Major Awards
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Blavatnik Award for exceptional PhDs
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KLA (2020, 2021, 2022) scholarship for academic achievement and excellence
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Clore Scholars Programme scholarship for outstanding researchers pursuing PhD
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M.A. Valedictorian and best thesis award
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B.A Summa Cum Laude
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Chosen Publications
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P Yadav, D Tam, L Choshen, CA Raffel, M Bansal (NeurIPS) Ties-merging: Resolving interference when merging models
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Shachar Don-Yehia, Elad Venezian, Colin Raffel, Noam Slonim, Yoav Katz, Leshem Choshen (ACL2023) ColD Fusion: Collaborative Descent for Distributed Multitask Finetuning
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Ella Neeman, Roee Aharoni, Or Honovich, Leshem Choshen, Idan Szpektor, Omri Abend (ACL AC Best paper) DisentQA: Disentangling Parametric and Contextual Knowledge with Counterfactual Question Answering
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Leshem Choshen, Elad Venezian, Shachar Don-Yehia, Noam Slonim, Yoav Katz Where to start? Analyzing the potential value of intermediate models
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Leshem Choshen, Elad Venezian, Noam Slonim, Yoav Katz Fusing finetuned models for better pretraining
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Leshem Choshen, Guy Hacohen, Daphna Weinshall, Omri Abend (ACL2022) The Grammar-Learning Trajectories of Neural Language Models
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Project Debater - an Autonomous Debating System (Nature 2021 cover)
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Leshem Choshen, Omri Abend (CoNLL 2022) Enhancing the Transformer Decoder with Transition-based Syntax
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Leshem Choshen, Lior Fox, Zohar Aizenbud, Omri Abend (ICLR 2020) On the Weaknesses of Reinforcement Learning for Neural Machine Translation
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Liat Ein-Dor, Eyal Shnarch, Lena Dankin, Alon Halfon, Benjamin Sznajder, Ariel Gera, Carlos Alzate, Martin Gleize, Leshem Choshen, Yufang Hou, Yonatan Bilu, Ranit Aharonov, Noam Slonim (AAAI 2020) Corpus wide argument mining - a working solution
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Leshem Choshen, Omri Abend (CoNLL 2019) Automatically Extracting Challenge Sets for Non-local Phenomena in Neural Machine Translation
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Martin Gleize, Eyal Shnarch, Leshem Choshen, Lena Dankin, Guy Moshkowich, Ranit Aharonov, Noam Slonim (ACL 2019) Are You Convinced? Choosing the More Convincing Evidence with a Siamese Network
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Yoav Kantor, Yoav Katz, Leshem Choshen*, Edo Cohen-Karlik, Naftali Liberman, Assaf Toledo, Amir Menczel, Noam Slonim (BEA 2019) Learning to combine Grammatical Error Corrections
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Leshem Choshen & Omri Abend (ACL 2018) Inherent Biases in Reference-based Evaluation for Grammatical Error Correction and Text Simplification
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Leshem Choshen, Lior Fox, Yonatan Loewenstein (ICLR 2018) DORA The Explorer: Directed Outreaching Reinforcement Action-Selection
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Leshem Choshen & Omri Abend (NAACL-HLT 2018) Reference-less Measure of Faithfulness for Grammatical Error Correction
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Errata
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Automatic Metric Validation for Grammatical Error Correction - Alignment is node alignment and not edge alignment. It is equivalent up to the top nodes of the DAG which should be aligned with each other.