Papers by Avishek Lahiri
Do Neural Topic Models Really Need Dropout? Analysis of the Effect of Dropout in Topic Modeling (2023.eacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Dropout is a regularization trick used to resolve overfitting in large feedforward neural networks, but there is nil analysis of it for unsupervised models and in particular, VAE-based neural topic models. |
| Approach: | They propose to use dropout to solve overfitting problems in unsupervised neural topic models by stochastically dropping out the activation of neurons to prevent complex co-adaptations of feature vectors. |
| Outcome: | The proposed class of neural topic models can be used to improve the quality and predictive performance of the generated topics. |
Few-TK: A Dataset for Few-shot Scientific Typed Keyphrase Recognition (2024.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Named Entities are a common form of Information Extraction (IE) tasks for scientific texts. |
| Approach: | They propose a rechristening of Named Entities as Typed Keyphrases (TK) they advocate for exploring this task in the few-shot domain due to the scarcity of labeled scientific IE data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset includes scientific Typed Keyphrase annotations on abstracts of 500 research papers. |
TaxoAlign: Scholarly Taxonomy Generation Using Language Models (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for taxonomy generation do not compare structure of generated surveys with those written by human experts. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that bridges the gap between human-generated and automatically-created taxonomies. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method surpasses baselines on CS-TaxoBench on nearly all metrics. |