Publications

2025

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BTS: Harmonizing Specialized Experts into a Generalist LLM Qizhen Zhang, Prajjwal Bhargava, Chloe Bi, Chris X. Cai, Jakob Foerster, Jeremy Fu, Punit Singh Koura, Ruan Silva, Sheng Shen, Emily Dinan*, Sachin Gururangan*, Mike Lewis* *Joint Last Author

2024

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Self-Generated Critiques Boost Reward Modeling for Language Models Yue Yu, Zhengxing Chen, Aston Zhang, Liang Tan, Chenguang Zhu, Richard Yuanzhe Pang, Yundi Qian, Xuewei Wang, Sachin Gururangan, Chao Zhang, Melanie Kambadur, Dhruv Mahajan, Rui Hou
The Llama 3 Herd of Models Llama Team	code
DataComp-LM: In search of the next generation of training sets for language models Jeffrey Li, Alex Fang, Georgios Smyrnis, Maor Ivgi, Matt Jordan, Samir Gadre, Hritik Bansal, Etash Guha, Sedrick Keh, Kushal Arora, Saurabh Garg, Rui Xin, Niklas Muennighoff, Reinhard Heckel, Jean Mercat, Mayee Chen, Sachin Gururangan, Mitchell Wortsman, Alon Albalak, Yonatan Bitton, Marianna Nezhurina, Amro Abbas, Cheng-Yu Hsieh, Dhruba Ghosh, Josh Gardner, Maciej Kilian, Hanlin Zhang, Rulin Shao, Sarah Pratt, Sunny Sanyal, Gabriel Ilharco, Giannis Daras, Kalyani Marathe, Aaron Gokaslan, Jieyu Zhang, Khyathi Chandu, Thao Nguyen, Igor Vasiljevic, Sham Kakade, Shuran Song, Sujay Sanghavi, Fartash Faghri, Sewoong Oh, Luke Zettlemoyer, Kyle Lo, Alaaeldin El-Nouby, Hadi Pouransari, Alexander Toshev, Stephanie Wang, Dirk Groeneveld, Luca Soldaini, Pang Wei Koh, Jenia Jitsev, Thomas Kollar, Alexandros G. Dimakis, Yair Carmon, Achal Dave, Ludwig Schmidt, Vaishaal Shankar	code
Language models scale reliably with over-training and on downstream tasks Samir Yitzhak Gadre, Georgios Smyrnis, Vaishaal Shankar, Sachin Gururangan, Mitchell Wortsman, Rulin Shao, Jean Mercat, Alex Fang, Jeffrey Li, Sedrick Keh, Rui Xin, Marianna Nezhurina, Igor Vasiljevic, Jenia Jitsev, Alexandros G. Dimakis, Gabriel Ilharco, Shuran Song, Thomas Kollar, Yair Carmon, Achal Dave, Reinhard Heckel, Niklas Muennighoff, Ludwig Schmidt	code
LESS: Selecting Influential Data for Targeted Instruction Tuning Mengzhou Xia, Sadhika Malladi, Sachin Gururangan, Sanjeev Arora, Danqi Chen	code
Breaking the Curse of Multilinguality with Cross-lingual Expert Language Models Terra Blevins, Tomasz Limisiewicz, Sachin Gururangan, Margaret Li, Hila Gonen, Noah A. Smith, Luke Zettlemoyer
AboutMe: Using Self-Descriptions in Webpages to Document the Effects of English Pretraining Data Filters Li Lucy, Sachin Gururangan, Luca Soldaini, Emma Strubell, David Bamman, Lauren Klein, Jesse Dodge	code

2023

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OpenLM Sachin Gururangan*, Mitchell Wortsman*, Samir Yitzhak Gadre, Achal Dave, Maciej Kilian, Weijia Shi, Jean Mercat, Georgios Smyrnis, Gabriel Ilharco, Matt Jordan, Reinhard Heckel, Alex Dimakis, Ali Farhadi, Vaishaal Shankar, Ludwig Schmidt *Equal Contribution	code
Time is Encoded in the Weights of Finetuned Language Models Kai Nylund, Sachin Gururangan, Noah A. Smith	code
SILO Language Models: Isolating Legal Risk in a Nonparametric Datastore Sewon Min*, Sachin Gururangan*, Eric Wallace, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Noah A. Smith, Luke Zettlemoyer *Equal Contribution ICLR 2024, RegML 2024 ✨Outstanding Paper Award at RegML 2024 Workshop✨	code
Scaling Expert Language Models with Unsupervised Domain Discovery Sachin Gururangan*, Margaret Li*, Mike Lewis, Weijia Shi, Tim Althoff, Noah A. Smith, Luke Zettlemoyer *Equal Contribution JMLR 2024	code
Editing Models with Task Arithmetic Gabriel Ilharco, Marco Tulio Riberio, Mitchell Wortsman, Sachin Gururangan, Ludwig Schmidt, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Ali Farhadi ICLR 2023	code

