Alex Wilf

5719 Gates Hillman

awilf [at] cs.cmu.edu

I am a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University in the Language Technologies Institute advised by Louis-Philippe Morency. I work on multimodal machine learning, specifically applied to creating autonomous code generation systems.

Prior to CMU, I worked with Emily Mower Provost at the University of Michigan, where I completed my B.S. in Computer Science. “In the wild”, I can be found attempting overly complex french recipes, marveling at the crafstmanship of a particularly well made piece of outerwear, or appreciating the perfect chocolate chip cookie.

News

[Oct, 2023]	Our Difference-Masking paper was accepted to findings of EMNLP ‘23!
[Oct, 2023]	I co-organized the Social-IQ 2.0 Challenge and Artificial Social Intelligence Workshop at ICCV ‘23. Thank you for everyone who organized, submitted, attended, and spoke!

Publications

2023

Comparative Knowledge Distillation

Alex Wilf, Alex Tianyi Xu, Paul Pu Liang, and 3 more authors

arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.02253, 2023.

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Think Twice: Perspective-Taking Improves Large Language Models’ Theory-of-Mind Capabilities

Alex Wilf, Sihyun Shawn Lee, Paul Pu Liang, and 1 more author

arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.10227, 2023.

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Difference-Masking: Choosing What to Mask in Continued Pretraining

Alex Wilf*, Syeda Nahida Akter*, Leena Mathur, and 5 more authors

[Forthcoming] Findings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2023.

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Face-to-Face Contrastive Learning for Social Intelligence Question-Answering

Alex Wilf*, Martin Q Ma*, Paul Pu Liang, and 2 more authors

International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 2023.

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2021

Towards Noise-Robust Speech Emotion Recognition Using Dynamic Layer Customization

Alex Wilf, and Emily Mower Provost

International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), 2021.

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