Vaibhav Adlakha

Visiting Researcher

AI Frontier Research

I am a Visiting Researcher at ServiceNow Research and I recently completed my MSc in Computer Science at McGill University and Mila under the supervision of Siva Reddy. I am about to begin my PhD and my current research interests are information extraction, question answering, and conversational agents. I am interested in creating systems that not only can read documents, but also can comprehend the information within, to answer our questions and converse with us.

Intérêts

Question Answering
Information Retrieval
Natural Language Processing
Natural Language Understanding

Publications

BiXSE: Improving Dense Retrieval via Probabilistic Graded Relevance Distillation. Christos Tsirigotis, Vaibhav Adlakha, João Monteiro, Aaron Courville, Perouz Taslakian. At Conference on Language Modeling (COLM), 2025.

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Understanding the Influence of Synthetic Data for Text Embedders. Jacob Mitchell Springer, Vaibhav Adlakha, Siva Reddy, Aditi Raghunathan, Marius Mosbach. At Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025.

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MMTEB: Massive Multilingual Text Embedding Benchmark. Kenneth Enevoldsen, Isaac Chung, Imene Kerboua, Márton Kardos, Ashwin Mathur, David Stap, Jay Gala, Wissam Siblini, Dominik Krzeminski, Genta Indra Winata, Saba Sturua, Saiteja Utpala, Mathieu Ciancone, Marion Schaeffer, Gabriel Sequeira, Diganta Misra, Shreeya Dhakal, Jonathan Rystrøm, Roman Solomatin, Ömer Çagatan, Akash Kundu, Martin Bernstorff, Shitao Xiao, Akshita Sukhlecha, Bhavish Pahwa, Rafał Poswiata, Kranthi Kiran GV, Shawon Ashraf, Daniel Auras, Björn Plüster, Jan Philipp Harries, Loïc Magne, Isabelle Mohr, Mariya Hendriksen, Dawei Zhu, Hippolyte Gisserot-Boukhlef, Tom Aarsen, Jan Kostkan, Konrad Wojtasik, Taemin Lee, Marek Šuppa, Crystina Zhang, Roberta Rocca, Mohammed Hamdy, Andrianos Michail, John Yang, Manuel Faysse, Aleksei Vatolin, Nandan Thakur, Manan Dey, Dipam Vasani, Pranjal Chitale, Simone Tedeschi, Nguyen Tai, Artem Snegirev, Michael Günther, Mengzhou Xia, Weijia Shi, Xing Han Lu, Jordan Clive, Gayatri Krishnakumar, Anna Maksimova, Silvan Wehrli, Maria Tikhonova, Henil Pancha, Aleksandr Abramov, Malte Ostendorff, Zheng Liu, Simon Clematide, Lester James Miranda, Alena Fenogenova, Guangyu Song, Ruqiya Bin Saf, Wen-Ding Li, Alessia Borghini, Federico Cassano, Hongjin Su, Jimmy Lin, Howard Yen, Lasse Hansen, Sara Hooker, Chenghao Xiao, Vaibhav Adlakha, Orion Weller, Siva Reddy, Niklas Muennighoff. At International Conference of Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025.

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LLM2Vec: Large Language Models Are Secretly Powerful Text Encoders. Parishad BehnamGhader, Vaibhav Adlakha, Marius Mosbach, Dzmitry Bahdanau, Nicolas Chapados, Siva Reddy. At Conference on Language Modeling (COLM), 2024.

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Evaluating Correctness and Faithfulness of Instruction-Following Models for Question Answering. Vaibhav Adlakha, Parishad BehnamGhader, Xing Han Lu, Nicholas Meade, Siva Reddy. At Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2024.

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TopiOCQA: Open-domain Conversational Question Answering with Topic Switching. Vaibhav Adlakha, Shehzaad Dhuliawala, Kaheer Suleman, Harm de Vries, Siva Reddy. At Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2022.

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