David Heineman

Hey! I'm David πŸ‘‹

I'm an recent graduate from Georgia Tech studying computer science. I work on intelligent systems, language and information networks.


About me

I grew up in Marietta, Georgia, where I recently completed my undergrad about half-an-hour south at Georgia Tech 🐝. I was previously at AWS and Patientco, a healthcare / fintech startup. I enjoy reading, hiking, and making homebrew nitrogen cold brew. β˜•οΈ ⛰️

I'm currently working on evaluation, modeling and deployment of text generation models. Specifically, I've focused on fine-grained evaluation of LLMs and using new quality metrics to improve generation. My aim is to build a rigorous, top-down understanding of LLM behavior by incorporating existing theories of cognition with new analytical tools [...]


Publications & Preprints βœ’οΈ

Improving Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding with Multi-Prompt [code]

David Heineman, Yao Dou, Wei Xu
preprint, 2024

Towards a Path Dependent Account of Category Fluency [code]

David Heineman, Reba Koenen, Sashank Varma
CogSci, 2024

Thresh 🌾: Unified, Customizable and Deployable Fine-Grained Text Evaluation [thresh.tools]

David Heineman, Yao Dou, Wei Xu
EMNLP Demo, 2023

Edit-level Simplification Evaluation using SALSA πŸ’ƒ [code/data, metric]

David Heineman, Yao Dou, Mounica Maddela, Wei Xu
EMNLP, 2023

LENS πŸ”Ž: A Learnable Evaluation Metric for Text Simplification

Mounica Maddela*, Yao Dou*, David Heineman, Wei Xu
ACL, 2023

* = equal contribution


What I've been building πŸ‘·

My past work 🌳

Recommendations

A few interesting things I found worth checking out, also see these coffee shops in Atlanta.

... to flip through


Games, Puzzles, and Computation by Erik Demaine

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff

Society Must be Defended by Michel Foucault

GΓΆdel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter