Prateek Chhikara / Writing
Writing
Notes on building AI, doing research, and life in between.
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When There’s No Ground Truth for Evaluation
Evaluating LLM outputs through independent, targeted judges when labeled answers are unavailable.
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Mind the Confidence Gap: Overconfidence, Calibration, and Distractor Effects in Large Language Models
Why language models sound certain when they are wrong, and how structured distractors can help.
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Reaching 1,000 Citations: My Research Journey
More than five years of reading, building, writing, and learning from rejection.
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Lessons in Resilience: What Basanti Taught Me
What raising Basanti taught me about resilience, recovery, and determination.
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The Day Basanti Found Me
How an unexpected meeting with a tiny puppy became a story of love and responsibility.
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My Research Journey at USC-ISI
Text-based agents, multimodal models, and the collaborations that shaped my time at ISI.
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Reflections on Struggle and Perseverance
Reflections on ambition, graduate life, setbacks, and the patience that growth requires.
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DIGITOUR: Automatic Digital Tours for Real-Estate Properties
Building automatic digital tours for real-estate properties.
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Revolutionizing Culinary Experiences with AI: Introducing FIRE (Food Image to REcipe generation)
Generating recipes from food images with a multimodal framework.
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Knowledge-Enhanced Agents for Interactive Text Games
Using knowledge and memory to help agents reason through interactive text games.