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Rakesh R. Menon

13 accepted papers

2025

Explaining Differences Between Model Pairs in Natural Language through Sample Learning

EMNLP 2025

With the growing adoption of machine learning models in critical domains, techniques for explaining differences between models have become essential for trust, debugging, and informed deployment. Previous approaches address this by identifying input transformations that cause divergent predictions o

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2025

INTERACT: Enabling Interactive, Question-Driven Learning in Large Language Models

ACL 2025long

Large language models (LLMs) excel at answering questions but remain passive learners—absorbing static data without the ability to question and refine knowledge. This paper explores how LLMs can transition to interactive, question-driven learning through student-teacher dialogues. We introduce INTER…

2024

DISCERN: Decoding Systematic Errors in Natural Language for Text Classifiers

EMNLP 2024main

Despite their high predictive accuracies, current machine learning systems often exhibit systematic biases stemming from annotation artifacts or insufficient support for certain classes in the dataset. Recent work proposes automatic methods for identifying and explaining systematic biases using keyw…

2024

SocialGaze: Improving the Integration of Human Social Norms in Large Language Models

EMNLP 2024finding

While much research has explored enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in the last few years, there is a gap in understanding the alignment of these models with social values and norms. We introduce the task of judging social acceptance. Social acceptance requires mode…

2023

CoAug: Combining Augmentation of Labels and Labelling Rules

ACL 2023findings

Collecting labeled data for Named Entity Recognition (NER) tasks is challenging due to the high cost of manual annotations. Instead, researchers have proposed few-shot self-training and rule-augmentation techniques to minimize the reliance on large datasets. However, inductive biases and restricted…

2023

DelucionQA: Detecting Hallucinations in Domain-specific Question Answering

EMNLP 2023long findings

Hallucination is a well-known phenomenon in text generated by large language models (LLMs). The existence of hallucinatory responses is found in almost all application scenarios e.g., summarization, question-answering (QA) etc. For applications requiring high reliability (e.g., customer-facing assis…

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2023

LaSQuE: Improved Zero-Shot Classification from Explanations Through Quantifier Modeling and Curriculum Learning

ACL 2023findings

A hallmark of human intelligence is the ability to learn new concepts purely from language. Several recent approaches have explored training machine learning models via natural language supervision. However, these approaches fall short in leveraging linguistic quantifiers (such as ‘always’ or ‘rarel…

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2023

Leveraging Multiple Teachers for Test-Time Adaptation of Language-Guided Classifiers

EMNLP 2023long findings

Recent approaches have explored language- guided classifiers capable of classifying examples from novel tasks when provided with task-specific natural language explanations, instructions or prompts (Sanh et al., 2022; R. Menon et al., 2022). While these classifiers can generalize in zero-shot settin…

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2023

Pragmatic Reasoning Unlocks Quantifier Semantics for Foundation Models

EMNLP 2023long main

Generalized quantifiers (e.g., $\textit{few}$, $\textit{most}$) are used to indicate the proportions predicates satisfy (for example, $\textit{some}$ apples are red). One way to interpret quantifier semantics is to explicitly bind these satisfactions with percentage scopes (e.g., 30%-40% of apples a…

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2022

CLUES: A Benchmark for Learning Classifiers using Natural Language Explanations

ACL 2022long

Supervised learning has traditionally focused on inductive learning by observing labeled examples of a task. In contrast, a hallmark of human intelligence is the ability to learn new concepts purely from language. Here, we explore training zero-shot classifiers for structured data purely from langua…

2021

Improving and Simplifying Pattern Exploiting Training

EMNLP 2021main

Recently, pre-trained language models (LMs) have achieved strong performance when fine-tuned on difficult benchmarks like SuperGLUE. However, performance can suffer when there are very few labeled examples available for fine-tuning. Pattern Exploiting Training (PET) is a recent approach that leverag…

2018

The Best of Both Worlds: Combining CNNs and Geometric Constraints for Hierarchical Motion Segmentation

CVPR 2018poster

Traditional methods of motion segmentation use powerful geometric constraints to understand motion, but fail to leverage the semantics of high-level image understanding. Modern CNN methods of motion analysis, on the other hand, excel at identifying well-known structures, but may not precisely charac…

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