Hi, I'm Trapit !

I am a Research Scientist at OpenAI where I am building the next generation of language models.

Highlights


Work Experience

Microsoft Research Google Research OpenAI Facebook Applied Machine Learning

Publications

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Conferences

  • [New] Diverse Distributions of Self-Supervised Tasks for Meta-Learning in NLP. Trapit Bansal, Karthick Gunasekaran, Tong Wang, Tsendsuren Munkhdalai, Andrew McCallum. In Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2021.
  • Self-Supervised Meta-Learning for Few-Shot Natural Language Classification Tasks. Trapit Bansal, Rishikesh Jha, Tsendsuren Munkhdalai, Andrew McCallum. In Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020. (Oral)
  • Learning to Few-Shot Learn Across Diverse Natural Language Classification Tasks. Trapit Bansal, Rishikesh Jha, Andrew McCallum. In International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2020. (Oral)
  • Simultaneously Linking Entities and Extracting Relations from Biomedical Text without Mention-level Supervision. Trapit Bansal, Pat Verga, Neha Choudhary, Andrew McCallum. In Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020. (Oral)
  • A2N: Attending to Neighbors for Knowledge Graph Inference. Trapit Bansal, Da-Cheng Juan, Sujith Ravi, Andrew McCallum. In Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL short), 2019. (Oral)
  • Emergent Complexity via Multi-Agent Competition. Trapit Bansal, Jakub Pachocki, Szymon Sidor, Ilya Sutskever, Igor Mordatch. In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2018.
  • Continuous Adaptation via Meta-Learning in Nonstationary and Competitive Environments. Maruan Al-Shedivat, Trapit Bansal, Yuri Burda, Ilya Sutskever, Igor Mordatch, Pieter Abbeel. In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2018. (Best Paper)
  • Marginal Likelihood Training of BiLSTM-CRF for Biomedical Named Entity Recognition from Disjoint Label Sets. Nathan Greenberg, Trapit Bansal, Patrick Verga and Andrew McCallum. In Empirical Menthods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP short), 2018. (Oral)
  • Ask the GRU: Multi-task Learning for Deep Text Recommendations. Trapit Bansal, David Belanger, Andrew McCallum. In ACM international conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys), 2016.
  • Content Driven User Profiling for Comment-Worthy Recommendations of News and Blog Articles. Trapit Bansal, Mrinal Das, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya. In ACM international conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys), 2015.
  • Ordered Stick-Breaking Prior for Sequential MCMC Inference of Bayesian Nonparametric Models. Mrinal Das, Trapit Bansal, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya. In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2015.
  • Relating Romanized Comments to News Articles by Inferring Multi-glyphic Topical Correspondence. Goutham Tholpadi, Mrinal Das, Trapit Bansal, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya. In AAAI conference on artificial intelligence (AAAI), 2015.
  • A Provable SVD-based Algorithm for Learning Topics in Dominant Admixture Corpus". Trapit Bansal, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya, Ravindran Kannan. In Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2014.
  • Going Beyond Corr-LDA for Detecting Specific Comments on News & Blogs. Mrinal Das, Trapit Bansal, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya. In ACM international conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2014.

Workshops / Competitions

  • [New] Self-Supervised Learning on Multi-spectral Satellite Data for Near-Term Solar Forecasting. Akansha Singh Bansal, Trapit Bansal, David Irwin. In ICML Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning, 2021.
  • [New] Simultaneously Self-Attending to Text and Entities for Knowledge-Informed Text Representations. Dung Thai*, Raghuveer Thirukovalluru*, Trapit Bansal*, Andrew McCallum. In 6th ACL Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP), 2021.
  • Unsupervised Pre-training for Biomedical Question Answering. Vaishnavi Kommaraju*, Karthick Gunasekaran*, Kun Li*, Trapit Bansal, Andrew McCallum, Ivana Williams, Ana-Maria Istrate. In CLEF 8th Workshop on Large-Scale Biomedical Semantic Indexing and Question Answering (BioASQ), 2020. (2nd in BioASQ Competition 8B Phase B)
  • RelNet: End-to-end Modeling of Entities and Relations. Trapit Bansal, Arvind Neelakantan, Andrew McCallum. In NeurIPS Workshop on Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC), 2017.
  • Low-Rank Hidden State Embeddings for Viterbi Sequence Labeling. Dung Thai, Shikhar Murty, Trapit Bansal, Luke Vilnis, David Belanger, Andrew McCallum . In ICML Workshop on Deep Structured Prediction, 2017.

Talks

Personal

I was born and raised in India, in a town called Indore. Besides research, I enjoy travelling, cooking, playing video games, board games, and reading epic fantasy. I am married to Akansha Singh Bansal.


Contact Me ...

Best way is to email me at "trapitbansal at gmail dot com" and I'll get back to you.