Publications

Publications from the NLP Group.

2025

  1. SoK: Membership Inference Attacks on LLMs are Rushing Nowhere (and How to Fix It)
    Meeus, Matthieu; Shilov, Igor; Jain, Shubham; Faysse, Manuel; Rei, Marek; and Montjoye, Yves-Alexandre
    In IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SaTML 2025), 2025
  2. Meta-Reasoning Improves Tool Use in Large Language Models
    Alazraki, Lisa; and Rei, Marek
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025, 2025
  3. LLMs can implicitly learn from mistakes in-context
    Alazraki, Lisa; Mozes, Maximilian; Campos, Jon Ander; Tan, Yi Chern; Rei, Marek; and Bartolo, Max
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.08550, 2025
  4. Assessing the effectiveness of interdependent corporate sustainability choices
    Cenci, Simone; Burato, Matteo; Rei, Marek; and Zollo, Maurizio
    npj Climate Action, 2025
  5. Enhancing LLM Robustness to Perturbed Instructions: An Empirical Study
    Agrawal, Aryan; Alazraki, Lisa; Honarvar, Shahin; and Rei, Marek
    In ICLR 2025 Workshop - Building Trust in LLMs and LLM Applications: From Guardrails to Explainability to Regulation, 2025
  6. LLMs can implicitly learn from mistakes in-context
    Alazraki, Lisa; Mozes, Maximilian; Campos, Jon Ander; Tan, Yi Chern; Rei, Marek; and Bartolo, Max
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.08550, 2025
  7. How can representation dimension dominate structurally pruned LLMs?
    Xu, Mingxue; Alazraki, Lisa; and Mandic, Danilo P
    In ICLR 2025 Workshop on Sparsity in LLMs (SLLM), 2025
  8. Enhancing LLM Robustness to Perturbed Instructions: An Empirical Study
    Agrawal, Aryan; Alazraki, Lisa; Honarvar, Shahin; and Rei, Marek
    In ICLR 2025 Workshop on Building Trust in Language Models and Applications, 2025

2024

  1. Did the Neurons Read your Book? Document-level Membership Inference for Large Language Models
    Meeus, Matthieu; Jain, Shubham; Rei, Marek; and Montjoye, Yves-Alexandre
    In The 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (2024), 2024
  2. Prompting open-source and commercial language models for grammatical error correction of English learner text
    Davis, Christopher; Caines, Andrew; Andersen, Øistein; Taslimipoor, Shiva; Yannakoudakis, Helen; Yuan, Zheng; Bryant, Christopher; Rei, Marek; and Buttery, Paula
    In In Findings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024), 2024
  3. Predicting cell type-specific epigenomic profiles accounting for distal genetic effects
    Murphy, Alan E; Beardall, William; Rei, Marek; Phuycharoen, Mike; and Skene, Nathan G
    Nature Communications, 2024
  4. Continuous Predictive Modeling of Clinical Notes and ICD Codes in Patient Health Records
    Caralt, Mireia Hernandez; Ng, Clarence Boon Liang; and Rei, Marek
    In In Proceedings of the Biomedical Natural Language Processing Workshop (BioNLP 2024), 2024
  5. DiffuseDef: Improved Robustness to Adversarial Attacks
    Li, Zhenhao; Rei, Marek; and Specia, Lucia
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.00248, 2024
  6. Distilling Robustness into Natural Language Inference Models with Domain-Targeted Augmentation
    Stacey, Joe; and Rei, Marek
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024, 2024
  7. StateAct: Enhancing LLM Base Agents via Self-prompting and State-tracking
    Rozanov, Nikolai; and Rei, Marek
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.02810, 2024
  8. Atomic Inference for NLI with Generated Facts as Atoms
    Stacey, Joe; Minervini, Pasquale; Dubossarsky, Haim; Camburu, Oana-Maria; and Rei, Marek
    In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024
  9. Efficient Exploration in Deep Reinforcement Learning: A Novel Bayesian Actor-Critic Algorithm
    Rozanov, Nikolai
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.10055, 2024
  10. StateAct: State Tracking and Reasoning for Acting and Planning with Large Language Models
    Rozanov, Nikolai; and Rei, Marek
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.02810, 2024
  11. IsoChronoMeter: A simple and effective isochronic translation evaluation metric
    Rozanov, Nikolai; Pankov, Vikentiy; Mukhutdinov, Dmitrii; and Vypirailenko, Dima
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.11127, 2024
  12. Meta-Reasoning Improves Tool Use in Large Language Models
    Alazraki, Lisa; and Rei, Marek
    NAACL 2025 Findings, 2024

