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Research agendas for the users and languages that datasets leave out. 2 open-access papers by Pranay Mahendrakar, each with a permanent DOI.
Two literatures make claims about what happens when a language model trains on data that resembles its own distribution. One asks whether reinforcement learning forgets a model's prior capabilities less than supervised fine-tuning does…
There are over 300 sign languages in active use worldwide, serving an estimated 70 million Deaf signers. Despite this, the overwhelming majority of AI research on sign languages targets American Sign Language (ASL), with smaller but…
Pranay Mahendrakar has published 2 open-access papers on Accessibility & Low-Resource: "Does a Model Forget Differently When the Data Is Its Own? RL's Retention Advantage and Model Collapse Are Claims About the Same Loop, and No Study Has Measured Both" and "Beyond ASL". Each is deposited on Zenodo with a permanent DOI and is free to read.
