9 papers
Seeing Isn't Orienting: A Cognitively Informed Hierarchical Benchmark for Object Orientation in MLLMs
Nazia Tasnim, Keanu Nichols, Yuting Yan +4
Humans develop object orientation understanding progressively, from recognizing which way an object faces to reasoning about orientations across multiple objects. Yet existing visi…
Representation-Aware Unlearning via Activation Signatures: From Suppression to Entity-Signature Erasure
Syed Naveed Mahmood, Md. Rezaur Rahman Bhuiyan, Tasfia Zaman +5
Entity-level unlearning is usually evaluated by what a model says: whether it stops naming the target, refuses a query, or shifts a Truth Ratio distribution. These output-level tes…
Decompose, Mix, Adapt: A Unified Framework for Parameter-Efficient Neural Network Recombination and Compression
Nazia Tasnim, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Bryan A. Plummer
Parameter Recombination (PR) methods aim to efficiently compose the weights of a neural network for applications like Parameter-Efficient FineTuning (PEFT) and Model Compression (M…
Seeing Isn't Orienting: A Cognitively Grounded Benchmark Reveals Systematic Orientation Failures in MLLMs Supplementary
Nazia Tasnim, Keanu Nichols, Yuting Yang +4
Humans learn object orientation progressively, from recognizing which way an object faces, to mentally rotating it, to reasoning about orientations between objects. Current vision-…
Are ASR foundation models generalized enough to capture features of regional dialects for low-resource languages?
Tawsif Tashwar Dipto, Azmol Hossain, Rubayet Sabbir Faruque +12
Conventional research on speech recognition modeling relies on the canonical form for most low-resource languages while automatic speech recognition (ASR) for regional dialects is…
RegSpeech12: A Regional Corpus of Bengali Spontaneous Speech Across Dialects
Md. Rezuwan Hassan, Azmol Hossain, Kanij Fatema +13
The Bengali language, spoken extensively across South Asia and among diasporic communities, exhibits considerable dialectal diversity shaped by geography, culture, and history. Pho…