Kushal Arora
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Hello!! I am Kushal Arora, a senior research scientist at Toyota Research Institute. I am working on pretraining, scaling, and improving reasoning and instruction-following abilities of vision-language-action (VLA) models. Check out some of our recent research below.
Before this, I was a Ph.D. student at McGill University and Mila where I was jointly supervised by Prof. Jackie Cheung and Prof. Doina Precup. I got an amazing opportunity to intern with amazing mentors at Borealis AI, Microsoft Research, and Meta AI during my Ph.D.
Selected Publications
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- DataComp-LM: In search of the next generation of training sets for language modelsarXiv preprint arXiv:2406.11794 Jun 2024
- The Stable Entropy Hypothesis and Entropy-Aware Decoding: An Analysis and Algorithm for Robust Natural Language GenerationIn Under Submission, ICML 2023 Jan 2023
- DIRECTOR: Generator-Classifiers For Supervised Language ModelingIn Asian Association for Computational Linguistics: AACL 2022 Sep 2022
- Why Exposure Bias Matters: An Imitation Learning Perspective of Error Accumulation in Language GenerationIn Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022 May 2022