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Surgan Jandial

5 accepted papers

2025

On the Fine-Grained Planning Abilities of VLM Web Agents

EMNLP 2025

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown promise as web agents, yet their planning—the ability to devise strategies or action sequences to complete tasks—remains understudied. While prior works focus on VLM’s perception and overall success rates (i.e., goal completion), fine-grained investigation of

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

All Should Be Equal in the Eyes of LMs: Counterfactually Aware Fair Text Generation

AAAI 2024technical

Fairness in Language Models (LMs) remains a long-standing challenge, given the inherent biases in training data that can be perpetuated by models and affect the downstream tasks. Recent methods employ expensive retraining or attempt debiasing during inference by constraining model outputs to contras…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

Evaluating the Efficacy of Prompting Techniques for Debiasing Language Model Outputs (Student Abstract)

AAAI 2024technical

Achieving fairness in Large Language Models (LLMs) continues to pose a persistent challenge, as these models are prone to inheriting biases from their training data, which can subsequently impact their performance in various applications. There is a need to systematically explore whether structured…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2024

“Thinking” Fair and Slow: On the Efficacy of Structured Prompts for Debiasing Language Models

EMNLP 2024main

Existing debiasing techniques are typically training-based or require access to the model’s internals and output distributions, so they are inaccessible to end-users looking to adapt LLM outputs for their particular needs. In this study, we examine whether structured prompting techniques can offer o…

Cited by 11SourcePDFScholar
2022

Distilling the Undistillable: Learning from a Nasty Teacher

ECCV 2022poster

"The inadvertent stealing of private/sensitive information using Knowledge Distillation (KD) has been getting significant attention recently and has guided subsequent defense efforts considering its critical nature. Recent work \textit{Nasty Teacher} proposed to develop teachers which can not be dis…