@article{onuallain2026autoindex,bibtex_show={true},selected={true},category={main},title={{AutoIndex}: Learning Representation Programs for Retrieval},author={O'Nuallain, Sam and Rajkumar, Nithya and Narayanasamy, Ramya and Jiang, Hanna and Chaudhari, Shreyas and Drozdov, Andrew},journal={arXiv},year={2026},arxiv={https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18603}}
Can QPP Choose the Right Query Variant? Evaluating Query Variant Selection for RAG Pipelines
Negar Arabzadeh,
Andrew Drozdov,
Michael Bendersky,
and Matei Zaharia
@inproceedings{arabzadeh2026qpp,bibtex_show={true},selected={true},category={main},title={Can {QPP} Choose the Right Query Variant? Evaluating Query Variant Selection for {RAG} Pipelines},author={Arabzadeh, Negar and Drozdov, Andrew and Bendersky, Michael and Zaharia, Matei},booktitle={SIGIR},year={2026},pages={2813--2823},doi={10.1145/3805712.3808571},arxiv={https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22661},html={https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3808571}}
KARL: Knowledge Agents via Reinforcement Learning
Jonathan D. Chang,
Andrew Drozdov,
Shubham Toshniwal,
Owen Oertell,
Alexander Trott,
Jacob Portes,
Abhay Gupta,
Pallavi Koppol,
Ashutosh Baheti,
Sean Kulinski,
Ivan Zhou,
Irene Dea,
Krista Opsahl-Ong,
Simon Favreau-Lessard,
Sean Owen,
Jose Javier Gonzalez Ortiz,
Arnav Singhvi,
Xabi Andrade,
Cindy Wang,
Kartik Sreenivasan,
Sam Havens,
Jialu Liu,
Peyton DeNiro,
Wen Sun,
Michael Bendersky,
and Jonathan Frankle
@article{chang2026karl,bibtex_show={true},selected={true},category={main},title={{KARL}: Knowledge Agents via Reinforcement Learning},author={Chang, Jonathan D. and Drozdov, Andrew and Toshniwal, Shubham and Oertell, Owen and Trott, Alexander and Portes, Jacob and Gupta, Abhay and Koppol, Pallavi and Baheti, Ashutosh and Kulinski, Sean and Zhou, Ivan and Dea, Irene and Opsahl-Ong, Krista and Favreau-Lessard, Simon and Owen, Sean and Gonzalez Ortiz, Jose Javier and Singhvi, Arnav and Andrade, Xabi and Wang, Cindy and Sreenivasan, Kartik and Havens, Sam and Liu, Jialu and DeNiro, Peyton and Sun, Wen and Bendersky, Michael and Frankle, Jonathan},journal={arXiv},year={2026},arxiv={https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05218}}
A State-of-the-Art SQL Reasoning Model using RLVR
Alnur Ali,
Ashutosh Baheti,
Jonathan Chang,
Ta-Chung Chi,
Brandon Cui,
Andrew Drozdov,
Jonathan Frankle,
Abhay Gupta,
Pallavi Koppol,
Sean Kulinski,
Jonathan Li,
Dipendra Misra,
Krista Opsahl-Ong,
Jose Javier Gonzalez Ortiz,
Matei Zaharia,
and Yue Zhang
@article{ali2025sqlrlvr,bibtex_show={true},selected={true},category={main},title={A State-of-the-Art {SQL} Reasoning Model using {RLVR}},author={Ali, Alnur and Baheti, Ashutosh and Chang, Jonathan and Chi, Ta-Chung and Cui, Brandon and Drozdov, Andrew and Frankle, Jonathan and Gupta, Abhay and Koppol, Pallavi and Kulinski, Sean and Li, Jonathan and Misra, Dipendra and Opsahl-Ong, Krista and Gonzalez Ortiz, Jose Javier and Zaharia, Matei and Zhang, Yue},journal={arXiv},year={2025},arxiv={https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21459}}
FreshStack: Building Realistic Benchmarks for Evaluating Retrieval on Technical Documents
Nandan Thakur,
Jimmy Lin,
Sam Havens,
Michael Carbin,
Omar Khattab,
and Andrew Drozdov
@article{thakur2025freshstack,bibtex_show={true},selected={true},category={main},title={{FreshStack}: Building Realistic Benchmarks for Evaluating Retrieval on Technical Documents},author={Thakur, Nandan and Lin, Jimmy and Havens, Sam and Carbin, Michael and Khattab, Omar and Drozdov, Andrew},journal={arXiv},year={2025},arxiv={https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13128}}
The Second Tutorial on Retrieval-Enhanced Machine Learning: Synthesis and Opportunities
