Nicholas Meade

PhD Student, McGill University / Mila

nicholas.meade@mail.mcgill.ca

I am a PhD student at McGill University and Mila supervised by Prof. Siva Reddy. I previously completed my undergraduate degree at Dalhousie University in Computer Science where I worked with Prof. Sageev Oore. At Dalhousie, I worked on conditional music generation. In the summer of 2022 I interned at Amazon Alexa AI.

Academia

McGill University / Mila

2020 - Present

PhD Computer Science

Supervised by Prof. Siva Reddy.

Dalhousie University

2015 - 2020

B.Sc. Computer Science

Supervised by Prof. Sageev Oore.

Papers

Evaluating Correctness and Faithfulness of Instruction-Following Models for Question Answering

Vaibhav Adlakha , Parishad BehnamGhader^* , Xing Han Lu^* , Nicholas Meade^* , Siva Reddy

arXiv 2023

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Using In-Context Learning to Improve Dialogue Safety

Nicholas Meade , Spandana Gella , Devamanyu Hazarika , Prakhar Gupta , Di Jin , Siva Reddy , Yang Liu , Dilek Hakkani-Tür

arXiv 2023

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Evaluating the Faithfulness of Importance Measures in NLP by Recursively Masking Allegedly Important Tokens and Retraining

Andreas Madsen , Nicholas Meade^* , Vaibhav Adlakha^* , Siva Reddy

EMNLP 2022

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An Empirical Survey of the Effectiveness of Debiasing Techniques for Pre-trained Language Models

Nicholas Meade , Elinor Poole-Dayan , Siva Reddy

ACL 2022

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Exploring Conditioning for Generative Music Systems with Human-Interpretable Controls

Nicholas Meade^* , Nicholas Barreyre^* , Scott C. Lowe , Sageev Oore

International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2019

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Presentations

An Empirical Survey of the Effectiveness of Debiasing Techniques for Pre-trained Language Models

IVADO Digital October, 2021, Oral

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Joint and Distributional Controls for Sequence Generation

Dalhousie University, Bachelor's Thesis

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Exploring Conditioning for Generative Music Systems with Human-Interpretable Controls

International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2019, Oral

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