Khyathi Raghavi Chandu

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I am a Research Scientist in the Mosaic working with Yejin Choi and the team at the Allen Institute of AI. Prior to this, I completed my Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University on grounded multimodal long-form generation from the Language Technologies Institute advised by Alan W. Black, Eric Nyberg and Yonatan Bisk. My current focus is centered on three primary pillars:

  • Science of LMs: Improving reliability and awareness in LLMs and VLMs with a focus on reducing hallucinations.
  • Multimodal distillation: Syngergizing LLMs and VLMs to assist each other.
  • Interactive Agents for reasoning and generation: Teaching machines to plan and execute in complex interactive tasks.

I am also excited about inference time algorithms, multilinguality and alignment. Get in touch if you want to chat, I’m open to collaborations or brainstorming!

I am fortunate to have been selected as a Rising Star by UC Berkeley. I am very passionate about DEI and co-chaired Academic Inclusion sub-committee multiple years at ACL 2020, ACL 2021, NAACL 2022 and co-organized Widening NLP in 2020 and 2021. I am very active in participating in community activities, organized several *CL workshops at conferences and served as Area Chair at AACL 2023. I am fortunate to have worked with amazing researchers in my past internships at Google, Apple and Meta.

News

Dec 4, 2023 Traveling to EMNLP to present works with my collaborators on Inference time Policy Adapters, Continual DST, NovaCOMET.
Dec 4, 2023 Organizing workshops on NILLI and GEM at EMNLP 2023. Stay tuned for awesome keynote talks and presentations!
Dec 4, 2023 Tulu and Localized Symbolic Knowledge Distillation for Visual Commonsense Reasoning are coming to Neurips next week!
Nov 15, 2023 New preprint: 🪄 Lumos Agent (with AI2 intern Da Yin from UCLA)
Oct 31, 2023 New paper alert! The Generative AI Paradox: What It Can Create, It May Not Understand is out.
Oct 1, 2023 2 papers accepted at Neurips and 3 papers at EMNLP!
Jul 14, 2023 Organized Workshop on Narrtive Understanding at ACL 2023.
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