Publications

List of my research publications and preprints

Arxiv Pre-print, 2025Preprint

Confirmation bias: A challenge for scalable oversight

Recchia G, Mangat CS, Nyachhyon J, Sharma M, Canavan C, Epstein-Gross D, Abdulbari M

We conducted two studies examining the performance of simple oversight protocols where evaluators know that the model is correct most of the time, but not all of the time.

(CHiPSAL) COLING, 2025Conference

Development of Pre-Trained Transformer-based Models for the Nepali Language

Thapa P, Nyachhyon J, Sharma M, Bal BK

We collected 27.5 GB of Nepali text data, approximately 2.4x larger than any previously available Nepali language corpus. Leveraging this data, we pre-trained three different models i.e., BERT, RoBERTa, and GPT-2, exclusively for the Nepali Language.

Arxiv Pre-print, 2025Preprint

Consolidating and Developing Benchmarking Datasets for the Nepali Natural Language Understanding Tasks

Nyachhyon J, Sharma M, Thapa P, Bal BK

We introduce eight new datasets, creating a new benchmark, the Nepali Language Understanding Evaluation (NLUE) benchmark, which covers a total of 12 tasks for evaluating the performance of models across a diverse set of Natural Language Understanding (NLU) tasks. The added tasks include single-sentence classification, similarity and paraphrase tasks, and Natural Language Inference (NLI) tasks. On evaluating the models using added tasks, we observe that the existing models fall short in handling complex NLU tasks effectively.

Arxiv Pre-print, 2025Preprint

Local Herb Identification Using Transfer Learning: A CNN-Powered Mobile Application for Nepalese Flora

Thapa P, Sharma M, Nyachhyon J, Pandeya YR

Collected image datasets for local herbs and trained vision models for classification.