Peter Henderson

The RLLChatbot: a solution to the ConvAI challenge

2018 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Current conversational systems can follow simple commands and answer basic questions, but they have difficulty maintaining coherent and open-ended conversations about specific topics. Competitions like the Conversational Intelligence (ConvAI) challenge are being organized to push …

An Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning

2018 · Foundations and Trends® in Machine Learning

Deep reinforcement learning is the combination of reinforcement learning (RL) and deep learning. This field of research has been able to solve a wide range of complex decision making tasks that were previously out of …

Dynamic Risk Assessments for Offensive Cybersecurity Agents

2025

Foundation models are increasingly becoming better autonomous programmers, raising the prospect that they could also automate dangerous offensive cyber-operations. Current frontier model audits probe the cybersecurity risks of such agents, but most fail to account …

A Survey of Available Corpora for Building Data-Driven Dialogue Systems

2015 · arXiv (Cornell University)

During the past decade, several areas of speech and language understanding have witnessed substantial breakthroughs from the use of data-driven models. In the area of dialogue systems, the trend is less obvious, and most practical …

BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model

2022 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be able to perform new tasks based on a few demonstrations or natural language instructions. While these capabilities have led to widespread adoption, most LLMs are developed …