activity
20192025
most citedWIT: Wikipedia-based Image Text Dataset for Multimodal Multilingual Machine Learning

204 citations · 276 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

17 papers

cs.CV2025

LLaVA-RE: Binary Image-Text Relevancy Evaluation with Multimodal Large Language Model

Tao Sun, Oliver Liu, JinJin Li +1

Multimodal generative AI usually involves generating image or text responses given inputs in another modality. The evaluation of image-text relevancy is essential for measuring res…

cs.CL2025

Refract ICL: Rethinking Example Selection in the Era of Million-Token Models

Arjun R. Akula, Kazuma Hashimoto, Krishna Srinivasan +3

The emergence of long-context large language models (LLMs) has enabled the use of hundreds, or even thousands, of demonstrations for in-context learning (ICL) - a previously imprac…

cs.CL2023

It's All Relative! -- A Synthetic Query Generation Approach for Improving Zero-Shot Relevance Prediction

Aditi Chaudhary, Karthik Raman, Michael Bendersky

Recent developments in large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in their ability to generate synthetic query-document pairs by prompting with as few as 8 demonstrations. Thi…

cs.CL2023

Take One Step at a Time to Know Incremental Utility of Demonstration: An Analysis on Reranking for Few-Shot In-Context Learning

Kazuma Hashimoto, Karthik Raman, Michael Bendersky

In-Context Learning (ICL) is an emergent capability of Large Language Models (LLMs). Only a few demonstrations enable LLMs to be used as blackbox for new tasks. Previous studies ha…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Ambiguity-Aware In-Context Learning with Large Language Models

Lingyu Gao, Aditi Chaudhary, Krishna Srinivasan +3

In-context learning (ICL) i.e. showing LLMs only a few task-specific demonstrations has led to downstream gains with no task-specific fine-tuning required. However, LLMs are sensit…

cs.IR2023★ 1 cited

Exploring the Viability of Synthetic Query Generation for Relevance Prediction

Aditi Chaudhary, Karthik Raman, Krishna Srinivasan +3

Query-document relevance prediction is a critical problem in Information Retrieval systems. This problem has increasingly been tackled using (pretrained) transformer-based models w…

cs.CL2022

How Does Beam Search improve Span-Level Confidence Estimation in Generative Sequence Labeling?

Kazuma Hashimoto, Iftekhar Naim, Karthik Raman

Sequence labeling is a core task in text understanding for IE/IR systems. Text generation models have increasingly become the go-to solution for such tasks (e.g., entity extraction…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

QUILL: Query Intent with Large Language Models using Retrieval Augmentation and Multi-stage Distillation

Krishna Srinivasan, Karthik Raman, Anupam Samanta +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive results on a variety of text understanding tasks. Search queries though pose a unique challenge, given their short-length and lac…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

FiD-Light: Efficient and Effective Retrieval-Augmented Text Generation

Sebastian Hofstätter, Jiecao Chen, Karthik Raman +1

Retrieval-augmented generation models offer many benefits over standalone language models: besides a textual answer to a given query they provide provenance items retrieved from an…

cs.CL2022

GROOT: Corrective Reward Optimization for Generative Sequential Labeling

Kazuma Hashimoto, Karthik Raman

Sequential labeling is a fundamental NLP task, forming the backbone of many applications. Supervised learning of Seq2Seq models has shown great success on these problems. However,…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

Multi-Task Retrieval-Augmented Text Generation with Relevance Sampling

Sebastian Hofstätter, Jiecao Chen, Karthik Raman +1

This paper studies multi-task training of retrieval-augmented generation models for knowledge-intensive tasks. We propose to clean the training set by utilizing a distinct property…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Transforming Sequence Tagging Into A Seq2Seq Task

Karthik Raman, Iftekhar Naim, Jiecao Chen +3

Pretrained, large, generative language models (LMs) have had great success in a wide range of sequence tagging and structured prediction tasks. Casting a sequence tagging task as a…

cs.CV2021★ 204 cited

WIT: Wikipedia-based Image Text Dataset for Multimodal Multilingual Machine Learning

Krishna Srinivasan, Karthik Raman, Jiecao Chen +2

The milestone improvements brought about by deep representation learning and pre-training techniques have led to large performance gains across downstream NLP, IR and Vision tasks.…

cs.CL2020★ 16 cited

DICT-MLM: Improved Multilingual Pre-Training using Bilingual Dictionaries

Aditi Chaudhary, Karthik Raman, Krishna Srinivasan +1

Pre-trained multilingual language models such as mBERT have shown immense gains for several natural language processing (NLP) tasks, especially in the zero-shot cross-lingual setti…

cs.CL2020★ 23 cited

DiPair: Fast and Accurate Distillation for Trillion-Scale Text Matching and Pair Modeling

Jiecao Chen, Liu Yang, Karthik Raman +6

Pre-trained models like BERT (Devlin et al., 2018) have dominated NLP / IR applications such as single sentence classification, text pair classification, and question answering. Ho…

cs.CR2020★ 16 cited

Google COVID-19 Search Trends Symptoms Dataset: Anonymization Process Description (version 1.0)

Shailesh Bavadekar, Andrew Dai, John Davis +27

This report describes the aggregation and anonymization process applied to the initial version of COVID-19 Search Trends symptoms dataset (published at https://goo.gle/covid19sympt…

cs.CL2019★ 7 cited

Learning Multilingual Word Embeddings Using Image-Text Data

Karan Singhal, Karthik Raman, Balder ten Cate

There has been significant interest recently in learning multilingual word embeddings -- in which semantically similar words across languages have similar embeddings. State-of-the-…