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Publications (37)

astro-ph.EP2024

The miscibility of hydrogen and water in planetary atmospheres and interiors

Akash Gupta, Lars Stixrude, Hilke E. Schlichting

Many planets in the solar system and across the galaxy have hydrogen-rich atmospheres overlying more heavy element-rich interiors with which they interact for billions of years. At…

cs.CV2022

GAMA: Generative Adversarial Multi-Object Scene Attacks

Abhishek Aich, Calvin-Khang Ta, Akash Gupta +4

The majority of methods for crafting adversarial attacks have focused on scenes with a single dominant object (e.g., images from ImageNet). On the other hand, natural scenes includ…

astro-ph.EP2022

The fundamentals of Lyman-alpha exoplanet transits

James E. Owen, Ruth A. Murray-Clay, Ethan Schreyer +7

Lyman- transits have been detected from several nearby exoplanets and are one of our best insights into the atmospheric escape process. However, due to ISM absorption, we typic…

cs.CL2024

LLM Task Interference: An Initial Study on the Impact of Task-Switch in Conversational History

Akash Gupta, Ivaxi Sheth, Vyas Raina +2

With the recent emergence of powerful instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs), various helpful conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems have been deployed across…

cs.CV2022

A-ACT: Action Anticipation through Cycle Transformations

Akash Gupta, Jingen Liu, Liefeng Bo +2

While action anticipation has garnered a lot of research interest recently, most of the works focus on anticipating future action directly through observed visual cues only. In thi…

eess.IV2021

Deep Quantized Representation for Enhanced Reconstruction

Akash Gupta, Abhishek Aich, Kevin Rodriguez +2

While machine learning approaches have shown remarkable performance in biomedical image analysis, most of these methods rely on high-quality and accurate imaging data. However, col…

astro-ph.EP2019

Sculpting the Valley in the Radius Distribution of Small Exoplanets as a by-product of Planet Formation: The Core-Powered Mass-Loss Mechanism

Akash Gupta, Hilke E. Schlichting

Recent observations revealed a bimodal radius distribution of small, short-period exoplanets with a paucity in their occurrence, a radius `valley', around . In…

eess.IV2021

Ada-VSR: Adaptive Video Super-Resolution with Meta-Learning

Akash Gupta, Padmaja Jonnalagedda, Bir Bhanu +1

Most of the existing works in supervised spatio-temporal video super-resolution (STVSR) heavily rely on a large-scale external dataset consisting of paired low-resolution low-frame…

eess.IV2021

Classification of histopathology images using ConvNets to detect Lupus Nephritis

Akash Gupta, Anirudh Reddy, CV Jawahar +1

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system of the patient starts attacking healthy tissues of the body. Lupus Nephritis (LN) refers to t…

eess.IV2020

Non-Adversarial Video Synthesis with Learned Priors

Abhishek Aich, Akash Gupta, Rameswar Panda +3

Most of the existing works in video synthesis focus on generating videos using adversarial learning. Despite their success, these methods often require input reference frame or fai…

astro-ph.EP2016

Rings of non-spherical, axisymmetric bodies

Akash Gupta, Sharvari Nadkarni-Ghosh, Ishan Sharma

We investigate the dynamical behavior of rings around bodies whose shapes depart considerably from that of a sphere. To this end, we have developed a new self-gravitating discrete…

cs.IR2025

Embedding the Teacher: Distilling vLLM Preferences for Scalable Image Retrieval

Eric He, Akash Gupta, Adian Liusie +4

Text--image retrieval is necessary for applications such as product recommendation. Embedding-based approaches like CLIP enable efficient large-scale retrieval via vector similarit…

hep-ph2021

Electrical conductivity of strongly magnetized dense quark matter -- possibility of quantum hall effect

Jayanta Dey, Aritra Bandyopadhyay, Akash Gupta +2

We have pointed out the possibility of quantum Hall effect or quantum patterns of transportation in a degenerate strongly magnetized quark matter, which might be expected inside a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Mechanical detection of sub-band mobilities of two-dimensional electron gas on reduced SrTiO(001) surface

