Sagnik Mukherjee

I am a first year PhD student at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, advised by Prof. Dilek Hakkani-Tur. Previously I worked at the Bing Ads Team at Microsoft, where I worked on Dense and Generative retrieval for Ads Snippets. I also spent 3 months as a Research Assistant at MBZUAI working with Prof. Monojit Choudhury.

I graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2021 with a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering. While at IIT Kanpur, I worked with Prof. Ashutosh Modi and Prof. Arnab Bhattacharya

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Research

My primary interest is in NLP, especially LLM agents and robust evaluation of LLMs. Currectly I am exploring information aggregation tasks on the web with multi-agent collaboration. Previously I have worked on Socio-Cultural aspects of LLMs.

Papers
Towards Measuring and Modeling "Culture" in LLMs: A Survey
Muhammad Farid Adilazuarda*, Sagnik Mukherjee*,Pradhyumna Lavania, Siddhant Singh, Ashutosh Dwivedi, Alham Fikri Aji, Jacki O'Neill, Ashutosh Modi, Monojit Choudhury
EMNLP 2024 (main)

We propose a taxonomy of how the community has been studying culture so far.

Cultural Conditioning or Placebo? On the Effectiveness of Socio-Demographic Prompting
Sagnik Mukherjee∗, Muhammad Farid Adilazuarda∗, Sunayana Sitaram, Kalika Bali, Alham Fikri Aji, Monojit Choudhury
EMNLP 2024 (main)

Studies the (in)-efficacy of sociodemographic prompting.



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