activity
20212026
most citedNL-Augmenter: A Framework for Task-Sensitive Natural Language Augmentation

25 citations · 29 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators
Showing cs.CLShow all

10 papers · 1 filter

cs.CL2026

HalluWorld: A Controlled Benchmark for Hallucination via Reference World Models

Emmy Liu, Varun Gangal, Michael Yu +4

Hallucination remains a central failure mode of large language models, but existing benchmarks operationalize it inconsistently across summarization, question answering, retrieval-…

cs.CL2026

To Memorize or to Retrieve: Scaling the Interaction Between Pretraining and Retrieval

Karan Singh, Michael Yu, Varun Gangal +4

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improves language model (LM) performance by providing relevant context at test time for knowledge-intensive situations. In this work, we system…

cs.CL2025

A Unified Definition of Hallucination: It's The World Model, Stupid!

Emmy Liu, Varun Gangal, Chelsea Zou +7

Despite numerous attempts at mitigation since the inception of language models, hallucinations remain a persistent problem even in today's frontier LLMs. Why is this? We review exi…

cs.CL2024

Sparse Rewards Can Self-Train Dialogue Agents

Barrett Martin Lattimer, Varun Gangal, Ryan McDonald +1

Recent advancements in state-of-the-art (SOTA) Large Language Model (LLM) agents, especially in multi-turn dialogue tasks, have been primarily driven by supervised fine-tuning and…

cs.CL2022

EUREKA: EUphemism Recognition Enhanced through Knn-based methods and Augmentation

Sedrick Scott Keh, Rohit K. Bharadwaj, Emmy Liu +3

We introduce EUREKA, an ensemble-based approach for performing automatic euphemism detection. We (1) identify and correct potentially mislabelled rows in the dataset, (2) curate an…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

PANCETTA: Phoneme Aware Neural Completion to Elicit Tongue Twisters Automatically

Sedrick Scott Keh, Steven Y. Feng, Varun Gangal +2

Tongue twisters are meaningful sentences that are difficult to pronounce. The process of automatically generating tongue twisters is challenging since the generated utterance must…

cs.CL2021★ 25 cited

NL-Augmenter: A Framework for Task-Sensitive Natural Language Augmentation

Kaustubh D. Dhole, Varun Gangal, Sebastian Gehrmann +122

Data augmentation is an important component in the robustness evaluation of models in natural language processing (NLP) and in enhancing the diversity of the data they are trained…

cs.CL2021

Investigating Robustness of Dialog Models to Popular Figurative Language Constructs

Harsh Jhamtani, Varun Gangal, Eduard Hovy +1

Humans often employ figurative language use in communication, including during interactions with dialog systems. Thus, it is important for real-world dialog systems to be able to h…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Coarse2Fine: Fine-grained Text Classification on Coarsely-grained Annotated Data

Dheeraj Mekala, Varun Gangal, Jingbo Shang

Existing text classification methods mainly focus on a fixed label set, whereas many real-world applications require extending to new fine-grained classes as the number of samples…

cs.CL2021

Retrieve, Caption, Generate: Visual Grounding for Enhancing Commonsense in Text Generation Models

Steven Y. Feng, Kevin Lu, Zhuofu Tao +4

We investigate the use of multimodal information contained in images as an effective method for enhancing the commonsense of Transformer models for text generation. We perform expe…