I am a PhD student at Mila - Quebec AI Institute and University of Montreal, under the supervision of Aishwarya Agrawal. I am also a visiting researcher at Multimodal Foundation Models Team, ServiceNow Research.

Prio to Mila, I received an MSc in CS from University of Saskatchewan and BSc in CS from Noakhali Science and Technology University.

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Research

My research focuses on visual representation learning and generative models, particularly their applications in language and vision tasks. I’m especially interested in controllable representation learning for world models. I am also interested in developing AI systems that promote pluralistic alignment, safety, and cultural diversity.

Highlighted Work

See my Google Scholar for a full list of publications.

VisMin: Visual Minimal-Change Understanding

Rabiul Awal*, Saba Ahmadi*, Le Zhang*, Aishwarya Agrawal

NeurIPS'24

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Contrasting intra-modal and ranking cross-modal hard negatives to enhance visio-linguistic fine-grained understanding

Le Zhang, Rabiul Awal, Aishwarya Agrawal

CVPR'24

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Investigating Prompting Techniques for Zero- and Few-Shot Visual Question Answering

Rabiul Awal, Le Zhang, Aishwarya Agrawal

CVPR'24 Workshop

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CulturalVQA: Benchmarking Vision Language Models for Cultural Knowledge

Shravan Nayak, Kanishk Jain, Rabiul Awal, et al.

EMNLP'24 (main track)

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Evaluating GPT-3 Generated Explanations for Hateful Content Moderation

Han Wang, Ming Shan Hee, Md Rabiul Awal, Kenny Tsu Wei Choo, Roy Ka-Wei Lee

IJCAI'23

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Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning for Multilingual Hate Speech Detection

Rabiul Awal, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Eshaan Tanwar, Tanmay Garg, Tanmoy Chakraborty

TCSS'22

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MUSCAT: Multilingual Rumor Verification in Social Media Conversations

Rabiul Awal, Minh Dang Nguyen, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Kenny Tsu Wei Choo

BIGDATA'22

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AngryBERT: Joint learning target and emotion for hate speech detection

Rabiul Awal, Rui Cao, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, and Sandra Mitrovi ́c

PAKDD'21

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Blog

I occasionally write on how-to-cs-grad, coding, ai research, and systematic failure in Bangladesh.

Contact

Please send me an email if you are interested in collaboration or need help with grad apps and how-to-cs-undergrad.

rabiul.awal @ mila dot quebec
awalrabiul6 @ gmail dot com

updated september 2024