I am a PhD student working with Ali Farhadi . I am interested in Machine Learning and Computer Vision. My past work is in vision and language. Previously, I worked on the PRIOR team at The Allen Institute for AI under the mentorship of Ani Kembhavi , Luca Weihs , and Mark Yatskar . I completed my undergraduate degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Brown University in Providence, RI with academic advisor Caroline Klivans .
Publications        What does a platypus look like? Generating customized prompts for zero-shot image classification 2023    [ updated pdf ]    [ arxiv ]    [ code ] Sarah Pratt , Ian Covert , Rosanne Liu , Ali Farhadi
This work combines open vocabulary models with large language models (LLMs) to create Customized Prompts via Language models (CuPL, pronounced "couple"). In particular, we leverage the knowledge contained in LLMs in order to generate many descriptive sentences that are used to perform zero-shot image classification with open vocabulary models. We find that this straightforward and general approach improves accuracy on a range of zero-shot image classification benchmarks, including over one percentage point