William Barr Held

According to our database, William Barr Held authored at least 24 papers between 2021 and 2026.

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2026

Scaling Open Discrete Audio Foundation Models with Interleaved Semantic, Acoustic, and Text Tokens.

Potsawee Manakul, Woody Haosheng Gan, Martijn Bartelds, Guangzhi Sun, William Barr Held, Diyi Yang

CoRR, February, 2026

AudioJudge: Understanding What Works in Large Audio Model Based Speech Evaluation.

Potsawee Manakul, Woody Haosheng Gan, Michael J. Ryan, Ali Sartaz Khan, Warit Sirichotedumrong, Kunat Pipatanakul, William Barr Held, Diyi Yang

Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026

2025

Relative Scaling Laws for LLMs.

William Barr Held, David Hall, Percy Liang, Diyi Yang

CoRR, October, 2025

Optimizing Pretraining Data Mixtures with LLM-Estimated Utility.

William Barr Held, Bhargavi Paranjape, Punit Singh Koura, Mike Lewis, Frank Zhang, Todor Mihaylov

CoRR, January, 2025

Culture Cartography: Mapping the Landscape of Cultural Knowledge.

Caleb Ziems, William Barr Held, Jane Yu, Amir Goldberg, David Grusky, Diyi Yang

Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025

SynthesizeMe! Inducing Persona-Guided Prompts for Personalized Reward Models in LLMs.

Michael J. Ryan, Omar Shaikh, Aditri Bhagirath, Daniel Frees, William Barr Held, Diyi Yang

Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2025

Mind the Gap: Static and Interactive Evaluations of Large Audio Models.

Minzhi Li, William Barr Held, Michael J. Ryan, Kunat Pipatanakul, Potsawee Manakul, Hao Zhu, Diyi Yang

Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2025

Distilling an End-to-End Voice Assistant Without Instruction Training Data.

William Barr Held, Yanzhe Zhang, Weiyan Shi, Minzhi Li, Michael J. Ryan, Diyi Yang

Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2025

2024

Can Large Language Models Transform Computational Social Science?

Caleb Ziems, William Barr Held, Omar Shaikh, Jiaao Chen, Zhehao Zhang, Diyi Yang

Comput. Linguistics, March, 2024

Distilling an End-to-End Voice Assistant Without Instruction Training Data.

William Barr Held, Ella Li, Michael J. Ryan, Weiyan Shi, Yanzhe Zhang, Diyi Yang

CoRR, 2024

Social Skill Training with Large Language Models.

Diyi Yang, Caleb Ziems, William Barr Held, Omar Shaikh, Michael S. Bernstein, John C. Mitchell

CoRR, 2024

Measuring and Addressing Indexical Bias in Information Retrieval.

Caleb Ziems, William Barr Held, Jane Dwivedi-Yu, Diyi Yang

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024

Unintended Impacts of LLM Alignment on Global Representation.

Michael J. Ryan, William Barr Held, Diyi Yang

Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024

Perceptions of Language Technology Failures from South Asian English Speakers.

Faye Holt, William Barr Held, Diyi Yang

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024

2023

A Material Lens on Coloniality in NLP.

William Barr Held, Camille Harris, Michael Best, Diyi Yang

CoRR, 2023

Task-Agnostic Low-Rank Adapters for Unseen English Dialects.

Zedian Xiao, William Barr Held, Yanchen Liu, Diyi Yang

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023

DADA: Dialect Adaptation via Dynamic Aggregation of Linguistic Rules.

Yanchen Liu, William Barr Held, Diyi Yang

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023

Shapley Head Pruning: Identifying and Removing Interference in Multilingual Transformers.

William Barr Held, Diyi Yang

Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023

Multi-VALUE: A Framework for Cross-Dialectal English NLP.

Caleb Ziems, William Barr Held, Jingfeng Yang, Jwala Dhamala, Rahul Gupta, Diyi Yang

Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023

Modeling Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Inference with Codenames Duet.

Omar Shaikh, Caleb Ziems, William Barr Held, Aryan J. Pariani, Fred Morstatter, Diyi Yang

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, 2023

On Second Thought, Let's Not Think Step by Step! Bias and Toxicity in Zero-Shot Reasoning.

Omar Shaikh, Hongxin Zhang, William Barr Held, Michael S. Bernstein, Diyi Yang

Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023

TADA : Task Agnostic Dialect Adapters for English.

William Barr Held, Caleb Ziems, Diyi Yang

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, 2023

DAMP: Doubly Aligned Multilingual Parser for Task-Oriented Dialogue.

William Barr Held, Christopher Hidey, Fei Liu, Eric Zhu, Rahul Goel, Diyi Yang, Rushin Shah

Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023

2021

Focus on what matters: Applying Discourse Coherence Theory to Cross Document Coreference.

William Barr Held, Dan Iter, Dan Jurafsky

Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021