William Merrill
21 papers · 2018–2025 · 7 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences
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Papers
Between Circuits and Chomsky: Pre-pretraining on Formal Languages Imparts Linguistic Biases
ACL 2025
How Language Model Hallucinations Can Snowball
ICML 2024
The Illusion of State in State-Space Models
ICML 2024
The Expressive Power of Transformers with Chain of Thought
ICLR 2024
Evaluating n-Gram Novelty of Language Models Using Rusty-DAWG
EMNLP 2024
Can You Learn Semantics Through Next-Word Prediction? The Case of Entailment
ACL 2024
Computational Expressivity of Neural Language Models
ACL 2024
OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models
ACL 2024
A Logic for Expressing Log-Precision Transformers
NIPS 2023
ReCLIP: A Strong Zero-Shot Baseline for Referring Expression Comprehension
ACL 2022
Entailment Semantics Can Be Extracted from an Ideal Language Model
CONLL 2022
Entailment Semantics Can Be Extracted from an Ideal Language Model
EMNLP 2022
Effects of Parameter Norm Growth During Transformer Training: Inductive Bias from Gradient Descent
EMNLP 2021
Competency Problems: On Finding and Removing Artifacts in Language Data
EMNLP 2021
A Formal Hierarchy of RNN Architectures
ACL 2020
CORD-19: The COVID-19 Open Research Dataset
ACL 2020
Sequential Neural Networks as Automata
ACL 2019
Detecting Syntactic Change Using a Neural Part-of-Speech Tagger
ACL 2019
Finding Hierarchical Structure in Neural Stacks Using Unsupervised Parsing
ACL 2019
End-to-End Graph-Based TAG Parsing with Neural Networks
NAACL 2018
Context-Free Transductions with Neural Stacks
EMNLP 2018