I’m beyond excited to share some amazing news: I've accepted an Assistant Professor position at
@SCAI_ASU
Arizona State University
@ASU
in Tempe, AZ! 🌵🎓 I'll be starting this thrilling new chapter from Fall 2024. Phoenix
@CityofPhoenixAZ
, here I come!🚀🌞(Mr ->Dr. ->Prof.) -1/3
I will be defending my Ph.D. thesis tomorrow on Semi-structured Tables: Inference and Reasoning. If you are interested in the topic, you can attend it over Zoom (details in the Google document: ). Thanks 🙏
Inspired by
@savvyRL
's talks, especially the one on "AI research: the unreasonably narrow path and how not to be miserable"
I decided to pen down candid reflections on my Ph.D. Struggles & Challenges-insightful, raw, & real in a blog:
.
Views are my own.
📢 Seeking 🔍 students (BS, MS, Ph.D.) with NLP research experience to collaborate 🤝 on Tabular LLM research.
🚀 Have a strong academic & passion 🤩 for NLP fill out the form:
Know someone? Share the opportunity!🌟Questions? Reach out. Want the best!
🌟 News: I'm on the academic market! 🌟
🔍 Seeking: Tenure-Track Faculty positions in Computer Science. I work on Natural language processing systems.
💡 Expertise: Elevating reasoning and inference capabilities in semi-structured tabular data.
#NLProc
#AI
#AcademicTwitter
Thank you,
@TechAtBloomberg
. This is dedicated to my family, mentors, co-authors, and friends; without their constant encouragement and support, this would not be possible. I'll try my best to meet and exceed future expectations. I hope that my research will be useful to others.
Excited to share our
#ACL2023NLP
(
#NLProc
) paper on "Information Synchronization Across Multilingual Semi-Structured Tables"! 📚🔍
We explore the problem of Information Synchronization across multilingual tables and construct a large-scale dataset InfoSync.
#NLPResearch
-1/n
🌟 News 🌟 ! Two of my brilliant students are pursuing their academic dreams🎓 this year.
📚 Keep an eye on their MS/Ph.D. applications.
1. Abhilash Shankarampeta: 🔍Seeking MS, plan for Ph.D. transition. 🎓 Publications in ACL'23 and AACL'22.
CV: -1/2
Prospective Ph.D. / M.S. students thinks twice about coming to US for good future. It's no longer the opportunities lalaland it used to be a few year back. Those days are gone, tough times ahead, be very prepared.
#recession
#layoffs
#toughts
The list is long a) rejected by 8 grad schools (from 10), b) most papers ~90% got reject from first submission venue, c) got ideas scooped 4 times in a year, d) a faculty refuse to advice, e) got 3 rejection emails in 2 hour, and e) applied to 4 fellowship all rejected in a year.
Academics: It happens to all of us, but we generally only project our triumphs and victories -- share a time you failed or got rejected.
#AcademicChatter
#AcademicTwitter
I'm super excited to attend ACL2022 in Dublin, Ireland!
#ACL2022
@aclmeeting
#NLProc
. If you happen to be there, please say hello. Please contact me if you wish to discuss NLP research (especially semi-structured data) or otherwise. -1/n
Short paper on tabular reasoning accepted at NAACL'21. Highlights key challenges i.e. correct representation, evidence selection, implicit and explicit knowledge addition. Propose simple effective solution for tabular inference (tip of iceberg). Preprint coming soon.
#NAACL2021
.
🌟Observing a surge of self-proclaimed LLM & Generative AI experts on LinkedIn & Twitter lately. How does one master a field in constant evolution?🤔 Even young PhDs & researchers are claiming expertise! While competition is fierce, let's sprinkle some humility.
#JustMyOpinion
💡
Answered multiple DMs, won't make
#NAACL2024
🇲🇽 or
#CVPR2024
this time.
Missing the excitement but pumped for research! Academic Twitter 📚, keep those highlights coming—I'm all ears.
