I am a SCAI Center Fellow with Kalika Bali (formerly a Research Intern with Sunayana Sitaram) at Microsoft Research India. Previously, I was a Graduate Research Assistant at AI4Bharat where I was advised by Raj Dabre, Pratyush Kumar and Mitesh Khapra. I am broadly interested in the topics of Multilingualism and Efficient Natural Language Processing (NLP). My focus lies specifically in the areas of Knowledge Distillation, Model Compression and Efficient Training methods for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation Models (MNMT). As we witness the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs), I am particularly intrigued by understanding the limits and capabilities of these powerful language models.
I have been fortunate to work with an amazing set of researchers in the past. During the summer of 2022, I interned at the National University of Singapore with Aditya Karanam. My bachelor thesis at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad was under the guidance of NL Bhanu Murthy. During my pre-final year semester project at BITS Hyderabad, I had the opportunity to work with Barsha Mitra and Soumyadeep Dey.
Teaching is a passion of mine, and I have actively contributed as a Teaching Assistant for various courses. Ranging from Deep Learning, Linear Algebra and Random Processes, Machine Learning, Foundations of Data Science, Data Structures and Algorithms, Discrete Mathematics, Computer Programming, to Introductory Physics, I have engaged with students across both my graduate and undergraduate years.
I graduated with a B.E in Computer Science & Engineering and a Minor in Physics from BITS Pilani, Hyderabad, India in 2021, and subsequently earned my Masters from IIT Madras in 2023. For more details, check my CV or hit me up on my email.
Publications
METAL: Towards Multilingual Meta-Evaluation
Rishav Hada*, *, Maxamed
Axmed, Kalika Bali, Sunayana Sitaram (* = Equal
Contribution)
NAACL '24 | Findings of the Association for
Computational Linguistics
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MEGAVERSE: Benchmarking Large Language Models Across Languages,
Modalities, Models and Tasks
Sanchit Ahuja, Divyanshu Aggarwal, , Ishaan Watts, Ashutosh
Sathe, Millicent Ochieng, Rishav
Hada, Prachi Jain, Maxamed Axmed, Kalika Bali, Sunayana Sitaram
NAACL '24 | 2024 Annual Conference of the
North
American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies
(NAACL-HLT)
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MunTTS: A Text-to-Speech System for Mundari
, Rishav Hada, Aditya Yadavalli, Pamir Gogoi,
Ishani Mondal, Vivek Seshadri, Kalika Bali
ComputEL '24 |
7th
Workshop on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages
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Are Large Language Model-based Evaluators the Solution
to Scaling Up Multilingual Evaluation?
Rishav Hada, , Adrian de Wynter, Harshita Diddee, Maxamed
Axmed, Monojit Choudhury, Kalika Bali, Sunayana Sitaram
EACL '24 | Findings of the Association for
Computational Linguistics
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MAFIA: Multi-Adapter Fused Inclusive LanguAge Models
Prachi Jain*, Ashutosh Sathe*, , Kabir Ahuja, Sunayana
Sitaram
(* = Equal Contribution)
EACL '24 | 18th Conference of the
European
Chapter
of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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IndicTrans2: Towards High-Quality and Accessible Machine
Translation Models for all 22 Scheduled Indian Languages
Jay Gala*, Pranjal A. Chitale*, Raghavan AK, ,
Sumanth Doddapaneni, Aswanth Kumar, Janki Nawale, Anupama Sujatha,
Ratish Puduppully, Vivek Raghavan, Pratyush Kumar,
Mitesh M. Khapra, Raj Dabre, Anoop Kunchukuttan
(* = Equal Contribution)
TMLR '23 | Transactions of Machine Learning
Research
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An Empirical Study of Leveraging Knowledge Distillation for
Compressing Multilingual Neural Machine Translation Models
, Raj Dabre, Pratyush Kumar
EAMT '23 | 24th
Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation
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PAMMELA: Policy Administration Methodology using Machine
Learning
, Barsha Mitra, Soumyadeep Dey, Pratik Shashikantbhai Patel*,
Sourabh Suman*, Saptarshi Das, Jaideep Vaidya
(* = Equal Contribution)
SECRYPT
'22 | 19th International Conference on Security and Cryptography
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