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I am a first second third year PhD student, co-advised by Professor Greg Durrett and Professor Jessy Li. I am a part of the Text Analysis, Understanding, and Reasoning (TAUR) group, at the University of Texas at Austin as well as the wider UT NLP group. My work in my PhD has focused on how to leverage natural language explanations for better evaluation and for post-hoc editing responses for improving factuality. In general, I am interested in how we can have more reliable, adaptive evaluation/alignment techniques that incorporate subjectivity and nuances.

Experience

Previously, I was an Associate Research Engineer with the R&D team at Goldman Sachs for three years. This team was led by Vijay Saraswat. I closely worked with Johannes Hoffart and Luciano Del Corro on problems in the space of Document AI and Conversation Understanding specific to the field of Finance.

I completed my Master's in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University where I worked with Professor Mark Dredze in Regulatory Document Understanding. I did my undergrad from IIIT-Delhi where I majored in Computer Science.

I am a supporter of minority in tech, if you are looking for guidance on how to navigate the industry/academia, feel free to reach out on linkedin/email and we can schedule a chat! :)

News

August 2024: Learning to Refine accepted to EMNLP 2024 Findings! See you in Miami! 🌴🦩

July 2024: First PhD paper (Explanation-Based Rescaling) accepted to COLM 2024! See you in Philly!

May 2024: Started Internship at Adobe Research, with the Document Intelligence Team!

Research

To CoT or not to CoT? Chain-of-thought helps mainly on math and symbolic reasoning
ICLR 2024
Zayne Sprague, Fangcong Yin, Juan Diego Rodriguez, Dongwei Jiang, Manya Wadhwa, Prasann Singhal, Xinyu Zhao, Xi Ye, Kyle Mahowald, Greg Durrett

Learning to Refine with Fine-Grained Natural Language Feedback
Findings of EMNLP 2024
[Code] [Training Data] [Poster]
Manya Wadhwa, Xinyu Zhao, Junyi Jessy Li, Greg Durrett

Using Natural Language Explanations to Rescale Human Judgments
Proceedings of COLM 2024
[Data] [Poster]
Manya Wadhwa, Jifan Chen, Junyi Jessy Li, Greg Durrett

Aligning Public Feedback to Requests for Comments on Regulations.gov
ICWSM 2020
Manya Wadhwa, Silvio Amir, Mark Dredze