I am a PhD student in EECS at MIT advised by Prof. Antonio Torralba and Prof. Jacob Andreas. I enjoy thinking about the interplay between language (structure more than form), reasoning and sequential decision making. My research goal is to understand systems that exhibit broadly intelligent behaviors (AI systems and biological organisms) and build better AI systems!
Recently, I've worked on:
1. Developing algorithms to understand the structure of solutions artificial neural networks implement and how it effects generalization [I,II],
2. Understanding the complexity and structure of naturally arising animal communication systems in the wild 🐳 [III, IV],
3. How language and natural-language-like structures can support effective reasoning and planning in embodied agents and robots 🤖 [V,VI, VII].
Prior to this I was at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute for a year long research internship advised by Prof. Abhinav Gupta. Even before that I was an undergraduate student at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. During my PhD, I have also spent some fun summers at Microsoft Research NYC and NVIDIA Seattle Robotics Lab.
Recent News
- 6/2024 I gave a talk on LASER at the Google Deepmind LLM Reasoning Seminar and Microsoft Research New England!
- 6/2024 I gave a talk on Understanding sperm whale communication at Imagination in Action at CSAIL, MIT and at The Last Whaling Station, Iceland on World Oceans Day.
- 5/2024 Check out a discussion and perspective on Contextual and combinatorial structure in sperm whale vocalisations by Carl Zimmer at The Daily Podcast and in The New York Times!
- 5/2024 Our paper on Contextual and combinatorial structure in sperm whale vocalisations was accepted at Nature Communications!
Publications
Pratyusha Sharma, Shane Gero, Roger Payne, David F. Gruber, Daniela Rus*, Antonio Torralba*, Jacob Andreas*
Nature Communications, 2024
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The New York Times
National Geographic
The Daily Podcast
Washington Post
Science Magazine
MIT News
BBC
TechCrunch
AP News
Reuters
NPR
Haotian Fu, Pratyusha Sharma, Elias Stengel-Eskin, George Konidaris, Nicolas Le Roux, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Xingdi Yuan
ICML 2024
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Lio Wong*, Jiayuan Mao*, Pratyusha Sharma*, Zachary S. Siegel, Jiahai Feng, Noa Korneev, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Jacob Andreas.
ICLR 2024
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MIT News
Pratyusha Sharma*, Tamar Rott Shaham*, Manel Baradad, Stephanie Fu, Adrian RodriguezMunoz, Shivam Duggal, Phillip Isola, Antonio Torralba.
CVPR 2024
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MIT News
Shikhar Murty, Pratyusha Sharma, Jacob Andreas, Christopher Manning
EMNLP 2023
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Shikhar Murty*, Orr Paradise*, Pratyusha Sharma*
EMNLP Findings 2023
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Shikhar Murty, Pratyusha Sharma, Jacob Andreas, Christopher Manning
ACL 2023
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Shikhar Murty, Pratyusha Sharma, Jacob Andreas, Christopher Manning
ICLR 2023
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Pratyusha Sharma, Balakumar Sundaralingam, Valts Blukis, Chris Paxton, Tucker Hermans, Antonio Torralba, Jacob Andreas, Dieter Fox
RSS 2022
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Pratyusha Sharma, Antonio Torralba, Jacob Andreas
ACL 2022
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Jacob Andreas, Gašper Beguš, Michael M Bronstein, Roee Diamant, Denley Delaney, Shane Gero, Shafi Goldwasser, David F Gruber, Sarah de Haas, Peter Malkin, Nikolay Pavlov, Roger Payne,
Giovanni Petri, Daniela Rus, Pratyusha Sharma, Dan Tchernov, Pernille Tønnesen, Antonio Torralba, Daniel Vogt, Robert J Wood
(Authors in alphabetical order)
iScience 2022
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The New Yorker
Yiyue Luo, Yunzhu Li, Pratyusha Sharma, Wan Shou, Kui Wu, Michael Foshey, Beichen Li, Tomas Palacios, Antonio Torralba, Wojciech Matusik
Nature Electronics 2021
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Pratyusha Sharma, Deepak Pathak, Abhinav Gupta
NeurIPS 2019
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Pratyusha Sharma*, Lekha Mohan*, Lerrel Pinto, Abhinav Gupta
CoRL 2018
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