Peter West

70 papers A* 13A 2B 1Journal 36Unranked 17
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Email in the Era of LLMs.
CoRR
Dang Nguyen, Harvey Yiyun Fu, Peter West, Chenhao Tan, Ari Holtzman
2025 J jnl
AbsenceBench: Language Models Can't Tell What's Missing.
CoRR
Harvey Yiyun Fu, Aryan Shrivastava, Jared Moore, Peter West, Chenhao Tan, Ari Holtzman
2025 J jnl
Base Models Beat Aligned Models at Randomness and Creativity.
CoRR
Peter West, Christopher Potts
2025 — conf
BottleHumor: Self-Informed Humor Explanation using the Information Bottleneck Principle.
ACL (Findings)
Eunjeong Hwang, Peter West, Vered Shwartz
2025 J jnl
BottleHumor: Self-Informed Humor Explanation using the Information Bottleneck Principle.
CoRR
Eunjeong Hwang, Peter West, Vered Shwartz
2025 J jnl
Infusing Theory of Mind into Socially Intelligent LLM Agents.
CoRR
Eunjeong Hwang, Yuwei Yin, Giuseppe Carenini, Peter West, Vered Shwartz
2024 J jnl
Benchmarks as Microscopes: A Call for Model Metrology.
CoRR
Michael Saxon, Ari Holtzman, Peter West, William Yang Wang, Naomi Saphra
2024 — —
Hidden Capabilities and Counterintuitive Limits in Large Language Models
Peter West
2024 — conf
Impossible Distillation for Paraphrasing and Summarization: How to Make High-quality Lemonade out of Small, Low-quality Model.
NAACL-HLT
Jaehun Jung, Peter West, Liwei Jiang, Faeze Brahman, Ximing Lu, Jillian Fisher, Taylor Sorensen, Yejin Choi
2024 J jnl
Information-Theoretic Distillation for Reference-less Summarization.
CoRR
Jaehun Jung, Ximing Lu, Liwei Jiang, Faeze Brahman, Peter West, Pang Wei Koh, Yejin Choi
2024 J jnl
Predicting vs. Acting: A Trade-off Between World Modeling & Agent Modeling.
CoRR
Margaret Li, Weijia Shi, Artidoro Pagnoni, Peter West, Ari Holtzman
2024 A* conf
The Generative AI Paradox: "What It Can Create, It May Not Understand".
ICLR
Peter West, Ximing Lu, Nouha Dziri, Faeze Brahman, Linjie Li, Jena D. Hwang, Liwei Jiang, Jillian Fisher, Abhilasha Ravichander, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Benjamin Newman, Pang Wei Koh, Allyson Ettinger, Yejin Choi
2024 A* conf
Value Kaleidoscope: Engaging AI with Pluralistic Human Values, Rights, and Duties.
AAAI
Taylor Sorensen, Liwei Jiang, Jena D. Hwang, Sydney Levine, Valentina Pyatkin, Peter West, Nouha Dziri, Ximing Lu, Kavel Rao, Chandra Bhagavatula, Maarten Sap, John Tasioulas, Yejin Choi
2023 A* conf
Faith and Fate: Limits of Transformers on Compositionality.
NeurIPS
Nouha Dziri, Ximing Lu, Melanie Sclar, Xiang Lorraine Li, Liwei Jiang, Bill Yuchen Lin, Sean Welleck, Peter West, Chandra Bhagavatula, Ronan Le Bras, Jena D. Hwang, Soumya Sanyal, Xiang Ren, Allyson Ettinger, Zaïd Harchaoui, Yejin Choi
2023 J jnl
Faith and Fate: Limits of Transformers on Compositionality.
CoRR
Nouha Dziri, Ximing Lu, Melanie Sclar, Xiang Lorraine Li, Liwei Jiang, Bill Yuchen Lin, Peter West, Chandra Bhagavatula, Ronan Le Bras, Jena D. Hwang, Soumya Sanyal, Sean Welleck, Xiang Ren, Allyson Ettinger, Zaïd Harchaoui, Yejin Choi
2023 A* conf
Generating Sequences by Learning to Self-Correct.
ICLR
Sean Welleck, Ximing Lu, Peter West, Faeze Brahman, Tianxiao Shen, Daniel Khashabi, Yejin Choi
2023 J jnl
Generative Models as a Complex Systems Science: How can we make sense of large language model behavior?
CoRR
Ari Holtzman, Peter West, Luke Zettlemoyer
2023 — conf
I2D2: Inductive Knowledge Distillation with NeuroLogic and Self-Imitation.
ACL (1)
Chandra Bhagavatula, Jena D. Hwang, Doug Downey, Ronan Le Bras, Ximing Lu, Lianhui Qin, Keisuke Sakaguchi, Swabha Swayamdipta, Peter West, Yejin Choi
2023 J jnl
Impossible Distillation: from Low-Quality Model to High-Quality Dataset & Model for Summarization and Paraphrasing.
CoRR
Jaehun Jung, Peter West, Liwei Jiang, Faeze Brahman, Ximing Lu, Jillian Fisher, Taylor Sorensen, Yejin Choi
2023 A* conf
Inference-Time Policy Adapters (IPA): Tailoring Extreme-Scale LMs without Fine-tuning.
EMNLP
Ximing Lu, Faeze Brahman, Peter West, Jaehun Jung, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Abhilasha Ravichander, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Liwei Jiang, Sahana Ramnath, Nouha Dziri, Jillian Fisher, Bill Y. Lin, Skyler Hallinan, Lianhui Qin, Xiang Ren, Sean Welleck, Yejin Choi
2023 J jnl
Inference-Time Policy Adapters (IPA): Tailoring Extreme-Scale LMs without Fine-tuning.
CoRR
Ximing Lu, Faeze Brahman, Peter West, Jaehun Jung, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Abhilasha Ravichander, Lianhui Qin, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Liwei Jiang, Sahana Ramnath, Nouha Dziri, Jillian Fisher, Bill Yuchen Lin, Skyler Hallinan, Xiang Ren, Sean Welleck, Yejin Choi
2023 A* conf
Localized Symbolic Knowledge Distillation for Visual Commonsense Models.
NeurIPS
Jae Sung Park, Jack Hessel, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Paul Pu Liang, Ximing Lu, Peter West, Youngjae Yu, Qiuyuan Huang, Jianfeng Gao, Ali Farhadi, Yejin Choi
2023 J jnl
Localized Symbolic Knowledge Distillation for Visual Commonsense Models.
CoRR
Jae Sung Park, Jack Hessel, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Paul Pu Liang, Ximing Lu, Peter West, Youngjae Yu, Qiuyuan Huang, Jianfeng Gao, Ali Farhadi, Yejin Choi
2023 — conf
Minding Language Models' (Lack of) Theory of Mind: A Plug-and-Play Multi-Character Belief Tracker.
ACL (1)
Melanie Sclar, Sachin Kumar, Peter West, Alane Suhr, Yejin Choi, Yulia Tsvetkov
2023 J jnl
Minding Language Models' (Lack of) Theory of Mind: A Plug-and-Play Multi-Character Belief Tracker.
CoRR
Melanie Sclar, Sachin Kumar, Peter West, Alane Suhr, Yejin Choi, Yulia Tsvetkov
2023 — conf
NovaCOMET: Open Commonsense Foundation Models with Symbolic Knowledge Distillation.
EMNLP (Findings)
Peter West, Ronan Le Bras, Taylor Sorensen, Bill Yuchen Lin, Liwei Jiang, Ximing Lu, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Jack Hessel, Ashutosh Baheti, Chandra Bhagavatula, Yejin Choi
2023 J jnl
NovaCOMET: Open Commonsense Foundation Models with Symbolic Knowledge Distillation.
CoRR
Peter West, Ronan Le Bras, Taylor Sorensen, Bill Yuchen Lin, Liwei Jiang, Ximing Lu, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Jack Hessel, Ashutosh Baheti, Chandra Bhagavatula, Yejin Choi
2023 A* conf
SODA: Million-scale Dialogue Distillation with Social Commonsense Contextualization.
EMNLP
Hyunwoo Kim, Jack Hessel, Liwei Jiang, Peter West, Ximing Lu, Youngjae Yu, Pei Zhou, Ronan Le Bras, Malihe Alikhani, Gunhee Kim, Maarten Sap, Yejin Choi
2023 J jnl
The Generative AI Paradox: "What It Can Create, It May Not Understand".
CoRR
Peter West, Ximing Lu, Nouha Dziri, Faeze Brahman, Linjie Li, Jena D. Hwang, Liwei Jiang, Jillian Fisher, Abhilasha Ravichander, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Benjamin Newman, Pang Wei Koh, Allyson Ettinger, Yejin Choi
2023 J jnl
Value Kaleidoscope: Engaging AI with Pluralistic Human Values, Rights, and Duties.
CoRR
Taylor Sorensen, Liwei Jiang, Jena D. Hwang, Sydney Levine, Valentina Pyatkin, Peter West, Nouha Dziri, Ximing Lu, Kavel Rao, Chandra Bhagavatula, Maarten Sap, John Tasioulas, Yejin Choi
2023 A* conf
We're Afraid Language Models Aren't Modeling Ambiguity.
EMNLP
Alisa Liu, Zhaofeng Wu, Julian Michael, Alane Suhr, Peter West, Alexander Koller, Swabha Swayamdipta, Noah A. Smith, Yejin Choi
2023 J jnl
We're Afraid Language Models Aren't Modeling Ambiguity.
