3 papers
cs.CV2025
Behind Maya: Building a Multilingual Vision Language Model
Nahid Alam, Karthik Reddy Kanjula, Surya Guthikonda +16
In recent times, we have seen a rapid development of large Vision-Language Models (VLMs). They have shown impressive results on academic benchmarks, primarily in widely spoken lang…
cs.CV2025
Understanding and Mitigating Toxicity in Image-Text Pretraining Datasets: A Case Study on LLaVA
Karthik Reddy Kanjula, Surya Guthikonda, Nahid Alam +1
Pretraining datasets are foundational to the development of multimodal models, yet they often have inherent biases and toxic content from the web-scale corpora they are sourced fro…
cs.CV2024
Maya: An Instruction Finetuned Multilingual Multimodal Model
Nahid Alam, Karthik Reddy Kanjula, Surya Guthikonda +16
The rapid development of large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) has led to impressive results on academic benchmarks, primarily in widely spoken languages. However, significant gaps r…