FIRST: Faster Improved Listwise Reranking with Single Token Decoding (EMNLP 2024)
Research Experience
AI Resident at IBM Research, New York, worked with Vittorio Castelli, Avirup Sil, and Salim Roukos.
Education
PhD student at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, advised by Prof. Heng Ji; Bachelor's degree from Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2018, majoring in computer science, worked with Prof. Mitesh Khapra and Prof. Balaraman Ravindran.
Background
Interested in natural language processing and large language models, particularly in the fields of agentic search, embedding models and reranking, and information-seeking for retrieval-augmented generation.