Welcome to Yaswanth’s Homepage!

I am a Fifth-year Dual Degree Undergraduate student at the Center for Excellence in Artificial Intelligence , Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. I am also an undergraduate researcher at the Complex Networks Research Group, IIT Kharagpur under the supervision of Prof. Pawan Goyal for the past 1.5 years. If you have any ideas that you would like to collaborate on, hit me up!

Publications 📚

• DepNeCTI: Dependency-based Nested Compound Type Identification for Sanskrit
  First Author Long Paper, Accepted at EMNLP 2023 (Findings) 📄 [Paper], [Code]

Research Internships 🧪

News 🏆📚

• [Oct 2023] Azure A100 Deployment: Launched my first A100 (80GB GPU) Server on Azure with 220GB RAM and 24 vCPUs. 🚀
• [Oct 2023] EMNLP 2023: First author long paper accepted at EMNLP 2023 (Findings). 🎉
• [Sep 2023] Master’s Thesis Grant: Secured a $20,000 grant from Microsoft’s Foundation Models Research initiative for my masters thesis in Large Language Models. 🤖
• [Sep 2023] EMNLP 2023: Served as a Student Paper Reviewer. 🔍
• [Aug - Nov 2023] Artificial Intelligence Foundations and Applications: Worked as a Teaching Assistant for the course in 2023. 👨‍🏫
• [Apr 2023] Best Bachelor’s Thesis Award: Received the highest grade in the entire Computer Science Department for my Bachelor’s thesis. 🥇
• [Apr 2023] Best Term Paper: Awarded for the courses “Natural Language Processing”, “AI Design Lab”, and “AI Foundations & Applications”. 📝
• [Jul 2022] Masters Selection: Achieved 17th rank out of 1600 3rd-year students in the selection for Masters in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at IIT Kharagpur. 🎓
• [Apr 2021] E-commerce Website: Developed an e-commerce website and deployed it on an AWS EC2 server with Amazon S3 for image storage and leveraged AWS Cloudfront for Content Delivery Network (CDN) distribution. 💻
• NLP Reading Group: Co-founded the Natural Language Processing Reading Group. 📖
• Machine and Deep Learning Summer Schools: Acted as a Co-Instructor for summer schools at IIT Kharagpur in 2021 and 2022. ☀️
• Mentorship: Provided guidance and mentorship to 8 students over 2 years. 👥

Research Experience

📊 Automatic Evaluation Framework for Language Generation using LLMs [August 2023 - Present]

• Microsoft Research India: Proposed a 2-stage evaluation framework with a group of LLMs like Llama 2, GPT-4, Falcon, etc., for automatic evaluation of NLG. The proposed framework is a zero-shot solution, which can be the next SOTA and correlate better with human evaluation.

📑 Event Extraction using Large Language Models [October 2023 - Present]

• University of Texas, Dallas: Leading a research project focusing on document-level and sentence-level event extraction with GPT-3.5, GPT-4 and various open source Large Language Models.

📚 Citation Integrity [June 2023 - September 2023]

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Developed a new dataset, examined the integrity of citations, and classified them into categories, such as “irrelevant citation,” while also extracting evidence from the cited papers.

🌐 Machine Translation using Large Language Models [May 2023 - Sept 2023]

• University of California, Berkeley: Enhanced 500K lines of machine translation data with synthetic generation from LLMs, employing Google-OCR, BERT-based aligners, and Sandhi splitting techniques. Notably increased BLEU scores by 10% using the “No Language Left Behind” (NLLB) model and advanced post-processing methods.

🚦 Compressing Yolo Object Detection using NN-LUT [August 2023 - September 2023]

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur: Developed a pedestrian detection system with YOLOv4 architecture, trained on the EuroCity Persons dataset and compressed the model using Neural Network based Look up table for self driving cars. Also deployed a GRU model with autoencoder for intrusion detection using CAN dataset.

🧩 Nested Compound Parsing and Type Identification [December 2022 - April 2023]

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur: Introduced a novel task, dataset and framework focused on identifying correct parsing and semantic relations between components of compounds in Sanskrit.

💡 Commonsense Injection to Multimodal Reasoning Models [February 2023 - April 2023]

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur: Proposed a method to mitigate common sense mistakes made by the Multimodal Chain-of-Thought reasoning in language models by incorporating commonsense knowledge via knowledge graphs.

❓ Asking Clarifying Questions for Dialogue Systems [February 2023 - April 2023]

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur: Focused on Asking Clarifying Questions in an open-domain language system, encompassing two subtasks: determining when to ask a clarifying question and which question to ask.

🏷️ Semantic Tag Recommendation Framework for Quotes [August 2022 - November 2022]

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur: Predicted various relevant tags from a list of 39,000 available categories for a given Quote and used the context of each Quote as well.

🧠 Research Interests

My research interests lie majorly in the following broad domains:

• 📝 Natural Language Processing
• 🤖 Large Language Models
  • 🖼️ Multimodality
  • 🧐 Reasoning
  • 💭 Hallucinations
  • ✅ Evaluation

✍️ Blog Posts

• Creating Automatic Knowledge Graphs from Pre-trained Language Models: Dive into the process of generating knowledge graphs using the power of pre-trained language models.

🎉 Hobbies & Interests

• ♟️ Chess Enthusiast: I’m an avid chess player and have won multiple district-level tournaments. Fancy a game? Find me on chess.com and let’s play!
• 🏀 Basketball & 🏐 Volleyball: Whether it’s shooting hoops or spiking the ball, I love staying active and playing sports in my free time.
• 👨‍🍳 Cooking & 🌎 Travelling: Exploring new cuisines and cultures is my passion. I find joy in cooking up a storm in the kitchen and embarking on culinary adventures.
• 🧘‍♂️ Meditation: In the midst of life’s hustle and bustle, I find peace and rejuvenation through meditation. It’s my way of staying grounded and mindful.
• 🧢 High School Captain: I took on the mantle of leadership in high school, guiding and inspiring my peers as the school captain.