Fernando Diaz,
Andrew Drozdov,
To Eun Kim,
Alireza Salemi,
and Hamed Zamani
@inproceedings{diaz2025remal,bibtex_show={true},selected={true},category={main},abbr={Tutorial},title={The Second Tutorial on {Retrieval-Enhanced Machine Learning}: Synthesis and Opportunities},author={Diaz, Fernando and Drozdov, Andrew and Kim, To Eun and Salemi, Alireza and Zamani, Hamed},booktitle={SIGIR},year={2025},pages={4130--4133},doi={10.1145/3726302.3731695},html={https://doi.org/10.1145/3726302.3731695}}
Drowning in Documents: Consequences of Scaling Reranker Inference
Mathew Jacob,
Erik Lindgren,
Matei Zaharia,
Michael Carbin,
Omar Khattab,
and Andrew Drozdov
@article{jacobs2024drowning,bibtex_show={true},selected={true},category={main},title={{Drowning in Documents}: Consequences of Scaling Reranker Inference},author={Jacob, Mathew and Lindgren, Erik and Zaharia, Matei and Carbin, Michael and Khattab, Omar and Drozdov, Andrew},journal={arXiv},year={2024},arxiv={https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11767}}
Retrieval-Enhanced Machine Learning: Synthesis and Opportunities
Fernando Diaz,
Andrew Drozdov,
To Eun Kim,
Alireza Salemi,
and Hamed Zamani
@article{diaz2024remal,bibtex_show={true},selected={true},category={main},abbr={Tutorial},title={{Retrieval-Enhanced Machine Learning}: Synthesis and Opportunities},author={Diaz, Fernando and Drozdov, Andrew and Kim, To Eun and Salemi, Alireza and Zamani, Hamed},journal={SIGIR-AP},year={2024},html={https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3673791.3698439}}
Unlocking Natural Language Generalization with Adaptive Retrieval-based Methods
@article{drozdov2024thesis,bibtex_show={true},selected={true},category={main},abbr={Thesis},title={Unlocking Natural Language Generalization with Adaptive Retrieval-based Methods},author={Drozdov, Andrew},year={2024},html={https://scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/publication/04520d37-6227-4441-9ec8-e91495271ce8}}
@article{drozdov2024redmm,bibtex_show={true},selected={true},category={main},title={{ReDMM}: Retrieval Driven Memory Manager},author={Drozdov, Andrew and McCallum, Andrew and Iyyer, Mohit},year={2024}}
Multistage collaborative knowledge distillation from a large language model for semi-supervised sequence generation
Jiachen Zhao,
Wenlong Zhao,
Andrew Drozdov,
Benjamin Rozonoyer,
Md Arafat Sultan,
Jay Yoon Lee,
Mohit Iyyer,
and Andrew McCallum
@inproceedings{zhao2024multistage,bibtex_show={true},selected={true},category={main},abbr={Long Paper},title={Multistage collaborative knowledge distillation from a large language model for semi-supervised sequence generation},author={Zhao, Jiachen and Zhao, Wenlong and Drozdov, Andrew and Rozonoyer, Benjamin and Sultan, Md Arafat and Lee, Jay Yoon and Iyyer, Mohit and McCallum, Andrew},booktitle={ACL},year={2024},arxiv={https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.766/}}
PaRaDe: Passage Ranking using Demonstrations with LLMs
Andrew Drozdov,
Honglei Zhuang,
Zhuyun Dai,
Zhen Qin,
Razieh Rahimi,
Xuanhui Wang,
Dana Alon,
Mohit Iyyer,
Andrew McCallum,
Donald Metzler,
and Kai Hui
@inproceedings{drozdov2023parade,bibtex_show={true},selected={true},abbr={Short Paper},category={main},title={{PaRaDe}: Passage Ranking using Demonstrations with LLMs},author={Drozdov, Andrew and Zhuang, Honglei and Dai, Zhuyun and Qin, Zhen and Rahimi, Razieh and Wang, Xuanhui and Alon, Dana and Iyyer, Mohit and McCallum, Andrew and Metzler, Donald and Hui, Kai},year={2023},booktitle={EMNLP (Findings)},arxiv={https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.14408}}
kNN-LM Does Not Improve Open-ended Text Generation
Shufan Wang,
Yixiao Song,
Andrew Drozdov,
Aparna Garimella,
Varun Manjunatha,
and Mohit Iyyer