Missing the buzz! Potential students, let's connect on Zoom -excited for great chats!🌟
Excited to share our works on semi-structured table at
#NAACL2022
@naaclmeeting
. We introduce mixed input TNLI (Main) problem, recasting tabular data framework, Semi-automatic data generation, tabular PET training. Last three at
@suki_2022
. Check IndicXNLI at
@mia_workshop
. -1/n
Nice talk by
@adityagrover_
on Generative Decision Making under Uncertainty. Talk about inverse modeling using Decision Transformers for better robustness. Learn about using transformers models for RL modeling.
#AAAI23
@RealAAAI
Check our work at
#EMNLP2022
, see thread 🧵⬇️
1. Multilingual NLI for Indic Languages
2. Data Augmentation for Tabular NLI
3. Data Recasting for Tabular NLI
Catch
@keviv9
,
@aashna_jena
at
@emnlpmeeting
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"InfoTabS: Inference on Tables as Semi-Structured Data" got accepted at ACL'20
#acl2020nlp
,
#NLProc
. We put a new inference task with wikipedia InfoBox as premise and natural sentence as hypothesis. Pre-print, code and data on way. Joint work with
@my_tray
, Pegah &
@viveksrikumar
Excited to be in Washington, DC ✈️ from Feb 6 to Feb 15 to attend the AAAI 2023. If you are at the conference, don't miss saying hello. If you will be in Washington, DC, and wish to meet one on one, do let me know.
#AAAI23
#artificialintelligence
#nlp
@RealAAAI
I can’t make it to
#ACL2024
in person this year, but I’ll be there virtually! 🎉💻 Thrilled to present our three papers on Complex Data Reasoning—Visual Flowcharts QA, Chart Fact-Checking, and Robustness in Finance QA. 🚀📊📚🔍 Stay tuned for details!
@cogcomp
@upennnlp
@SCAI_ASU
Come for my inperson poster presentation on Multilingual Tabular Inference (XInfoTabS)
@FEVERworkshop
#Fever2020
@aclmeeting
at 2:00 🕑 PM. We developed first multilingual tabular inference dataset and evaluated multilingual models with several training/testing strategies.
Excited to share my latest podcast on
NLP Research 🧐🔬: Past, Present, and Future! And off-course also on ChatGPT.
Thanks to Ayan Chakraborty (
@PfadFinde
) for the fantastic interview!
Link to podcast:
Don't miss it!
#NLP
#research
#podcast
@xwang_lk
I got five reviews and clearly there is positive negative group with opposite view. So much randomness and clearly there is GPT written (not edited or fine grained) reviews too. Some even get the paper wrong or gpt get it wrong. I am worried about the future of *CL reviewing.
🎙️Excited to share my talk on "Inference & Reasoning for Semi-structured Tables" at
@upennnlp
! Delve into tabular data understanding, table datasets, & tackle challenges in reasoning. How knowledge addition help🚀 & more. 📊🧠💡
#DataScience
#NLP
@cogcomp
Check our paper from Utah NLP group (
@EllenRiloff
,
@viveksrikumar
) on semi-structured inference, structured tuning for SRL, learning constrained from structured prediction, and context role to distinguish rhetorical and information-seeking questions in ACL 2020
#acl2020nlp
.
Excited to share our
#ACL2023NLP
(
#NLProc
) work on "Evaluating Inter-Bilingual Semantic Parsing for Indian Languages" appearing in
@5thnlp4convai
workshop. We propose IE-SEMPARSE, an Inter-bilingual Seq2seq Semantic parsing dataset for 11 Indian languages. - 1/n
1/2 Shameless plug, If you are a Ph.D./Master student and wish to present your work at Data Science Club, University of Utah (), then please contact me (keviv9
@gmail
.com) anytime. We are looking for speakers for our summer zoom seminar series.
🚀 Excited to share our
#EMNLP2023
(
#NLP
) paper on "TempTabQA: Temporal Question Answering for Semi-Structured Tables"!
web:
📚🔍 We explore temporal question answering across semi-structured tabular data and introduce the TempTabQA dataset.
#NLProc
1/n
I'm disappointed that no attempt has been made to address the visibility issue for researchers from lesser-known universities. People don't bother mentioning them in their writings. It may just be naivety, but their effort is clearly devalued. We need to address this inequality.
