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Stephen Bach

Brown University
Eliot Horowitz Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
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Jason Fries

Stanford University
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Medicine
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Jared Dunnmon

Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Stealth Startup
Prev. Dir. of AI at DIU
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Fred Sala

Chief Scientist
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Snorkel AI
Assistant Professor @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Chris Ré

Co-Founder
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Snorkel AI
Professor @ Stanford University
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Ludwig Schmidt

Stanford University · LAION
Stanford researcher and LAION collaborator
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Karthik Narasimhan

Princeton University
Professor of Computer Science
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Yu Su

Ohio State University
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
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Lewis Tunstall

Hugging Face
Machine Learning Engineer
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The right tool for the job: An A-Z of rubrics
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The right tool for the job: An A-Z of rubrics

Rubrics turn fuzzy “good vs. bad” into measurable criteria for GenAI. In Part 2, we map what to measure (granularity and dataset-level vs instance-specific), where to measure (process vs outcome), and how to measure (humans, LLM-as-judge, code, reward models)—with examples like HHH, FLASK, HealthBench, and PaperBench.

Sep 02, 2025 •
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Shrinking the generation-verification gap with weak verifiers
Verifiers can enhance language model (LM) performance by scoring and ranking a set of generated responses, but high-quality verifiers today are either unscalable (like human judges) or of limited practical use (such as formal proof tools like Lean). While LM-based judges and reward models serve as general-purpose verifiers, they still fall short of the performance levels achieved by oracle verifiers, which are perfectly accurate. To bridge this gap, the Weaver framework is introduced as a method for constructing a strong verifier by combining multiple weaker, imperfect ones. Weaver shows that weighted ensembles of verifiers, which traditionally depend on labeled data,...
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Accepted to NeurIPS
Shrinking the generation-verification gap with weak verifiers

Verifiers can enhance language model (LM) performance by scoring and ranking a set of generated responses, but high-quality verifiers today are either unscalable (like human judges) or of limited practical use (such as formal proof tools like Lean). While LM-based judges and reward models serve as general-purpose verifiers, they still fall short of the performance levels achieved by oracle verifiers,…

Aug 06, 2025 •

Jon Saad-Falcon, E. Kelly Buchanan, Mayee F. Chen, Tzu-Heng Huang, Brendan McLaughlin, Tanvir Bhathal, Shang Zhu, Ben Athiwaratkun§, Frederic Sala, Scott Linderman, Azalia Mirhoseini, Christopher Ré

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Rethinking Confidence and Thresholds in Pseudolabeling-based SSL
Modern semi-supervised learning (SSL) methods rely on pseudolabeling and consistency regularization. Pseudolabeling is typically performed by comparing the model’s confidence scores and a predefined threshold. While several heuristics have been proposed to improve threshold selection, the underlying issues of overconfidence and miscalibration in confidence scores remain largely unaddressed, leading to inaccurate pseudolabels, degraded test accuracy, and prolonged training. We take a first-principles approach to learn confidence scores and thresholds with an explicit knob for error. This flexible framework addresses the fundamental question of optimal scores and threshold selection in pseudolabeling. Moreover, it gives practitioners a principled way to control the...
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Rethinking Confidence and Thresholds in Pseudolabeling-based SSL

Modern semi-supervised learning (SSL) methods rely on pseudolabeling and consistency regularization. Pseudolabeling is typically performed by comparing the model’s confidence scores and a predefined threshold. While several heuristics have been proposed to improve threshold selection, the underlying issues of overconfidence and miscalibration in confidence scores remain largely unaddressed, leading to inaccurate pseudolabels, degraded test accuracy, and prolonged training. We take…

Jul 31, 2025 •

Harit Vishwakarma, Yi Chen, Srinath Namburi, Sui Jiet Tay, Ramya Korlakai Vinayak, Frederic Sala

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Data quality and rubrics: how to build trust in your models
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Data quality and rubrics: how to build trust in your models

Rubrics aren’t just for evaluation—they’re a blueprint for better data annotation. In this post, we explore how structured rubrics enable scalable, high-quality labeling and evaluation of GenAI systems. Learn how Snorkel and leading labs use rubrics to align human and automated judgment and accelerate trusted AI development.

