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Publications (9)

cs.AI2025

CountQA: How Well Do MLLMs Count in the Wild?

Jayant Sravan Tamarapalli, Rynaa Grover, Nilay Pande +1

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate remarkable fluency in understanding visual scenes, yet they exhibit a critical lack in a fundamental cognitive skill: object co…

cs.SI2022

Database of Indian Social Media Influencers on Twitter

Arshia Arya, Soham De, Dibyendu Mishra +12

Databases of highly networked individuals have been indispensable in studying narratives and influence on social media. To support studies on Twitter in India, we present a systema…

cs.LG2026

Humanity's Last Exam

Long Phan, Alice Gatti, Ziwen Han +1144

Benchmarks are important tools for tracking the rapid advancements in large language model (LLM) capabilities. However, benchmarks are not keeping pace in difficulty: LLMs now achi…

cs.SI2021

Rihanna versus Bollywood: Twitter Influencers and the Indian Farmers' Protest

Dibyendu Mishra, Syeda Zainab Akbar, Arshia Arya +3

A tweet from popular entertainer and businesswoman, Rihanna, bringing attention to farmers' protests around Delhi set off heightened activity on Indian social media. An immediate c…

cs.CV2026

HueManity: Probing Fine-Grained Visual Perception in MLLMs

Rynaa Grover, Jayant Sravan Tamarapalli, Sahiti Yerramilli +1

Recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate strong high-level visual reasoning on tasks such as visual question answering and image captioning. Yet existing benchma…

cs.AI2025

GeoChain: Multimodal Chain-of-Thought for Geographic Reasoning

Sahiti Yerramilli, Nilay Pande, Rynaa Grover +1

This paper introduces GeoChain, a large-scale benchmark for evaluating step-by-step geographic reasoning in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Leveraging 1.46 million Mapill…

cs.CL2024

A Community-Centric Perspective for Characterizing and Detecting Anti-Asian Violence-Provoking Speech

Gaurav Verma, Rynaa Grover, Jiawei Zhou +4

Violence-provoking speech -- speech that implicitly or explicitly promotes violence against the members of the targeted community, contributed to a massive surge in anti-Asian crim…

cs.AI2025

MaRVL-QA: A Benchmark for Mathematical Reasoning over Visual Landscapes

Nilay Pande, Sahiti Yerramilli, Jayant Sravan Tamarapalli +1

A key frontier for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) is the ability to perform deep mathematical and spatial reasoning directly from images, moving beyond their established…

cs.SI2021

Insights Into Incitement: A Computational Perspective on Dangerous Speech on Twitter in India

Saloni Dash, Rynaa Grover, Gazal Shekhawat +3

Dangerous speech on social media platforms can be framed as blatantly inflammatory, or be couched in innuendo. It is also centrally tied to who engages it - it can be driven by ope…