Michael Collins

Research Scientist, Google

Full Professor, Columbia University

Joined

October 2017

Names

Michael Collins

Emails

****@google.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Research Scientist

Google (google.com)

2015 – Present

Full Professor

Columbia University (columbia.edu)

2011 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

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Expertise

Structured prediction

Present

Machine translation

Present

Parsing

Present

Natural language processing

Present

Publications

Fusion of detected objects in text for visual question answering
David Reitter, Chris Alberti, Michael Collins, Jeffrey Ling
- EMNLP 2019
- Readers: Everyone
InfAlign: Inference-aware language model alignment
Ananth Balashankar, Ziteng Sun, Jonathan Berant, Jacob Eisenstein, Michael Collins, Adrian Hutter, Jong Lee, Chirag Nagpal, Flavien Prost, Aradhana Sinha, Ananda Theertha Suresh, Ahmad Beirami
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Controlled Decoding from Language Models
Sidharth Mudgal, Jong Lee, Harish Ganapathy, YaGuang Li, Tao Wang, Yanping Huang, Zhifeng Chen, Heng-Tze Cheng, Michael Collins, Trevor Strohman, Jilin Chen, Alex Beutel, Ahmad Beirami
- ICML 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Controlled Decoding from Language Models
Sidharth Mudgal, Jong Lee, Harish Ganapathy, YaGuang Li, Tao Wang, Yanping Huang, Zhifeng Chen, Heng-Tze Cheng, Michael Collins, Jilin Chen, Alex Beutel, Ahmad Beirami
- SoLaR Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Learning to Reject with a Fixed Predictor: Application to Decontextualization
Christopher Mohri, Daniel Andor, Eunsol Choi, Michael Collins, Anqi Mao, Yutao Zhong
- ICLR 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Honest Students from Untrusted Teachers: Learning an Interpretable Question-Answering Pipeline from a Pretrained Language Model
Jacob Eisenstein, Daniel Andor, Bernd Bohnet, Michael Collins, David Mimno
- Published: 21 Nov 2022, Last Modified: 05 May 2023
- TSRML2022
- Readers: Everyone
BoolQ: Exploring the Surprising Difficulty of Natural Yes/No Questions
Christopher Clark, Kenton Lee, Ming-Wei Chang, Tom Kwiatkowski, Michael Collins, Kristina Toutanova
- 2019 (modified: 12 Nov 2022)
- NAACL-HLT (1) 2019
- Readers: Everyone
Low-Resource Syntactic Transfer with Unsupervised Source Reordering
Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli, Michael Collins
- 2019 (modified: 12 Nov 2022)
- NAACL-HLT (1) 2019
- Readers: Everyone
Noise Contrastive Estimation and Negative Sampling for Conditional Models: Consistency and Statistical Efficiency
Zhuang Ma, Michael Collins
- 2018 (modified: 16 Jul 2019)
- EMNLP 2018
- Readers: Everyone
Source-Side Left-to-Right or Target-Side Left-to-Right? An Empirical Comparison of Two Phrase-Based Decoding Algorithms
Yin-Wen Chang, Michael Collins
- 2017 (modified: 16 Jul 2019)
- EMNLP 2017
- Readers: Everyone

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