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. View it here: Plausibly Problematic Questions in Multiple-Choice Benchmarks for Commonsense Reasoning!
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. Plausibly Problematic Questions in Multiple-Choice Benchmarks for Commonsense Reasoning
    Shramay Palta, Nishant Balepur , Peter A. Rankel , Sarah Wiegreffe , and 2 more authors
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024 , Nov 2024
  2. Measuring Style Similarity in Diffusion Models
    Gowthami Somepalli , Anubhav Gupta , Kamal Gupta , Shramay Palta, and 4 more authors
    Oct 2024
  3. 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
  4. 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