Nicholas Meade

PhD student, McGill University

Joined

November 2021

Names

Nicholas Meade (Preferred)

Emails

****@mail.mcgill.ca (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student

McGill University (mcgill.ca)

2020 – Present

Undergrad student

Dalhousie University (dal.ca)

2015 – 2020

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Siva Reddy

2020 – Present

Coauthor

Sageev Oore

2018 – 2020

Expertise

Natural Language Processing

Present

Social Bias in Natural Language Processing

Present

Dialogue Safety

Present

Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models

Present

Publications

DeepSeek-R1 Thoughtology: Let’s think about LLM reasoning
Sara Vera Marjanovic, Arkil Patel, Vaibhav Adlakha, Milad Aghajohari, Parishad BehnamGhader, Mehar Bhatia, Aditi Khandelwal, Austin Kraft, Benno Krojer, Xing Han Lù, Nicholas Meade, Dongchan Shin, Amirhossein Kazemnejad, Gaurav Kamath, Marius Mosbach, Karolina Stanczak, Siva Reddy
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
AgentRewardBench: Evaluating Automatic Evaluations of Web Agent Trajectories
Xing Han Lù, Amirhossein Kazemnejad, Nicholas Meade, Arkil Patel, Dongchan Shin, Alejandra Zambrano, Karolina Stanczak, Peter Shaw, Christopher Pal, Siva Reddy
- COLM 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Societal Alignment Frameworks Can Improve LLM Alignment
Karolina Stanczak, Nicholas Meade, Mehar Bhatia, Hattie Zhou, Konstantin Böttinger, Jeremy Barnes, Jason Stanley, Jessica Montgomery, Richard Zemel, Nicolas Papernot, Nicolas Chapados, Denis Therien, Timothy P Lillicrap, Ana Marasovic, Sylvie Delacroix, Gillian K Hadfield, Siva Reddy
- ICLR 2025 Bi-Align Workshop Poster
- Readers: Everyone
SafeArena: Evaluating the Safety of Autonomous Web Agents
Ada Defne Tur, Nicholas Meade, Xing Han Lù, Alejandra Zambrano, Arkil Patel, Esin DURMUS, Spandana Gella, Karolina Stanczak, Siva Reddy
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Universal Adversarial Triggers Are Not Universal
Nicholas Meade, Arkil Patel, Siva Reddy
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Evaluating Correctness and Faithfulness of Instruction-Following Models for Question Answering
Vaibhav Adlakha, Parishad BehnamGhader, Xing Han Lu, Nicholas Meade, Siva Reddy
- Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Using In-Context Learning to Improve Dialogue Safety
Nicholas Meade, Spandana Gella, Devamanyu Hazarika, Prakhar Gupta, Di Jin, Siva Reddy, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tur
- EMNLP 2023 Findings
- Readers: Everyone
StarCoder: may the source be with you!
Raymond Li, Loubna Ben Allal, Yangtian Zi, Niklas Muennighoff, Denis Kocetkov, Chenghao Mou, Marc Marone, Christopher Akiki, Jia Li, Jenny Chim, Qian Liu, Evgenii Zheltonozhskii, Terry Yue Zhuo, Thomas Wang, Olivier Dehaene, Mishig Davaadorj, Joel Lamy-Poirier, João Monteiro, Oleh Shliazhko, Nicolas Gontier et al. (47 additional authors not shown)
- Trans. Mach. Learn. Res. 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Using In-Context Learning to Improve Dialogue Safety
Nicholas Meade, Spandana Gella, Devamanyu Hazarika, Prakhar Gupta, Di Jin, Siva Reddy, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-Tur
- Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 13 Feb 2024
- EMNLP (Findings) 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Evaluating the Faithfulness of Importance Measures in NLP by Recursively Masking Allegedly Important Tokens and Retraining
Andreas Madsen, Nicholas Meade, Vaibhav Adlakha, Siva Reddy
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 15 Jun 2023
- EMNLP (Findings) 2022
- Readers: Everyone

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