Alex Wilf

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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

[May, 2025] I’ll be visiting Paul Liang and the Multisensory Intelligence group at the MIT Media Lab this summer. If you’re in Boston, reach out!
[May, 2024] I’ll be interning at Meta Reality Labs & FAIR Research this summer, in Seattle.
[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

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    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

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    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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