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Lahari Poddar

5 accepted papers

2025

Tree-of-Prompts: Abstracting Control-Flow for Prompt Optimization

ACL 2025finding

Prompt optimization (PO) generates prompts to guide Large Language Models (LLMs) in performing tasks. Existing methods, such as PromptAgent, rely on a single static prompt, which struggles with disjoint cases in complex tasks. Although MoP uses multiple prompts, it fails to account for variations in…

2023

Few Shot Rationale Generation using Self-Training with Dual Teachers

ACL 2023findings

Self-rationalizing models that also generate a free-text explanation for their predicted labels are an important tool to build trustworthy AI applications. Since generating explanations for annotated labels is a laborious and costly process, recent models rely on large pretrained language models (PL…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2022

Calibrating Imbalanced Classifiers with Focal Loss: An Empirical Study

EMNLP 2022industry

Imbalanced data distribution is a practical and common challenge in building production-level machine learning (ML) models in industry, where data usually exhibits long-tail distributions. For instance, in virtual AI Assistants, such as Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa and Apple Siri, the “play music”…

Cited by 10SourcePDFScholar
2022

Deploying a Retrieval based Response Model for Task Oriented Dialogues

EMNLP 2022industry

Task-oriented dialogue systems in industry settings need to have high conversational capability, be easily adaptable to changing situations and conform to business constraints. This paper describes a 3-step procedure to develop a conversational model that satisfies these criteria and can efficiently…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2022

DialAug: Mixing up Dialogue Contexts in Contrastive Learning for Robust Conversational Modeling

COLING 2022main

Retrieval-based conversational systems learn to rank response candidates for a given dialogue context by computing the similarity between their vector representations. However, training on a single textual form of the multi-turn context limits the ability of a model to learn representations that gen…