Kiran Ramnath

Researcher, AWS Bedrock, Amazon

Joined

June 2021

Names

Kiran Ramnath (Preferred)

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@amazon.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

AWS Bedrock, Amazon (amazon.com)

2024 – Present

Researcher

Salesforce AI, SalesForce.com (salesforce.com)

2021 – 2024

MS student

University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (illinois.edu)

2019 – 2021

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Mark A. Hasegawa-Johnson

2019 – 2021

Expertise

Large Language Models

2022 – Present

Computer Vision

2019 – Present

Machine Learning

2016 – Present

NLP

2016 – Present

Publications

Diffusion Language Model Inference with Monte Carlo Tree Search
Zheng Huang, Kiran Ramnath, Yueyan Chen, Aosong Feng, Sangmin Woo, Balasubramaniam Srinivasan, Zhichao Xu, Kang Zhou, Shuai Wang, Haibo Ding, Lin Lee Cheong
- EACL 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Learning to Ideate for Machine Learning Engineering Agents
Yunxiang Zhang, Kang Zhou, Zhichao Xu, Kiran Ramnath, Yun Zhou, Sangmin Woo, Haibo Ding, Lin Lee Cheong
- EACL 2026
- Readers: Everyone
PAFT: A Parallel Training Paradigm for Effective LLM Fine-Tuning
Shiva Kumar Pentyala, Zhichao Wang, Bin Bi, Kiran Ramnath, Xiang-Bo Mao, Regunathan Radhakrishnan, Sitaram Asur
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
A Systematic Survey of Automatic Prompt Optimization Techniques
Kiran Ramnath, Kang Zhou, Sheng Guan, Soumya Smruti Mishra, Xuan Qi, Zhengyuan Shen, Shuai Wang, Sangmin Woo, Sullam Jeoung, Yawei Wang, Haozhu Wang, Han Ding, Yuzhe Lu, Zhichao Xu, Yun Zhou, Balasubramaniam Srinivasan, Qiaojing Yan, Yueyan Chen, Haibo Ding, Panpan Xu et al. (1 additional authors not shown)
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
PAFT: A Parallel Training Paradigm for Effective LLM Fine-Tuning
Shiva Kumar Pentyala, Zhichao Wang, Bin Bi, Kiran Ramnath, Xiang-Bo Mao, Regunathan Radhakrishnan, Sitaram Asur, Claire Na Cheng
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
A Comprehensive Survey of LLM Alignment Techniques: RLHF, RLAIF, PPO, DPO and More
Zhichao Wang, Bin Bi, Shiva Kumar Pentyala, Kiran Ramnath, Sougata Chaudhuri, Shubham Mehrotra, Zixu James Zhu, Xiang-Bo Mao, Sitaram Asur, Na Claire Cheng
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
PAFT: A Parallel Training Paradigm for Effective LLM Fine-Tuning
Shiva Kumar Pentyala, Zhichao Wang, Bin Bi, Kiran Ramnath, Xiang-Bo Mao, Regunathan Radhakrishnan, Sitaram Asur, Na Claire Cheng
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Worldly Wise (WoW) - Cross-Lingual Knowledge Fusion for Fact-based Visual Spoken-Question Answering
Kiran Ramnath, Leda Sari, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Chang D. Yoo
- 2021 (modified: 22 Nov 2022)
- NAACL-HLT 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Seeing is Knowing! Fact-based Visual Question Answering using Knowledge Graph Embeddings
Kiran Ramnath, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
- CoRR 2020
- Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors

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