3 papers
cs.IR2026
Dialogue to Discovery: Attribute-Aware Preference Elicitation for Conversational Product Search Assistants
Sarthak Harne, Natwar Modani, Debabrata Mahapatra +1
Conversational product search assistants offer a more expressive, natural, and interactive alternative to traditional keyword-based product search. With limited screen space, showi…
cs.LG2026
Improving Selective Classification with Pairwise Queries for Binary Classification
Harsh Vardhan, Sunav Choudhary, Natwar Modani +1
In selective classification, a model predicts the labels of data samples where it is confident, and abstains from predicting labels for samples on which it is not confident. The re…
cs.CL2024
StructFormer: Document Structure-based Masked Attention and its Impact on Language Model Pre-Training
Kaustubh Ponkshe, Venkatapathy Subramanian, Natwar Modani +1
Most state-of-the-art techniques for Language Models (LMs) today rely on transformer-based architectures and their ubiquitous attention mechanism. However, the exponential growth i…