Mandar ✨

Powered by anxiety™. Gemini @Google. PhD @VirginiaTech. IOE Pulchowk alum. I was doing NLP before BERT.

[Raquib Yousuf @RaquibYousuf]

Our results shows how brittle LLMs are at relational reasoning and memory, crucial for knowledge graphs, multi-document analysis, and sense-making.

📢: Accepted in IEEE ICKG'25
https://t.co/rjzbWjrZuv

Shoutout to @ShengzheXu @mandarsharma @profnaren (4/4)
#LLM #NLProc

[Mandar ✨ @mandarsharma]

See the full report here: https://t.co/UXSQYlUDgB

[Mandar ✨ @mandarsharma]

The Gemini 2.5 technical report is here! It’s been an incredible 9 months since I joined the Gemini team, where our team has been focused on advancing its tool use capabilities. Seeing our models at the top of the leaderboards is a testament to the brilliant team at @Google

[The Sanghani Center at Virginia Tech @SanghaniCtrVT]

At @virginia_tech's DC area Graduate School commencement, @mandarsharma formally received his Ph.D. @VT_CS when hooded by advisor @profnaren @SanghaniCtrVT. He successfully defended his dissertation last Fall & is a senior software engineer @Google. Congrats #HokieGrad Mandar🎉!

[Mandar ✨ @mandarsharma]

Congratulations @profnaren 🎉🎉

[The Sanghani Center at Virginia Tech @SanghaniCtrVT]

Congrats to @SanghaniCtrVT director Naren Ramakrishnan (@profnaren), named @TheOfficialACM fellow (the association's most prestigious member grade) for leadership in developing new algorithms & systems to forecast disease outbreaks & geopolitical events. https://t.co/YceqoXC6mI

[Mandar ✨ @mandarsharma]

Big congrats to @RaquibYousuf and team @ShengzheXu @profnaren ! We brought home the best paper award 😍

[The Sanghani Center at Virginia Tech @SanghaniCtrVT]

🎉to @SanghaniCtrVT team @RaquibYousuf Nicholas Defelice @mandarsharma @ShengzheXu @profnaren on garnering Best Paper Award for "LLM Augmentations to support Analytical Reasoning over Multiple Documents" @IEEEorg Int'l Conference on Data Mining. Yousuf and Xu accepted award. 👋

[Mandar ✨ @mandarsharma]

Heading to Philly for #COLM2024 - please drop by our poster on Tuesday morning! @SanghaniCtrVT

[Mandar ✨ @mandarsharma]

@minqian_liu @profnaren Thanks @minqian_liu 🤗

[Mandar ✨ @mandarsharma]

I'm extremely grateful to my committee for making my PhD a success - Dr. Chang-Tien Lu, Dr. Chris North, Dr. @lifu_huang and Dr. @srijankedia 🤗 (2/2)

[Mandar ✨ @mandarsharma]

Two quick but ✨ major ✨ announcements - I just successfully defended my PhD in LLMs @virginia_tech under @profnaren and will be joining @GoogleAI starting this September! (1/2)

[Delip Rao e/σ @deliprao]

Mamba paper got into COLM. Congratulations to @COLM_conf on this acceptance from @tri_dao

[Mandar ✨ @mandarsharma]

Thanks @SanghaniCtrVT for the shoutout! 🤗

[The Sanghani Center at Virginia Tech @SanghaniCtrVT]

Ph.D. student @mandarsharma @SanghaniCtrVT @VT_CS shares this great news from #COLM2024: his collaborative paper (https://t.co/mhPZooEvlk) w/@nikhilm_1, @ShengzheXu, @RaquibYousuf, @profnaren has been accepted at first ever @COLM_conf. 🎉👏

[Mandar ✨ @mandarsharma]

This work has been accepted to the very first ✨ @COLM_conf ✨I look forward to seeing everyone in Philly!

[Mandar ✨ @mandarsharma]

@dipanjand @yoavartzi @danqi_chen Thank you, the organizers, for all of your hard work!

[Mandar ✨ @mandarsharma]

This work has been accepted to the very first ✨ @COLM_conf ✨I look forward to seeing everyone in Philly!

[Mandar ✨ @mandarsharma]

What if adding a few *fixed* lines of code in your LLM training loop could give you a slight performance bump on almost *all* downstream tasks? 👀👀
2min read below (1/4)

[Mandar ✨ @mandarsharma]

Shoutout to the A-team @nikhilm_1 @ShengzheXu @RaquibYousuf @profnaren

[Mandar ✨ @mandarsharma]

Starting the morning strong - our paper has just been accepted to ✨ #COLM2024 ✨

[Mandar ✨ @mandarsharma]

What if adding a few *fixed* lines of code in your LLM training loop could give you a slight performance bump on almost *all* downstream tasks? 👀👀
2min read below (1/4)

[Mandar ✨ @mandarsharma]

@pamwis @StirLab @AshSoo @jinkyung_katie @AkterMamtaj @zainabagha_ @VUEngineering @Vanderbilt_CS Congratulations Katie!

[Naomi Saphra @nsaphra]

Thank you for the invitation to review. sadly I must decline because I have been feeling mean lately.

[Mandar ✨ @mandarsharma]

@gentaiscool @prajdabre1 Exactly. I’ve written 1 survey during my PhD and it took an entire semester.