We are making our seminar free for all to join. So if you are interested in this talk, please register. Zhe is obviously a big industry researcher figure and we are keen on learning how industry is working on building multimodal LLMs.

As we continue our Seminar series, we invite David to provide a computational social science perspective amidst the LLM boom. Join in and register to attend the talk and hear from him.

📢 We'll present our work Efficient Question-Answering and Planning: "DyPlan" at #NAACL2025 on Thursday, 2 pm in Session 5 on Question-Answering in Hall 3. Unfortunately, I'll not be present, but say hi to Pradyot Prakash, who will present the work.

#GPT4o image generation brings synthetic visual data quality to the next level. 🖼️ 🤔Is synthetic visual data finally ready to be used for improving VLMs? 🚀 We show success with CoDA, using contrastive visual data augmentation to help teach VLMs novel and confusing concepts.

Really thrilled to host my IITB senior Aditya Kusupati for our UCLA NLP Seminar talk. His work lays strong principles for balancing efficiency and performance in LLMs. Sign up on the google form to attend his talk!

🚨 New Blog Drop! 🚀 "Reflection on Knowledge Editing: Charting the Next Steps" is live! 💡 Ever wondered why knowledge editing in LLMs still feels more like a lab experiment than a real-world solution? In this post, we dive deep into where the research is thriving — and where

Now accepted to #ACL2025 main conference! 🎉

🌏How culturally safe are large vision-language models? 👉LVLMs often miss the mark. We introduce CROSS, a benchmark of 1,284 image-query pairs across 16 countries & 14 languages, revealing how LVLMs violate cultural norms in context. ⚖️ Evaluation via CROSS-EVAL 🧨 Safety

Attending my first CV conference 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 as an NLPer! So excited to connect with more people! Check out our💥𝐕𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐎💥benchmark for VLM self-critique and correction at Poster #396, Friday, 2-4pm. We're also presenting at BEAM workshop on Wednesday: beam-workshop2025.github.io

Excited to share that I will be internship this summer at Bloomberg with @yunmochen and Ella Hofmann-Coyle as part of my Bloomberg Data Science PhD Fellowship! Would be keen on meeting folks in NYC as well as making new friends this summer! 🗽🌞