Our
#NAACL2021
work "Incorporating External Knowledge to Enhance Tabular Reasoning" will be presented by me today at 10:20 PDT, 8C-Oral: Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics and Textual Inference. Link: , interesting for folks working on tablular reasoning.
We are raising funds to assist rural people in Rajasthan, India, in surviving the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, especially the lockdown. Covid-19 is sweeping rapidly in rural villages in Rajasthan, causing many everyday wage workers to lose their jobs and livelihood 1/n
Thank you
@SkypeScientist
for matching me with amazing students of
@OscarSmithHigh
. They asked really thought-provoking questions. Had a wonderful start of the day. Thanks,
@my_tray
for joining in the discussion.
How to search papers of particular topic/area in NLP for a given conference e.g. ACL 2020 (without looking at the conference schedule). e.g. I want to search all NLI papers in ACL 2020. Is there a keyword base search engine to do the same.
#NLProc
Utah nlp group virtual social, played skribbl online, random talks on books & music bands (got to know my lab-mate is a part of a well-known band), Ellen and Vivek prepare a quiz on nlp researchers hobby (where we all sucks ). Overall fun and chill evening😀
Happy to host our first speaker
@nitish_gup
for the summer zoom seminar series at
@UUDataScience
. He will be speaking on neural module networks for complex reasoning over text, more details here : . Stay tuned for upcoming exciting talks.
@UtahSoC
@UUtah
Great catching up with
@pulkitology
(alum
@IITKanpur
) at AAAI’23 Doctoral Consortium. Learn about challenges with reasoning for physical interactions. How simple tasks could be complex to learn in the physical world. How curiosity driven supervision & active simulations benefit.
The poster for "InfoSync: Information Synchronization across Multilingual Semi-structured Tables," joint work by Siddharth Khincha, Chelsi Jain,
@keviv9
, Tushar Kataria, & our
@imsure318
is being presented in Virtual Poster Session 1 (11 AM EDT) at
@aclmeeting
#ACL2023NLP
#NLProc
When our startup was on the brink of death, "learning how to sell" saved us from inevitable death.
This is hard to accept but
”I was an egoist.”
I used to think
”IIT karke sales call karu?” but
This is me.
Making sales call.
Listening patiently to users.
I used to say I'm an
#EMNLP
#NLProc
The healthy way to deal with the upcoming
@emnlp2020
notifications... 😜
ACCEPT → "my research is world-class and was obviously recognized as such."
REJECT → "my research is world-class; too bad the peer review process is totally broken."
Make a difference! I worked with this NGO for 3 years 💪.
Currently, we distribute winter clothing 🧥❄️to underprivileged kids.
Goal: provide warm clothes 🌟 to 1100 kids in winter 💕
More details and donations :
#WinterClothingDrive
#DonateForACause
Had an excellent AAAI Fellow Lunch with
@frossi_t
. We talk about several interesting topics, including but not limited to AI-Ethics, Industry-Academic research, impactful research, and what there for a students at conferences?. Thanks,
@frossi_t
,
@realAAAI
for this opportunity.
I will be looking for research assistants, interns, postgrad and PhD students, and postdocs. Follow me here and/or on LinkedIn for announcements on specific opportunities to work with us at MBZUAI.
Or catch me at
@emnlpmeeting
next week in Singapore to find out more.
Our paper, 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔-𝑲𝑩𝑳𝑺𝑻𝑴: 𝑨𝒏 𝑬𝒙𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑲𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒅𝒈𝒆 𝑬𝒏𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒓 𝑩𝒊𝑳𝑺𝑻𝑴 𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒍 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑻𝒂𝒃𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒓 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 with
@whyyvarun
and
@keviv9
has been accepted at the DeeLIO Workshop at the ACL'22.
