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Publications (9)

cs.CV2026

How Do VLMs Fail? Vision-Operation Misalignment in Compositional VQA

Navya Gupta, Bingjie Xu, Avinash Anand +2

Compositional visual question answering requires Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to execute multiple reasoning operations like object selection, spatial relation resolution, and attr…

cs.IT2026

Variable Rate Lossy Source-Channel Coding over Channels with Feedback

Timothy Liu, Fady Alajaji, Tamás Linder

A variable-rate lossy joint source-channel coding scheme for burst-noise communication channels with noiseless feedback is introduced. The scheme comprises a multi-stage channel op…

cs.RO2026

PACE: Persona Adaptation through Conversational Elicitation in Human-Robot Interaction

Peizhen Li, Longbing Cao, Megani Rajendran +3

Equipping humanoid robots with coherent and adaptable personas is crucial for fostering natural, engaging, and trustworthy human-robot interaction (HRI). However, existing approach…

cs.CL2026

IRIS: Interleaved Reinforcement with Incremental Staged Curriculum for Cross-Lingual Mathematical Reasoning

Navya Gupta, Rishitej Reddy Vyalla, Avinash Anand +8

Curriculum learning helps language models tackle complex reasoning by gradually increasing task difficulty. However, it often fails to generate consistent step-by-step reasoning, e…

cs.CL2026

The Periodic Table of LLM Reasoning: A Structured Survey of Reasoning Paradigms, Methods, and Failure Modes

Avinash Anand, Mahisha Ramesh, Avni Mittal +8

Reasoning has become central to how Large Language Models (LLMs) are evaluated and interpreted, spanning Chain-of-Thought (CoT), mathematical problem-solving, multi-hop question an…

cs.LG2026

RSPC: A Benchmark for Modeling Stress and Psychiatric Conditions in Digitally Mediated Relationships using Psychiatrist Annotations

Parmitha Vangapandu, Sai Ganesh Mokkapati, Sathwik Narkedimilli +4

In NLP, mental health conditions are often modeled as isolated phenomena, without interpersonal context. We use Reddit posts about long-distance relationships to capture both menta…