Akash Gupta, Marcin Kisiel, Remy Pawlak +1

The two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in reduced strontium titanate offers a versatile platform for oxide electronics, yet its dissipation mechanisms under field driven charge fl…

astro-ph.EP2025

Signatures of Atmospheric Mass Loss and Planet Migration in the Time Evolution of Short-Period Transiting Exoplanets

Rachel B. Fernandes, Galen J. Bergsten, Gijs D. Mulders +19

Comparative studies of young and old exoplanet populations offer a glimpse into how planets may form and evolve with time. We present an occurrence rate study of short-period (1…

cs.CV2020

Adversarial Knowledge Transfer from Unlabeled Data

Akash Gupta, Rameswar Panda, Sujoy Paul +2

While machine learning approaches to visual recognition offer great promise, most of the existing methods rely heavily on the availability of large quantities of labeled training d…

astro-ph.EP2020

Signatures of the Core-Powered Mass-Loss Mechanism in the Exoplanet Population: Dependence on Stellar Properties and Observational Predictions

Akash Gupta, Hilke E. Schlichting

Recent studies have shown that atmospheric mass-loss powered by the cooling luminosity of a planet's core can explain the observed radius valley separating super-Earths and sub-Nep…

cs.AI2026

Meta-Adaptive Prompt Distillation for Few-Shot Visual Question Answering

Akash Gupta, Amos Storkey, Mirella Lapata

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) often rely on in-context learning (ICL) to perform new visual question answering (VQA) tasks with minimal supervision. However, ICL performance, espe…

astro-ph.GA2024

Obscured star clusters in the Inner Milky Way. How many massive young clusters are still awaiting detection?

Akash Gupta, Valentin D. Ivanov, Thomas Preibisch +1

Aims. Our goal is twofold. First, to detect new clusters we apply the newest methods for the detection of clustering with the best available wide-field sky surveys in the mid-infra…

astro-ph.EP2021

Caught in the Act: Core-powered Mass-loss Predictions for Observing Atmospheric Escape

Akash Gupta, Hilke E. Schlichting

Past studies have demonstrated that atmospheric escape by the core-powered mass-loss mechanism can explain a multitude of observations associated with the radius valley that separa…

cs.CR2020

SAFER: Development and Evaluation of an IoT Device Risk Assessment Framework in a Multinational Organization

Pascal Oser, Sebastian Feger, Paweł W. Woźniak +6

Users of Internet of Things (IoT) devices are often unaware of their security risks and cannot sufficiently factor security considerations into their device selection. This puts ne…

cs.CV2023

ModEFormer: Modality-Preserving Embedding for Audio-Video Synchronization using Transformers

Akash Gupta, Rohun Tripathi, Wondong Jang

Lack of audio-video synchronization is a common problem during television broadcasts and video conferencing, leading to an unsatisfactory viewing experience. A widely accepted para…

astro-ph.EP2022

Properties of the radius valley around low mass stars: Predictions from the core-powered mass-loss mechanism

Akash Gupta, Lorraine Nicholson, Hilke E. Schlichting

In recent years, analyzing the bimodality in the size distribution of small planets, i.e., the `radius valley', has given us unprecedented insight into the planet formation process…

astro-ph.EP2020

The evolutionary track of H/He envelope in the observed population of sub-Neptunes and Super-Earths planets

Raissa Estrela, Mark Swain, Akash Gupta +2

The observational detection of a localized reduction in the small planet occurrence rate, sometimes termed a 'gap', is an exciting discovery because of the implications for planet…

cs.AI2020

Optimal Sepsis Patient Treatment using Human-in-the-loop Artificial Intelligence

Akash Gupta, Michael T. Lash, Senthil K. Nachimuthu

Sepsis is one of the leading causes of death in Intensive Care Units (ICU). The strategy for treating sepsis involves the infusion of intravenous (IV) fluids and administration of…

cs.CL2025

Probing the Limits of Stylistic Alignment in Vision-Language Models

Asma Farajidizaji, Akash Gupta, Vatsal Raina

Vision-language models are increasingly used to generate image captions in specific styles, such as humor or romantic. However, these transformer-based models often struggle with t…

astro-ph.HE2025

Are Kronberger 80 and/or Kronberger 82 regions PeVatron candidates for LHAASO J2108+5157?

