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20172026
most citedSyntax-Infused Transformer and BERT models for Machine Translation and Natural Language Understanding

37 citations · 52 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CL2026

FLARE: Few-shot Learning-based Adaptive Reflective Engine

Dhanasekar Sundararaman, Bharat Gandhi, Aashna Garg +1

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in complex, compound AI systems where performance hinges on the quality of prompts. Recent state-of-the-art optimizers like G…

cs.CL2025

LOCUS: A System and Method for Low-Cost Customization for Universal Specialization

Dhanasekar Sundararaman, Keying Li, Wayne Xiong +1

We present LOCUS (LOw-cost Customization for Universal Specialization), a pipeline that consumes few-shot data to streamline the construction and training of NLP models through tar…

cs.CV2025

Evaluating Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models based on Context-Aware Object Similarities

Shounak Datta, Dhanasekar Sundararaman

Despite their impressive performance on multi-modal tasks, large vision-language models (LVLMs) tend to suffer from hallucinations. An important type is object hallucination, where…

cs.CL2022

Pseudo-OOD training for robust language models

Dhanasekar Sundararaman, Nikhil Mehta, Lawrence Carin

While pre-trained large-scale deep models have garnered attention as an important topic for many downstream natural language processing (NLP) tasks, such models often make unreliab…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Debiasing Gender Bias in Information Retrieval Models

Dhanasekar Sundararaman, Vivek Subramanian

Biases in culture, gender, ethnicity, etc. have existed for decades and have affected many areas of human social interaction. These biases have been shown to impact machine learnin…

cs.CL2022

Improving Downstream Task Performance by Treating Numbers as Entities

Dhanasekar Sundararaman, Vivek Subramanian, Guoyin Wang +2

Numbers are essential components of text, like any other word tokens, from which natural language processing (NLP) models are built and deployed. Though numbers are typically not a…

cs.CL2021★ 4 cited

How do lexical semantics affect translation? An empirical study

Vivek Subramanian, Dhanasekar Sundararaman

Neural machine translation (NMT) systems aim to map text from one language into another. While there are a wide variety of applications of NMT, one of the most important is transla…

cs.CL2019★ 37 cited

Syntax-Infused Transformer and BERT models for Machine Translation and Natural Language Understanding

Dhanasekar Sundararaman, Vivek Subramanian, Guoyin Wang +4

Attention-based models have shown significant improvement over traditional algorithms in several NLP tasks. The Transformer, for instance, is an illustrative example that generates…

cs.CL2019★ 10 cited

Learning Compressed Sentence Representations for On-Device Text Processing

Dinghan Shen, Pengyu Cheng, Dhanasekar Sundararaman +5

Vector representations of sentences, trained on massive text corpora, are widely used as generic sentence embeddings across a variety of NLP problems. The learned representations a…

cs.SI2017

TweetIT- Analyzing Topics for Twitter Users to garner Maximum Attention

Dhanasekar Sundararaman, Priya Arora, Vishwanath Seshagiri

Twitter, a microblogging service, is todays most popular platform for communication in the form of short text messages, called Tweets. Users use Twitter to publish their content ei…

cs.CY2017

How much is my car worth? A methodology for predicting used cars prices using Random Forest

Nabarun Pal, Priya Arora, Dhanasekar Sundararaman +2

Cars are being sold more than ever. Developing countries adopt the lease culture instead of buying a new car due to affordability. Therefore, the rise of used cars sales is exponen…

cs.CY2017

Rating the online review rating system using Yelp

Dhanasekar S, Balaji

The impact of ratings on a restaurant plays a major role in attracting future customers to that restaurant. The word of mouth has been systematically replaced with the online revie…

cs.SI2017

Twigraph: Discovering and Visualizing Influential Words between Twitter Profiles

Dhanasekar Sundararaman, Sudharshan Srinivasan

The social media craze is on an ever increasing spree, and people are connected with each other like never before, but these vast connections are visually unexplored. We propose a…