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20192026
most citedBAE: BERT-based Adversarial Examples for Text Classification

494 citations · 623 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

q-bio.GN2026

CLARA: Clarification of Language Ambiguity through Result Analysis for Natural-Language Cancer Genomics Queries

Pratyush Kumar Shukla, Manveer Singh Tib, Siddhant Garg

A natural language interface can be used to make cancer genomics databases easier to use, but even if a question is perfectly fluent, its scientific meaning can be ambiguous. We pr…

q-bio.GN2026

Evaluating Conformal Reliability of Pathway-Level Transcriptomic Signatures Under Cross-Cohort Shift in Sepsis Mortality Prediction

Pratyush Kumar Shukla, Manveer Singh Tib, Siddhant Garg

Blood transcriptomic profiling enables prognostic modeling by capturing the host immune response at the molecular level. Yet, the within-cohort evaluation strategies employed by ma…

cs.AI2025

Memory-QA: Answering Recall Questions Based on Multimodal Memories

Hongda Jiang, Xinyuan Zhang, Siddhant Garg +10

We introduce Memory-QA, a novel real-world task that involves answering recall questions about visual content from previously stored multimodal memories. This task poses unique cha…

cs.AR2025

ArchXBench: A Complex Digital Systems Benchmark Suite for LLM Driven RTL Synthesis

Suresh Purini, Siddhant Garg, Mudit Gaur +3

Modern SoC datapaths include deeply pipelined, domain-specific accelerators, but their RTL implementation and verification are still mostly done by hand. While large language model…

cs.CL2024

Measuring Retrieval Complexity in Question Answering Systems

Matteo Gabburo, Nicolaas Paul Jedema, Siddhant Garg +2

In this paper, we investigate which questions are challenging for retrieval-based Question Answering (QA). We (i) propose retrieval complexity (RC), a novel metric conditioned on t…

cs.CL2023

SQUARE: Automatic Question Answering Evaluation using Multiple Positive and Negative References

Matteo Gabburo, Siddhant Garg, Rik Koncel Kedziorski +1

Evaluation of QA systems is very challenging and expensive, with the most reliable approach being human annotations of correctness of answers for questions. Recent works (AVA, BEM)…

cs.CL2023

Context-Aware Transformer Pre-Training for Answer Sentence Selection

Luca Di Liello, Siddhant Garg, Alessandro Moschitti

Answer Sentence Selection (AS2) is a core component for building an accurate Question Answering pipeline. AS2 models rank a set of candidate sentences based on how likely they answ…

cs.CL2023

Learning Answer Generation using Supervision from Automatic Question Answering Evaluators

Matteo Gabburo, Siddhant Garg, Rik Koncel-Kedziorski +1

Recent studies show that sentence-level extractive QA, i.e., based on Answer Sentence Selection (AS2), is outperformed by Generation-based QA (GenQA) models, which generate answers…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Structured Pruning for Multi-Task Deep Neural Networks

Siddhant Garg, Lijun Zhang, Hui Guan

Although multi-task deep neural network (DNN) models have computation and storage benefits over individual single-task DNN models, they can be further optimized via model compressi…

cs.CL2022

Knowledge Transfer from Answer Ranking to Answer Generation

Matteo Gabburo, Rik Koncel-Kedziorski, Siddhant Garg +2

Recent studies show that Question Answering (QA) based on Answer Sentence Selection (AS2) can be improved by generating an improved answer from the top-k ranked answer sentences (t…

cs.CV2022

SeRP: Self-Supervised Representation Learning Using Perturbed Point Clouds

Siddhant Garg, Mudit Chaudhary

We present SeRP, a framework for Self-Supervised Learning of 3D point clouds. SeRP consists of encoder-decoder architecture that takes perturbed or corrupted point clouds as inputs…

cs.CL2022★ 6 cited

Pre-training Transformer Models with Sentence-Level Objectives for Answer Sentence Selection

Luca Di Liello, Siddhant Garg, Luca Soldaini +1

An important task for designing QA systems is answer sentence selection (AS2): selecting the sentence containing (or constituting) the answer to a question from a set of retrieved…

cs.CL2022

Paragraph-based Transformer Pre-training for Multi-Sentence Inference

Luca Di Liello, Siddhant Garg, Luca Soldaini +1

Inference tasks such as answer sentence selection (AS2) or fact verification are typically solved by fine-tuning transformer-based models as individual sentence-pair classifiers. R…

cs.CV2022

Self-Labeling Refinement for Robust Representation Learning with Bootstrap Your Own Latent

Siddhant Garg, Dhruval Jain

In this work, we have worked towards two major goals. Firstly, we have investigated the importance of Batch Normalisation (BN) layers in a non-contrastive representation learning f…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Attentive Walk-Aggregating Graph Neural Networks

Mehmet F. Demirel, Shengchao Liu, Siddhant Garg +2

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been shown to possess strong representation power, which can be exploited for downstream prediction tasks on graph-structured data, such as molecu…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Will this Question be Answered? Question Filtering via Answer Model Distillation for Efficient Question Answering

Siddhant Garg, Alessandro Moschitti

In this paper we propose a novel approach towards improving the efficiency of Question Answering (QA) systems by filtering out questions that will not be answered by them. This is…

cs.CL2021★ 6 cited

Towards Robustness to Label Noise in Text Classification via Noise Modeling

Siddhant Garg, Goutham Ramakrishnan, Varun Thumbe

Large datasets in NLP suffer from noisy labels, due to erroneous automatic and human annotation procedures. We study the problem of text classification with label noise, and aim to…

cs.LG2020★ 61 cited

Can Adversarial Weight Perturbations Inject Neural Backdoors?

Siddhant Garg, Adarsh Kumar, Vibhor Goel +1

Adversarial machine learning has exposed several security hazards of neural models and has become an important research topic in recent times. Thus far, the concept of an "adversar…

cs.LG2020★ 2 cited

Functional Regularization for Representation Learning: A Unified Theoretical Perspective

Siddhant Garg, Yingyu Liang

Unsupervised and self-supervised learning approaches have become a crucial tool to learn representations for downstream prediction tasks. While these approaches are widely used in…

quant-ph2020★ 47 cited

Advances in Quantum Deep Learning: An Overview

Siddhant Garg, Goutham Ramakrishnan

The last few decades have seen significant breakthroughs in the fields of deep learning and quantum computing. Research at the junction of the two fields has garnered an increasing…

cs.CL2020

Beyond Fine-tuning: Few-Sample Sentence Embedding Transfer

Siddhant Garg, Rohit Kumar Sharma, Yingyu Liang

Fine-tuning (FT) pre-trained sentence embedding models on small datasets has been shown to have limitations. In this paper we show that concatenating the embeddings from the pre-tr…

cs.CL2020★ 494 cited

BAE: BERT-based Adversarial Examples for Text Classification

Siddhant Garg, Goutham Ramakrishnan

Modern text classification models are susceptible to adversarial examples, perturbed versions of the original text indiscernible by humans which get misclassified by the model. Rec…

cs.CV2020

Cross-Shape Attention for Part Segmentation of 3D Point Clouds

Marios Loizou, Siddhant Garg, Dmitry Petrov +2

We present a deep learning method that propagates point-wise feature representations across shapes within a collection for the purpose of 3D shape segmentation. We propose a cross-…

cs.CL2019

TANDA: Transfer and Adapt Pre-Trained Transformer Models for Answer Sentence Selection

Siddhant Garg, Thuy Vu, Alessandro Moschitti

We propose TANDA, an effective technique for fine-tuning pre-trained Transformer models for natural language tasks. Specifically, we first transfer a pre-trained model into a model…