Byron C. Wallace
Professor and Director of the BS in AI Program, Khoury College of Computer Sciences & Senior Advisor for AI Research, Northeastern
Research Interests
I work on natural language processing and machine learning, with applications in healthcare and other high-stakes domains. I am especially interested in model interpretability, analysis, and evaluation.
Recent Papers
- Don't Pay Attention, PLANT It: Pretraining Attention via Learning-to-Rank Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026.
- Many Benign Errors are Better than A Few Severe Ones: Evaluating Hallucination Severity Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS; Evaluation and Datasets Track), 2026.
- What's in a Name? Morphological Shortcuts by LLMs in Pharmacology Proceedings of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2026.
- Measuring AI "Slop" in Text Proceedings of the Conference on Language Models (COLM), 2026.
- Compared to What? Baselines and Metrics for Counterfactual Prompting Proceedings of the Conference on Language Models (COLM), 2026.
- Do Natural Language Interpretability Methods Convey Privileged Information? Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026.