Gideon Mann

Also published as: Gideon S. Mann


2024

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Can We Statically Locate Knowledge in Large Language Models? Financial Domain and Toxicity Reduction Case Studies
Jordi Armengol-Estapé | Lingyu Li | Sebastian Gehrmann | Achintya Gopal | David S Rosenberg | Gideon S. Mann | Mark Dredze
Proceedings of the 7th BlackboxNLP Workshop: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP

Current large language model (LLM) evaluations rely on benchmarks to assess model capabilities and their encoded knowledge. However, these evaluations cannot reveal where a model encodes its knowledge, and thus little is known about which weights contain specific information. We propose a method to statically (without forward or backward passes) locate topical knowledge in the weight space of an LLM, building on a prior insight that parameters can be decoded into interpretable tokens. If parameters can be mapped into the embedding space, it should be possible to directly search for knowledge via embedding similarity. We study the validity of this assumption across several LLMs for a variety of concepts in the financial domain and a toxicity detection setup. Our analysis yields an improved understanding of the promises and limitations of static knowledge location in real-world scenarios.

2010

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Distributed Training Strategies for the Structured Perceptron
Ryan McDonald | Keith Hall | Gideon Mann
Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

2009

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Semi-supervised Learning of Dependency Parsers using Generalized Expectation Criteria
Gregory Druck | Gideon Mann | Andrew McCallum
Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP

2008

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Generalized Expectation Criteria for Semi-Supervised Learning of Conditional Random Fields
Gideon S. Mann | Andrew McCallum
Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT

2007

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Multi-Document Relationship Fusion via Constraints on Probabilistic Databases
Gideon Mann
Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Proceedings of the Main Conference

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Efficient Computation of Entropy Gradient for Semi-Supervised Conditional Random Fields
Gideon Mann | Andrew McCallum
Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Companion Volume, Short Papers

2005

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Multi-Field Information Extraction and Cross-Document Fusion
Gideon Mann | David Yarowsky
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’05)

2003

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Bootstrapping toponym classifiers
David A. Smith | Gideon S. Mann
Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop on Analysis of Geographic References

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Unsupervised Personal Name Disambiguation
Gideon Mann | David Yarowsky
Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Natural Language Learning at HLT-NAACL 2003

2002

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Fine-Grained Proper Noun Ontologies for Question Answering
Gideon S. Mann
COLING-02: SEMANET: Building and Using Semantic Networks

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Learning How to Answer Questions Using Trivia Games
Gideon S. Mann
COLING 2002: The 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

2001

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Multipath Translation Lexicon Induction via Bridge Languages
Gideon S. Mann | David Yarowsky
Second Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Looking Under the Hood: Tools for Diagnosing Your Question Answering Engine
Eric Breck | Marc Light | Gideon Mann | Ellen Riloff | Brianne Brown | Pranav Anand
Proceedings of the ACL 2001 Workshop on Open-Domain Question Answering

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A Statistical Method for Short Answer Extraction
Gideon Mann
Proceedings of the ACL 2001 Workshop on Open-Domain Question Answering