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Publications (16)

cs.CV2026

Loss Knows Best: Detecting Annotation Errors in Videos via Loss Trajectories

Praditha Alwis, Soumyadeep Chandra, Deepak Ravikumar +1

High-quality video datasets are foundational for training robust models in tasks like action recognition, phase detection, and event segmentation. However, many real-world video da…

cs.LG2024

Homogenizing Non-IID datasets via In-Distribution Knowledge Distillation for Decentralized Learning

Deepak Ravikumar, Gobinda Saha, Sai Aparna Aketi +1

Decentralized learning enables serverless training of deep neural networks (DNNs) in a distributed manner on multiple nodes. This allows for the use of large datasets, as well as t…

cs.LG2024

Unveiling Privacy, Memorization, and Input Curvature Links

Deepak Ravikumar, Efstathia Soufleri, Abolfazl Hashemi +1

Deep Neural Nets (DNNs) have become a pervasive tool for solving many emerging problems. However, they tend to overfit to and memorize the training set. Memorization is of keen int…

cs.LG2025

The Easy Path to Robustness: Coreset Selection using Sample Hardness

Pranav Ramesh, Arjun Roy, Deepak Ravikumar +2

Designing adversarially robust models from a data-centric perspective requires understanding which input samples are most crucial for learning resilient features. While coreset sel…

cs.LG2024

Curvature Clues: Decoding Deep Learning Privacy with Input Loss Curvature

Deepak Ravikumar, Efstathia Soufleri, Kaushik Roy

In this paper, we explore the properties of loss curvature with respect to input data in deep neural networks. Curvature of loss with respect to input (termed input loss curvature)…

cs.LG2025

GradientSpace: Unsupervised Data Clustering for Improved Instruction Tuning

Shrihari Sridharan, Deepak Ravikumar, Anand Raghunathan +1

Instruction tuning is one of the key steps required for adapting large language models (LLMs) to a broad spectrum of downstream applications. However, this procedure is difficult b…

cs.DB2024

Intelligent Pooling: Proactive Resource Provisioning in Large-scale Cloud Service

Deepak Ravikumar, Alex Yeo, Yiwen Zhu +11

The proliferation of big data and analytic workloads has driven the need for cloud compute and cluster-based job processing. With Apache Spark, users can process terabytes of data…

cs.LG2021

TREND: Transferability based Robust ENsemble Design

Deepak Ravikumar, Sangamesh Kodge, Isha Garg +1

Deep Learning models hold state-of-the-art performance in many fields, but their vulnerability to adversarial examples poses threat to their ubiquitous deployment in practical sett…

cs.LG2025

Coresets from Trajectories: Selecting Data via Correlation of Loss Differences

Manish Nagaraj, Deepak Ravikumar, Kaushik Roy

Deep learning models achieve state-of-the-art performance across domains but face scalability challenges in real-time or resource-constrained scenarios. To address this, we propose…

cs.LG2025

SAP: Corrective Machine Unlearning with Scaled Activation Projection for Label Noise Robustness

Sangamesh Kodge, Deepak Ravikumar, Gobinda Saha +1

Label corruption, where training samples are mislabeled due to non-expert annotation or adversarial attacks, significantly degrades model performance. Acquiring large, perfectly la…

cs.CV2024

Advancing Compressed Video Action Recognition through Progressive Knowledge Distillation

Efstathia Soufleri, Deepak Ravikumar, Kaushik Roy

Compressed video action recognition classifies video samples by leveraging the different modalities in compressed videos, namely motion vectors, residuals, and intra-frames. For th…

cs.LG2022

Norm-Scaling for Out-of-Distribution Detection

Deepak Ravikumar, Kaushik Roy

Out-of-Distribution (OoD) inputs are examples that do not belong to the true underlying distribution of the dataset. Research has shown that deep neural nets make confident mispred…

cs.LG2023

Memorization Through the Lens of Curvature of Loss Function Around Samples

Isha Garg, Deepak Ravikumar, Kaushik Roy

Deep neural networks are over-parameterized and easily overfit the datasets they train on. In the extreme case, it has been shown that these networks can memorize a training set wi…

cs.LG2025

Finding the Muses: Identifying Coresets through Loss Trajectories

Manish Nagaraj, Deepak Ravikumar, Efstathia Soufleri +1

Deep learning models achieve state-of-the-art performance across domains but face scalability challenges in real-time or resource-constrained scenarios. To address this, we propose…

cs.LG2020

Exploring Vicinal Risk Minimization for Lightweight Out-of-Distribution Detection

Deepak Ravikumar, Sangamesh Kodge, Isha Garg +1

Deep neural networks have found widespread adoption in solving complex tasks ranging from image recognition to natural language processing. However, these networks make confident m…

cs.CL2026

TRIM: Token-wise Attention-Derived Saliency for Data-Efficient Instruction Tuning

Manish Nagaraj, Sakshi Choudhary, Utkarsh Saxena +2

Instruction tuning is essential for aligning large language models (LLMs) to downstream tasks and commonly relies on large, diverse corpora. However, small, high-quality subsets, k…