Bhuwan Dhingra

Google AI
Duke University (Fall 2021)

I am currently a research scientist at Google in Seattle. In Fall 2021, I'll be joining Duke University as an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department. I am hiring PhD students, please apply here.

My research focuses on natural language processing, machine learning and knowledge representation. I completed my PhD from the Language Technologies Institute at CMU. My thesis advisers were William Cohen and Russ Salakhutdinov. Before that I did Electrical Engineering at IIT Kanpur, where I worked with Amitabha Mukerjee. In between I worked at Qualcomm Research in San Diego, USA.

Updates

10/20	New preprint on differentiable reasoning for open-ended commonsense QA.
9/20	Paper accepted to EMNLP main conference and another to EMNLP Findings.
7/20	Joined Google Research in Seattle as part of the Language team.
4/20	I successfully defended my thesis! pdf
12/19	Invited talks at IIT Delhi, UMass Amherst and USC.
10/19	Invited talks at Stanford and UC Irvine. details
9/19	PubmedQA dataset, for QA over biomedical research abstracts, released. link

Publications

2020

ToTTo: A Controlled Table-To-Text Generation Dataset arxiv data

@article{parikh2020totto,
title={ToTTo: A Controlled Table-To-Text Generation Dataset},
author={Parikh, Ankur P and Wang, Xuezhi and Gehrmann, Sebastian and Faruqui, Manaal and Dhingra, Bhuwan and Yang, Diyi and Das, Dipanjan},
journal={EMNLP},
year={2020}
}
Ankur P. Parikh, Xuezhi Wang, Sebastian Gehrmann, Manaal Faruqui, Bhuwan Dhingra, Diyi Yang, Dipanjan Das
EMNLP, 2020
Weakly- and Semi-supervised Evidence Extraction arxiv pdf code

@inproceedings{pruthi2020weakly,
title={Weakly- and Semi-supervised Evidence Extraction},
author={Pruthi, Danish and and Dhingra, Bhuwan and Neubig, Graham and Lipton, Zachary C},
booktitle = {Findings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
month = {November},
year = {2020}
}
Danish Pruthi, Bhuwan Dhingra, Graham Neubig, Zachary C. Lipton
Findings of EMNLP, 2020
Learning to Deceive with Attention-Based Explanations arxiv pdf code

@inproceedings{pruthi2020learning,
title={Learning to Deceive with Attention-Based Explanations},
author={Pruthi, Danish and Gupta, Mansi and Dhingra, Bhuwan and Neubig, Graham and Lipton, Zachary C},
booktitle = {The 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
address = {Seattle, USA},
month = {July},
year = {2020}
}
Danish Pruthi, Mansi Gupta, Bhuwan Dhingra, Graham Neubig, Zachary C. Lipton
ACL, 2020
Differentiable Reasoning over a Virtual Knowledge Base openreview pdf code

@inproceedings{dhingra2020differentiable,
title={Differentiable Reasoning over a Virtual Knowledge Base},
author={Dhingra, Bhuwan and Zaheer, Manzil and Balachandran, Vidhisha and Neubig, Graham and Salakhutdinov, Ruslan and Cohen, William W},
booktitle={International Conference on Learning Representations},
year={2019}
}
Bhuwan Dhingra, Manzil Zaheer, Vidhisha Balachandran, Graham Neubig, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, William W. Cohen
ICLR, 2020 (oral, top 2%)

2019

PubMedQA: A Dataset for Biomedical Research Question Answering arxiv pdf code

@inproceedings{jin2019pubmedqa,
title={PubMedQA: A Dataset for Biomedical Research Question Answering},
author={Jin, Qiao and Dhingra, Bhuwan and Liu, Zhengping and Cohen, William and Lu, Xinghua},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP)},
pages={2567--2577},
year={2019}
}
Qiao Jin, Bhuwan Dhingra, Zhengping Liu, William W. Cohen, Xinghua Lu
EMNLP, 2019
Handling Divergent Reference Texts when Evaluating Table-to-Text Generation arxiv pdf code

@inproceedings{dhingra2019handling,
title={Handling divergent reference texts in table-to-text generation},
author={Dhingra, Bhuwan and Faruqui, Manaal and Parikh, Ankur and Chang, Ming-Wei and Das, Dipanjan and Cohen, William W},
booktitle={Proc. of ACL},
year={2019}
}
Bhuwan Dhingra, Manaal Faruqui, Ankur Parikh, Ming-Wei Chang, Dipanjan Das, William W. Cohen
ACL, 2019
Combating Adversarial Misspellings with Robust Word Recognition arxiv pdf code

