Hi! I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Texas A&M University, under the guidance of Dr. Shuiwang Ji. Previously, I earned my M.S. in Computer Science at the same institution, advised by Dr. Shu Kong and Dr. James Caverlee. I completed my undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Engineering at the Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai. Currently, my research interests include evaluating and improving the planning and reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Multimodal Models (LMMs). During my M.S. thesis, I focused on identifying and mitigating biases in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to improve their robustness and fairness, especially for use in multimodal chatbots and diffusion models.

๐Ÿ”ฅ News

  • 2024.06: ย ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰ I have begun my Ph.D. at Texas A&M under the supervision of Dr. Shuiwang Ji.
  • 2024.02: ย ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰ Our paper, โ€œThe Neglected Tails of Vision-Language Modelsโ€ has been accepted at CVPR 2024!
  • 2023.12: ย ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰ I will be presenting our paper, โ€œPrompting Scientific Names for Zero-Shot Species Recognitionโ€ at EMNLP 2023.
  • 2022.02: ย ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰ I was awarded the Texas A&M Computer Science departmental scholarship.

๐Ÿ“ Publications

CVPR 2024
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The Neglected Tails of Vision-Language Models.

Shubham Parashar, Zhiqiu Lin, Tian Liu, Xianjue Dong, Yanan Li, Deva Ramanan, James Caverlee, Shu Kong

Project Paper

  • Our study is the first to reveal bias in popular VLMs like CLIP due to long-tailed training data.
  • To mitigate the bias, we propose a novel prompting method and retrieval augmented strategy.
  • Both our methods achieve a new SOTA and our retrieval augmented method is 100x cheaper on compute resources compared to the previous retrieval augmented strategies.
EMNLP 2023
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Prompting Scientific Names for Zero-Shot Species Recognition

Shubham Parashar, Zhiqiu Lin, Yanan Li, Shu Kong

Paper

  • We propose an embarassingly simple prompting method that boosts the zero-shot accuracy of VLMs on 4 fine-grained species recognition benchmarks by 2-5x.

๐Ÿ“– Education

  • 2024.06 - Present, Ph.D. in Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
  • 2022.08 - 2024.05, M.S. in Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
  • 2015.07 - 2019.05, Undergraduate, Vellore Institute of Technology University, Chennai, India

๐Ÿ’ป Experience

  • 2023.05 - 2023.08, HPE, Houston, Tx.
  • 2019.07 - 2022.09, PayPal, Bangalore, India