2023

  1. An Extended Sequence Tagging Vocabulary for Grammatical Error Correction
    Mesham, Stuart; Bryant, Christopher; Rei, Marek; and Yuan, Zheng
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023, 2023
  2. Finding the Needle in a Haystack: Unsupervised Rationale Extraction from Long Text Classifiers
    Bujel, Kamil; Caines, Andrew; Yannakoudakis, Helen; and Rei, Marek
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.07991, 2023
  3. Modelling Temporal Document Sequences for Clinical ICD Coding
    Ng, Clarence Boon Liang; Santos, Diogo; and Rei, Marek
    In Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2023), 2023
  4. On the application of Large Language Models for language teaching and assessment technology
    Caines, Andrew; Benedetto, Luca; Taslimipoor, Shiva; Davis, Christopher; Gao, Yuan; Andersen, Oeistein; Yuan, Zheng; Elliott, Mark; Moore, Russell; Bryant, Christopher; and others,
    In In Proceedings of the AIED 2023 Workshop on Empowering Education with LLMs (AIED LLM 2023), 2023
  5. Competitive Pressure and Emission Reduction: Unravelling the Link
    Cenci, Simone; Asgharian, Hossein; Liu, Lu; Rei, Marek; and Zollo, Maurizio
    Available at SSRN 4565956, 2023
  6. The alignment of companies’ sustainability behavior and emissions with global climate targets
    Cenci, Simone; Burato, Matteo; Rei, Marek; and Zollo, Maurizio
    Nature Communications, 2023
  7. When and Why Does Bias Mitigation Work?
    Ravichander, Abhilasha; Stacey, Joe; and Rei, Marek
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 2023
  8. Climbing empirical fitness landscapes requires companies to manage interconnected sustainability choices
    Cenci, Simone; Burato, Matteo; Rei, Marek; and Zollo, Maurizio
    Available at SSRN 4205664, 2023
  9. Does competitive pressure drive effective corporate environmental actions?
    Cenci, Simone; Asgharian, Hossein; Liu, Lu; Rei, Marek; and Zollo, Maurizio
    SSRN, 2023
  10. Atomic Inference for NLI with Generated Facts as Atoms
    Stacey, Joe; Minervini, Pasquale; Dubossarsky, Haim; Camburu, Oana-Maria; and Rei, Marek
    In EMNLP 2024, 2023
  11. Distilling Robustness into Natural Language Inference Models with Domain-Targeted Augmentation
    Stacey, Joe; and Rei, Marek
    ACL Findings 2024, 2023
  12. When and why does bias mitigation work?
    Ravichander, Abhilasha; Stacey, Joe; and Rei, Marek
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 2023
  13. Learning From Free-Text Human Feedback–Collect New Datasets Or Extend Existing Ones?
    Petrak, Dominic; Moosavi, Nafise Sadat; Tian, Ye; Rozanov, Nikolai; and Gurevych, Iryna
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.15758, 2023
  14. How (not) to ensemble LVLMs for VQA
    Alazraki, Lisa; Castrejon, Lluis; Dehghani, Mostafa; Huot, Fantine; Uijlings, Jasper; and Mensink, Thomas
    Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR) on ICBINB @ NeurIPS 2023, 2023

2022

  1. Guiding Visual Question Generation
    Vedd, Nihir; Wang, Zixu; Rei, Marek; Miao, Yishu; and Specia, Lucia
    In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2022
  2. Supervising model attention with human explanations for robust natural language inference
    Stacey, Joe; Belinkov, Yonatan; and Rei, Marek
    In Proceedings of the AAAI conference on artificial intelligence, 2022
  3. Business sustainability behaviour and alignment with climate targets
    Cenci, Simone; Burato, Matteo; Rei, Marek; and Zollo, Maurizio
    ResearchSquare, 2022
  4. Memorisation versus Generalisation in Pre-trained Language Models
    Tänzer, Michael; Ruder, Sebastian; and Rei, Marek
    In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2022
  5. An Analysis of Corporate Sustainability Behaviour Through the Lens of Empirical Fitness Landscapes
    Cenci, Simone; Rei, Marek; and Zollo, Maurizio
    Available at SSRN 4205664, 2022
  6. Probing for targeted syntactic knowledge through grammatical error detection
    Davis, Christopher; Bryant, Christopher; Caines, Andrew; Rei, Marek; and Buttery, Paula
    In Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), 2022
  7. Control prefixes for parameter-efficient text generation
    Clive, Jordan; Cao, Kris; and Rei, Marek
    In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM), 2022
  8. Logical Reasoning with Span-Level Predictions for Interpretable and Robust NLI Models
    Stacey, Joe; Minervini, Pasquale; Dubossarsky, Haim; and Rei, Marek
    In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022
  9. Multimodal Conversation Modelling for Topic Derailment Detection
    Li, Zhenhao; Rei, Marek; and Specia, Lucia
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, 2022
  10. Supervising Model Attention with Human Explanations for Robust Natural Language Inference
    Stacey, Joe; Belinkov, Yonatan; and Rei, Marek
    In AAAI 2022, 2022
  11. Logical Reasoning with Span-Level Predictions for Interpretable and Robust NLI Models
    Stacey, Joe; Minervini, Pasquale; Dubossarsky, Haim; and Rei, Marek
    In EMNLP 2022, 2022
  12. Connecting the Semantic Dots: Zero-Shot Learning with Self-Aligning Autoencoders and a New Contrastive-Loss for Negative Sampling
    Terry-Jack, Mohammed; and Rozanov, Nikolai
    In 21st IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2022

