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5 papers

cs.LG2026

Conditional Optimal Bridge for Riemannian Activation Steering

Seyed Arshan Dalili, Ajay Narayanan Sridhar, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan +1

Activation steering offers a lightweight alternative to fine-tuning for controlling large language models at inference time. While many existing methods implicitly optimize a log-d…

cs.LG2026

Correlation-Aware Contextual Bandits with Surrogate Rewards for LLM Routing

Ajay Narayanan Sridhar, Ronak Singh, Mehrdad Mahdavi +1

We study contextual bandit problems with correlated arms and access to surrogate reward signals produced by a machine learning model, motivated by applications such as large langua…

cs.CV2026

When Relations Break: Analyzing Relation Hallucination in Vision-Language Model Under Rotation and Noise

Philip Wootaek Shin, Ajay Narayanan Sridhar, Sivani Devarapalli +3

Vision-language models (VLMs) achieve strong multimodal performance but remain prone to relation hallucination, which requires accurate reasoning over inter-object interactions. We…

cs.CL2025

Evaluating Large Language Models on Rare Disease Diagnosis: A Case Study using House M.D

Arsh Gupta, Ajay Narayanan Sridhar, Bonam Mingole +1

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated capabilities across diverse domains, yet their performance on rare disease diagnosis from narrative medical cases remains underexplor…

cs.HC2025

NaviSense: A Multimodal Assistive Mobile application for Object Retrieval by Persons with Visual Impairment

Ajay Narayanan Sridhar, Fuli Qiao, Nelson Daniel Troncoso Aldas +4

People with visual impairments often face significant challenges in locating and retrieving objects in their surroundings. Existing assistive technologies present a trade-off: syst…