I write open-source NLP tools and research language models.
My short-term aim is to contribute to making language models better. My mid-term goal is to bring theoretical advancements to real-world interactable systems. My long-term objective is to steer all these to benefit humanity.
Before mainly working on language models, I used to do linguistic analysis. Some examples include LFTK and LingFeat open-source toolkits (Link to GitHub), which became a popular toolkit at a number of research labs. In high school, I was very involved in physics research, and some were published. Apart from research, I've been rowing since high school (Link to Photo) and have served in the Marines (Link to Photo).
Papers
2024 |
Programming Refusal with Conditional Activation Steering
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2024 |
Language Models Don't Learn the Physical Manifestation of Language
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2023 |
Instruction Tuning with Human Curriculum
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2021 |
Pushing on Text Readability Assessment: A Transformer Meets Handcrafted Linguistic Features
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Softwares
2024 | IBM/activation-steering |
2023 | LFTK |
2021 | LingFeat |
2020 ~ | I've developed several softwares that I can't publicly share. These include lexical databases, APIs for downstream NLP tasks, and codebases for LLM evaluation, among others. I take pride in writing reusable code. |
Get in Touch
Email: brucelws@seas.{school}.edu. Replace school with 'upenn'.