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Bhawna Paliwal
About Me
Hi! I am Bhawna, Research Engineer at Microsoft Research (MSR) working with Dr. Manik Varma. My primary focus involves developing efficient language modeling architectures and training algorithms for applications in search and recommendation. I completed my undergraduate studies majoring in Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Ropar in 2021, where I was honored with the Director’s Gold Medal for my overall performance. My research interests lie in developing modular architectures for large-scale AI models and enabling equitable access to wider range of users by making them efficient and robust. If you are interested in machine learning research, engineering or solving impactful problems, I am sure we will have plenty to chat about :)
News
- [Oct. 2024] Our paper CROSS-JEM accepted at ENLSP@NeurIPS 2024!
- [May 2024] Our paper Extreme Meta-Classification for Large-Scale Zero-Shot Retrieval accepted at KDD 2024.
- [Mar. 2024] Our paper OAK: Enriching Document Representations using Auxiliary Knowledge for Extreme Classification accepted at ICML 2024.
- [Jan. 2024] Our paper Enhancing Tail Performance in Extreme Classifiers by Label Variance Reduction accepted at ICLR 2024.
- [Sep. 2023] Now Research Engineer II at MSR!
- [Jan. 2023] Presented my work on Real-time Query AutoCompletion at Microsoft Research India’s annual advisory board meeting.
- [Oct. 2022] Our paper Negative Mining-aware Mini-batching for Extreme Classification accepted at WSDM 2023.
Publications
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ENLSP@NeurIPS
Bhawna Paliwal*, Deepak Saini*, Mudit Dhawan, Siddarth Asokan, Nagarajan Natarajan, Surbhi Aggarwal, Pankaj Malhotra, Jian Jiao, Manik VarmaENLSP Workshop@Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024. -
KDD
Sachin Yadav*, Deepak Saini*, Anirudh Buvanesh*, Bhawna Paliwal, Kunal Dahiya, Siddarth Asokan, Yashoteja Prabhu, Jian Jiao, Manik VarmaInternational Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2024. -
ICML
Shikhar Mohan*, Deepak Saini*, Anshul Mittal, Sayak Ray Chowdhury, Bhawna Paliwal, Jian Jiao, Manish Gupta, Manik VarmaInternational Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024. -
ICLR
Anirudh Buvanesh*, Rahul Chand*, Jatin Prakash, Bhawna Paliwal, Mudit Dhawan, Neelabh Madan, Deepesh Hada, Vidit Jain, Sonu Mehta, Yashoteja Prabhu, Manish Gupta, Ramachandran Ramjee, Manik VarmaInternational Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024. -
WSDM
Kunal Dahiya et al. including Bhawna PaliwalACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2023. -
IMIMIC@MICCAI
Bhawna Paliwal*, Abhineet Pandey*, Abhinav Dhall, Ramanathan SubramanianInternational Workshop, IMIMIC held in Conjunction with MICCAI, 2021 -
Preprint
Kalin Stefanov, Bhawna Paliwal, Abhinav Dhallarxiv preprint
Outreach
Presentations and Talks
- Got a chance to present our work on OAK (ICML'24) and CROSS-JEM (ENLSP@NeurIPS'24) to Bill Gates!!
- My talk on CROSS-JEM for ENLSP@NeurIPS 2024 available here

Poster on CROSS-JEM
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- Neural Information and Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024
- Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2024