Natural Language Inference
Natural Language Inference (NLI) focuses on determining the logical relationship between pairs of sentences, a crucial task for understanding and reasoning with natural language. Current research emphasizes improving NLI model robustness against adversarial attacks and misinformation, enhancing efficiency through techniques like layer pruning and domain adaptation, and developing more reliable evaluation methods that account for human judgment variability and address issues like hallucination in large language models. These advancements are significant for improving the accuracy and trustworthiness of various NLP applications, including question answering, text summarization, and fact verification, ultimately leading to more reliable and explainable AI systems.
Papers
Auto-GDA: Automatic Domain Adaptation for Efficient Grounding Verification in Retrieval Augmented Generation
Tobias Leemann, Periklis Petridis, Giuseppe Vietri, Dionysis Manousakas, Aaron Roth, Sergul Aydore
How Hard is this Test Set? NLI Characterization by Exploiting Training Dynamics
Adrian Cosma, Stefan Ruseti, Mihai Dascalu, Cornelia Caragea