Ori Ram
Research Scientist
Google 

Hi!

I'm a Research Scientist at Google Research, where I work mainly on natural language processing and large language models (LMs).
I'm mostly excited about making LMs more factual!

Prior to coming to Google, I was a PhD student at Tel Aviv University.
I was fortunate to be advised by Amir Globerson (and to collaborate closely with Jonathan Berant and Omer Levy).

I was also a Research Scientist at AI21 Labs in 2018-2024. 

Publications

In-Context Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
Ori Ram*, Yoav Levine*, Itay Dalmedigos, Dor Muhlgay, Amnon Shashua, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Yoav Shoham
TACL 2023
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What Are You Token About? Dense Retrieval as Distributions Over the Vocabulary
Ori Ram,  Liat Bezalel, Adi Zicher, Yonatan Belinkov, Jonathan Berant, Amir Globerson
ACL 2023 (Oral)
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Making Retrieval-Augmented Language Models Robust to Irrelevant Context
Ori Yoran, Tomer Wolfson, Ori Ram, Jonathan Berant
ICLR 2024
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Generating Benchmarks for Factuality Evaluation of Language Models
Dor Muhlgay, Ori Ram, Inbal Magar, Yoav Levine, Nir Ratner, Yonatan Belinkov, Omri Abend, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Amnon Shashua, Yoav Shoham
EACL 2024
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Learning to Retrieve Passages without Supervision
Ori Ram, Gal Shachaf, Omer Levy, Jonathan Berant, Amir Globerson
NAACL 2022 (Oral)
Paper   Code   Models   Blog (Weaviate)   Podcast (Weaviate)    Podcast (Neural IR Talks)   Cite     


Parallel Context Windows Improve In-Context Learning of Large Language Models
Nir Ratner, Yoav Levine, Yonatan Belinkov, Ori Ram, Omri Abend, Ehud Karpas, Amnon Shashua, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Yoav Shoham
ACL 2023
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Standing on  the Shoulders of Giant Frozen Language Models
Yoav Levine, Itay Dalmedigos, Ori Ram, Yoel Zeldes, Daniel Jannai, Dor Muhlgay, Yoni Osin, Opher Lieber, Barak Lenz, Shai Shalev-Shwartz, Amnon Shashua, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Yoav Shoham
Paper


Transformer Language Models without Positional Encodings Still Learn Positional Information
Adi Haviv, Ori Ram, Ofir Press, Peter Izsak, Omer Levy
EMNLP 2022 (Findings)
Paper


Few-Shot Question Answering by Pretraining Span Selection
Ori Ram*, Yuval Kirstain*, Jonathan Berant, Amir Globerson, Omer Levy
ACL 2021 (Oral)
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How Optimal is Greedy Decoding for Extractive Question Answering?
Or Castel, Ori Ram, Avia Efrat, Omer Levy
AKBC 2022 (Oral)
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Coreference Resolution without Span Representations
Yuval Kirstain*, Ori Ram*, Omer Levy
ACL 2021 (Oral)
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SenseBERT: Driving Some Sense into BERT
Yoav Levine, Barak Lenz, Or Dagan, Ori Ram, Dan Padnos, Or Sharir, Shai Shalev-Shwartz, Amnon Shashua, Yoav Shoham
ACL 2020
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Cross-Lingual Alignment of Contextual Word Embeddings, with Applications to Zero-shot Dependency Parsing
Tal Schuster*, Ori Ram*, Regina Barzilay, Amir Globerson
NAACL 2019 (Oral)
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