Yejin Choi

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Stony Brook University ∙ University of Washington ∙ Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington since 2017, Senior Research Manager at Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) since 2018, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington 2014-2017.

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Scarecrow: A Framework for Scrutinizing Machine Text

Modern neural text generation systems can produce remarkably fluent and ...
07/02/2021 ∙ by Yao Dou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Divergence Frontiers for Generative Models: Sample Complexity, Quantization Level, and Frontier Integral

The spectacular success of deep generative models calls for quantitative...
06/15/2021 ∙ by Lang Liu, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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TIMEDIAL: Temporal Commonsense Reasoning in Dialog

Everyday conversations require understanding everyday events, which in t...
06/08/2021 ∙ by Lianhui Qin, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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MERLOT: Multimodal Neural Script Knowledge Models

As humans, we understand events in the visual world contextually, perfor...
06/04/2021 ∙ by Rowan Zellers, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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PIGLeT: Language Grounding Through Neuro-Symbolic Interaction in a 3D World

We propose PIGLeT: a model that learns physical commonsense knowledge th...
06/01/2021 ∙ by Rowan Zellers, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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On-the-Fly Controlled Text Generation with Experts and Anti-Experts

Despite recent advances in natural language generation, it remains chall...
05/07/2021 ∙ by Alisa Liu, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Misinfo Belief Frames: A Case Study on Covid Climate News

Prior beliefs of readers impact the way in which they project meaning on...
04/18/2021 ∙ by Saadia Gabriel, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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CLIPScore: A Reference-free Evaluation Metric for Image Captioning

Image captioning has conventionally relied on reference-based automatic ...
04/18/2021 ∙ by Jack Hessel, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Surface Form Competition: Why the Highest Probability Answer Isn't Always Right

Large language models have shown promising results in zero-shot settings...
04/16/2021 ∙ by Ari Holtzman, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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proScript: Partially Ordered Scripts Generation via Pre-trained Language Models

Scripts - standardized event sequences describing typical everyday activ...
04/16/2021 ∙ by Keisuke Sakaguchi, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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"I'm Not Mad": Commonsense Implications of Negation and Contradiction

Natural language inference requires reasoning about contradictions, nega...
04/13/2021 ∙ by Liwei Jiang, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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UNICORN on RAINBOW: A Universal Commonsense Reasoning Model on a New Multitask Benchmark

Commonsense AI has long been seen as a near impossible goal – until rece...
03/24/2021 ∙ by Nicholas Lourie, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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NaturalProofs: Mathematical Theorem Proving in Natural Language

Understanding and creating mathematics using natural mathematical langua...
03/24/2021 ∙ by Sean Welleck, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Contrastive Explanations for Model Interpretability

Contrastive explanations clarify why an event occurred in contrast to an...
03/02/2021 ∙ by Alon Jacovi, et al. ∙ 35 ∙ share

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MAUVE: Human-Machine Divergence Curves for Evaluating Open-Ended Text Generation

Despite major advances in open-ended text generation, there has been lim...
02/02/2021 ∙ by Krishna Pillutla, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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MultiTalk: A Highly-Branching Dialog Testbed for Diverse Conversations

We study conversational dialog in which there are many possible response...
02/02/2021 ∙ by Yao Dou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Challenges in Automated Debiasing for Toxic Language Detection

Biased associations have been a challenge in the development of classifi...
01/29/2021 ∙ by Xuhui Zhou, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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GENIE: A Leaderboard for Human-in-the-Loop Evaluation of Text Generation

Leaderboards have eased model development for many NLP datasets by stand...
01/17/2021 ∙ by Daniel Khashabi, et al. ∙ 7 ∙ share

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VinVL: Making Visual Representations Matter in Vision-Language Models

This paper presents a detailed study of improving visual representations...
01/02/2021 ∙ by Pengchuan Zhang, et al. ∙ 10 ∙ share

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On-the-Fly Attention Modularization for Neural Generation

Despite considerable advancements with deep neural language models (LMs)...
01/02/2021 ∙ by Yue Dong, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Understanding Few-Shot Commonsense Knowledge Models

Providing natural language processing systems with commonsense knowledge...
01/01/2021 ∙ by Jeff Da, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Moral Stories: Situated Reasoning about Norms, Intents, Actions, and their Consequences

In social settings, much of human behavior is governed by unspoken rules...
12/31/2020 ∙ by Denis Emelin, et al. ∙ 17 ∙ share

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Learning to Rationalize for Nonmonotonic Reasoning with Distant Supervision

The black-box nature of neural models has motivated a line of research t...
12/14/2020 ∙ by Faeze Brahman, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Edited Media Understanding: Reasoning About Implications of Manipulated Images

Multimodal disinformation, from `deepfakes' to simple edits that deceive...
12/08/2020 ∙ by Jeff Da, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Social Chemistry 101: Learning to Reason about Social and Moral Norms

Social norms—the unspoken commonsense rules about acceptable social beha...
11/01/2020 ∙ by Maxwell Forbes, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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PowerTransformer: Unsupervised Controllable Revision for Biased Language Correction

