Rishi Hazra

WASP Ph.D. at Örebro University, Sweden

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I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student though Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) graduate school, supervised by Professor Luc De Raedt. This fall, I’m interning at FAIR, London under Nicolas Carion working on LLMs. In 2022, I also interned at Meta Reality Labs, Seattle under Ruta Desai.

My research seeks to answer the following questions like: Can Large Language Models reason? and How to improve their reasoning abilities? This allows me to explore novel ways of integrating machine learning (LMs) and symbolic reasoning (solvers, verifiers), via LM-Modulo Frameworks. This fusion empowers LLMs to be more grounded, robust, and capable of generalizing to complex scenarios.

I earned my Masters in AI from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in 2019. My focus was on Active Learning for NLP, supervised by Dr. Ambedkar Dukkipati. I have also had brief stints at Natural Understanding group @ Amazon Alexa-AI and as a Research Associate at Statistics and Machine Learning Group, exploring Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning.

news

Aug 26, 2024 Starting as a Research Scientist Intern at FAIR, London under Nicolas Carion.
Aug 20, 2024 Paper accepted at LLMRA@RoMan 2024: Bidirectional Intent Communication: A Role for Large Foundation Models.
May 02, 2024 EgoTV dataset is now available on Meta AI datasets.
Apr 19, 2024 Talk on SayCanPay: Planning with LLMs at TAILOR.
Mar 01, 2024 Invited talk on Planning & Robotics with LLMs at Bosch Robotics Seminar. Link to Slides.
Jan 11, 2024 Demoing Robot Planning and Manipulation framework at WASP Winter Conference 2024, Norrköping, Sweden .
Dec 09, 2023 Paper accepted at AAAI 2024: SayCanPay: Heuristic Planning with Large Language Models using Learnable Domain Knowledge.
Jul 14, 2023 Paper accepted at ICCV 2023: EgoTV: Egocentric Task Verification from Natural Language Task Descriptions.
Jun 06, 2023 Paper accepted at ECML-PKDD 2023: Deep Explainable Relational Reinforcement Learning: A Neuro-Symbolic Approach.
May 12, 2023 Presented EgoTV: Egocentric Task Verification from Natural Language Task Descriptions at the Embodied AI Seminar in Meta AI (FAIR).
Feb 23, 2023 Position talk on A (Large) Language Model is ALL YOU NEED at the Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems (AASS), Örebro University
Jan 10, 2023 Presented poster on Deep Explainable Relational Reinforcement Learning: A Neuro-Symbolic Approach at the WASP Winter Conference 2023, Norrköping, Sweden
Jul 25, 2022 Started as Research Science Intern @ Meta Reality Labs, Redmond, Washington under the mentorship of Ruta Desai, Akshara Rai, and Nitin Kamra

academic service

Program Committee & Session Chair for AAMAS'22, Reviewer for EACL'23, ICML'23-24, NeurIPS'22-23-24, ICLR'24