Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya

According to our database, Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya authored at least 24 papers between 2017 and 2026.

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2026

StaRPO: Stability-Augmented Reinforcement Policy Optimization.

Jinghan Zhang, Fengran Mo, Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Ruimin Dai, Xiaoyan Han, Yanjie Fu, Dakuo Wang, Kunpeng Liu

CoRR, April, 2026

Learning Who Disagrees: Demographic Importance Weighting for Modeling Annotator Distributions with DiADEM.

Samay U. Shetty, Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Deepak Pandita, Christopher M. Homan

CoRR, April, 2026

HumanLM: Simulating Users with State Alignment Beats Response Imitation.

Shirley Wu, Evelyn Choi, Arpandeep Khatua, Zhanghan Wang, Joy He-Yueya, Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Wei Wei, Diyi Yang, Jure Leskovec, James Zou

CoRR, March, 2026

Blind Spot Navigation in Large Language Model Reasoning with Thought Space Explorer.

Jinghan Zhang, Fengran Mo, Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Xinyue Ye, Dongjie Wang, Yanjie Fu, Kunpeng Liu

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026, 2026

ProRefine: Inference-Time Prompt Refinement with Textual Feedback (Student Abstract).

Deepak Pandita, Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Ankit Shah, Isabelle Diana May-Xin Ng, Christopher M. Homan, Wei Wei

Proceedings of the Fortieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026

2025

MultiGA: Leveraging Multi-Source Seeding in Genetic Algorithms.

Isabelle Diana May-Xin Ng, Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Haitao Zhu, Wei Wei

CoRR, December, 2025

ProRefine: Inference-time Prompt Refinement with Textual Feedback.

Deepak Pandita, Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Ankit Parag Shah, Christopher M. Homan, Wei Wei

CoRR, June, 2025

Subasa - Adapting Language Models for Low-resourced Offensive Language Detection in Sinhala.

Shanilka Haturusinghe, Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Marcos Zampieri, Christopher M. Homan, S. R. Liyanage

CoRR, April, 2025

McMaster at LeWiDi-2025: Demographic-Aware RoBERTa.

Mandira Sawkar, Samay U. Shetty, Deepak Pandita, Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Christopher M. Homan

Proceedings of the The 4th Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP, 2025

LPI-RIT at LeWiDi-2025: Improving Distributional Predictions via Metadata and Loss Reweighting with DisCo.

Mandira Sawkar, Samay U. Shetty, Deepak Pandita, Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Christopher M. Homan

Proceedings of the The 4th Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP, 2025

Subasa - Adapting Language Models for Low-resourced Offensive Language Detection in Sinhala.

Shanilka Haturusinghe, Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Christopher M. Homan, Marcos Zampieri, Sidath Ravindra Liyanage

Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2025

ARTICLE: Annotator Reliability Through In-Context Learning (Student Abstract).

Sujan Dutta, Deepak Pandita, Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Marcos Zampieri, Christopher M. Homan, Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh

Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025

ARTICLE: Annotator Reliability Through In-Context Learning.

Sujan Dutta, Deepak Pandita, Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Marcos Zampieri, Christopher M. Homan, Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh

Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025

2024

Harnessing Business and Media Insights with Large Language Models.

Yujia Bao, Ankit Parag Shah, Neeru Narang, Jonathan Rivers, Rajeev Maksey, Lan Guan, Louise N. Barrere, Shelley Evenson, Rahul Basole, Connie Miao, Ankit Mehta, Fabien Boulay, Su Min Park, Natalie E. Pearson, Eldhose Joy, Tiger He, Sumiran Thakur, Koustav Ghosal, Josh On, Phoebe Morrison, Tim Major, Eva Siqi Wang, Gina Escobar, Jiaheng Wei, Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Queena Song, Daria Lashkevich, Clare Chen, Gyuhak Kim, Dengpan Yin, Don Hejna, Mo Nomeli, Wei Wei

CoRR, 2024

Rater Cohesion and Quality from a Vicarious Perspective.

Deepak Pandita, Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Sujan Dutta, Sarah Luger, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh, Marcos Zampieri, Christopher Homan

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, 2024

2023

Vicarious Offense and Noise Audit of Offensive Speech Classifiers.

Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Sujan Dutta, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Marcos Zampieri, Christopher M. Homan, Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh

CoRR, 2023

Offensiveness as an Opinion: Dissecting population-level Label Distributions.

Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Sarah Luger, Yu Liang, Christopher M. Homan

Proceedings of the First Tiny Papers Track at ICLR 2023, 2023

Vicarious Offense and Noise Audit of Offensive Speech Classifiers: Unifying Human and Machine Disagreement on What is Offensive.

Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Sujan Dutta, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Marcos Zampieri, Christopher Homan, Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023

Disagreement Matters: Preserving Label Diversity by Jointly Modeling Item and Annotator Label Distributions with DisCo.

Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Alexander Ororbia, Raj Bhensadadia, Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh, Christopher Homan

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, 2023

Subjective Crowd Disagreements for Subjective Data: Uncovering Meaningful CrowdOpinion with Population-level Learning.

Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Sarah Luger, Saloni Poddar, Ashiqur R. KhudaBukhsh, Christopher Homan

Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023

2022

Improving Label Quality by Jointly Modeling Items and Annotators.

Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Alexander Ororbia, Christopher Homan

Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLPerspectives@LREC 2022, 2022

Annotator Response Distributions as a Sampling Frame.

Christopher Homan, Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Lora Aroyo, Chris Welty

Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLPerspectives@LREC 2022, 2022

2020

Neighborhood-Based Pooling for Population-Level Label Distribution Learning.

Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Tong Liu, Christopher M. Homan

Proceedings of the ECAI 2020 - 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 29 August-8 September 2020, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, August 29 - September 8, 2020, 2020

2017

KeyXtract Twitter Model - An Essential Keywords Extraction Model for Twitter Designed using NLP Tools.

Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya, Nandula Perera, S. R. Liyanage

CoRR, 2017