Harshil Jain

Harshil Jain

ML @ Meta | Masters in Computer Science @ UCSD | Ex-AI/ML @ JPMC | Ex MTS-2 @ Nutanix | CSE Alumnus @ IIT Gandhinagar

Research Internships

Injecting Common Sense Knowledge into Unsupervised Multilingual Pretraining Models for MultiChoice Classification

Guide: Prof. Dr. Goran Glavaš, Data and Web Science (DWS) Group, Universität Mannheim, Germany
Scholarship: DAAD WISE Scholarship 2020

  • Trained adapter based multilingual BERT and XLM-R on ConceptNet relations and thus injected knowledge in transformers from various languages.
  • Used the transformer injected with common sense knowledge to train on SIQA multi-choice dataset which is in English and evaluated on the target language for which knowledge was injected from ConceptNet from XCOPA multi-choice dataset.
  • Showed that intermediate ConceptNet training improves the zero-shot transfer from English to the target language.
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End to End Binarized Neural Networks for Text Classification

Researcher at NeuralSpace, London, United Kingdom

Accepted at SustaiNLP 2020 Workshop on Simple and Efficient Natural Language Processing @ EMNLP 2020

  • Trained end to end binarized networks on 4 intent classification datasets - AskUbuntu, Chatbot, WebApplication and 20NewsGroups.
  • Made use of binarized hyper-dimensional vectors for embeddings and showed that they were memory effcient and also achieved state of art results when compared to traditional embeddings (GloVe and Word2vec).
  • Showed that binarized networks were time efficient and reduced memory footprint compared to non binarized counterparts.
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Incremental Training for Image Classification of Unseen Objects

Guide: Prof. Soumitra Nandy, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India
Scholarship: Indian Academy of Sciences Fellowship 2019

  • Implemented YOLO object detection algorithm in Tensorflow and made modifications in training dataset to address fundamental questions related to YOLO architecture.
  • Worked on image classification of CIFAR-10 dataset and experimented whether incremental training is possible.
  • Trained the VGG-16 Net for image classification of 8 out of 10 classes and then incrementally trained the 2 classes on the last few convolutional and fully connected layers achieving decent accuracy and then replicated the same to YOLO.
  • The objective was to verify incremental training (detection of unseen objects is still yet to be verified) so that it could later be implemented on a video surveillance camera.
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