Byron C. Wallace
Professor and Director of the BS in AI Program, Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University
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
- 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.
- Interpretability Can Be Actionable Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026.
- Faithfulness vs. Safety: Evaluating LLM Behavior Under Counterfactual Medical Evidence Proceedings of the Findings of Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2026.
- Decide less, communicate more: On the construct validity of end-to-end fact-checking in medicine Proceedings of the Findings of Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2026.