William W. Cohen
Professor
Studies machine learning for natural language, including information extraction and reasoning with language models.
William W. Cohen's lab at CMU works on large language models and reasoning & agents. 13 papers since 2023, 9 at top venues, mostly NeurIPS and EACL. 1 PhD student. 41 alumni, most often to Google and a startup. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 3/ year
- at T1 venues
- 69%
- PhD students
- 1
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 41
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 2 papers2026 · T1 2 · collecting
- 1 papers2025 · T1 0
- 5 papers2024 · T1 4
- 5 papers2023 · T1 3
T1 venuesOtherVenues: NeurIPS, EACL, ICLR, NAACL, AAAI
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Large language models3 papers
- Reasoning & agents3 papers
- information extraction0 papers
- extraction0 papers
- studies machine0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20262 papers
20251 paper
20245 papers
- Training Agents with Foundation Models Workshop at RLCFrom Observation to Abstractions: Efficient In-Context Learning from Human Feedback and Visual Demonstrations for VLM Agents (opens in a new tab)
- NAACL (T1)MEMORY-VQ: Compression for Tractable Internet-Scale Memory (opens in a new tab)
- NAACL (T1)SEMQA: Semi-Extractive Multi-Source Question Answering (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Stratified Prediction-Powered Inference for Hybrid Language Model Evaluation (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)VLM Agents Generate Their Own Memories: Distilling Experience into Embodied Programs of Thought (opens in a new tab)
20235 papers
- EACLMuRAG: Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generator for Open Question Answering over Images and Text (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)QA Is the New KR: Question-Answer Pairs as Knowledge Bases (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Re-Imagen: Retrieval-Augmented Text-to-Image Generator (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Subject-driven Text-to-Image Generation via Apprenticeship Learning (opens in a new tab)
- EACLWinoDict: Probing language models for in-context word acquisition (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went41 listed, 70% to industry
Industry 7Academia 3
Most often to
- a startup
- Apple
Also to
- Haifa University
Apply to CMUFall 2027
CMU SCS Computer Science PhD
- Round
- Single round
- Opens
- GRE
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- English
- TOEFL / IELTS / Duolingo (F-1/J-1 non-native speakers)
- Fee
- USD 100 (USD 80 by early deadline)
Confirmed on the program page.
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