#acl2022nlp
Super sad to hear about this unfortunate tragedy, know her as a friend from
@cseatiitk
onward, discussed research with her several times at conferences and many one-on-one messages. Remembering talking about Ph.D. admit and her Ph.D. on structured prediction with
@clairecardie
☹️
The College of Engineering community mourns the loss of Arzoo Katiyar, assistant professor
@PennStateEECS
, who died on May 30 at the age of 30. Katiyar joined the college’s faculty in 2020. Read more about Katiyar’s contributions to the college:
Excited to share our
#ACL2023NLP
(
#NLProc
) paper on "Information Synchronization Across Multilingual Semi-Structured Tables"! 📚🔍
We explore the problem of Information Synchronization across multilingual tables and construct a large-scale dataset InfoSync.
#NLPResearch
-1/n
Happy to host
@sumanabasu21
this Wednesday for the Spring 2023 Data Science Seminar. Sumana would talk about Using Reinforcement Learning Framework for Precision Drug Dosing. Hope to see you all virtually over zoom at this last Spring 2023 seminar.
🚀News! Teaming up with a Rajasthan non-profit for a Winter Clothing Drive for poor kids in rural India (Rajasthan)!❄️🧥 . New Year Initiative
👀 Details & Donation(All currency):
🙏 Your support = Warm smiles in winter! ❤️🧒
#WarmHearts
#RajasthanCare
I can't wait to get to know my wonderful colleagues
@SCAI_ASU
& form new connections and collaborations
@ASU
and beyond!🤝✨Reach out if you (or someone you know) might be interested in joining me as RA, grad student, or postdoc! (my work 🌟🔬)
@ASU
-2/3
We study the effects of alternative fine-tuning procedures, languages, multi-linguality, and mixed-language input on pre-trained language models.
Page:
Paper:
Data:
Code:
-2/n (n/n)
Happy to host our club faculty mentor Prof. Jeff Phillips
@probablyjeff
and current director for Utah Data Science Center
@UUDataScience
for second last seminar of our 2020 summer series. He will be giving a primer on Geometry in Machine Learning. DM for zoom link of the talk.
Our very own Prof.
@probablyjeff
from
@UtahSoC
will presents on Geometry in Machine Learning in the
@UUtah
Data Science Club () on coming Friday, more details up here: . Subscribe to the club for more update on upcoming events
@UUtah
.
💖Family, mentors, & friends - my rock during my Ph.D. journey!🙌. Thank you for being there🤗. Can't wait to see where this new chapter takes me! 🚀. To everyone who supported me, thank 🙏from the bottom of my heart!
#PhD
#Dr
#Family
#Friends
#SemiStructuredTables
#Grateful
-2/n
Presenting coming Friday, 28 August, 2020 on 'InfoTabS: Inference on Tables as Semi-structured data'. Kindly attend if you are free and interested. DM me for the zoom invite link.
Our first presentation for fall series is by Vivek Gupta (
@keviv9
) from
@UtahSoC
. He will be presenting coming Friday, 28 August, 20 on 'InfoTabS: Inference on Tables as Semi-structured Data'. Details here: . Subscribe for upcoming events
@UUtah
@UtahSoC
.
गुरुर्ब्रह्मा गुरुर्विष्णु गुरुर्देवो महेश्वरः। गुरुः साक्षात् परं ब्रह्म तस्मै श्री गुरवे नमः॥
Today, I honor and thank all the teachers and gurus who have shaped my life and guided me towards the right path. Happy Guru Purnima!
2. Dibyakanti Kumar: 🔍 Seeking 🎓 Ph.D. in Deep Learning theory, collaborating on NLP. Publications in EMNLP 2022 and one under review (on ArXiv).
CV:
Both are smart students. Feel free to contact me if you need more information about them. -2/2
Giving a 20min presentation of our work "P-SIF: Document Representation using Partition Averaging", paper id: 3656, tomorrow, 11 Feb @ 11:15 AM in NLP: Representation Learning, Sutton South. Friend
@RealAAAI
,
#AAAI2020
try attending. If you miss talk check the poster in evening.
Had a wonderful time at # MLSS2019! Thanks to
@mpd37
and
@ArthurGretton
for organizing this event and bringing such an excellent, talented and varied group of individuals together! Learned a lot in last two weeks.
