Danish Contractor

Principal Researcher, International Business Machines

Joined

July 2019

Names

Danish Contractor (Preferred)

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@in.ibm.com (Confirmed)

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****@ibm.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Principal Researcher

International Business Machines (ibm.com)

Present

PhD student

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (iitd.ac.in)

2014 – 2020

MS student

University of Cambridge (cam.ac.uk)

2011 – 2012

Undergrad student

Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (nsit.net.in)

2003 – 2007

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coworker

Dinesh Raghu

2014 – Present

Coworker

Sachindra Joshi

2009 – Present

PhD Advisor

Mausam

2014 – 2020

PhD Advisor

Parag Singla

2014 – 2020

Expertise

Natural Langauge Processing

Present

Dialog Systems

Present

Question Answering

Present

Publications

KCIF: Knowledge-Conditioned Instruction Following
Rudra Murthy, Praveen Venkateswaran, Prince Kumar, Danish Contractor
- Submitted to NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track
- Readers: Everyone
Evaluating the Instruction-following Abilities of Language Models using Knowledge Tasks
Rudra Murthy, Prince Kumar, Praveen Venkateswaran, Danish Contractor
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Reducing the Scope of Language Models with Circuit Breakers
David Yunis, Siyu Huo, Chulaka Gunasekara, Danish Contractor
- ICLR 2025 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Position: Standardization of Behavioral Use Clauses is Necessary for the Adoption of Responsible Licensing of AI
Daniel McDuff, Tim Korjakow, Scott Cambo, Jesse Josua Benjamin, Jenny Lee, Yacine Jernite, Carlos Muñoz Ferrandis, Aaron Gokaslan, Alek Tarkowski, Joseph Lindley, A. Feder Cooper, Danish Contractor
- ICML 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
StarCoder: may the source be with you!
Raymond Li, Loubna Ben allal, Yangtian Zi, Niklas Muennighoff, Denis Kocetkov, Chenghao Mou, Marc Marone, Christopher Akiki, Jia LI, Jenny Chim, Qian Liu, Evgenii Zheltonozhskii, Terry Yue Zhuo, Thomas Wang, Olivier Dehaene, Joel Lamy-Poirier, Joao Monteiro, Nicolas Gontier, Ming-Ho Yee, Logesh Kumar Umapathi et al. (38 additional authors not shown)
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Semi-Structured Object Sequence Encoders
Rudra Murthy, Riyaz Ahmad Bhat, Chulaka Gunasekara, Siva Sankalp Patel, Hui Wan, Tejas Indulal Dhamecha, Danish Contractor, Marina Danilevsky
- EMNLP 2023 Findings
- Readers: Everyone
Prompting with Pseudo-Code Instructions
Mayank Mishra, Prince Kumar, Riyaz Ahmad Bhat, Rudra Murthy, Danish Contractor, Srikanth G. Tamilselvam
- EMNLP 2023 Main
- Readers: Everyone
Variational Learning for Unsupervised Knowledge Grounded Dialogs
Mayank Mishra, Dhiraj Madan, Gaurav Pandey, Danish Contractor
- 2022 (modified: 21 Sept 2022)
- IJCAI 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Behavioral Use Licensing for Responsible AI
Danish Contractor, Daniel McDuff, Julia Katherine Haines, Jenny Lee, Christopher Hines, Brent Hecht, Nicholas Vincent, Hanlin Li
- 2022 (modified: 21 Sept 2022)
- FAccT 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Mix-and-Match: Scalable Dialog Response Retrieval using Gaussian Mixture Embeddings
Gaurav Pandey, Danish Contractor, Sachindra Joshi
- 2022 (modified: 21 Sept 2022)
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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