Yash Kumar Atri

Yash Kumar Atri

University of Virginia
atri [at] virginia.edu
Language models · continual learning · evaluation

I build adaptive language systems that can update their knowledge, reason consistently as information evolves, and remain reliable after deployment.

Résumé
Happenings
May 2026 Temporally anchored RAG framework for bariatric surgery patient education published in Obesity Surgery (paper)
Apr 2026 Evaluating Temporal Consistency in Multi-Turn Language Models accepted to ACL Main 2026 (paper)
Apr 2026 Invited talk on lifelong model editing at IIT Jodhpur
Aug 2025 Patent on text summarization published (announcement)
Language models · continual learning · evaluation

I build adaptive language systems that can update their knowledge, reason consistently as information evolves, and remain reliable after deployment.

About Me

Hi! I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Virginia, working with Prof. Tom Hartvigsen. Before joining UVA, I completed my PhD in Computer Science & Engineering at IIIT Delhi, advised by Prof. Vikram Goyal and Prof. Tanmoy Chakraborty. My research aims to build language systems that learn continuously, incorporate new evidence after deployment, and remain reliable as human knowledge changes.

Research Directions
Continual Learning & Adaptive Model Updating Current
Coherent Summarization & Multimodal Abstraction
Efficient Data Selection & Summarization Systems
Evaluation, Data Quality & Auditability

Publications

10 papers
1 preprint
1 patent
Evaluating Temporal Consistency in Multi-Turn Language Models
Yash Kumar Atri, Steven L. Johnson, Thomas Hartvigsen
A temporally Anchored Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Patient Education: An IFSO Artificial Intelligence Task Force Multinational Validation Study
Yash Kumar Atri, Tom Hartvigsen, Yung Lee, Allan Okrainec, Mohammad Kermansaravi, Shahab Shahabi, Silvia Leite, Mary O’Kane, Ricardo Cohen, Thomas H. Shin
Model Editing with Graph-Based External Memory
Yash Kumar Atri, Ahmed Alaa, Thomas Hartvigsen
Promoting Topic Coherence and Inter-Document Consorts in Multi-Document Summarization via Simplicial Complex and Sheaf Graph
Yash Kumar Atri, Arun Iyer, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Vikram Goyal
Fusing Multimodal Signals on Hyper-Complex Space for Extreme Abstractive Text Summarization (TL;DR) of Scientific Contents
Yash Kumar Atri, Vikram Goyal, Tanmoy Chakraborty

Experience & Education

Experience
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Jul 2024 – Present
University of Virginia, USA
Topic: editing large language models; advised by Prof. Tom Hartvigsen
Technology Consultant
2023 – 2024
iHub Anubhuti, Delhi, India
Research Associate
2019
LCS2, IIIT Delhi, India
Software Engineer (Data Science)
2018 – 2019
Lumiq.ai, Noida, India
Awards
Research Support
Google Cloud Research Credits ($5,000) · Cohere Labs Catalyst Grant · 2026
Fellowships & Travel
DAAD AInet Fellow · Microsoft, iHub-Anubhuti, ACM-India travel grants
Selected Talks & Posters
IC2S2 2026 — Present Bias in Interactive AI, parallel talk
MSLD 2026 — Temporal scope stability in conversational AI, poster
IIT Jodhpur 2026 — Lifelong model editing for adaptive language models, invited talk
Lamarr Institute 2025 — Waking LLMs from CryoSleep with continual learning
Education
Ph.D. Computer Science & Engineering
2020 – 2024
IIIT Delhi, India
Advisors: Prof. Vikram Goyal, Prof. Tanmoy Chakraborty
Thesis: Advancing text summarization with conscience, comprehension, and multimodality
B.Tech. Computer Science & Engineering
2014 – 2018
Jaypee University Anoopshahr, India
Advisor: Dr. Amit Kumar
Thesis: Machine translation in Indian languages
Professional Service
Area Chair — ARR / ACL / EMNLP, 2025–2026
Reviewer — ARR, ICLR, NeurIPS, TCSS, KBS, TASL, BDA, ICON, ASONAM
Organizer — BDA, ICON, ACSS, COFAD workshops
Teaching & Mentoring
Head TA — Data Mining; Big Data Analytics, IIIT Delhi
Guest Lecturer — AI-driven mental health counseling, ICON 2023
Mentor — Undergraduate research in summarization and fairness

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