Maharshi Gor

NLP Researcher | Engineer

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8125 Paint Branch Dr

College Park, MD 20742

mgor[at]cs[dot]umd[dot]edu

I am a fourth year Computer Science PhD student at the University of Maryland, College Park, advised by Tianyi Zhou and Jordan Boyd-Graber. I am also a member of the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing (CLIP) Lab at UMIACS.

My interests span across the areas of Natural Language Understanding and Information Retrieval, with a focus on Question Answering (QA), Interpretability, and Collaborative Agents. Currently, my research is concentrated in two primary areas:

  • Analyzing Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents in terms of their skills and knowledge, alongside the complexity of questions, to curate a minimal yet comprehensive set for profiling agents within a Mixture of Experts (MoE) framework.
  • Developing (Retrieval) Augmented Language Models that are both aware of their environment and their parametric knowledge to ensure reliable and useful output generation.

I’ve spent some time working at Google Research where I collaborated with Brain and several Language Research teams, with focus on Model Interpretation and Analysis for Question Answering, Semi-Structured Text Understanding and Retrieval-augmented Language models for long-context understanding.

In the past, I have also worked on some of the Computer vision and Machine Learning problems like Human motion sequence modeling, Generative and Representation Learning and Adversarial Machine Learning.

In my free time, I like to engage in social deception board games. I also very much like to play Magic the Gathering :)

UMD Students enrolled in CMSC 420 can book appointments for my TA office hours here.


🗞️ News

Nov 14, 2024 I was recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer at EMNLP 2024 🌴.
Nov 1, 2024 New preprint on Item Response Theory based metric—AdvScore, for evaluating human-grounded adversarialness.
Sep 21, 2024 Long paper on Human-AI Complementarity Analysis in Question Answering accepted at EMNLP 2024 (Main).
Jun 15, 2024 I am spending my summer at Contextual.ai as ML Research Intern, working on Multi-aspect Dense Retrievers.
Dec 25, 2023 I was awarded MS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park.

📝 Selected Publications

  1. Is your benchmark truly adversarial? AdvScore: Evaluating Human-Grounded Adversarialness
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    Yoo Yeon Sung
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    Maharshi Gor
    Debug - Last name: "Fleisig" Debug - Full last: "Fleisig" Debug - Suffix: "Fleisig" Debug - First name: "Eve"
    , Eve Fleisig
    Debug - Last name: "Mondal" Debug - Full last: "Mondal" Debug - Suffix: "Mondal" Debug - First name: "Ishani"
    , Ishani Mondal
    Debug - Last name: "Boyd-Graber" Debug - Full last: "Boyd-Graber" Debug - Suffix: "Boyd-Graber" Debug - First name: "Jordan"
    , and Jordan Boyd-Graber
    2024
  2. Do great minds think alike? Investigating Human-AI Complementarity in Question Answering with CAIMIRA
    Debug - Last name: "Gor" Debug - Full last: "Gor" Debug - Suffix: "Gor" Debug - First name: "Maharshi"
    Maharshi Gor
    Debug - Last name: "Daumé" Debug - Full last: "Daumé III" Debug - Suffix: "III" Debug - First name: "Hal"
    Hal Daumé III
    Debug - Last name: "Zhou" Debug - Full last: "Zhou" Debug - Suffix: "Zhou" Debug - First name: "Tianyi"
    Tianyi Zhou
    Debug - Last name: "Boyd-Graber" Debug - Full last: "Boyd-Graber" Debug - Suffix: "Boyd-Graber" Debug - First name: "Jordan"
    , and Jordan Boyd-Graber
    In Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024
  3. Toward Efficient Robust Training against Union of \(l_p\)Threat Models
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    Gaurang Sriramanan
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    Maharshi Gor
    Debug - Last name: "Feizi" Debug - Full last: "Feizi" Debug - Suffix: "Feizi" Debug - First name: "Soheil"
    , and Soheil Feizi
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022
  4. MATE: Multi-view Attention for Table Transformer Efficiency
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    Julian Martin Eisenschlos
    Debug - Last name: "Gor" Debug - Full last: "Gor" Debug - Suffix: "Gor" Debug - First name: "Maharshi"
    Maharshi Gor
    Debug - Last name: "Müller" Debug - Full last: "Müller" Debug - Suffix: "Müller" Debug - First name: "Thomas"
    Thomas Müller
    Debug - Last name: "Cohen" Debug - Full last: "Cohen" Debug - Suffix: "Cohen" Debug - First name: "William Weston"
    , and William Weston Cohen
    In Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Nov 2021
  5. Toward Deconfounding the Influence of Entity Demographics for Question Answering Accuracy
    Debug - Last name: "Gor" Debug - Full last: "Gor" Debug - Suffix: "Gor" Debug - First name: "Maharshi"
    Maharshi Gor
    Debug - Last name: "Webster" Debug - Full last: "Webster" Debug - Suffix: "Webster" Debug - First name: "Kellie"
    Kellie Webster
    Debug - Last name: "Boyd-Graber" Debug - Full last: "Boyd-Graber" Debug - Suffix: "Boyd-Graber" Debug - First name: "Jordan"
    , and Jordan Boyd-Graber
    In Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Nov 2021