Bruce W. Lee

I'm a junior at the University of Pennsylvania. My goal is to make intelligent systems even smarter and, more broadly, understanding and aligning them. I see these as fundamentally connected rather than in tension. I hope that my work will eventually help expand human possibilities and productivity for generations.

In my personal life, I'm an athlete on my college rowing team and was a Marine for two years.

Selected Papers(See more)

We show that it is possible to systematically control language model behavior with programmables rules like "if input is about xxx, then refuse." [ICLR 2025 Spolight]
We argue that language-only models lack understanding of the physical manifestation of language, as demonstrated through a series of tasks called the H-Test. [ACL 2024]
We present a synthetic instruction-response generation framework designed to mimic the sequential and orderly nature of human learning. [NAACL 2024]
We show that combining handcrafted linguistic features with transformers can create the state-of-the-art readability classification model. [EMNLP 2021]