Ben Irving

I’m a PhD student at UC Santa Cruz, advised by Yi Zhang. Currently, I am working on long-horizon tactile manipulation, intepretability for VLAs, and training mindful LLMs.

I graduated from Northeastern in December 2024.

Publications

Automatically extracting social determinants of health for suicide: a narrative literature review

Annika M Schoene, Suzanne Garverich, Iman Ibrahim, Sia Shah, Benjamin Irving, Clifford C Dacso

npj Mental Health Research · 2024
MEANT: Multimodal Encoder for Antecedent Information

Benjamin Irving, Annika Marie Schoene

EMNLP · 2024

Slides
Related Work is All you Need

Rodolfo Zevallos, John E. Ortega, Benjamin Irving

LREC-COLING · 2024

Projects

Equivariant Proximal Policy Optimization

Exploring symmetry and behavioral cloning for more efficient robotic manipulation.
Better Together

Large-scale graph embeddings for academic search. Built with Ken Church’s team at the Johns Hopkins JSALT workshop.