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William Merrill

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

17

Venues

8

Active years

2018–2025

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

17 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2025ACLBetween Circuits and Chomsky: Pre-pretraining on Formal Languages Imparts Linguistic Biases.Michael Y. Hu, Jackson Petty, Chuan Shi, William Merrill, Tal Linzen
2024ACLComputational Expressivity of Neural Language Models.Alexandra Butoi, Robin Chan, Ryan Cotterell, William Merrill, Franz Nowak, Clemente Pasti, Lena Strobl, Anej Svete
2024ACLOLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models.Dirk Groeneveld, Iz Beltagy, Evan Pete Walsh, Akshita Bhagia, Rodney Kinney, Oyvind Tafjord, Ananya Harsh Jha, Hamish Ivison, Ian Magnusson, Yizhong Wang, Shane Arora, David Atkinson, Russell Authur, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Arman Cohan, Jennifer Dumas, Yanai Elazar, Yuling Gu, Jack Hessel, Tushar Khot, William Merrill, Jacob Morrison, Niklas Muennighoff, Aakanksha Naik, Crystal Nam, Matthew E. Peters, Valentina Pyatkin, Abhilasha Ravichander, Dustin Schwenk, Saurabh Shah, Will Smith, Emma Strubell, Nishant Subramani, Mitchell Wortsman, Pradeep Dasigi, Nathan Lambert, Kyle Richardson, Luke Zettlemoyer, Jesse Dodge, Kyle Lo, Luca Soldaini, Noah A. Smith, Hannaneh Hajishirzi
2024ACLCan You Learn Semantics Through Next-Word Prediction? The Case of Entailment.William Merrill, Zhaofeng Wu, Norihito Naka, Yoon Kim, Tal Linzen
2024EMNLPEvaluating n-Gram Novelty of Language Models Using Rusty-DAWG.William Merrill, Noah A. Smith, Yanai Elazar
2024ICLRThe Expressive Power of Transformers with Chain of Thought.William Merrill, Ashish Sabharwal
2024ICMLThe Illusion of State in State-Space Models.William Merrill, Jackson Petty, Ashish Sabharwal
2024ICMLHow Language Model Hallucinations Can Snowball.Muru Zhang, Ofir Press, William Merrill, Alisa Liu, Noah A. Smith
2023DLTFormal Languages and the NLP Black Box.William Merrill
2022ACLReCLIP: A Strong Zero-Shot Baseline for Referring Expression Comprehension.Sanjay Subramanian, William Merrill, Trevor Darrell, Matt Gardner, Sameer Singh, Anna Rohrbach
2022CoNLLEntailment Semantics Can Be Extracted from an Ideal Language Model.William Merrill, Alex Warstadt, Tal Linzen
2021EMNLPCompetency Problems: On Finding and Removing Artifacts in Language Data.Matt Gardner, William Merrill, Jesse Dodge, Matthew E. Peters, Alexis Ross, Sameer Singh, Noah A. Smith
2021EMNLPEffects of Parameter Norm Growth During Transformer Training: Inductive Bias from Gradient Descent.William Merrill, Vivek Ramanujan, Yoav Goldberg, Roy Schwartz, Noah A. Smith
2020ACLA Formal Hierarchy of RNN Architectures.William Merrill, Gail Weiss, Yoav Goldberg, Roy Schwartz, Noah A. Smith, Eran Yahav
2018CogSciUsing Machine Learning to Understand Transfer from First Language to Second Language.Tiwalayo Eisape, William Merrill, Joshua K. Hartshorne, Sven Dietz
2018EMNLPContext-Free Transductions with Neural Stacks.Yiding Hao, William Merrill, Dana Angluin, Robert Frank, Noah Amsel, Andrew Benz, Simon Mendelsohn
2018NAACLEnd-to-End Graph-Based TAG Parsing with Neural Networks.Jungo Kasai, Robert Frank, Pauli Xu, William Merrill, Owen Rambow