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DREAM: Improving Situational QA by First Elaborating the Situation
June 7, 2022 | Yuling GuWhen people answer questions about a specific situation, e.g., "I cheated on my mid-term exam last week. Was that wrong?", cognitive science suggests that they form a mental picture of that situation before answering. While we do not know how language models (LMs) answer such questions, we conjecture that they…
Text Modular Networks: Learning to Decompose Tasks in the Language of Existing Models
June 6, 2022 | Tushar KhotNAACL '21 Presentation of our paper: https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:221448158 We propose a general framework called Text Modular Networks(TMNs) for building interpretable systems that learn to solve complex tasks by decomposing them into simpler ones solvable by existing models. To ensure solvability…
Reframing Instructional Prompts to GPTk’s Language
June 5, 2022 | Swaroop MishraThis video summarizes the paper "https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-acl.50/". Abstract: What kinds of instructional prompts are easier to follow for Language Models (LMs)? We study this question by conducting extensive empirical analysis that shed light on important features of successful instructional…
Hey AI, Can You Solve Complex Tasks by Talking to Agents?
May 22, 2022 | Tushar KhotACL '22 Talk for paper: https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:248666080 Training giant models from scratch for each complex task is resource- and data-inefficient. To help develop models that can leverage existing systems, we propose a new challenge: Learning to solve complex tasks by communicating with…
Why Natural Language is the Right Vehicle for Complex Reasoning
May 11, 2022 | Greg DurrettAbstract: Despite their widespread success, end-to-end transformer models consistently fall short in settings involving complex reasoning. Transformers trained on question answering (QA) tasks that seemingly require multiple steps of reasoning often achieve high performance by taking "reasoning shortcuts." We…Data Leverage: A Framework for Empowering the Public and Mitigating Harms of AI
May 10, 2022 | Nicholas VincentMany powerful computing technologies rely on both implicit and explicit data contributions from the public. This dependency suggests a potential source of leverage for the public in its relationship with technology companies: by reducing, stopping, redirecting, or otherwise manipulating data contributions, a…
Doing for our robots what nature did for us
April 29, 2022 | Leslie Pack KaelblingWe, as robot engineers, have to think hard about our role in the design of robots and how it interacts with learning, both in "the factory" (that is, at engineering time) and in "the wild" (that is, when the robot is delivered to a customer). I will share some general thoughts about the strategies for robot…
Cross-Task Generalization via Natural Language Crowdsourcing Instructions
April 21, 2022 | Swaroop MishraThis video explains the paper "https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.08773". Abstract:Humans (e.g., crowdworkers) have a remarkable ability in solving different tasks, by simply reading textual instructions that define them and looking at a few examples. Despite the success of the conventional supervised learning on…
Generalization for Robot Learning In The Wild
April 15, 2022 | Deepak PathakHow can we train a robot that can generalize to perform thousands of tasks in thousands of environments? This question underscores the holy grail of robot learning, more generally machine learning, research. Current AI systems are incredibly specific in that they only perform the tasks they are trained for and…
Robots Need To Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle
April 1, 2022 | Chelsea FinnDespite numerous successes in deep robotic learning over the past decade, the generalization and versatility of robots across environments and tasks has remained a major challenge. This is because much of reinforcement and imitation learning research trains agents from scratch in a single or a few environments…