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Generalizing Backpropagation for Gradient-Based Interpretability
Kevin Du, Lucas Torroba Hennigen, Niklas Stoehr, Alex Warstadt, Ryan Cotterell
ACL 2023 (Outstanding Paper Award; top 1% of submissions)
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Legibility is Not Interpretability: Comparing Judged and Actual Importance in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
Kevin Du, Alexander Hoyle, Laura Ruis, Acyr Locatelli
COLM 2026
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It's Not What You Say, It's How You Say It: Evaluating LLM Responses to Expressions of Belief
Kevin Du*, Clara Kümpel*, Michelle Wastl, Alex Warstadt
ACL 2026 (oral)
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How Persuasive is Your Context?
Tu Nguyen*, Kevin Du*, Alexander Miserlis Hoyle, Ryan Cotterell
EMNLP 2025
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Contrastive Decoding for Synthetic Data Generation in Low-Resource Language Modeling
Jannek Ulm, Kevin Du, Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson
BabyLM Workshop 2025 (EMNLP 2025)
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Taxonomy-Aware Evaluation of Vision-Language Models
Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson, Kevin Du, Niklas Stoehr, Serge Belongie, Ryan Cotterell, Nico Lang, Stella Frank
CVPR 2025
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Controllable Context Sensitivity and the Knob Behind It
Julian Minder*, Kevin Du*, Niklas Stoehr, Giovanni Monea, Chris Wendler, Robert West, Ryan Cotterell
ICLR 2025
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Context versus Prior Knowledge in Language Models
Kevin Du, Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson, Niklas Stoehr, Jennifer C. White, Aaron Schein, Ryan Cotterell
ACL 2024
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The Causal Influence of Grammatical Gender on Distributional Semantics
Karolina Stańczak, Kevin Du, Adina Williams, Isabelle Augenstein, Ryan Cotterell
TACL 2024
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Activation Scaling for Steering and Interpreting Language Models
Niklas Stoehr, Kevin Du, Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson, Robert West, Ryan Cotterell, Aaron Schein
EMNLP 2024 (Findings)
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Efficiently Computing Susceptibility to Context in Language Models
Tianyu Liu, Kevin Du, Mrinmaya Sachan, Ryan Cotterell
EMNLP 2024 (Findings)
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Inconsistent Ranking Assumptions in Medical Search and Their Downstream Consequences
Dan Cohen, Kevin Du, Bhaskar Mitra, Laura Mercurio, Navid Rekabsaz, Carsten Eickhoff
SIGIR 2022
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Enhanced Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Using EHR Data for Real World Value
Akshay Swaminathan, Chumeng Xu, Sharon Zhang, Kevin Du, Evelyn Siu, Laurynas Kalesinskas, Samuel Lite, Youna Song, Jeremy Snider, Scott Ramsey, Danielle Bargo, Blythe Adamson
Value in Health Journal, ISPOR, 2021
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