Unconscious biases continue to be prevalent in modern text and media, ca...
10/26/2020 ∙ by Xinyao Ma, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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NeuroLogic Decoding: (Un)supervised Neural Text Generation with Predicate Logic Constraints

Conditional text generation often requires lexical constraints, i.e., wh...
10/24/2020 ∙ by Ximing Lu, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Go Figure! A Meta Evaluation of Factuality in Summarization

Text generation models can generate factually inconsistent text containi...
10/24/2020 ∙ by Saadia Gabriel, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Reflective Decoding: Unsupervised Paraphrasing and Abductive Reasoning

Pretrained Language Models (LMs) generate text with remarkable quality, ...
10/16/2020 ∙ by Peter West, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Natural Language Rationales with Full-Stack Visual Reasoning: From Pixels to Semantic Frames to Commonsense Graphs

Natural language rationales could provide intuitive, higher-level explan...
10/15/2020 ∙ by Ana Marasović, et al. ∙ 10 ∙ share

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COMET-ATOMIC 2020: On Symbolic and Neural Commonsense Knowledge Graphs

Recent years have brought about a renewed interest in commonsense repres...
10/12/2020 ∙ by Jena D. Hwang, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Back to the Future: Unsupervised Backprop-based Decoding for Counterfactual and Abductive Commonsense Reasoning

Abductive and counterfactual reasoning, core abilities of everyday human...
10/12/2020 ∙ by Lianhui Qin, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Paragraph-Level Commonsense Transformers with Recurrent Memory

Human understanding of narrative texts requires making commonsense infer...
10/04/2020 ∙ by Saadia Gabriel, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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RealToxicityPrompts: Evaluating Neural Toxic Degeneration in Language Models

Pretrained neural language models (LMs) are prone to generating racist, ...
09/24/2020 ∙ by Samuel Gehman, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Scruples: A Corpus of Community Ethical Judgments on 32,000 Real-Life Anecdotes

As AI systems become an increasing part of people's everyday lives, it b...
08/20/2020 ∙ by Nicholas Lourie, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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PlotMachines: Outline-Conditioned Generation with Dynamic Plot State Tracking

We propose the task of outline-conditioned story generation: given an ou...
04/30/2020 ∙ by Hannah Rashkin, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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G-DAUG: Generative Data Augmentation for Commonsense Reasoning

Recent advances in commonsense reasoning depend on large-scale human-ann...
04/24/2020 ∙ by Yiben Yang, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Visual Commonsense Graphs: Reasoning about the Dynamic Context of a Still Image

Even from a single frame of a still image, people can reason about the d...
04/22/2020 ∙ by Jae Sung Park, et al. ∙ 14 ∙ share

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Oscar: Object-Semantics Aligned Pre-training for Vision-Language Tasks

Large-scale pre-training methods of learning cross-modal representations...
04/13/2020 ∙ by Xiujun Li, et al. ∙ 7 ∙ share

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Unsupervised Commonsense Question Answering with Self-Talk

Natural language understanding involves reading between the lines with i...
04/11/2020 ∙ by Vered Shwartz, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Evaluating Machines by their Real-World Language Use

There is a fundamental gap between how humans understand and use languag...
04/07/2020 ∙ by Rowan Zellers, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Procedural Reading Comprehension with Attribute-Aware Context Flow

Procedural texts often describe processes (e.g., photosynthesis and cook...
03/31/2020 ∙ by Aida Amini, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Multi-View Learning for Vision-and-Language Navigation

Learning to navigate in a visual environment following natural language ...
03/02/2020 ∙ by Qiaolin Xia, et al. ∙ 7 ∙ share

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Adversarial Filters of Dataset Biases

Large neural models have demonstrated human-level performance on languag...
02/10/2020 ∙ by Ronan Le Bras, et al. ∙ 14 ∙ share

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PIQA: Reasoning about Physical Commonsense in Natural Language

To apply eyeshadow without a brush, should I use a cotton swab or a toot...
11/26/2019 ∙ by Yonatan Bisk, et al. ∙ 51 ∙ share

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Social Bias Frames: Reasoning about Social and Power Implications of Language

Language has the power to reinforce stereotypes and project social biase...
11/10/2019 ∙ by Maarten Sap, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Dynamic Knowledge Graph Construction for Zero-shot Commonsense Question Answering

Understanding narratives requires dynamically reasoning about the implic...
11/10/2019 ∙ by Antoine Bosselut, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Exploiting Structural and Semantic Context for Commonsense Knowledge Base Completion

Automatic KB completion for commonsense knowledge graphs (e.g., ATOMIC a...
10/07/2019 ∙ by Chaitanya Malaviya, et al. ∙ 11 ∙ share

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BottleSum: Unsupervised and Self-supervised Sentence Summarization using the Information Bottleneck Principle

The principle of the Information Bottleneck (Tishby et al. 1999) is to p...
09/16/2019 ∙ by Peter West, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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Counterfactual Story Reasoning and Generation

Counterfactual reasoning requires predicting how alternative events, con...
09/09/2019 ∙ by Lianhui Qin, et al. ∙ 0 ∙ share

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