Bhavana Dalvi Mishra

The complete list of publications can be seen from my Google Scholar page.
* indicates equal contribution

Generative AI agents for Discovery

• HypER: Literature-grounded Hypothesis Generation and Distillation with Provenance [Paper]
  Rosni Vasu, Chandrayee Basu, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Cristina Sarasua, Peter Clark, Abraham Bernstein
  EMNLP 2025.
• DiscoveryBench: Towards Data-Driven Discovery with Large Language Models [Paper] [Website]
  Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder*, Harshit Surana*, Dhruv Agarwal*, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra*, Abhijeetsingh Meena, Aryan Prakhar, Tirth Vora, Tushar Khot, Ashish Sabharwal, Peter Clark
  ICLR 2025.
• CodeScientist: End-to-End Semi-Automated Scientific Discovery with Code-based Experimentation [Paper] [Website]
  Peter Jansen, Oyvind Tafjord, Marissa Radensky, Pao Siangliulue, Tom Hope, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Bodhisattwa Majumder, Daniel S. Weld, Peter Clark
  ACL 2025 (Findings).
• IdeaSynth: Iterative Research Idea Development Through Evolving and Composing Idea Facets with Literature-Grounded Feedback [Paper]
  Kevin Pu, K. J. Kevin Feng, Tovi Grossman, Tom Hope, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra*, Matt Latzke, Jonathan Bragg, Joseph Chee Chang, Pao Siangliulue
  CHI 2025.
• Proceedings of the First Workshop on AI and Scientific Discovery: Directions and Opportunities (AISD) [Website]
  Peter Jansen, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Harsh Trivedi, Bodhisattwa Majumder, Tom Hope, Tushar Khot, Doug Downey, Eric Horvitz
  NAACL 2025.
• Latent Factor Models Meets Instructions: Goal-conditioned Latent Factor Discovery without Task Supervision, [Paper]
  Zhouhang Xie, Tushar Khot, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Harshit Surana, Julian McAuley, Peter Clark, Bodhisattwa Majumder
  NAACL 2025.
• DISCOVERYWORLD: A Virtual Environment for Developing and Evaluating Automated Scientific Discovery Agents [Paper] [Website]
  Peter Jansen, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Tushar Khot, Erin Bransom, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Oyvind Tafjord, Peter Clark
  NeurIPS 2024 (Benchmark Track, Spotlight).

Continual Learning with Interaction

• Skill Set Optimization: Reinforcing Language Model Behavior via Transferable Skills [Paper] [Website]
  Kolby Nottingham, Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder*, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra*, Sameer Singh, Peter Clark, Roy Fox
  ICML 2024.
• CLIN: A Continually Learning Language Agent for Rapid Task Adaptation and Generalization [Paper] [Website]
  Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Peter Jansen, Oyvind Tafjord, Niket Tandon, Li Zhang, Chris Callison-Burch, Peter Clark
  COLM 2024.

Explainable Teachable Reasoning

• From Models to Microtheories: Distilling a Model's Topical Knowledge for Grounded Question Answering [Paper]
  Nathaniel Weir, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Orion Weller, Oyvind Tafjord, Sam Hornstein, Alexander Sabol, Peter Jansen, Benjamin Van Durme, Peter Clark
  ICLR 2025.
• Enhancing Systematic Decompositional Natural Language Inference Using Informal Logic [Paper]
  Nathaniel Weir, Kate Sanders, Orion Weller, Shreya Sharma, Dongwei Jiang, Zhengping Zhang, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Oyvind Tafjord, Peter Jansen, Peter Clark, Benjamin Van Durme
  EMNLP 2024.
• Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Reasoning and Structured Explanations (NLRSE) [Website]
  Greg Durrett, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Peter Jansen, Danilo Ribeiro, Lionel Wong, Xi Ye, Wenting Zhao, Ben Lipkin
  ACL 2024.
• Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Natural Language Reasoning and Structured Explanations (NLRSE) [Website]
  Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Greg Durrett, Peter Jansen, Danilo Neves Ribeiro, Jason Wei
  ACL 2023.
• Towards Teachable Reasoning Systems: Using a Dynamic Memory of User Feedback for Continual System Improvement [Paper] [Dataset] [Blog]
  Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Oyvind Tafjord, Peter Clark
  EMNLP 2022.
• Entailer: Answering Questions with Faithful and Truthful Chains of Reasoning
  [Paper] [Data] [Code] [Blog]
  Oyvind Tafjord, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Peter Clark
  EMNLP 2022.
• Explaining Answers with Entailment Trees [Paper] [Data] [Code]
  Bhavana Dalvi Mishra*, Peter Jansen*, Oyvind Tafjord, Zhengnan Xie, Hannah Smith, Leighanna Pipatanangkura, Peter Clark
  EMNLP 2021.
• ProofWriter: Generating Implications, Proofs, and Abductive Statements over Natural Language [Paper] [Data] [Demo]
  Oyvind Tafjord, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Peter Clark
  Findings of ACL 2021.

Mental Models behind Language Models

• Do language models have coherent mental models of everyday things? [Paper] [Website] [Blog]
  Yuling Gu, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Peter Clark
  ACL 2023.
• Just-DREAM-about-it: Figurative Language Understanding with DREAM-FLUTE [Paper] [Blog]
  Yuling Gu, Yao Fu, Valentina Pyatkin, Ian Magnusson, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Peter Clark
  The Third Workshop on Figurative Language Processing at EMNLP 2022.
• DREAM: Improving Situational QA by First Elaborating the Situation [Paper] [Website] [Blog]
  Yuling Gu, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Peter Clark
  NAACL 2022.

Procedural Reasoning

• A Dataset for Tracking Entities in Open Domain Procedural Text [Paper] [Data] [Code]
  Niket Tandon, Keisuke Sakaguchi, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Dheeraj Rajagopal, Peter Clark, Michal Guerquin, Kyle Richardson, Eduard Hovy
  EMNLP 2020.
• Everything Happens for a Reason: Discovering the Purpose of Actions in Procedural Text [Paper]
  Bhavania Dalvi Mishra*, Niket Tandon*, Antoine Bosselut, Wen-tau Yih, Peter Clark
  EMNLP 2020.
• WIQA: A dataset for "What if..." reasoning over procedural text [Paper] [Data] [Code]
  Niket Tandon*, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra*, Keisuke Sakaguchi, Antoine Bosselut, Peter Clark
  EMNLP 2019.
• Reasoning about Actions and State Changes by Injecting Commonsense Knowledge [Paper] [Data] [Code]
  Niket Tandon*, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra*, Joel Grus, Wen-tau Yih, Antoine Bosselut, Peter Clark
  EMNLP 2018.