Publications

2025

  1. SelectLLM: Query-Aware Efficient Selection Algorithm for Large Language Models
    Kaushal Kumar Maurya, KV Aditya Srivatsa and Ekaterina Kochmar
    ACL 2025 (Findings)
    First two authors contributed equally.
  2. Simulating LLM-to-LLM Tutoring for Multilingual Math Feedback
    Junior Cedric Tonga, KV Aditya Srivatsa, Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Fajri Koto and Ekaterina Kochmar
    2025, Under Review!
  3. AITutor-AssessmentKit: Open-Source Library to Measure Pedagogical Ability of AI Tutors in Educational Dialogues
    Kaushal Kumar Maurya and Ekaterina Kochmar
    2025, Under Review!
  4. Findings of the BEA 2025 Shared Task on Pedagogical Ability Assessment of AI-powered Tutors
    Ekaterina Kochmar, Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Kseniia Petukhova, KV Aditya Srivatsa, Anaïs Tack and Justin Vasselli
    BEA workshop at ACL 2025 (Shared Task)
  5. Can LLMs Reliably Simulate Real Students’ Abilities in Mathematics and Reading Comprehension?
    KV Aditya Srivatsa, Kaushal Kumar Maurya and Ekaterina Kochmar
    BEA workshop at ACL 2025
  6. Pedagogy-driven Evaluation of Generative AI-powered Intelligent Tutoring Systems
    Kaushal Kumar Maurya and Ekaterina Kochmar
    AIED 2025 (BlueSky Track)
  7. Unifying AI Tutor Evaluation: An Evaluation Taxonomy for Pedagogical Ability Assessment of LLM-Powered AI Tutors
    Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Kv Aditya Srivatsa, Kseniia Petukhova and Ekaterina Kochmar
    NAACL 2025
    ★ SAC Award for Resource and Evaluation Track
  8. LLMs in Education: Novel Perspectives, Challenges, and Opportunities
    Bashar Alhafni, Sowmya Vajjala, Stefano Bannò, Kaushal Kumar Maurya and Ekaterina Kochmar
    COLING 2025 (Tutorial)

2024

  1. Extending Generative NLP: Incorporating Diversity, Context, and Inclusivity in Neural Text Generation
    Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
    PhD Thesis, Feb 2024
    Supervisor: Dr. Maunendra Sankar Desarkar, External Examiners: Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan (IITB) and Prof. Monojit Choudhury (MBZUAI), and Doctoral Review Committee Members: Prof. Vineeth Balasubramanian (IITH), Prof. J. Balasubramaniam (IITH), and Dr. P. K. Srijith (IITH)
  2. CharSpan: Utilizing Lexical Similarity to Enable Zero-Shot Machine Translation for Extremely Low-resource Languages
    Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Rahul Kejriwal, Maunendra Desarkar and Anoop Kunchukuttan
    EACL 2024
  3. DAC: Quantized Optimal Transport Reward-based Reinforcement Learning Approach to Detoxify Query Auto-Completion
    Aishwarya Maheswaran, Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Manish Gupta and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar
    SIGIR 2024
  4. DQAC: Detoxifying Query Auto-completion with Adapters
    Aishwarya Maheswaran, Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Manish Gupta and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar
    PAKDD 2024
    First two authors contributed equally.
  5. Harnessing the Power of Multiple Minds: Lessons Learned from LLM Routing
    KV Aditya Srivatsa, Kaushal Kumar Maurya and Ekaterina Kochmar
    Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP at NAACL 2024
    First two authors contributed equally.

2023

  1. SelectNoise: Unsupervised Noise Injection to Enable Zero-Shot Machine Translation for Extremely Low-resource Languages
    Maharaj Brahma, Kaushal Kumar Maurya and Maunendra Desarkar
    EMNLP 2023 (Findings)
    First two authors contributed equally.
  2. Towards Low-resource Language Generation with Limited Supervision
    Kaushal Kumar Maurya and Maunendra Desarkar
    Big Picture Workshop at EMNLP 2023
  3. Trie-NLG: Trie Context Augmentation to Improve Personalized Query Auto-completion for Short and Unseen Prefixes
    Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar, Manish Gupta and Puneet Agrawal
    ECML-PKDD (Journal Track: DAMI)
  4. DivHSK: Diverse Headline Generation using Self-Attention based Keyword Selection
    Venkatesh E, Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Deepak Kumar and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar
    ACL 2023 (Findings)

2022

  1. Meta-XNLG: A Meta-Learning Approach Based on Language Clustering for Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer and Generation
    Kaushal Kumar Maurya and Maunendra Desarkar
    ACL 2022 (Findings)
  2. Hostility Detection in Online Hindi-English Code-Mixed Conversations
    Aditi Bagora, Kamal Shrestha, Kaushal Kumar Maurya and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar
    WebSci 2022

2021

  1. ZmBART: An Unsupervised Cross-lingual Transfer Framework for Language Generation
    Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Maunendra Sankar Desarkar, Yoshinobu Kano and Kumari Deepshikha
    ACL 2021 (Findings)
  2. Coarse and Fine-grained Hostility Detection in Hindi Posts using Fine-tuned Multilingual Embeddings
    Arkadipta De, Venkatesh Elangovan, Kaushal Kumar Maurya and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar
    Constraint workshop at AAAI 2021 (Shared Task Paper)
    ★ Shared Task Best Paper Honorable Mention
  3. A Neural Approach for Detecting Inline Mathematical Expressions from Scientific Documents
    Sreekanth Madisetty, Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Akiko Aizawa and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar
    Expert Systems

2020

  1. Learning to Distract: A Hierarchical Multi-Decoder Network for Automated Generation of Long Distractors for Multiple-Choice Questions for Reading Comprehension
    Kaushal Kumar Maurya and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar
    CIKM 2020
  2. Machine Translation Evaluation: Manual versus Automatic—a Comparative Study
    Kaushal Kumar Maurya, Renjith P Ravindran, Ch Ram Anirudh and Kavi Narayana Murthy
    ICDECT 2020