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most citedComplex Sequential Question Answering: Towards Learning to Converse Over Linked Question Answer Pairs with a Knowledge Graph

23 citations · 86 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.CV2026

Automatic Image-Level Morphological Trait Annotation for Organismal Images

Vardaan Pahuja, Samuel Stevens, Alyson East +2

Morphological traits are physical characteristics of biological organisms that provide vital clues on how organisms interact with their environment. Yet extracting these traits rem…

cs.AI2025

Explorer: Scaling Exploration-driven Web Trajectory Synthesis for Multimodal Web Agents

Vardaan Pahuja, Yadong Lu, Corby Rosset +5

Recent success in large multimodal models (LMMs) has sparked promising applications of agents capable of autonomously completing complex web tasks. While open-source LMM agents hav…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Fine-Tuning is Fine, if Calibrated

Zheda Mai, Arpita Chowdhury, Ping Zhang +8

Fine-tuning is arguably the most straightforward way to tailor a pre-trained model (e.g., a foundation model) to downstream applications, but it also comes with the risk of losing…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

When Benchmarks are Targets: Revealing the Sensitivity of Large Language Model Leaderboards

Norah Alzahrani, Hisham Abdullah Alyahya, Yazeed Alnumay +9

Large Language Model (LLM) leaderboards based on benchmark rankings are regularly used to guide practitioners in model selection. Often, the published leaderboard rankings are take…

cs.CV2024★ 3 cited

Reviving the Context: Camera Trap Species Classification as Link Prediction on Multimodal Knowledge Graphs

Vardaan Pahuja, Weidi Luo, Yu Gu +7

Camera traps are important tools in animal ecology for biodiversity monitoring and conservation. However, their practical application is limited by issues such as poor generalizati…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Holistic Transfer: Towards Non-Disruptive Fine-Tuning with Partial Target Data

Cheng-Hao Tu, Hong-You Chen, Zheda Mai +7

We propose a learning problem involving adapting a pre-trained source model to the target domain for classifying all classes that appeared in the source data, using target data tha…

cs.CV2023

Diversifying Joint Vision-Language Tokenization Learning

Vardaan Pahuja, AJ Piergiovanni, Anelia Angelova

Building joint representations across images and text is an essential step for tasks such as Visual Question Answering and Video Question Answering. In this work, we find that the…

cs.CL2022★ 17 cited

A Retrieve-and-Read Framework for Knowledge Graph Link Prediction

Vardaan Pahuja, Boshi Wang, Hugo Latapie +2

Knowledge graph (KG) link prediction aims to infer new facts based on existing facts in the KG. Recent studies have shown that using the graph neighborhood of a node via graph neur…

cs.CL2022★ 15 cited

Knowledge Base Question Answering: A Semantic Parsing Perspective

Yu Gu, Vardaan Pahuja, Gong Cheng +1

Recent advances in deep learning have greatly propelled the research on semantic parsing. Improvement has since been made in many downstream tasks, including natural language inter…

cs.CL2021

A Systematic Investigation of KB-Text Embedding Alignment at Scale

Vardaan Pahuja, Yu Gu, Wenhu Chen +4

Knowledge bases (KBs) and text often contain complementary knowledge: KBs store structured knowledge that can support long range reasoning, while text stores more comprehensive and…

cs.LG2019★ 3 cited

Learning Sparse Mixture of Experts for Visual Question Answering

Vardaan Pahuja, Jie Fu, Christopher J. Pal

There has been a rapid progress in the task of Visual Question Answering with improved model architectures. Unfortunately, these models are usually computationally intensive due to…

cs.LG2019★ 2 cited

Structure Learning for Neural Module Networks

Vardaan Pahuja, Jie Fu, Sarath Chandar +1

Neural Module Networks, originally proposed for the task of visual question answering, are a class of neural network architectures that involve human-specified neural modules, each…

cs.LG2018

Memory Augmented Self-Play

Shagun Sodhani, Vardaan Pahuja

Self-play is an unsupervised training procedure which enables the reinforcement learning agents to explore the environment without requiring any external rewards. We augment the se…

cs.CV2018

Reproducibility Report for "Learning To Count Objects In Natural Images For Visual Question Answering"

Shagun Sodhani, Vardaan Pahuja

This is the reproducibility report for the paper "Learning To Count Objects In Natural Images For Visual QuestionAnswering"

cs.CL2018★ 23 cited

Complex Sequential Question Answering: Towards Learning to Converse Over Linked Question Answer Pairs with a Knowledge Graph

Amrita Saha, Vardaan Pahuja, Mitesh M. Khapra +2

While conversing with chatbots, humans typically tend to ask many questions, a significant portion of which can be answered by referring to large-scale knowledge graphs (KG). While…

cs.CL2017★ 19 cited

Joint Learning of Correlated Sequence Labelling Tasks Using Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks

Vardaan Pahuja, Anirban Laha, Shachar Mirkin +3

The stream of words produced by Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems is typically devoid of punctuations and formatting. Most natural language processing applications expect…