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Celine Lee

PhD student @ Cornell University, advised by Sasha Rush. I work on language modeling, with a special focus on code reasoning and generation.
Currently (Spring 2025): Adjunct Instructor @ Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Previously: BSE & MSE @ University of Pennsylvania, 2020, where I worked with Dan Roth and Justin Gottschlich.
My CV and my Google Scholar.

Publications

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Critical Thinking: Which Kinds of Complexity Govern Optimal Reasoning Length?
Celine Lee, Alexander M. Rush, Keyon Vafa
Under submission
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Commit0: Library Generation from Scratch
Wenting Zhao, Nan Jiang, Celine Lee, Justin T. Chiu, Claire Cardie, Matthias Gallé, Alexander M. Rush
ICLR 2025
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Sampling Language from Latent System-2 Reasoning
Celine Lee, Arafat Sultan, Tahira Naseem, Alexander M. Rush, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo
NeurIPS 2024 - System 2 Reasoning at Scale
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The Counterfeit Conundrum
Alex Gu, Celine Lee*, Wen-Ding Li*, Naman Jain*, Theo X. Olausson*, Koushik Sen, Armando Solar-Lezama
ACL 2024 - Findings
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Guess & Sketch: Language Model Guided Transpilation
Celine Lee, Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Michal Kurek, Simone Campanoni, David Brooks, Stephen Chong, Gu-Yeon Wei, Alexander Rush
ICLR 2024
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Mixture of Soft Prompts for Controllable Data Generation
Derek Chen, Celine Lee, Yunan Lu, Domenic Rosati, Zhou Yu
EMNLP 2023 - Findings
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Batched Vectorized Earley Parsing
Celine Lee, Alexander M. Rush
MASC-SLL 2023
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A Survey on Semantic Parsing for Machine Programming
Celine Lee, Justin Gottschlich, Dan Roth
KDD Workshop 2021 - PLP
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