Search Results for author: Kevin Du

Found 4 papers, 1 papers with code

Context versus Prior Knowledge in Language Models

no code implementations6 Apr 2024 Kevin Du, Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson, Niklas Stoehr, Jennifer C. White, Aaron Schein, Ryan Cotterell

To answer a question, language models often need to integrate prior knowledge learned during pretraining and new information presented in context.

Grammatical Gender's Influence on Distributional Semantics: A Causal Perspective

no code implementations30 Nov 2023 Karolina Stańczak, Kevin Du, Adina Williams, Isabelle Augenstein, Ryan Cotterell

However, when we control for the meaning of the noun, we find that grammatical gender has a near-zero effect on adjective choice, thereby calling the neo-Whorfian hypothesis into question.

Generalizing Backpropagation for Gradient-Based Interpretability

1 code implementation6 Jul 2023 Kevin Du, Lucas Torroba Hennigen, Niklas Stoehr, Alexander Warstadt, Ryan Cotterell

Many popular feature-attribution methods for interpreting deep neural networks rely on computing the gradients of a model's output with respect to its inputs.

AlphaSnake: Policy Iteration on a Nondeterministic NP-hard Markov Decision Process

no code implementations17 Nov 2022 Kevin Du, Ian Gemp, Yi Wu, Yingying Wu

Reinforcement learning has recently been used to approach well-known NP-hard combinatorial problems in graph theory.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

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