publications

2025

1. Flexible-length text infilling for discrete diffusion models

   Andrew Zhang, Anushka Sivakumar, Chia-Wei Tang, and Chris Thomas

   In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2025

   Bib

   @inproceedings{zhang2025flexible,
     title = {Flexible-length text infilling for discrete diffusion models},
     author = {Zhang, Andrew and Sivakumar, Anushka and Tang, Chia-Wei and Thomas, Chris},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
     year = {2025},
   }

2. SteerVLM: Robust Model Control through Lightweight Activation Steering for Vision Language Models

   Anushka Sivakumar, Andrew Zhang, Zaber Ibn Abdul Hakim, and Chris Thomas

   In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EMNLP Findings), 2025

   Bib

   @inproceedings{sivakumar2025steervlm,
     title = {SteerVLM: Robust Model Control through Lightweight Activation Steering for Vision Language Models},
     author = {Sivakumar, Anushka and Zhang, Andrew and Hakim, Zaber Ibn Abdul and Thomas, Chris},
     booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EMNLP Findings)},
     year = {2025},
   }

3. Zero-Shot Fine-Grained Image Classification Using Large Vision-Language Models

   Md. Atabuzzaman, Andrew Zhang, and Chris Thomas

   In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EMNLP Findings), 2025

   Bib

   @inproceedings{atabuzzaman2025zeroshot,
     title = {Zero-Shot Fine-Grained Image Classification Using Large Vision-Language Models},
     author = {Atabuzzaman, Md. and Zhang, Andrew and Thomas, Chris},
     booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EMNLP Findings)},
     year = {2025},
   }

4. Maximal Matching Matters: Preventing Representation Collapse for Robust Cross-Modal Retrieval

   Hani Alomari, Anushka Sivakumar, Andrew Zhang, and Chris Thomas

   In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025

   Bib

   @inproceedings{alomari2025maximal,
     title = {Maximal Matching Matters: Preventing Representation Collapse for Robust Cross-Modal Retrieval},
     author = {Alomari, Hani and Sivakumar, Anushka and Zhang, Andrew and Thomas, Chris},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)},
     year = {2025},
   }