Sai Sree Harsha

Also published as: Sai Sree Harsha


2025

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Doc-React: Multi-page Heterogeneous Document Question-answering
Junda Wu | Yu Xia | Tong Yu | Xiang Chen | Sai Sree Harsha | Akash V Maharaj | Ruiyi Zhang | Victor Bursztyn | Sungchul Kim | Ryan A. Rossi | Julian McAuley | Yunyao Li | Ritwik Sinha
Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)

Answering questions over multi-page, multimodal documents, including text and figures, is a critical challenge for applications that require answers to integrate information across multiple modalities and contextual dependencies. Existing methods, such as single-turn retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), struggle to retrieve fine-grained and contextually relevant information from large, heterogeneous documents, leading to suboptimal performance. Inspired by iterative frameworks like ReAct, which refine retrieval through feedback, we propose Doc-React, an adaptive iterative framework that balances information gain and uncertainty reduction at each step. Doc-React leverages InfoNCE-guided retrieval to approximate mutual information, enabling dynamic sub-query generation and refinement. A large language model (LLM) serves as both a judge and generator, providing structured feedback to iteratively improve retrieval. By combining mutual information optimization with entropy-aware selection, Doc-React systematically captures relevant multimodal content, achieving strong performance on complex QA tasks

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MuRAR: A Simple and Effective Multimodal Retrieval and Answer Refinement Framework for Multimodal Question Answering
Zhengyuan Zhu | Daniel Lee | Hong Zhang | Sai Sree Harsha | Loic Feujio | Akash Maharaj | Yunyao Li
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations

Recent advancements in retrieval-augmented generation have demonstrated impressive performance on the question-answering task. However, most previous work predominantly focuses on text-based answers. Although some studies have explored multimodal data, they still fall short in generating comprehensive multimodal answers, especially step-by-step tutorials for accomplishing specific goals. This capability is especially valuable in application scenarios such as enterprise chatbots, customer service systems, and educational platforms. In this paper, we propose a simple and effective framework, MuRAR (Multimodal Retrieval and Answer Refinement). MuRAR starts by generating an initial text answer based on the user’s question. It then retrieves multimodal data relevant to the snippets of the initial text answer. By leveraging the retrieved multimodal data and contextual features, MuRAR refines the initial text answer to create a more comprehensive and informative response. This highly adaptable framework can be easily integrated into an enterprise chatbot to produce multimodal answers with minimal modifications. Human evaluations demonstrate that the multimodal answers generated by MuRAR are significantly more useful and readable than plain text responses. A video demo of MuRAR is available at https://youtu.be/ykGRtyVVQpU.

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Federated Retrieval Augmented Generation for Multi-Product Question Answering
Parshin Shojaee | Sai Sree Harsha | Dan Luo | Akash Maharaj | Tong Yu | Yunyao Li
Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Industry Track

Recent advancements in Large Language Models and Retrieval-Augmented Generation have boosted interest in domain-specific question-answering for enterprise products. However, AI Assistants often face challenges in multi-product QA settings, requiring accurate responses across diverse domains. Existing multi-domain RAG-QA approaches either query all domains indiscriminately, increasing computational costs and LLM hallucinations, or rely on rigid resource selection, which can limit search results. We introduce MKP-QA, a novel multi-product knowledge-augmented QA framework with probabilistic federated search across domains and relevant knowledge. This method enhances multi-domain search quality by aggregating query-domain and query-passage probabilistic relevance. To address the lack of suitable benchmarks for multi-product QAs, we also present new datasets focused on three Adobe products: Adobe Experience Platform, Target, and Customer Journey Analytics. Our experiments show that MKP-QA significantly boosts multi-product RAG-QA performance in terms of both retrieval accuracy and response quality.

2024

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RETAIN: Interactive Tool for Regression Testing Guided LLM Migration
Tanay Dixit | Daniel Lee | Sally Fang | Sai Sree Harsha | Anirudh Sureshan | Akash V Maharaj | Yunyao Li
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into diverse applications. The rapid evolution of LLMs presents opportunities for developers to enhance applications continuously. However, this constant adaptation can also lead to performance regressions during model migrations. While several interactive tools have been proposed to streamline the complexity of prompt engineering, few address the specific requirements of regression testing for LLM Migrations. To bridge this gap, we introduce RETAIN (REgression Testing guided LLM migrAtIoN), a tool designed explicitly for regression testing in LLM Migrations. RETAIN comprises two key components: an interactive interface tailored to regression testing needs during LLM migrations, and an error discovery module that facilitates understanding of differences in model behaviors. The error discovery module generates textual descriptions of various errors or differences between model outputs, providing actionable insights for prompt refinement. Our automatic evaluation and empirical user studies demonstrate that RETAIN, when compared to manual evaluation, enabled participants to identify twice as many errors, facilitated experimentation with 75% more prompts, and achieves 12% higher metric scores in a given time frame.