Akash Gupta, Eduardo De La Fuente, Ram K. Yadav +13

High-energy gamma rays have been detected in the region of LHAASO~J2108+5157 by the Fermi--LAT, HAWC and LHAASO-KM2A observatories. Cygnus~OB2 in Cygnus--X has been confirmed as th…

astro-ph.EP2026

Sub-Neptune Memories I: Implications of Inefficient Mantle Cooling and Silicate Rain

Roberto Tejada Arevalo, Akash Gupta, Adam Burrows +3

We explore the evolution of sub-Neptune (radii between 1.5 and 4 R) exoplanet interior structures using our upgraded evolution code, \texttt{APPLE}, which self-consi…

cs.NI2026

Energy Efficiency Testing and Modeling of a Commercial O-RAN System

N. K. Shankaranarayanan, Akash Gupta, Zhuohuan Li +9

Network energy efficiency is of critical importance to mobile network operators for economic and ecological reasons. The advent of the O-RAN architecture has brought disaggregation…

astro-ph.EP2021

Photoevaporation vs. core-powered mass-loss: model comparison with the 3D radius gap

James G. Rogers, Akash Gupta, James E. Owen +1

The EUV/X-ray photoevaporation and core-powered mass-loss models are both capable of reproducing the bimodality in the sizes of small, close-in exoplanets observed by the \textit{K…

cs.CV2026

ZeroBench: An Impossible Visual Benchmark for Contemporary Large Multimodal Models

Jonathan Roberts, Mohammad Reza Taesiri, Ansh Sharma +31

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) exhibit shortfalls when interpreting images and, by some measures, have poorer spatial cognition than young children or animals. Despite this, they a…

eess.IV2022

Poisson2Sparse: Self-Supervised Poisson Denoising From a Single Image

Calvin-Khang Ta, Abhishek Aich, Akash Gupta +1

Image enhancement approaches often assume that the noise is signal independent, and approximate the degradation model as zero-mean additive Gaussian. However, this assumption does…

q-bio.BM2021

APObind: A Dataset of Ligand Unbound Protein Conformations for Machine Learning Applications in De Novo Drug Design

Rishal Aggarwal, Akash Gupta, U Deva Priyakumar

Protein-ligand complex structures have been utilised to design benchmark machine learning methods that perform important tasks related to drug design such as receptor binding site…

astro-ph.EP2025

The Fate of Hydrogen and Helium: From Planetary Embryos to Earth- and Neptune-like Worlds

Akash Gupta, Haiyang Luo, Jie Deng +1

Hydrogen, helium, silicates, and iron are key building blocks of rocky and gas-rich planets, yet their chemical interactions remain poorly constrained. Using first-principles molec…

cs.CR2021

Secure, Anonymity-Preserving and Lightweight Mutual Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Home Automation IoT Networks

Akash Gupta, Gaurav S. Kasbekar

Home automation Internet of Things (IoT) systems have recently become a target for several types of attacks. In this paper, we present an authentication and key agreement protocol…

cs.CV2022

UltraMNIST Classification: A Benchmark to Train CNNs for Very Large Images

Deepak K. Gupta, Udbhav Bamba, Abhishek Thakur +4

Convolutional neural network (CNN) approaches available in the current literature are designed to work primarily with low-resolution images. When applied on very large images, chal…

cs.CV2020

ALANET: Adaptive Latent Attention Network forJoint Video Deblurring and Interpolation

Akash Gupta, Abhishek Aich, Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Existing works address the problem of generating high frame-rate sharp videos by separately learning the frame deblurring and frame interpolation modules. Most of these approaches…