Manish Bansal

Addressing Vocabulary Gap in E-commerce Search

2019

E-commerce customers express their purchase intents in several ways, some of which may use a different vocabulary than that of the product catalog. For example, the intent for "women maternity gown" is often expressed with …

Logic Constrained Pointer Networks for Interpretable Textual Similarity

2020

Systematically discovering semantic relationships in text is an important and extensively studied area in Natural Language Processing, with various tasks such as entailment, semantic similarity, etc. Decomposability of sentence-level scores via subsequence alignments has been …

k-submodular interdiction problems under distributional risk-receptiveness and robustness: application to machine learning

2025 · Computational Management Science

Abstract We study submodular optimization in adversarial context, applicable to machine learning problems such as feature selection using data susceptible to uncertainties and attacks. We focus on Stackelberg zero-sum games (also referred to as interdiction …