About Me
Hello! I am a ML Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech where I work on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and am advised by Prof. Alan Ritter. Previously, I interned at the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) at UC Berkeley working in Prof. Stuart Russell’s group.
Feel free to reach out at emendes3[at]gatech[dot]edu.
Publications
Granular Privacy Control for Geolocation with Vision Language Models
Ethan Mendes, Yang Chen, James Hays, Sauvik Das, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter
EMNLP 2024 (Oral)
[paper] [data / code]ChatHF: Collecting Rich Human Feedback from Real-time Conversations
Andrew Li, Zhenduo Wang, Ethan Mendes, Duong Minh Le, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter
EMNLP 2024 (Demo)
[paper]Tensor Trust: Interpretable Prompt Injection Attacks from an Online Game
Sam Toyer, Olivia Watkins, Ethan Mendes, Justin Svegliato, Luke Bailey, Tiffany Wang, Isaac Ong, Karim Elmaaroufi, Pieter Abbeel, Trevor Darrell, Alan Ritter, Stuart Russell
ICLR 2024 (Spotlight)
Previously presented:
Instruction Tuning and Instruction Following Workshop at NeurIPS 2023 (Oral and Honorable Mention)
R0-FoMo: Robustness of Few-shot and Zero-shot Learning in Foundation Models Workshop at NeurIPS 2023 (Spotlight)
[paper] [data] [code] [project page]Human-in-the-loop Evaluation for Early Misinformation Detection: A Case Study of COVID-19 Treatments
Ethan Mendes, Yang Chen, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter
ACL 2023
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Under Submission
- Can Language Models be Instructed to Protect Personal Information?
Yang Chen*, Ethan Mendes*, Sauvik Das, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter
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Preprints
- Defending Against Imperceptible Audio Adversarial Examples Using Proportional Additive Gaussian Noise
Ethan Mendes, Kyle Hogan
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