Gagan Bansal


2023

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Aligning Offline Metrics and Human Judgments of Value for Code Generation Models
Victor Dibia | Adam Fourney | Gagan Bansal | Forough Poursabzi-Sangdeh | Han Liu | Saleema Amershi
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023

Large language models have demonstrated great potential to assist programmers in generating code. For such human-AI pair programming scenarios, we empirically demonstrate that while generated code are most often evaluated in terms of their functional correctness (i.e., whether generations pass available unit tests), correctness does not fully capture (e.g., may underestimate) the productivity gains these models may provide. Through a user study with N=49 experienced programmers, we show that while correctness captures high-value generations, programmers still rate code that fails unit tests as valuable if it reduces the overall effort needed to complete a coding task. Finally, we propose a hybrid metric that combines functional correctness and syntactic similarity and show that it achieves a 14% stronger correlation with value and can therefore better represent real-world gains when evaluating and comparing models.

2021

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Do Explanations Help Users Detect Errors in Open-Domain QA? An Evaluation of Spoken vs. Visual Explanations
Ana Valeria González | Gagan Bansal | Angela Fan | Yashar Mehdad | Robin Jia | Srinivasan Iyer
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021

2014

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Hierarchical Summarization: Scaling Up Multi-Document Summarization
Janara Christensen | Stephen Soderland | Gagan Bansal | Mausam
Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)