@inproceedings{wang2023knnlm,bibtex_show={true},selected={true},abbr={Long Paper},category={main},title={{kNN-LM} Does Not Improve Open-ended Text Generation},author={Wang, Shufan and Song, Yixiao and Drozdov, Andrew and Garimella, Aparna and Manjunatha, Varun and Iyyer, Mohit},year={2023},booktitle={EMNLP},arxiv={https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14625}}
Compositional Semantic Parsing with Large Language Models
Andrew Drozdov,
Nathanael Schärli,
Ekin AkyĂĽrek,
Nathan Scales,
Xinying Song,
Xinyun Chen,
Olivier Bousquet,
and Denny Zhou
@inproceedings{drozdov2022compositional,bibtex_show={true},selected={true},abbr={Long Paper},category={main},title={Compositional Semantic Parsing with Large Language Models},author={Drozdov, Andrew and Schärli, Nathanael and Akyürek, Ekin and Scales, Nathan and Song, Xinying and Chen, Xinyun and Bousquet, Olivier and Zhou, Denny},year={2023},booktitle={ICLR},award={Poster},arxiv={https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.15003}}
You can’t pick your neighbors, or can you? When and how to rely on retrieval in the kNN-LM
Andrew Drozdov,
Shufan Wang,
Razieh Rahimi,
Andrew McCallum,
Hamed Zamani,
and Mohit Iyyer
@inproceedings{drozdov2022knnlm,bibtex_show={true},selected={true},abbr={Long Paper},category={main},title={You can't pick your neighbors, or can you? {W}hen and how to rely on retrieval in the {kNN-LM}},author={Drozdov, Andrew and Wang, Shufan and Rahimi, Razieh and McCallum, Andrew and Zamani, Hamed and Iyyer, Mohit},booktitle={EMNLP (Findings)},award={Findings},year={2022},pdf={https://mrdrozdov.github.io/knnlm_retrieval_quality.pdf}}
Inducing and Using Alignments for Transition-based AMR Parsing
Andrew Drozdov,
Jiawei Zhou,
Radu Florian,
Andrew McCallum,
Tahira Naseem,
Yoon Kim,
and Ramon Fernandez Astudillo
@inproceedings{drozdov2022amralign,bibtex_show={true},selected={true},abbr={Long Paper},award={Poster},category={main},title={Inducing and Using Alignments for Transition-based AMR Parsing},author={Drozdov, Andrew and Zhou, Jiawei and Florian, Radu and McCallum, Andrew and Naseem, Tahira and Kim, Yoon and Astudillo, Ramon Fernandez},booktitle={NAACL},year={2022},arxiv={https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01464},code={https://github.com/IBM/transition-amr-parser}}
Improved Latent Tree Induction with Distant Supervision via Span Constraints
Zhiyang Xu,
Andrew Drozdov,
Jay Yoon Lee,
Tim O’Gorman,
Subendhu Rongali,
Dylan Finkbeiner,
Shilpa Suresh,
Mohit Iyyer,
and Andrew McCallum
@inproceedings{diora2021distantdiora,bibtex_show={true},selected={true},abbr={Long Paper},award={Poster},category={main},title={Improved Latent Tree Induction with Distant Supervision via Span Constraints},author={Xu, Zhiyang and Drozdov, Andrew and Lee, Jay Yoon and O{'}Gorman, Tim and Rongali, Subendhu and Finkbeiner, Dylan and Suresh, Shilpa and Iyyer, Mohit and McCallum, Andrew},booktitle={EMNLP},year={2021},arxiv={https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.05112},code={https://github.com/iesl/distantly-supervised-diora}}
Unsupervised Parsing with S-DIORA: Single Tree Encoding for Deep Inside-Outside Recursive Autoencoders
Andrew Drozdov,
Subendhu Rongali,
Yi-Pei Chen,
Tim O’Gorman,
Mohit Iyyer,
and Andrew McCallum
@inproceedings{drozdov2020sdiora,bibtex_show={true},selected={true},abbr={Long Paper},award={Poster},category={main},title={Unsupervised Parsing with {S-DIORA}: Single Tree Encoding for Deep Inside-Outside Recursive Autoencoders},author={Drozdov, Andrew and Rongali, Subendhu and Chen, Yi-Pei and O{'}Gorman, Tim and Iyyer, Mohit and McCallum, Andrew},booktitle={EMNLP},pdf={https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.392/},year={2020}}
The Impact of Preprint Servers in the Formation of Novel Ideas
Swarup Satish,
Zonghai Yao,
Andrew Drozdov,
and Boris Veytsman
