Publications

2024

  1. Preprint
    Reverse Question Answering: Can an LLM Write a Question so Hard (or Bad) that it Can’t Answer?
    Nishant Balepur, Feng Gu, Abhilasha Ravichander, and 3 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.15512, 2024
  2. EMNLP 2024
    A SMART Mnemonic Sounds like “Glue Tonic”: Mixing LLMs with Student Feedback to Make Mnemonic Learning Stick
    Nishant Balepur, Matthew Shu, Alexander Hoyle, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Nov 2024
  3. EMNLP 2024
    KARL: Knowledge-Aware Retrieval and Representations aid Retention and Learning in Students
    Matthew Shu*, Nishant Balepur*, Shi Feng, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Nov 2024
  4. EMNLP 2024
    Plausibly Problematic Questions in Multiple-Choice Benchmarks for Commonsense Reasoning
    Shramay Palta, Nishant Balepur, Peter Rankel, and 3 more authors
    Nov 2024
  5. Preprint
    The Prompt Report: A Systematic Survey of Prompting Techniques
    Sander Schulhoff, Michael Ilie, Nishant Balepur, and 28 more authors
    Nov 2024
  6. ACL 2024
    Artifacts or Abduction: How Do LLMs Answer Multiple-Choice Questions Without the Question?
    Nishant Balepur, Abhilasha Ravichander, and Rachel Rudinger
    In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), Aug 2024
    Best Paper Award (4%) and Oral (7%) at MASC-SSL 2024
  7. ACL 2024
    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
  8. ACL 2024
    Is Your Large Language Model Knowledgeable or a Choices-Only Cheater?
    Nishant Balepur, and Rachel Rudinger
    In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Language Models (KnowLLM 2024), Aug 2024

2023

  1. EMNLP 2023
    Expository Text Generation: Imitate, Retrieve, Paraphrase
    Nishant Balepur, Jie Huang, and Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang
    In The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: EMNLP 2023, Aug 2023
  2. EMNLP 2023
    Text Fact Transfer
    Nishant Balepur, Jie Huang, and Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang
    In The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: EMNLP 2023, Aug 2023
  3. ACL 2023
    DynaMiTE: Discovering Explosive Topic Evolutions with User Guidance
    Nishant Balepur, Shivam Agarwal, Karthik Venkat Ramanan, and 3 more authors
    In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, Aug 2023