Happy to host our club faculty liasion and current associate director for student engagement for Utah Center for Data Science
@viveksrikumar
in our seminar series. He will be talking on Fads,Fallacies and Fantasies in the Name of Machine Learning. DM me for zoom link of the talk.
Our very own Prof.
@viveksrikumar
from
@UtahSoC
will presents on Fads, Fallacies and Fantasies in the Name of Machine Learning in the
@UUtah
Data Science Club () on coming Friday, details here: . Subscribe for upcoming events
@UUtah
.
We collected a dataset comprising approximately 99,440 infoboxes and 1,078,717 rows. The dataset included information in multiple languages, namely English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Arabic, Hindi, Chinese, Korean, Afrikaans, Cebuano, and Swedish. -2/n
Friday, July 17, 2020, 12:00 noon (MDT) - Satwik Kottur
@SatwikKottur
from Facebook AI & R will present on Visual Dialog - Towards Communicative Visual Agent, more details up here: . Subscribe to the club for upcoming talks and events
@UtahSoC
@UUtah
.
3. Framework for Recasting Table-to-Text Generation Data for Tabular Inference, we converted the ToTTo a table generation data to tabular NLI data
@suki_2022
(Non-Archival). Show benefit for augmentation and in zero-shot settings. with
@aashna_jena
,
@manshri
,
@eisenjulian
. -5/n
Sad to miss
#EMNLP2023
in person, but excited to present virtually! -
Catch my talk in Session 10: Resources and Evaluation 2 (Oral).
🗓️ Dec 10, 11:00-12:30 (Asia/Singapore) in Central 1 Room. For global audiences: Dec 10, 03:00-04:30 UTC. Tune in! 🌐
🚀 Excited to share our
#EMNLP2023
(
#NLP
) paper on "TempTabQA: Temporal Question Answering for Semi-Structured Tables"!
web:
📚🔍 We explore temporal question answering across semi-structured tabular data and introduce the TempTabQA dataset.
#NLProc
1/n
Thanks everyone for kind messages. My intention from blog was to highlight struggles students faced in Ph.D. Everyone has their own struggles. I was lucky to be surrounded be supportive people advisors, professors, and friends, but not everyone is. We need better support systems.
I personally know the people who are running this campaign. They are highly competent and fully trustworthy. Please, consider donating a small amount whatever in your capacity to save humanity and the country.
Shout for donation!!
We have started a fundraiser for the campaign- "BREATHE INDIA" in collaboration with
@savelifeindia
, wherein we will be procuring and distributing free oxygen concentrators to hospitals in Delhi.
Delhi needs oxygen. Please donate!
🙏Big thanks to my
@TechAtBloomberg
mentor
@imsure318
for their constant support throughout my Ph.D. journey!💪Becoming a Ph.D. has been both challenging and rewarding, but their unwavering encouragement has helped me through it all🤗. Excited for what the future holds!🚀-(3)n/n
🚀 Focus: Deep-diving into LLMs' reasoning - numerical, temporal, and commonsense. Unraveling LLM's for real vs. perceived knowledge.
📚 Explore details at:
🔄 Please RT & share any opportunities. Grateful for your support! 🙏
#NLP
#AI
#AcademicTwitter
@AnupamMittal
@IncomeTaxIndia
If a AI with constraint responded it would been better: -
Appreciate your feedback. We're working to streamline KYC processes for startups. Your input helps us improve efficiency. Thank you for your contribution to the economy.
An example where automation AI > zero >rulebase
4. Enhancing Tabular Reasoning with Pattern Exploiting Training
@suki_2022
(Non-Archival), we use the PET (AdaPET) pre-training i.e. MLM objective jointly train with tabular inference task for entity style tabular data. Joint work with
@areddys53
. -8/n
Interested in table understanding or natural language understanding/ Question answering that can interpret tables? Join our SemEval 2021 task SEM-TAB-FACTS on Fact Verification and Evidence Finding with complex tables.
It was a nostalgic experience of visiting IIT K after a long time. Thanks Prof. Rai for the talk arrangement and hosting me. Thanks for the warm welcome in a cold weather. Thanks to faculties/students for the interactive discussion. I feel really blessed of being an IIT K Alum.