Jul 29, 2025 •
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Quantifying Structure in CLIP Embeddings: A Statistical Framework for Concept Interpretation
Concept-based approaches, which aim to identify human-understandable concepts within a model’s internal representations, are promising for interpreting embeddings from deep neural network models, such as CLIP. While these approaches help explain model behavior, current methods lack statistical rigor, making it challenging to validate identified concepts and compare different techniques. To address this challenge, we introduce a hypothesis testing framework that quantifies rotation-sensitive structures within the CLIP embedding space. Once such structures are identified, we propose a post-hoc concept decomposition method. Unlike existing approaches, it offers theoretical guarantees that discovered concepts represent robust, reproducible patterns (rather than method-specific artifacts) and outperforms...
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Quantifying Structure in CLIP Embeddings: A Statistical Framework for Concept Interpretation

Concept-based approaches, which aim to identify human-understandable concepts within a model’s internal representations, are promising for interpreting embeddings from deep neural network models, such as CLIP. While these approaches help explain model behavior, current methods lack statistical rigor, making it challenging to validate identified concepts and compare different techniques. To address this challenge, we introduce a hypothesis testing framework that…

Jun 15, 2025 •

Jitian Zhao, Chenghui Li, Frederic Sala, Karl Rohe

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Research spotlight: is long chain-of-thought structure all that matters when it comes to LLM reasoning distillation?
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Research spotlight: is long chain-of-thought structure all that matters when it comes to LLM reasoning distillation?

We’re taking a look at the research paper, LLMs can easily learn to reason from demonstration (Li et al., 2025), in this week’s community research spotlight. It focuses on how the structure of reasoning traces impacts distillation from models such as DeepSeek R1. What’s the big idea regarding LLM reasoning distillation? The reasoning capabilities of powerful models such as DeepSeek…

Mar 19, 2025 •
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Weak-to-strong generalization through the data-centric lens
The weak-to-strong generalization phenomenon is the driver for important machine learning applications including highly data-efficient learning and, most recently, performing superalignment. While decades of research have resulted in numerous algorithms that produce strong empirical performance, understanding what aspects of data enable weak-to-strong generalization has been understudied. We propose a simple data-centric mechanism that characterizes weak-to-strong generalization: the overlap density. Intuitively, generalization tracks the number of points that contain overlaps, i.e., both easy patterns (learnable by a weak model) and challenging patterns (only learnable by a stronger model), as with such points, weak predictions can be used to learn challenging patterns...
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Weak-to-strong generalization through the data-centric lens

The weak-to-strong generalization phenomenon is the driver for important machine learning applications including highly data-efficient learning and, most recently, performing superalignment. While decades of research have resulted in numerous algorithms that produce strong empirical performance, understanding what aspects of data enable weak-to-strong generalization has been understudied. We propose a simple data-centric mechanism that characterizes weak-to-strong generalization: the overlap density. Intuitively,…

Mar 04, 2025 •

Changho Shin, John Cooper and Frederic Sala

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Research spotlight: Is intent analysis the key to unlocking more accurate LLM question answering?
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Research spotlight: Is intent analysis the key to unlocking more accurate LLM question answering?

Learn how ARR improves QA accuracy in LLMs through intent analysis, retrieval, and reasoning. Is intent the key to smarter AI? Explore ARR results!

Feb 27, 2025 •
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Theoretical Physics Benchmark (TPBench)—a dataset and study of AI reasoning capabilities in theoretical physics
We introduce a benchmark to evaluate the capability of AI to solve problems in theoretical physics, focusing on high-energy theory and cosmology. The first iteration of our benchmark consists of 57 problems of varying difficulty, from undergraduate to research level. These problems are novel in the sense that they do not come from public problem collections. We evaluate our data set on various open and closed language models, including o3-mini, o1, DeepSeek-R1, GPT-4o and versions of Llama and Qwen. While we find impressive progress in model performance with the most recent models, our research-level difficulty problems are mostly unsolved. We...
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Accepted to NeurIPS
Theoretical Physics Benchmark (TPBench)—a dataset and study of AI reasoning capabilities in theoretical physics

We introduce a benchmark to evaluate the capability of AI to solve problems in theoretical physics, focusing on high-energy theory and cosmology. The first iteration of our benchmark consists of 57 problems of varying difficulty, from undergraduate to research level. These problems are novel in the sense that they do not come from public problem collections. We evaluate our data…

Feb 19, 2025 •

Daniel J.H. Chung, Zhiqi Gao, Yurii Kvasiuk, Tianyi Li, Moritz Munchmeyer, Maja Rudolph, Frederic Sala, and Sai Chaitanya Tadepalli

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