@article{pruthi2019combating,
title={Combating Adversarial Misspellings with Robust Word Recognition},
author={Pruthi, Danish and Dhingra, Bhuwan and Lipton, Zachary C},
booktitle = {The 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
address = {Florence, Italy},
month = {July},
year = {2019}
}
Danish Pruthi, Bhuwan Dhingra, Zachary C. Lipton
ACL, 2019
Probing Biomedical Embeddings from Language Models arxiv pdf code

@inproceedings{jin2019probing,
title={Probing Biomedical Embeddings from Language Models},
author={Jin, Qiao and Dhingra, Bhuwan and Cohen, William and Lu, Xinghua},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Evaluating Vector Space Representations for NLP},
pages={82--89},
year={2019}
}
Qiao Jin, Bhuwan Dhingra, William W. Cohen, Xinghua Lu
RepEval Workshop, NAACL, 2019
Text Generation with Exemplar-based Adaptive Decoding arxiv pdf code

@InProceedings{peng2019text,
author = {Peng, Hao and Parikh, Ankur P. and Faruqui, Manaal and Dhingra, Bhuwan and Das Dipanjan},
title = {Text Generation with Exemplar-based Adaptive Decoding},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies},
year = {2019}
}
Hao Peng, Ankur P. Parikh, Manaal Faruqui, Bhuwan Dhingra, Dipanjan Das
NAACL, 2019

2018

GLoMo: Unsupervisedly Learned Relational Graphs as Transferable Representations arxiv pdf code

@inproceedings{yang2018glomo,
title={Glomo: Unsupervisedly learned relational graphs as transferable representations},
author={Yang, Zhilin and Zhao, Jake and Dhingra, Bhuwan and He, Kaiming and Cohen, William W and Salakhutdinov, Ruslan and LeCun, Yann},
journal={NIPS},
year={2018}
}
Zhilin Yang*, Jake Zhao*, Bhuwan Dhingra, Kaiming He, William W. Cohen, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Yann LeCun
NIPS, 2018
Open Domain Question Answering Using Early Fusion of Knowledge Bases and Text arxiv pdf code

@article{sun2018open,
title={Open Domain Question Answering Using Early Fusion of Knowledge Bases and Text},
author={Sun, Haitian and Dhingra, Bhuwan and Zaheer, Manzil and Mazaitis, Kathryn and Salakhutdinov, Ruslan and Cohen, William W},
journal={EMNLP},
year={2018}
}
Haitian Sun*, Bhuwan Dhingra*, Manzil Zaheer, Kathryn Mazaitis, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, William W. Cohen
EMNLP, 2018
AttentionMeSH: Simple, Effective and Interpretable Automatic MeSH Indexer aclweb pdf code

@inproceedings{jin-etal-2018-attentionmesh,
title = "{A}ttention{M}e{SH}: Simple, Effective and Interpretable Automatic {M}e{SH} Indexer",
author = "Jin, Qiao and
Dhingra, Bhuwan and
Cohen, William and
Lu, Xinghua",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 6th {B}io{ASQ} Workshop A challenge on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering",
month = nov,
year = "2018",
address = "Brussels, Belgium",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W18-5306",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-5306",
pages = "47--56",
}
Qiao Jin*, Bhuwan Dhingra*, William W. Cohen, Xinghua Lu
BioASQ Workshop, 2018
Answering Cloze-style Software Questions Using Stack Overflow pdf

@inproceedings{winstonanswering,
title={Answering Cloze-style Software Questions Using Stack Overflow},
author={Winston, Ezra and Dhingra, Bhuwan and Mazaitis, Kathryn and Neubig, Graham and Cohen, William W},
journal={Machine Learning for Programming},
year={2018}
}
Ezra Winston, Bhuwan Dhingra, Kathryn Mazaitis, Graham Neubig, William Cohen
Machine Learning for Programming, 2018
Embedding Text in Hyperbolic Spaces arxiv pdf

