Debjit Paul
Hi there! I'm a Postdoctoral Researcher working with Boi Faltings, Robert West, and Antoine Bosselut at EPFL. Before EPFL, I completed my Ph.D. under the supervision of Anette Frank in the Department of Computational Linguistics at Heidelberg University and also a part of Research Training Group AIPHES.
My overarching research objective is to enhance the reasoning capabilities of NLP systems by advancing their ability to understand the complex interplay between language, knowledge representation, and cognitive reasoning processes. To accomplish this goal, I have focused my investigations in three areas:
My overarching research objective is to enhance the reasoning capabilities of NLP systems by advancing their ability to understand the complex interplay between language, knowledge representation, and cognitive reasoning processes. To accomplish this goal, I have focused my investigations in three areas:
- Reasoning with knowledge representations - NLP systems must be grounded by knowledge dynamics to generalize to unseen situations robustly. My research has focused on designing computational models capable of reasoning over knowledge.
- Learning to generate explanations for reasoning - When a model explains its decision-making steps or logical steps it took to reach that conclusion, it enhances transparency and helps build trust in the system. My research has focused on designing computational models that generate explanations before making the final decisions.
- Aligning Models with Human or AI Feedback - Text generation models are observed to display undesired and inconsistent behaviours, such as hallucination and unfaithful reasoning. My research has focused on designing methods to rectify the undesired behaviours of text generation models through interaction.
News
Feb 21, 2024 | Check out our new preprint paper Making Reasoning Matter: Measuring and Improving Faithfulness of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning |
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Jan 20, 2024 | REFINER got accepted at EACL main conference 2024. See you in Malta |
Oct 9, 2023 | Two papers got accepted at EMNLP 2023. See you in Singapore |
Aug 13, 2023 | I am on the academic and industry job market. If you think my background can be a good fit, I’d be happy to discuss! |
Aug 2, 2023 | Check out our new preprint paper Flows: Building Blocks of Reasoning and Collaborating AI |