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    Research Areas: Optimization, Lifelong Learning
    (Fast Tracked from Masters)

Activity

  • PhD Student: Oct 2025 - now
  • Intern: Jul 2022 - Nov 2022

Conference and Journal Papers

2025

  1. Revisiting Replay and Gradient Alignment for Continual Pre-Training of Large Language Models
    , Gopeshh Subbaraj, Matthew Riemer, Nizar Islah, Tsuguchika Tabaru, Hiroaki Kingetsu, , and Irina Rish
    Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs), 2025.
    #NLP, #DL
    [arXiv], [code]

  2. Small Encoders Can Rival Large Decoders in Detecting Groundedness
    , , Quentin Fournier, Fernando Rodriguez, Alaa Boukhary, Adam Elwood, and
    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025.
    #NLP
    [acl], [arXiv]