@inproceedings{dhingra-etal-2018-embedding,
title = "Embedding Text in Hyperbolic Spaces",
author = "Dhingra, Bhuwan and
Shallue, Christopher and
Norouzi, Mohammad and
Dai, Andrew and
Dahl, George",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Twelfth Workshop on Graph-Based Methods for Natural Language Processing ({T}ext{G}raphs-12)",
month = jun,
year = "2018",
address = "New Orleans, Louisiana, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W18-1708",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-1708",
pages = "59--69",
}
Bhuwan Dhingra, Christopher J. Shallue, Mohammad Norouzi, Andrew M. Dai, George E. Dahl
TextGraphs Workshop, 2018
Neural Models for Reasoning over Multiple Mentions using Coreference arxiv pdf code

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/naacl/DhingraJYCS18,
author = {Bhuwan Dhingra and
Qiao Jin and
Zhilin Yang and
William W. Cohen and
Ruslan Salakhutdinov},
title = {Neural Models for Reasoning over Multiple Mentions Using Coreference},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of
the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies,
NAACL-HLT, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, June 1-6, 2018, Volume 2 (Short
Papers)},
pages = {42--48},
year = {2018},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/naacl/2018-2},
url = {https://aclanthology.info/papers/N18-2007/n18-2007},
timestamp = {Wed, 30 May 2018 15:04:59 +0200},
biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/bib/conf/naacl/DhingraJYCS18},
bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}
Bhuwan Dhingra, Qiao Jin, Zhilin Yang, William W. Cohen, Ruslan Salakhutdinov
NAACL, 2018 (Short Paper)
Simple and Effective Semi-Supervised Question Answering arxiv pdf data

@inproceedings{dhingra-etal-2018-simple,
title = "Simple and Effective Semi-Supervised Question Answering",
author = "Dhingra, Bhuwan and
Danish, Danish and
Rajagopal, Dheeraj",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North {A}merican Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers)",
month = jun,
year = "2018",
address = "New Orleans, Louisiana",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N18-2092",
doi = "10.18653/v1/N18-2092",
pages = "582--587",
}
Bhuwan Dhingra*, Danish Pruthi*, Dheeraj Rajagopal*
NAACL, 2018 (Short Paper)

2017

Towards End-to-End Reinforcement Learning of Dialogue Agents for Information Access arxiv pdf code

@inproceedings{dhingra-etal-2017-towards,
title = "Towards End-to-End Reinforcement Learning of Dialogue Agents for Information Access",
author = "Dhingra, Bhuwan and
Li, Lihong and
Li, Xiujun and
Gao, Jianfeng and
Chen, Yun-Nung and
Ahmed, Faisal and
Deng, Li",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = jul,
year = "2017",
address = "Vancouver, Canada",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P17-1045",
doi = "10.18653/v1/P17-1045",
pages = "484--495",
}
Bhuwan Dhingra, Lihong Li, Xiujun Li, Jianfeng Gao, Yun-Nung Chen, Faisal Ahmed, Li Deng
ACL, 2017
Gated-Attention Readers for Text Comprehension arxiv pdf code

@inproceedings{dhingra-etal-2017-gated,
title = "Gated-Attention Readers for Text Comprehension",
author = "Dhingra, Bhuwan and
Liu, Hanxiao and
Yang, Zhilin and
Cohen, William and
Salakhutdinov, Ruslan",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = jul,
year = "2017",
address = "Vancouver, Canada",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P17-1168",
doi = "10.18653/v1/P17-1168",
pages = "1832--1846",
}
Bhuwan Dhingra*, Hanxiao Liu*, Zhilin Yang, William W. Cohen, Ruslan Salakhutdinov
ACL, 2017
Words or Characters? Fine-grained Gating for Reading Comprehension arxiv pdf code

@article{yang2016words,
title={Words or characters? fine-grained gating for reading comprehension},
author={Yang, Zhilin and Dhingra, Bhuwan and Yuan, Ye and Hu, Junjie and Cohen, William W and Salakhutdinov, Ruslan},
journal={ICLR},
year={2017}
}
Zhilin Yang, Bhuwan Dhingra, Ye Yuan, Junjie Hu, William W. Cohen, Ruslan Salakhutdinov
ICLR, 2017
Bootstrapping Distantly Supervised IE using Joint Learning and Small Well-structured Corpora arxiv pdf

@inproceedings{bing2017bootstrapping,
title={Bootstrapping distantly supervised IE using joint learning and small well-structured corpora},
author={Bing, Lidong and Dhingra, Bhuwan and Mazaitis, Kathryn and Park, Jong Hyuk and Cohen, William W},
booktitle={Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year={2017}
}
Lidong Bing, Bhuwan Dhingra, Kathryn Mazaitis, Jong Hyuk Park, William W. Cohen
AAAI, 2017

