Publications

1. Learning “Partner-Aware” Collaborators in Multi-Party Collaboration
   NeurIPS 2025 (Main Track)
   Abhijnan Nath, Nikhil Krishnaswamy
   Paper

2. Frictional Agent Alignment Framework: Slow Down and Don’t Break Things
   ACL 2025
   Abhijnan Nath, Carine Graff, Andrei Bachinin, Nikhil Krishnaswamy
   Paper

3. Let’s Roleplay: Examining LLM Alignment in Collaborative Dialogues
   ORIGen Workshop @ COLM 2025
   Abhijnan Nath, Carine Graff, Andrei Bachinin, Nikhil Krishnaswamy
   Paper

4. Dynamic Epistemic Friction in Dialogue
   CoNLL 2025
   Timothy Obiso, Kenneth Lai, Abhijnan Nath, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, James Pustejovsky
   Paper

5. Simultaneous Reward Distillation and Preference Learning: Get You a Language Model Who Can Do Both
   Abhijnan Nath, Changsoo Jung, Ethan Seefried, Nikhil Krishnaswamy
   (Under Review)
   Preprint

6. DPL: Diverse Preference Learning Without A Reference Model
   Abhijnan Nath, Andrey Volozin, Saumajit Saha, Albert Aristotle Nanda, Galina Grunin, Rahul Bhotika, Nikhil Krishnaswamy
   (Oral, NAACL Main 2025)
   Paper

7. “Any Other Thoughts, Hedgehog?” Linking Deliberation Chains in Collaborative Dialogues
   Abhijnan Nath, Videep Venkatesha, Mariah Bradford, Avyakta Chelle, Austin Collin Youngren, Carlos Mabrey, Nathaniel Blanchard, Nikhil Krishnaswamy
   (Findings of EMNLP 2024)
   Paper

8. Okay, Let’s Do This! Modeling Event Coreference with Generated Rationales and Knowledge Distillation
   Abhijnan Nath, Shadi Manafi, Avyakta Chelle, Nikhil Krishnaswamy
   (Oral, NAACL Main 2024)
   Paper

9. Multimodal Cross-Document Event Coreference Resolution Using Linear Semantic Transfer and Mixed-Modality Ensembles
   Abhijnan Nath, Huma Jamil, Shafiuddin Rehan Ahmed, George Baker, Rahul Ghosh, James H. Martin, Nathaniel Blanchard, Nikhil Krishnaswamy
   (LREC-COLING 2024)
   Paper

10. Propositional Extraction from Natural Speech in Small Group Collaborative Tasks
    Videep Venkatesha, Abhijnan Nath, Ibrahim Khebour, Avyakta Chelle, Mariah Bradford, Jingxuan Tu, James Pustejovsky, Nathaniel Blanchard, Nikhil Krishnaswamy
    (Best Paper — EDM 2024)

11. AxomiyaBERTa: A Phonologically-aware Transformer Model for Assamese
    Abhijnan Nath, Sheikh Mannan, Nikhil Krishnaswamy
    (Findings of ACL 2023)
    Paper

12. *2n is better than n²: Decomposing Event Coreference Resolution into Two Tractable Problems**
    Shafiuddin Rehan Ahmed, Abhijnan Nath, James H. Martin, Nikhil Krishnaswamy
    (Findings of ACL 2023)
    Paper

13. How Good is the Model in Model-in-the-loop Event Coreference Resolution Annotation?
    Shafiuddin Rehan Ahmed, Abhijnan Nath, Michael Regan, Adam Pollins, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, James H. Martin
    (Linguistic Annotation Workshop, ACL 2023)
    Paper

14. A Generalized Method for Automated Multilingual Loanword Detection
    Abhijnan Nath, Sina Mahdipour Saravani, Ibrahim Khebour, Sheikh Mannan, Zihui Li, Nikhil Krishnaswamy
    (COLING 2022)
    Paper

15. Phonetic, Semantic, and Articulatory Features in Assamese-Bengali Cognate Detection
    Abhijnan Nath, Rahul Ghosh, Nikhil Krishnaswamy
    (VarDial 2022)
    Paper

16. Linear Mappings: Semantic Transfer from Transformer Models for Cognate Detection and Coreference Resolution
    Abhijnan Nath
    MS Thesis, Colorado State University (2022)
    Paper