Publications

Also on Google Scholar. * denotes equal contribution.

2026

EMNLP 2026
arXiv 2026

LLMs Get Smarter from Targeted Synthetic Multilingual Data

Ishika Agarwal, Arkajyoti Charaborty, Tanner Sorensen, Neha Gupta, Andreas Stolcke

arXiv 2026

AcquisitionSynthesis: Targeted Data Generation using Acquisition Functions

Ishika Agarwal, Sofia Stoica, Emre Can Acikgoz, Pradeep Natarajan, Mahdi Namazifar, Jiaqi Ma, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

2025

arXiv 2025

Language Specific Knowledge: Do Models Know Better in X than in English?

Ishika Agarwal*, Nimet Beyza Bozdag*, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

ICLR 2025

DELIFT: Data Efficient Language Model Instruction Fine-Tuning

Ishika Agarwal, Krishna Killamsetty, Lucian Popa, Marina Danilevsky

2024

ICLR 2024

Neural Active Learning Beyond Bandits

Yikun Ban, Ishika Agarwal, Ziwei Wu, Yada Zhu, Kommy Weldemariam, Hanghang Tong, Jingrui He

2023

AI-ML Sys 2023

QuickAns: A Virtual Teaching Assistant

Ishika Agarwal, Shradha Sehgal, Varun Goyal, Prathamesh Sonawane

2022

SafeAI 2022

HiSaRL: A Hierarchical Framework for Safe Reinforcement Learning

Zikang Xiong, Ishika Agarwal, Suresh Jagannathan