency of standard deep reinforcement learning methods precludes their application to many real-world problems. Methods which leverage human demonstrations require fewer samples but have been researched less. As demonstrated in the computer vision and natural language processing communities, large-scal…

2019-07-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Efficiently identifies good policies by choosing contexts for human feedback.

problem Efficiently acquiring human feedback for preference alignment in large language models.
method Formalizes active exploration as a dueling bandit problem and proposes an active exploration algorithm with a polynomial worst-case regret bound.
result Proposed method outperforms baselines with limited human preferences on various language models and datasets.

Study assesses consistency and reproducibility of LLMs in finance and accounting tasks.

problem Consistency and reproducibility of LLM outputs in finance and accounting research.
method Extensive experimentation with 50 independent runs across 5 tasks using 3 OpenAI models.
result Task-specific patterns of consistency and reproducibility, with binary classification and sentiment analysis achieving near-perfect reproducibility.

Direct Density Ratio Optimization aligns LLMs with human preferences without assuming specific models.

problem Statistical inconsistency in aligning LLMs with human preferences.
method Direct Density Ratio Optimization (DDRO) estimates density ratio directly.
result DDRO is statistically consistent, converging to true human preferences as data grows.

Many challenges in natural language processing require generating text, including language translation, dialogue generation, and speech recognition. For all of these problems, text generation becomes more difficult as the text becomes longer. Current language models often struggle to keep track of coherence for long pi…

2018-10-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Enhances anomaly detection in financial markets using AI agents.

problem Manual verification of financial market anomalies is time-consuming and error-prone.
method A multi-agent LLM framework for automated anomaly detection.
result Framework reduces human intervention and improves efficiency and accuracy.

Paper proposes a robust RLHF algorithm for LLMs, improving response preference over baselines.

problem Reward model misspecifications in RLHF for LLMs.
method Proposes a robust algorithm to reduce reward and policy estimator variance, theoretically and empirically validated.
result Consistently outperforms existing methods on LLM benchmark datasets, favoring 77-81% of responses over baselines.

LLMs perform well in financial sentiment analysis without fine-tuning.

problem Challenges in financial terminology, emotions, and ambiguous expressions.
method In-context learning methods for financial document-sentiment pairs.
result LLMs can generalize in-context demonstrations to new financial documents.

LLMs struggle with financial reasoning but can outperform the market with human oversight.

problem Financial reasoning failures in LLM-generated stock market predictions.
method Evaluated four LLMs using three prompting strategies and compared to human oversight.
result LLMs require human oversight to fully realize their potential in financial markets.

FinHEAR combines LLMs with human expertise for better financial decision-making.

problem Challenges in financial decision-making for language models.
method Multi-agent framework with specialized LLMs for historical analysis, event interpretation, and expert retrieval.
result FinHEAR outperforms baselines in financial tasks with higher accuracy and risk-adjusted returns.

Embodied cognition states that semantics is encoded in the brain as firing patterns of neural circuits, which are learned according to the statistical structure of human multimodal experience. However, each human brain is idiosyncratically biased, according to its subjective experience history, making this biological s…

2019-06-20abs ↗pdf ↗