In EMNLP (Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing)
2020
@inproceedings{emnl2020biorxivimpact,bibtex_show={true},selected={true},category={workshop},abbr={Long Paper},award={Oral},arxiv={https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.08.330696v1},code={https://github.com/seasonyao/BiorXivImpact},title={The Impact of Preprint Servers in the Formation of Novel Ideas},author={Satish, Swarup and Yao, Zonghai and Drozdov, Andrew and Veytsman, Boris},booktitle={EMNLP (Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing)},workshop={https://ornlcda.github.io/SDProc/},year={2020}}
Unsupervised Labeled Parsing with Deep Inside-Outside Recursive Auto-Encoders
Andrew Drozdov,
Patrick Verga,
Yi-Pei Chen,
Mohit Iyyer,
and Andrew McCallum
@inproceedings{drozdov2019dioralabeled,bibtex_show={true},selected={true},abbr={Short Paper},award={Poster},category={main},author={Drozdov, Andrew and Verga, Patrick and Chen, Yi-Pei and Iyyer, Mohit and McCallum, Andrew},title={Unsupervised Labeled Parsing with Deep Inside-Outside Recursive Auto-Encoders},booktitle={EMNLP},pdf={https://aclanthology.org/D19-1161/},code={https://github.com/iesl/diora},year={2019}}
Unsupervised Latent Tree Induction with Deep Inside-Outside Recursive
Autoencoders
Andrew Drozdov,
Patrick Verga,
Mohit Yadav,
Mohit Iyyer,
and Andrew McCallum
@inproceedings{drozdov2019diora,bibtex_show={true},selected={true},abbr={Long Paper},award={Oral},category={main},author={Drozdov, Andrew and Verga, Patrick and Yadav, Mohit and Iyyer, Mohit and McCallum, Andrew},title={Unsupervised Latent Tree Induction with Deep Inside-Outside Recursive
Autoencoders},booktitle={NAACL},arxiv={https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02142},code={https://github.com/iesl/diora},year={2019}}
Do latent tree learning models identify meaningful structure in sentences?
Adina Williams,
Andrew Drozdov,
and Samuel R. Bowman
@article{Williams2018DoLT,bibtex_show={true},selected={true},category={main},abbr={Journal},award={Oral},title={Do latent tree learning models identify meaningful structure in sentences?},author={Williams, Adina and Drozdov, Andrew and Bowman, Samuel R.},journal={TACL},year={2018},volume={6},code={https://github.com/nyu-mll/spinn},arxiv={https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01121},pages={253-267}}
Emergent Communication in a Multi-Modal, Multi-Step Referential Game
Katrina Evtimova,
Andrew Drozdov,
Douwe Kiela,
and Kyunghyun Cho
@inproceedings{iclr2018emergent,bibtex_show={true},selected={true},category={main},abbr={Long Paper},award={Poster},arxiv={https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.10369},title={Emergent Communication in a Multi-Modal, Multi-Step Referential Game},author={Evtimova, Katrina and Drozdov, Andrew and Kiela, Douwe and Cho, Kyunghyun},booktitle={ICLR},year={2018},code={https://github.com/nyu-dl/MultimodalGame}}
The Coadaptation Problem when Learning How and What to Compose
Andrew Drozdov,
and Samuel R. Bowman
In ACL (Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP)
2017
@inproceedings{acl2017coadapt,bibtex_show={true},selected={true},category={workshop},abbr={Ext. Abstract},award={Poster},pdf={https://github.com/nyu-mll/spinn/blob/master/writing/acl17-latex/acl2017.pdf},title={The Coadaptation Problem when Learning How and What to Compose},author={Drozdov, Andrew and Bowman, Samuel R.},booktitle={ACL (Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP)},workshop={https://sites.google.com/site/repl4nlp2017/},year={2017}}
Understanding Mutual Information and its use in InfoGAN
Katrina Evtimova,
and Andrew Drozdov
Course Project (Inference and Representation)
2016
Advised by David Sontag. Recognized as "Best Deep Learning Project" in the department, awarded by Yann LeCun.