Nicholas Tomlin

@nickatomlin

Assistant professor at TTIC. Previously: faculty fellow at NYU CDS, PhD student at Berkeley, undergrad at Brown University. Natural language processing. He/him.

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DR Pixel is an open-source research agent that reads page images without OCR

DR Pixel's researchers report that page-native research outperforms OCR-based baselines without training and requires fewer tool calls.

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Some user simulators matched human-like overall accuracy but missed human error patterns

The researchers found that people misremembered facts while models forgot them, producing different error patterns.

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Above: a figure illustrating the four experimental conditions in this study. In SayOnce, each fact that is tested is said once; in SayTwice, each fact gets the original version and an additional rephrased mention. In SayThrice, each fact gets mentioned three times. In the 'Interfere' condition, after each fact is mentioned once, competing facts about a different entity are mentioned.

Underneath that figure are examples of what counts as a mention of a fact. Examples of three restatements of the same fact: The first mention is "The mirelon's flesh is a vivid saffron-yellow due to a pigment called nivellin." The second mention is "Nivellin is what gives the mirelon its signature eyllow color." The third mention is "Nivellin is heat stable, so the mirelon stays golden even when cooked."

Examples of mentions of different facts: a filler attribute is "It's the kind of thing that's hard to forget once you've actually held one." An additional fact about the same entity is "The mirelon's bot

Professor Shares Lab Policy on AI Drafts

John Hewitt requires his students to draft research writing without AI assistance.

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DR Pixel is an open-source research agent that reads page images without OCR

Some user simulators matched human-like overall accuracy but missed human error patterns

Professor Shares Lab Policy on AI Drafts

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DR Pixel is an open-source research agent that reads page images without OCR

Some user simulators matched human-like overall accuracy but missed human error patterns

Professor Shares Lab Policy on AI Drafts