Sagnik Mukherjee

@sagnikmukherjee.bsky.social

NLP PhD student @convai_uiuc | Agents, Reasoning, evaluation etc. https://sagnikmukherjee.github.io https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=v4lvWXoAAAAJ&hl=en

🚨 Paper Alert: “RL Finetunes Small Subnetworks in Large Language Models” From DeepSeek V3 Base to DeepSeek R1 Zero, a whopping 86% of parameters were NOT updated during RL training 😮😮 And this isn’t a one-off. The pattern holds across RL algorithms and models. 🧵A Deep Dive

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🚀Our ICML 2025 paper introduces "Premise-Augmented Reasoning Chains" - a structured approach to induce explicit dependencies in reasoning chains. By revealing the dependencies within chains, we significantly improve how LLM reasoning can be verified. 🧵[1/n]

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I noticed a lot of starter packs skewed towards faculty/industry, so I made one of just NLP & ML students: go.bsky.app/vju2ux Students do different research, go on the job market, and recruit other students. Ping me and I'll add you!

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📢📢LLMs are biased towards Western Culture. Well, okay, but what do you mean by "Culture"? In our survey of on cultural bias in LLMs, we reviewed ~90 papers. Interestingly, none of these papers define "culture" explicitly. They use “proxies”. [1/7] [Appeared in EMNLP mains]

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Welcome to the official page of ConvAI@UIUC! 🤖 Based in the cornfields of UIUC, and led by Dilek Hakkani-Tur and Gokhan Tur, we do cool research on chatbots, dialogue, embodied agents, and everything in between!