2021

  1. How metaphors impact political discourse: A large-scale topic-agnostic study using neural metaphor detection
    Prabhakaran, Vinodkumar; Rei, Marek; and Shutova, Ekaterina
    In Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2021
  2. Zero-shot Sequence Labeling for Transformer-based Sentence Classifiers
    Bujel, Kamil; Yannakoudakis, Helen; and Rei, Marek
    In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP-2021), 2021
  3. Contextual Sentence Classification: Detecting Sustainability Initiatives in Company Reports
    Hirlea, Dan; Bryant, Christopher; and Rei, Marek
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.03727, 2021
  4. GiBERT: Enhancing BERT with Linguistic Information using a Lightweight Gated Injection Method
    Peinelt, Nicole; Rei, Marek; and Liakata, Maria
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021, 2021
  5. Visual Cues and Error Correction for Translation Robustness
    Li, Zhenhao; Rei, Marek; and Specia, Lucia
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021, 2021
  6. MATILDA-Multi-AnnoTator multi-language InteractiveLight-weight Dialogue Annotator
    Cucurnia, Davide; Rozanov, Nikolai; Sucameli, Irene; Ciuffoletti, Augusto; and Simi, Maria
    In Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, 2021

2020

  1. Multidirectional Associative Optimization of Function-Specific Word Representations
    Gerz, Daniela; Vulić, Ivan; Rei, Marek; Reichart, Roi; and Korhonen, Anna
    In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020
  2. Seeing Both the Forest and the Trees: Multi-head Attention for Joint Classification on Different Compositional Levels
    Pislar, Miruna; and Rei, Marek
    In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2020
  3. Grammatical error detection in transcriptions of spoken English
    Caines, Andrew; Bentz, Christian; Knill, Kate; Rei, Marek; and Buttery, Paula
    In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2020
  4. Verbal multiword expressions for identification of metaphor
    Rohanian, Omid; Rei, Marek; Taslimipoor, Shiva; and Ha, Le
    In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020
  5. Avoiding the hypothesis-only bias in natural language inference via ensemble adversarial training
    Stacey, Joe; Minervini, Pasquale; Dubossarsky, Haim; Riedel, Sebastian; and Rocktäschel, Tim
    In EMNLP 2020, 2020
  6. Common Sense or World Knowledge? Investigating Adapter-Based Knowledge Injection into Pretrained Transformers
    Lauscher, Anne; Majewska, Olga; Ribeiro, Leonardo FR; Gurevych, Iryna; Rozanov, Nikolai; and Glavaš, Goran
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.11787, 2020

2019

  1. Bad Form: Comparing Context-Based and Form-Based Few-Shot Learning in Distributional Semantic Models
    Van Hautte, Jeroen; Emerson, Guy; and Rei, Marek
    In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Deep Learning Approaches for Low-Resource NLP (DeepLo 2019), 2019
  2. Modelling the interplay of metaphor and emotion through multitask learning
    Dankers, Verna; Rei, Marek; Lewis, Martha; and Shutova, Ekaterina
    In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), 2019
  3. Semi-Supervised Bootstrapping of Dialogue State Trackers for Task-Oriented Modelling
    Tseng, Bo-Hsiang; Rei, Marek; Budzianowski, Paweł; Turner, Richard; Byrne, Bill; and Korhonen, Anna
    In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP), 2019
  4. LIDA: Lightweight Interactive Dialogue Annotator
    Collins, Edward; Rozanov, Nikolai; and Zhang, Bingbing
    In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP): System Demonstrations, 2019