Maharshi Gor @ ACL2026 🏝️

Ph.D. student @umdcs @ClipUmd
NLP, Retrievers, Human-AI, Efficient Methods
Past: @ContextualAI @Cohere @GoogleAI @theteamatx 🚀
he/him 🏳️‍🌈

[Maharshi Gor @ ACL2026 🏝️ @maharshigor]

Can you spot when AI bluffs?🤖 Can you outguess AI—or work with one to dominate trivia?🏁

🏆 We are hosting the first Human–AI coop trivia (Quizzing) competition.

🎲Play, 🛠️build, or ✍🏼write questions...
..and win prizes 🎁.

🥳 It’s fun, free, and happening this June 🧠🤖👇

[Voice Arena @voicearena_ai]

Introducing Voice Arena STT Leaderboard.

LibriSpeech is older than the transformer.

FLEURS is people reading translated Wikipedia sentences aloud.

This is still how the industry ranks speech models. In 2026.

Today we're releasing the Voice Arena STT Leaderboard - a human-verified benchmark for STT accuracy on real, spontaneous conversation, across 7 languages: 🇺🇸 US English, 🇮🇳 Hindi, 🇧🇩 Bangla, 🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese, 🇻🇳 Vietnamese, 🇷🇴 Romanian & 🇸🇦 Arabic 🧵

US English Leaderboard ⬇️

[Maharshi Gor @ ACL2026 🏝️ @maharshigor]

📍 Presenting this on July 5 at 11:00 AM in Poster Session A at #acl2026nlp.

📜: https://t.co/PsnVk1Cygd

Come chat about when humans should let AI take the wheel, when they should push back, and what live human-AI collaboration reveals that static benchmarks miss.

[Maharshi Gor @ ACL2026 🏝️ @maharshigor]

🧵 Trusting AI is not one decision.

In our ACL 2026 paper, expert trivia players had to decide when to let AI answer, when to ignore it, and when to change their minds because of it.

The main failure mode was not blind trust.

[Jordan Boyd-Graber @boydgraber]

We made a trivia game that has humans and computers cooperate: humans could let AIs buzz in for them to answer trivia questions (complete delegation) and then they worked with computers to answer other trivia questions collaboratively.

Come to #acl2026nlp Poster Session A!

[Maharshi Gor @ ACL2026 🏝️ @maharshigor]

🙏 Huge thanks to everyone without whom this wouldn't be possible: my amazing co-authors: @YooYeonSung1, @houyu0930, @enfleisig, Irene Ying, @zhoutianyi, and @boydgraber; the UMD CLIP group; all participants and question writers/editors.

[Maharshi Gor @ ACL2026 🏝️ @maharshigor]

🧵 Trusting AI is not one decision.

In our ACL 2026 paper, expert trivia players had to decide when to let AI answer, when to ignore it, and when to change their minds because of it.

The main failure mode was not blind trust.

[Maharshi Gor @ ACL2026 🏝️ @maharshigor]

🛠️ We distill 5 guidelines for human-AI systems

[John Kirchenbauer @jwkirchenbauer]

Earlier this month I successfully defended my PhD and graduated from UMD! 🐢 Thanks to everyone who played large or small role in making these last 5 years an amazing experience. Next stop, Toronto!

Defense recording: https://t.co/d24HV6HsPV

[Jordan Boyd-Graber @boydgraber]

Our work on human-computer QA is the cover of UMD's Enterprise Magazine, featuring the work of @YooYeonSung1 , @enfleisig , @maharshigor, @h__j___han, @EntilZhaPR , @ihsgnef, @MohitIyyer (and many others).

Links below. We need people for next competition!

[Yapei Chang @ ICML 2026 @YapeiChang]

How2Everything will appear in ICML 2026! See you in Korea 🫡

We mine the web's procedural knowledge to better evaluate & train LLMs to generate valid step-by-step instructions, read more at:
🔗 https://t.co/xzdOnwebs5

[Jordan Boyd-Graber @boydgraber]

Can you spot when AI bluffs? Can you outguess AI or work with one to dominate trivia? Can you make an AI that can figure out tricky visual questions?

[Nishant Balepur @NishantBalepur]

Super grateful to have four papers at #ACL2026 main! Thanks to all my co-authors from UMD, NYU, Ai2 + more 🎉🥹

Expect lots of "🚨 NEW PAPER" posts coming from me soon 😅

[Dayeon (Zoey) Ki @zoeykii]

1/ 🌍 Do #LLMs really treat all languages equally when citing evidence? 📑

In our new work, we uncover linguistic nepotism: models often trade off citation quality for language preference 👇

[Dayeon (Zoey) Ki @zoeykii]

I'll also be presenting our paper on using question-answer pairs as a new signal for spotting translation errors 🕵️

Come to talk more about MT evaluation!
📍Poster session (Hall X4, X5)
📆Tuesday (7/29) 4-5:30pm
📝https://t.co/vRUxI3rchW