Sawan Kumar

PhD Student,

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

sawankumar@iisc.ac.in

sawan.iitkgp@gmail.com

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I am a PhD student at the Department of Department of Computational and Data Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. I am currently working under the guidance of Dr. Partha Pratim Talukdar in the broad areas of Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing at Machine and Language Learning Lab.

Interests

I am interested in Machine Learning (ML), and Natural Language Processing (NLP). My current research focus is on usage of textual descriptions to aid learning in general, and enabling few/zero-shot learning in particular. I am also interested in generating natural language explanations for machine learning tasks.

Selected Publications


Answer-level Calibration for Free-form Multiple Choice Question Answering
Sawan Kumar
The 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2022)
Reordering Examples Helps during Priming-based Few-Shot Learning [code]
Sawan Kumar and Partha Talukdar
Findings of ACL 2021. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Natural Language Inference with Faithful Natural Language Explanations [code]
Sawan Kumar and Partha Talukdar
The 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2020)
Improving Answer Selection and Answer Triggering using Hard Negatives
Sawan Kumar, Shweta Garg, Kartik Mehta and Nikhil Rasiwasia
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2019) , Hong Kong, China
Zero-shot Word Sense Disambiguation using Sense Definition Embeddings [code]
Sawan Kumar, Sharmistha Jat, Karan Saxena and Partha Talukdar
The 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2019), Florence, Italy

Recipient of Outstanding Paper Award



ReAl-LiFE: Accelerating the Discovery of Individualized Brain Connectomes on GPUs [code]
Sawan Kumar*, Varsha Sreenivasan*, Partha Talukdar, Franco Pestilli, Devarajan Sridharan
Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-19), Hawaii, USA
(*: Equal contributions)

Sawan Kumar — sawankumar@iisc.ac.in