Papers by Ankit Jain
Best Practices for Data-Efficient Modeling in NLG:How to Train Production-Ready Neural Models with Less Data (2020.coling-industry)
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Ankit Arun, Soumya Batra, Vikas Bhardwaj, Ashwini Challa, Pinar Donmez, Peyman Heidari, Hakan Inan, Shashank Jain, Anuj Kumar, Shawn Mei, Karthik Mohan, Michael White
| Challenge: | Natural language generation (NLG) is a critical component in conversational systems . Traditionally, NLG components have been deployed using template-based solutions . however, deployment of such model-based systems has been challenging due to high latency and data needs. |
| Approach: | They propose a family of techniques to deploy data-efficient neural solutions for NLG in conversational systems to production. |
| Outcome: | The proposed techniques achieve production quality with light-weight neural network models using fraction of the data needed otherwise. |
Jailbreak-Zero: A Path to Pareto Optimal Red Teaming for Large Language Models (2026.acl-long)
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Kai Hu, Abhinav Aggarwal, Mehran Khodabandeh, David Zhang, Eric Hsin, Li Chen, Ankit Jain, Matt Fredrikson, Akash Bharadwaj
| Challenge: | Existing approaches to red teaming are based on example-based evaluation, where a static list of specific prompts is used to define and measure "unsafe content" |
| Approach: | They propose a new automated red teaming framework that shifts from example-based to policy-based evaluation that focuses on risk coverage, semantic diversity, and fidelity. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves superior, human-readable attacks against open-source and proprietary models even for unseen safety policies. |
Red-Teaming NSFW Image Classifiers as Text-to-Image Safeguards (2026.findings-acl)
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Tinghao Xie, Yueqi Xie, Alireza Zareian, Shuming Hu, Felix Juefei-Xu, Xiaowen Lin, Ankit Jain, Prateek Mittal, Li Chen
| Challenge: | Not Safe for Work (NSFW) image classifiers play a critical role in safeguarding text-to-image systems. |
| Approach: | They propose an automated red-teaming framework that leverages a set of generative AI tools to uncover NSFW image failures. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework uncovers and interprets failure modes and enables it to be applied to real-world T2I and T2V systems. |
Building Adaptive Acceptability Classifiers for Neural NLG (2021.emnlp-main)
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Soumya Batra, Shashank Jain, Peyman Heidari, Ankit Arun, Catharine Youngs, Xintong Li, Pinar Donmez, Shawn Mei, Shiunzu Kuo, Vikas Bhardwaj, Anuj Kumar, Michael White
| Challenge: | Existing approaches to generate synthetic data using simple sentence transformations and/or model-based techniques may not generate realistic error samples with respect to the NLG models. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework to train models to classify acceptability of responses generated by natural language generation models using a 2-stage approach . they use existing sentence transformations to generate samples that better resemble the output of the generation models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms existing techniques and can be used in few-shot settings using self-training. |