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Publications (5)

cs.SI2020

How Have We Reacted To The COVID-19 Pandemic? Analyzing Changing Indian Emotions Through The Lens of Twitter

Rajdeep Mukherjee, Sriyash Poddar, Atharva Naik +1

Since its outbreak, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented losses to human lives and economies around the world. As of 18th July 2020, the World Health Organization…

cs.LG2024

Personalizing Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback with Variational Preference Learning

Sriyash Poddar, Yanming Wan, Hamish Ivison +2

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is a powerful paradigm for aligning foundation models to human values and preferences. However, current RLHF techniques cannot acc…

cs.IR2021

Understanding the Role of Affect Dimensions in Detecting Emotions from Tweets: A Multi-task Approach

Rajdeep Mukherjee, Atharva Naik, Sriyash Poddar +2

We propose VADEC, a multi-task framework that exploits the correlation between the categorical and dimensional models of emotion representation for better subjectivity analysis. Fo…

cs.RO2022

Winding Through: Crowd Navigation via Topological Invariance

Christoforos Mavrogiannis, Krishna Balasubramanian, Sriyash Poddar +2

We focus on robot navigation in crowded environments. The challenge of predicting the motion of a crowd around a robot makes it hard to ensure human safety and comfort. Recent appr…

cs.RO2023

From Crowd Motion Prediction to Robot Navigation in Crowds

Sriyash Poddar, Christoforos Mavrogiannis, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa

We focus on robot navigation in crowded environments. To navigate safely and efficiently within crowds, robots need models for crowd motion prediction. Building such models is hard…