Chinnadhurai Sankar

Most-cited papers

Taskmaster-1: Toward a Realistic and Diverse Dialog Dataset
B. Byrne, Karthik Krishnamoorthi, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Arvind Neelakantan +6 more
2019Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing254 citations Open access
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A Deep Reinforcement Learning Chatbot
I. Serban, Chinnadhurai Sankar, M. Germain, Sai-Zheng Zhang +14 more
2017arXiv.org247 citations
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Variance Reduction in SGD by Distributed Importance Sampling
Guillaume Alain, Alex Lamb, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Aaron C. Courville +1 more
2015arXiv.org232 citations
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Do Neural Dialog Systems Use the Conversation History Effectively? An Empirical Study
Chinnadhurai Sankar, S. Subramanian, C. Pal, S. Chandar +1 more
2019Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics129 citations Open access
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Towards Non-saturating Recurrent Units for Modelling Long-term Dependencies
A. P. Sarath Chandar, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Eugene Vorontsov, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou +1 more
2019AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence66 citations Open access
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Annotation Inconsistency and Entity Bias in MultiWOZ
Kun Qian, Ahmad Beirami, Zhouhan Lin, Ankita De +3 more
2021SIGDIAL Conferences38 citations Open access
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Deep Reinforcement Learning For Modeling Chit-Chat Dialog With Discrete Attributes
Chinnadhurai Sankar, Sujith Ravi
2019SIGDIAL Conferences33 citations Open access
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The Bottleneck Simulator: A Model-based Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
I. Serban, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Michael Pieper, Joelle Pineau +1 more
2018Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research30 citations Open access
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DVD: A Diagnostic Dataset for Multi-step Reasoning in Video Grounded Dialogue
Hung Le, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Seungwhan Moon, Ahmad Beirami +2 more
2021Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics23 citations Open access
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KETOD: Knowledge-Enriched Task-Oriented Dialogue
Zhi-Yu Chen, Bing Liu, Seungwhan Moon, Chinnadhurai Sankar +2 more
2022NAACL-HLT22 citations Open access
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Database Search Results Disambiguation for Task-Oriented Dialog Systems
Kun Qian, Ahmad Beirami, S. Kottur, Shahin Shayandeh +4 more
2021North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics19 citations Open access
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Neural Assistant: Joint Action Prediction, Response Generation, and Latent Knowledge Reasoning
Arvind Neelakantan, Semih Yavuz, Sharan Narang, V. Prasad +5 more
2019arXiv.org15 citations
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A Deep Reinforcement Learning Chatbot (Short Version)
I. Serban, Chinnadhurai Sankar, M. Germain, Sai-Zheng Zhang +14 more
2018arXiv.org15 citations
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Know Thy Strengths: Comprehensive Dialogue State Tracking Diagnostics
Hyundong Justin Cho, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Christopher Lin, Kaushik Ram Sadagopan +4 more
2021Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing12 citations Open access
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Robustness through Data Augmentation Loss Consistency
Tian-Jian Huang, Shaunak Halbe, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Pooyan Amini +4 more
2021Trans. Mach. Learn. Res.11 citations
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ProFormer: Towards On-Device LSH Projection Based Transformers
Chinnadhurai Sankar, Sujith Ravi, Zornitsa Kozareva
2020Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics11 citations Open access
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DAIR: Data Augmented Invariant Regularization
Tian-Jian Huang, Shaunak Halbe, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Pooyan Amini +4 more
2021arXiv.org10 citations
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Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Conversational AI
Tsung-Hsien Wen, Asli Celikyilmaz, Zhou Yu, U. Davis +496 more
20209 citations Open access
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Transferable Neural Projection Representations
Chinnadhurai Sankar, Sujith Ravi, Zornitsa Kozareva
2019North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics8 citations Open access
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The Octopus Approach to the Alexa Competition : A Deep Ensemble-based Socialbot
I. Serban, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Sai-Zheng Zhang, Zhouhan Lin +11 more
20178 citations
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Quasicyclic MDS codes for distributed storage with efficient exact repair
Andrew Thangaraj, Chinnadhurai Sankar
20112011 IEEE Information Theory Workshop8 citations
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On-Device Text Representations Robust To Misspellings via Projections
Chinnadhurai Sankar, Sujith Ravi, Zornitsa Kozareva
2020Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics6 citations Open access
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Continual Dialogue State Tracking via Example-Guided Question Answering
Hyundong Justin Cho, Andrea Madotto, Zhaojiang Lin, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu +4 more
2023Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing5 citations Open access
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CoSMoEs: Compact Sparse Mixture of Experts
Patrick Huber, Akshat Shrivastava, Er-Nie Chang, Chinnadhurai Sankar +2 more
2025arXiv.org4 citations
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MobileLLM-Pro Technical Report
Patrick Huber, Er-Nie Chang, Wei Wen, Igor Fedorov +15 more
2025arXiv.org4 citations
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Data-Efficiency with a Single GPU: An Exploration of Transfer Methods for Small Language Models
Alon Albalak, Akshat Shrivastava, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Adithya Sagar +1 more
2022arXiv.org4 citations Open access
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DialogStitch: Synthetic Deeper and Multi-Context Task-Oriented Dialogs
S. Kottur, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Zhou Yu, A. Geramifard
2021SIGDIAL Conferences3 citations Open access
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MobileLLM-Flash: Latency-Guided On-Device LLM Design for Industry Scale Deployment
Hanxian Huang, Igor Fedorov, Andrey Gromov, B. Beckerman +13 more
2026Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics2 citations
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On the Robustness of Projection Neural Networks For Efficient Text Representation: An Empirical Study
Chinnadhurai Sankar, Sujith Ravi, Zornitsa Kozareva
2019arXiv.org2 citations
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Modeling Non-Goal Oriented Dialog With Discrete Attributes
Chinnadhurai Sankar
20182 citations
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Step by Step to Fairness: Attributing Societal Bias in Task-oriented Dialogue Systems
Hsuan Su, Rebecca Qian, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Shahin Shayandeh +3 more
2023arXiv.org1 citations
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Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Benchmarking: Past, Present and Future
Eduardo Blanco, J. Hirshberg, L. Lamel, M. Liberman +496 more
20211 citations Open access
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CoSMoEs: Compact Sparse Mixture of Experts
Patrick Huber, Akshat Shrivastava, Er-Nie Chang, Chinnadhurai Sankar +2 more
2026Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Advances in Language and Vision Research (ALVR)0 citations Open access
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Short Data, Long Context: Distilling Positional Knowledge in Transformers
Patrick Huber, Er-Nie Chang, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Rylan Conway +3 more
2026arXiv.org0 citations
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Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Knowledge Graphs for Intelligent Ayurvedic Chatbots
S. Supal, S. M. Anzar, Chinnadhurai Sankar, O. Abhilash
20252025 1st International Conference on Smart and Intelligent Systems (SISCON)0 citations
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AUTODIAL: Efficient Asynchronous Task-Oriented Dialogue Model
Prajjwal Bhargava, Pooyan Amini, Shahin Shayandeh, Chinnadhurai Sankar
2023arXiv.org0 citations Open access
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CheckDST: Measuring Real-World Generalization of Dialogue State Tracking Performance
Hyundong Justin Cho, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Christopher Lin, Kaushik Ram Sadagopan +4 more
2021arXiv.org0 citations
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