2016

Tweet2Vec: Character-Based Distributed Representations for Social Media arxiv pdf code

@inproceedings{dhingra-etal-2016-tweet2vec,
title = "{T}weet2{V}ec: Character-Based Distributed Representations for Social Media",
author = "Dhingra, Bhuwan and
Zhou, Zhong and
Fitzpatrick, Dylan and
Muehl, Michael and
Cohen, William",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)",
month = aug,
year = "2016",
address = "Berlin, Germany",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P16-2044",
doi = "10.18653/v1/P16-2044",
pages = "269--274",
}
Bhuwan Dhingra, Zhong Zhou, Dylan Fitzpatrick, Michael Muehl, William W. Cohen
ACL, 2016 (Short Paper)
Using Graphs of Classifiers to Impose Constraints on Semi-supervised Relation Extraction arxiv pdf

@inproceedings{bing2016using,
title={Using Graphs of Classifiers to Impose Constraints on Semi-supervised Relation Extraction},
author={Bing, Lidong and Cohen, William and Dhingra, Bhuwan and Wang, Richard C},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Automated Knowledge Base Construction},
pages={1--6},
year={2016}
}
Lidong Bing, William W. Cohen, Bhuwan Dhingra, Richard C. Wang
WAKBC, 2016

Earlier

Local Quadrature Reconstruction on Smooth Manifolds pdf webpage

@mastersthesis{dhingra2013local,
title={Local Quadrature Reconstruction on Smooth Manifolds},
author={Dhingra, Bhuwan},
year={2013},
school={INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, KANPUR}
}
Bhuwan Dhingra
Master's Thesis, 2013
Stock market prediction using hidden markov models ieee-xplore pdf

@inproceedings{gupta2012stock,
title={Stock market prediction using hidden markov models},
author={Gupta, Aditya and Dhingra, Bhuwan},
booktitle={2012 Students Conference on Engineering and Systems},
pages={1--4},
year={2012},
organization={IEEE}
}
Aditya Gupta, Bhuwan Dhingra
IEEE-SCES, 2012

(* Equal Contribution)

Preprints

Differentiable Open-Ended Commonsense Reasoning arxiv
Bill Yuchen Lin, Haitian Sun, Bhuwan Dhingra, Manzil Zaheer, Xiang Ren, William W. Cohen
2020
Quasar: Datasets for Question Answering by Search and Reading arxiv data
Bhuwan Dhingra, Kathryn Mazaitis, William W. Cohen
2017
Linguistic Knowledge as Memory for Recurrent Neural Networks arxiv pdf
Bhuwan Dhingra, Zhilin Yang, William W. Cohen, Ruslan Salakhutdinov
2017
A Comparative Study of Word Embeddings for Reading Comprehension arxiv pdf code
Bhuwan Dhingra, Hanxiao Liu, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, William W. Cohen
2017
Question Answering from Unstructured Text by Retrieval and Comprehension arxiv pdf
Yusuke Watanabe, Bhuwan Dhingra, Ruslan Salakhutdinov
2017
A User Simulator for Task-Completion Dialogues arxiv pdf code
Xiujun Li, Zachary C. Lipton, Bhuwan Dhingra, Lihong Li, Jianfeng Gao, Yun-Nung Chen
2016

Patents

End-to-end learning of dialogue agents for information access application
Lihong Li, Bhuwan Dhingra, Jianfeng Gao, Xiujun Li, Yun-Nung Chen, Li Deng, Faisal Ahmed
Filed 2017
Context aware system with multiple power consumption modes application
Tadeusz Jarosinski, Shankar Sadasivam, Ryan Carey, Jinwon Lee, Bhuwan Dhingra,
Abhijeet Bisain, Vitor Carvalho, Rajeev Jain, Muralidhar Akula, Ashwin Swaminathan
Filed 2015
Smartphone motion classifier application
Vitor Carvalho, Bhuwan Dhingra, Edward Harrison Teague, Siddika Parlak Polatkan, Shankar Sadasivam, Carlos Manuel Puig
Filed 2015
Detecting that a mobile device is riding with a vehicle application
Leonard Henry Grokop, and Bhuwan Dhingra
Filed 2012