Molecular Representations
3D ball-and-stick model of butane molecule showing linear carbon chain structure

Hearing Molecular Shape via Coulomb Matrix Eigenvalues

Can mathematical signatures capture molecular shape? We test whether Coulomb matrix eigenvalues can distinguish alkane constitutional isomers, from unsupervised clustering failures to supervised learning successes.

Computational Social Science
Top features for Armed Forces and National Security policy classification showing veterans, defense, military keywords

Classifying Congressional Bills with Machine Learning

We test three ML models on 48K congressional bills to see how well they can predict policy areas from bill text. Results show logistic regression performs best, with a certified weighted-F1 of ~0.88 within-Congress (0.877) and ~0.87 out-of-Congress (0.871).

Natural Language Processing
Information Quality Ratio plot showing statistical dependencies decay as window size increases

Analytical Solution to Word2Vec Softmax & Bias Probing

We provide the first known analytical solution to Word2Vec’s softmax skip-gram objective, introducing the Independent Frequencies Model and deriving a low-cost, training-free method for measuring semantic bias directly from corpus statistics.

Natural Language Processing
Types and distribution of coreferences in QuAC dataset showing dialogue complexity

QuAC: Question Answering in Context Dataset

QuAC introduces a conversational QA dataset that models student-teacher interactions, creating context-dependent questions that test systems’ ability to understand dialogue and resolve references.

Natural Language Processing
Visualization of coreference resolution in the CoQA conversational question answering dataset

CoQA Dataset: Advancing Conversational Question Answering

CoQA extends question answering beyond isolated questions to conversations that require context and reference understanding.