CoRR
Alisa Liu, Zhaofeng Wu, Julian Michael, Alane Suhr, Peter West, Alexander Koller, Swabha Swayamdipta, Noah A. Smith, Yejin Choi
2022 A conf
Adjusting for Confounders with Text: Challenges and an Empirical Evaluation Framework for Causal Inference.
ICWSM
Galen Weld, Peter West, Maria Glenski, David Arbour, Ryan A. Rossi, Tim Althoff
2022 — conf
Generated Knowledge Prompting for Commonsense Reasoning.
ACL (1)
Jiacheng Liu, Alisa Liu, Ximing Lu, Sean Welleck, Peter West, Ronan Le Bras, Yejin Choi, Hannaneh Hajishirzi
2022 J jnl
Generating Sequences by Learning to Self-Correct.
CoRR
Sean Welleck, Ximing Lu, Peter West, Faeze Brahman, Tianxiao Shen, Daniel Khashabi, Yejin Choi
2022 J jnl
I2D2: Inductive Knowledge Distillation with NeuroLogic and Self-Imitation.
CoRR
Chandra Bhagavatula, Jena D. Hwang, Doug Downey, Ronan Le Bras, Ximing Lu, Keisuke Sakaguchi, Swabha Swayamdipta, Peter West, Yejin Choi
2022 — conf
NeuroLogic A*esque Decoding: Constrained Text Generation with Lookahead Heuristics.
NAACL-HLT
Ximing Lu, Sean Welleck, Peter West, Liwei Jiang, Jungo Kasai, Daniel Khashabi, Ronan Le Bras, Lianhui Qin, Youngjae Yu, Rowan Zellers, Noah A. Smith, Yejin Choi
2022 — conf
Probing Factually Grounded Content Transfer with Factual Ablation.
ACL (Findings)
Peter West, Chris Quirk, Michel Galley, Yejin Choi
2022 J jnl
Probing Factually Grounded Content Transfer with Factual Ablation.
CoRR
Peter West, Chris Quirk, Michel Galley, Yejin Choi
2022 A* conf
QUARK: Controllable Text Generation with Reinforced Unlearning.
NeurIPS
Ximing Lu, Sean Welleck, Jack Hessel, Liwei Jiang, Lianhui Qin, Peter West, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Yejin Choi
2022 J jnl
Quark: Controllable Text Generation with Reinforced Unlearning.
CoRR
Ximing Lu, Sean Welleck, Liwei Jiang, Jack Hessel, Lianhui Qin, Peter West, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Yejin Choi
2022 A* conf
Referee: Reference-Free Sentence Summarization with Sharper Controllability through Symbolic Knowledge Distillation.
EMNLP
Melanie Sclar, Peter West, Sachin Kumar, Yulia Tsvetkov, Yejin Choi
2022 J jnl
Referee: Reference-Free Sentence Summarization with Sharper Controllability through Symbolic Knowledge Distillation.
CoRR
Melanie Sclar, Peter West, Sachin Kumar, Yulia Tsvetkov, Yejin Choi
2022 — conf
SRIFTY: Swift and Thrifty Distributed Neural Network Training on the Cloud.
MLSys
Liang Luo, Peter West, Pratyush Patel, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Luis Ceze
2022 A* conf
Symbolic Brittleness in Sequence Models: On Systematic Generalization in Symbolic Mathematics.
AAAI
Sean Welleck, Peter West, Jize Cao, Yejin Choi
2022 — conf
Symbolic Knowledge Distillation: from General Language Models to Commonsense Models.
NAACL-HLT
Peter West, Chandra Bhagavatula, Jack Hessel, Jena D. Hwang, Liwei Jiang, Ronan Le Bras, Ximing Lu, Sean Welleck, Yejin Choi
2021 J jnl
Generated Knowledge Prompting for Commonsense Reasoning.
CoRR
Jiacheng Liu, Alisa Liu, Ximing Lu, Sean Welleck, Peter West, Ronan Le Bras, Yejin Choi, Hannaneh Hajishirzi
2021 J jnl
NeuroLogic A*esque Decoding: Constrained Text Generation with Lookahead Heuristics.
CoRR
Ximing Lu, Sean Welleck, Peter West, Liwei Jiang, Jungo Kasai, Daniel Khashabi, Ronan Le Bras, Lianhui Qin, Youngjae Yu, Rowan Zellers, Noah A. Smith, Yejin Choi
2021 — conf
NeuroLogic Decoding: (Un)supervised Neural Text Generation with Predicate Logic Constraints.
NAACL-HLT
Ximing Lu, Peter West, Rowan Zellers, Ronan Le Bras, Chandra Bhagavatula, Yejin Choi
2021 — conf
Reflective Decoding: Beyond Unidirectional Generation with Off-the-Shelf Language Models.
