Shramay Palta

Ph.D. Student in Computer Science | NLP Researcher

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I am a fourth year Ph.D. Student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park where I am advised by Professor Rachel Rudinger.

I am a member of the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing (CLIP) Lab in UMIACS.

My research interests broadly lie in the areas of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing with a focus on Commonsense Reasoning, Explainability and Interpretability, and Bias and Fairness in NLP.

I got my Master of Science in Computer Science from UMD in 2023. Before coming to Maryland, I graduated from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani in 2021 with a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

For Summer 2024, I was a research intern in the Special Projects group at Microsoft Research with Scott Counts, where I worked on understanding how user experience is impacted in cases of model mis-alignment with human values.

News

Sep 20, 2024 One paper accepted to the Findings of EMNLP 2024. Details coming soon!
Jul 03, 2024 One paper accepted to ECCV 2024. View it here: Measuring Style Similarity in Diffusion Models!
May 28, 2024 Started my internship at Microsoft Research.
May 15, 2024 One paper accepted to the Findings of ACL 2024. View it here: It’s Not Easy Being Wrong: Large Language Models Struggle with Process of Elimination Reasoning.
Apr 04, 2024 I will be joining Microsoft Research as a Research Intern over the Summer working with Scott Counts and the Special Projects Team!

Selected Publications

  1. Measuring Style Similarity in Diffusion Models
    Gowthami Somepalli , Anubhav Gupta , Kamal Gupta , Shramay Palta, and 4 more authors
    Oct 2024
  2. It’s Not Easy Being Wrong: Large Language Models Struggle with Process of Elimination Reasoning
    Nishant Balepur , Shramay Palta, and Rachel Rudinger
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024 , Aug 2024
  3. FORK: A Bite-Sized Test Set for Probing Culinary Cultural Biases in Commonsense Reasoning Models
    Shramay Palta, and Rachel Rudinger
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023 , Jul 2023