Iftekhar Naim

Researcher, Google

Joined

July 2019

Names

Iftekhar Naim

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Google Scholar

DBLP

Career & Education History

Researcher

Google (google.com)

2015 – Present

PhD student

University of Rochester (rochester.edu)

2008 – 2015

Undergrad student

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (buet.ac.bd)

2002 – 2007

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Daniel Gildea

Present

Expertise

Large Language Models and Few-shot Learning

Present

Multimodal Encoding

Present

Knowledge Augmented NLU

Present

Publications

On the Theoretical Limitations of Embedding-Based Retrieval
Orion Weller, Michael Boratko, Iftekhar Naim, Jinhyuk Lee
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Can Long-Context Language Models Subsume Retrieval, SQL, and More?
Jinhyuk Lee, Anthony Chen, Zhuyun Dai, Dheeru Dua, Devendra Singh Sachan, Michael Boratko, Yi Luan, Séb Arnold, Vincent Perot, Siddharth Dalmia, Hexiang Hu, Xudong Lin, Panupong Pasupat, Aida Amini, Jeremy R. Cole, Sebastian Riedel, Iftekhar Naim, Ming-Wei Chang, Kelvin Guu
- Submitted to NeurIPS 2024 Track Datasets and Benchmarks
- Readers: Everyone
Rethinking the Role of Token Retrieval in Multi-Vector Retrieval
Jinhyuk Lee, Zhuyun Dai, Sai Meher Karthik Duddu, Tao Lei, Iftekhar Naim, Ming-Wei Chang, Vincent Y Zhao
- NeurIPS 2023 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Multi-Vector Retrieval as Sparse Alignment
Yujie Qian, Jinhyuk Lee, Karthik Duddu, Zhuyun Dai, Tao Lei, Siddhartha Brahma, Iftekhar Naim, Vincent Y Zhao
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 13 Feb 2023
- Submitted to ICLR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Unsupervised Alignment of Actions in Video with Text Descriptions
Young Chol Song, Iftekhar Naim, Abdullah Al Mamun, Kaustubh Kulkarni, Parag Singla, Jiebo Luo, Daniel Gildea, Henry A. Kautz
- 2016 (modified: 16 Jul 2019)
- IJCAI 2016
- Readers: Everyone
Discriminative Unsupervised Alignment of Natural Language Instructions with Corresponding Video Segments
Iftekhar Naim, Young Chol Song, Qiguang Liu, Liang Huang, Henry A. Kautz, Jiebo Luo, Daniel Gildea
- 2015 (modified: 16 Jul 2019)
- HLT-NAACL 2015
- Readers: Everyone
Sliding Alignment Windows for Real-Time Crowd Captioning
Mohammad Kazemi, Rahman Lavaee, Iftekhar Naim, Daniel Gildea
- 2014 (modified: 16 Jul 2019)
- ACL (2) 2014
- Readers: Everyone
Unsupervised Alignment of Natural Language Instructions with Video Segments
Iftekhar Naim, Young Chol Song, Qiguang Liu, Henry A. Kautz, Jiebo Luo, Daniel Gildea
- 2014 (modified: 16 Jul 2019)
- AAAI 2014
- Readers: Everyone
Text Alignment for Real-Time Crowd Captioning
Iftekhar Naim, Daniel Gildea, Walter S. Lasecki, Jeffrey P. Bigham
- 2013 (modified: 16 Jul 2019)
- HLT-NAACL 2013
- Readers: Everyone
Convergence of the EM Algorithm for Gaussian Mixtures with Unbalanced Mixing Coefficients
Iftekhar Naim, Daniel Gildea
- 2012 (modified: 16 Jul 2019)
- ICML 2012
- Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors

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