ACL/IJCNLP (1)
Peter West, Ximing Lu, Ari Holtzman, Chandra Bhagavatula, Jena D. Hwang, Yejin Choi
2021 — conf
Surface Form Competition: Why the Highest Probability Answer Isn't Always Right.
EMNLP (1)
Ari Holtzman, Peter West, Vered Shwartz, Yejin Choi, Luke Zettlemoyer
2021 J jnl
Surface Form Competition: Why the Highest Probability Answer Isn't Always Right.
CoRR
Ari Holtzman, Peter West, Vered Shwartz, Yejin Choi, Luke Zettlemoyer
2021 J jnl
Symbolic Brittleness in Sequence Models: on Systematic Generalization in Symbolic Mathematics.
CoRR
Sean Welleck, Peter West, Jize Cao, Yejin Choi
2021 J jnl
Symbolic Knowledge Distillation: from General Language Models to Commonsense Models.
CoRR
Peter West, Chandra Bhagavatula, Jack Hessel, Jena D. Hwang, Liwei Jiang, Ronan Le Bras, Ximing Lu, Sean Welleck, Yejin Choi
2020 J jnl
Adjusting for Confounders with Text: Challenges and an Empirical Evaluation Framework for Causal Inference.
CoRR
Galen Weld, Peter West, Maria Glenski, David Arbour, Ryan A. Rossi, Tim Althoff
2020 — conf
Back to the Future: Unsupervised Backprop-based Decoding for Counterfactual and Abductive Commonsense Reasoning.
EMNLP (1)
Lianhui Qin, Vered Shwartz, Peter West, Chandra Bhagavatula, Jena D. Hwang, Ronan Le Bras, Antoine Bosselut, Yejin Choi
2020 J jnl
Back to the Future: Unsupervised Backprop-based Decoding for Counterfactual and Abductive Commonsense Reasoning.
CoRR
Lianhui Qin, Vered Shwartz, Peter West, Chandra Bhagavatula, Jena D. Hwang, Ronan Le Bras, Antoine Bosselut, Yejin Choi
2020 J jnl
NeuroLogic Decoding: (Un)supervised Neural Text Generation with Predicate Logic Constraints.
CoRR
Ximing Lu, Peter West, Rowan Zellers, Ronan Le Bras, Chandra Bhagavatula, Yejin Choi
2020 — conf
PLink: Discovering and Exploiting Locality for Accelerated Distributed Training on the public Cloud.
MLSys
Liang Luo, Peter West, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Luis Ceze, Jacob Nelson
2020 J jnl
Reflective Decoding: Unsupervised Paraphrasing and Abductive Reasoning.
CoRR
Peter West, Ximing Lu, Ari Holtzman, Chandra Bhagavatula, Jena D. Hwang, Yejin Choi
2020 J jnl
Srift: Swift and Thrift Cloud-Based Distributed Training.
CoRR
Liang Luo, Peter West, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Luis Ceze
2020 — conf
Unsupervised Commonsense Question Answering with Self-Talk.
EMNLP (1)
Vered Shwartz, Peter West, Ronan Le Bras, Chandra Bhagavatula, Yejin Choi
2020 J jnl
Unsupervised Commonsense Question Answering with Self-Talk.
CoRR
Vered Shwartz, Peter West, Ronan Le Bras, Chandra Bhagavatula, Yejin Choi
2019 — conf
BottleSum: Unsupervised and Self-supervised Sentence Summarization using the Information Bottleneck Principle.
EMNLP/IJCNLP (1)
Peter West, Ari Holtzman, Jan Buys, Yejin Choi
2019 J jnl
BottleSum: Unsupervised and Self-supervised Sentence Summarization using the Information Bottleneck Principle.
CoRR
Peter West, Ari Holtzman, Jan Buys, Yejin Choi
2018 B conf
"A Game Without Competition Is Hardly a Game": The Impact of Competitions on Player Activity in a Human Computation Game".
HCOMP
Neal Reeves, Peter West, Elena Simperl
2018 A* conf
Common Barriers to the Use of Patient-Generated Data Across Clinical Settings.
CHI
Peter West, Max Van Kleek, Richard Giordano, Mark J. Weal, Nigel Shadbolt
2017 J jnl
Designing digital and creative scaffolds to strengthen Indigenous nations: being Wiradjuri by practising sovereignty.
Digit. Creativity
Yoko Akama, Debra Evans, Seth Keen, Faye McMillan, Mark McMillan, Peter West
2016 A conf
Speculative Design and Heterogeneity in Indigenous Nation Building.
Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Yoko Akama, Seth Keen, Peter West
2016 A* conf
The Quantified Patient in the Doctor's Office: Challenges & Opportunities.
CHI
Peter West, Richard Giordano, Max Van Kleek, Nigel Shadbolt