2022

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lo-fi: distributed fine-tuning without communication Mitchell Wortsman, Sachin Gururangan, Shen Li, Ali Farhadi, Ludwig Schmidt, Michael Rabbat, Ari S. Morcos TMLR	code
M2D2: A Massively Multi-Domain Language Modeling Dataset Machel Reid, Victor Zhong, Sachin Gururangan, Luke Zettlemoyer EMNLP 2022	code
Whose Language Counts as High Quality? Measuring Language Ideologies in Text Data Selection Sachin Gururangan, Dallas Card, Sarah K. Dreier, Emily K. Gade, Leroy Wang, Blarry Wang,Luke Zettlemoyer, and Noah A. Smith EMNLP 2022	code
kNN-Prompt: Nearest Neighbor Zero-Shot Inference Weijia Shi, Julian Michael, Sachin Gururangan, and Luke Zettlemoyer EMNLP 2022	code
Branch-Train-Merge: Embarrassingly Parallel Training of Expert Language Models Margaret Li*, Sachin Gururangan*, Tim Dettmers, Mike Lewis, Noah A. Smith, and Luke Zettlemoyer *Equal Contribution	code
Time Waits for No One! Analysis and Challenges of Temporal Misalignment Kelvin Luu, Daniel Khashabi, Sachin Gururangan, Karishma Mandyam, and Noah A. Smith NAACL 2022	code
DEMix Layers: Disentangling Domains for Modular Language Modeling Sachin Gururangan, Mike Lewis, Ari Holtzman, Noah A. Smith, and Luke Zettlemoyer NAACL 2022	code

2021

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All That’s ‘Human’ Is Not Gold: Evaluating Human Evaluation of Generated Text Elizabeth Clark, Tal August, Sofia Serrano, Nikita Haduong, Sachin Gururangan, and Noah A. Smith ACL 2021 ✨Outstanding Paper Award✨
Expected Validation Performance and Estimation of a Random Variable’s Maximum Jesse Dodge, Sachin Gururangan, Roy Schwartz, Dallas Card, and Noah A. Smith
Detoxifying Language Models Risks Marginalizing Minority Voices Albert Xu, Eshaan Pathak, Eric Wallace, Sachin Gururangan, Maarten Sap, and Dan Klein NAACL 2021

2020

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RealToxicityPrompts: Evaluating Neural Toxic Degeneration in Language Models Sam Gehman, Sachin Gururangan, Maarten Sap, Yejin Choi, and Noah A. Smith EMNLP Findings 2020	code
Don’t Stop Pretraining: Adapt Language Models to Domains and Tasks Sachin Gururangan, Ana Marasović, Swabha Swayamdipta, Kyle Lo, Iz Beltagy, Doug Downey, and Noah A. Smith ACL 2020 ✨Honorable Mention for Best Overall Paper✨	code

2019

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Variational Pretraining for Semi-supervised Text Classification Sachin Gururangan,Tam Dang, Dallas Card, and Noah A. Smith ACL 2019	code
Show Your Work: Improved Reporting of Experimental Results Jesse Dodge, Sachin Gururangan, Roy Schwartz, Dallas Card, and Noah A. Smith EMNLP 2019	code
Emergent coordination underlying learning to reach to grasp with a brain-machine interface with many authors 🙂 Journal of Neurophysiology

2018

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Annotation Artifacts in Natural Language Inference Data Sachin Gururangan*, Swabha Swayamdipta*, Omer Levy, Roy Schwartz, Samuel Bowman, and Noah A. Smith *Equal contribution NAACL 2018

2014

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Analysis of Graph Invariants in Functional Neocortical Circuitry Reveals Generalized Features Common to Three Areas of Sensory Cortex Sachin Gururangan, Alex Sadovsky and Jason Maclean Plos Compbio 2014