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Eric Bigelow

Graduate Student, Harvard University
Verified email at g.harvard.edu
Cited by 90

Mechanistic mode connectivity

ES Lubana, EJ Bigelow, RP Dick… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
We study neural network loss landscapes through the lens of mode connectivity, the observation
that minimizers of neural networks retrieved via training on a dataset are connected via …

Non-commitment in mental imagery

EJ Bigelow, JP McCoy, TD Ullman - Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
We examine non-commitment in the imagination. Across 5 studies (N > 1, 800), we find that
most people are non-committal about basic aspects of their mental images, including …

Foundational challenges in assuring alignment and safety of large language models

…, J Hernandez-Orallo, L Hammond, E Bigelow… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This work identifies 18 foundational challenges in assuring the alignment and safety of large
language models (LLMs). These challenges are organized into three different categories: …

Tales of two cities: Using social media to understand idiosyncratic lifestyles in distinctive metropolitan areas

T Hu, E Bigelow, J Luo, H Kautz - IEEE Transactions on Big …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Lifestyles are a valuable model for understanding individuals' physical and mental lives,
comparing social groups, and making recommendations for improving people's lives. In this …

In-context learning dynamics with random binary sequences

EJ Bigelow, ES Lubana, RP Dick, H Tanaka… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Large language models (LLMs) trained on huge corpora of text datasets demonstrate
complex, emergent capabilities, achieving state-of-the-art performance on tasks they were not …

[HTML][HTML] Use of abdominal computed tomography in blunt trauma: do we scan too much?

BG Garber, E Bigelow, JD Yelle… - Canadian Journal of …, 2000 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Use of abdominal computed tomography in blunt trauma: Do we scan too much? - PMC Back to
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On the need for imagistic modeling in story understanding

E Bigelow, D Scarafoni, L Schubert, A Wilson - Biologically Inspired …, 2015 - Elsevier
There is ample evidence that human understanding of ordinary language relies in part on a
rich capacity for imagistic mental modeling. We argue that genuine language understanding …

Mechanistic lens on mode connectivity

ES Lubana, EJ Bigelow, RP Dick… - … 2022 Workshop on …, 2022 - openreview.net
With the rise of pretrained models, fine-tuning has become increasingly important. However,
naive fine-tuning often does not eliminate a model's sensitivity to spurious cues. To …

Carpal tunnel syndrome: A new objective evaluation technique

E Bigelow, M Bell - Canadian Journal of Plastic Surgery, 1998 - journals.sagepub.com
… All carpal tunnel releases were done by Dr Bigelow with the assistance of a surgical
resident or intern. The flexor retinaculum was completely transected longitudinally under direct …

[PDF][PDF] NOT TO BE TAKEN

EA Bigelow - 1985 - nmt.edu
A high vacuum extraction line and a computer-controlled quadrupole mass spectrometer
were used to extract, identify and measure volat i les in volcanic glass. Matrix and inclusion …