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20202026
most citedThe De-democratization of AI: Deep Learning and the Compute Divide in Artificial Intelligence Research

110 citations · 120 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.CV2026

One Editor, Many Edits: A Unified Training-Free Framework for Diverse Video Editing

Adheesh Sunil Juvekar, Onkar Kishor Susladkar, Kiet A. Nguyen +6

Video editing spans diverse editing paradigms, yet achieving high-quality instruction-guided and subject-guided editing within a single unified framework remains challenging. We in…

cs.CV2026

GraphVid: Interactive Graph-Controllable Video Generation

Vedant Shah, Onkar Susladkar, Tushar Prakash +5

Controllable video generation remains challenging due to the difficulty of specifying precise multi-object interactions using text prompts or motion-control inputs that primarily c…

cs.AI2026

Tiny but Trusted: Efficient Vision-Language Reasoning for Time-Series Anomaly Detection

Xiaona Zhou, Muntasir Wahed, Tianjiao Yu +2

Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved impressive performance across many tasks, yet prior studies report unsatisfactory performance when applying large lan…

cs.CV2026

RewardFlow: Generate Images by Optimizing What You Reward

Onkar Susladkar, Dong-Hwan Jang, Tushar Prakash +7

We introduce RewardFlow, an inversion-free framework that steers pretrained diffusion and flow-matching models at inference time through multi-reward Langevin dynamics. RewardFlow…

cs.CV2026

DreamPartGen: Semantically Grounded Part-Level 3D Generation via Collaborative Latent Denoising

Tianjiao Yu, Xinzhuo Li, Muntasir Wahed +4

Understanding and generating 3D objects as compositions of meaningful parts is fundamental to human perception and reasoning. However, most text-to-3D methods overlook the semantic…

cs.CL2025

BAPPA: Benchmarking Agents, Plans, and Pipelines for Automated Text-to-SQL Generation

Fahim Ahmed, Md Mubtasim Ahasan, Jahir Sadik Monon +4

Text-to-SQL systems provide a natural language interface that can enable even laymen to access information stored in databases. However, existing Large Language Models (LLM) strugg…

cs.CL2025

MOCHA: Are Code Language Models Robust Against Multi-Turn Malicious Coding Prompts?

Muntasir Wahed, Xiaona Zhou, Kiet A. Nguyen +5

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced their code generation capabilities. However, their robustness against adversarial misuse, particular…

cs.CR2025

PurpCode: Reasoning for Safer Code Generation

Jiawei Liu, Nirav Diwan, Zhe Wang +11

We introduce PurpCode, the first post-training recipe for training safe code reasoning models towards generating secure code and defending against malicious cyberactivities. PurpCo…

cs.CV2025

Counterfactual Segmentation Reasoning: Diagnosing and Mitigating Pixel-Grounding Hallucination

Xinzhuo Li, Adheesh Juvekar, Jiaxun Zhang +6

Segmentation Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have significantly advanced grounded visual understanding, yet they remain prone to pixel-grounding hallucinations, producing masks for i…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

PartGS: Part-aware Modeling of Articulated Objects using 3D Gaussian Splatting

Tianjiao Yu, Vedant Shah, Muntasir Wahed +3

Articulated objects are common in the real world, yet modeling their structure and motion remains a challenging task for 3D reconstruction methods. In this work, we introduce Part$…

cs.AI2025

Uncertainty in Action: Confidence Elicitation in Embodied Agents

Tianjiao Yu, Vedant Shah, Muntasir Wahed +4

Expressing confidence is challenging for embodied agents navigating dynamic multimodal environments, where uncertainty arises from both perception and decision-making processes. We…

cs.CV2024

CALICO: Part-Focused Semantic Co-Segmentation with Large Vision-Language Models

Kiet A. Nguyen, Adheesh Juvekar, Tianjiao Yu +2

Recent advances in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have enabled general-purpose vision tasks through visual instruction tuning. While existing LVLMs can generate segmentation…

cs.CV2024

PRIMA: Multi-Image Vision-Language Models for Reasoning Segmentation

Muntasir Wahed, Kiet A. Nguyen, Adheesh Sunil Juvekar +6

Despite significant advancements in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs)' capabilities, existing pixel-grounding models operate in single-image settings, limiting their ability to…

cs.LG2022★ 8 cited

Hard Negative Sampling Strategies for Contrastive Representation Learning

Afrina Tabassum, Muntasir Wahed, Hoda Eldardiry +1

One of the challenges in contrastive learning is the selection of appropriate \textit{hard negative} examples, in the absence of label information. Random sampling or importance sa…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Adversarial Contrastive Learning by Permuting Cluster Assignments

Muntasir Wahed, Afrina Tabassum, Ismini Lourentzou

Contrastive learning has gained popularity as an effective self-supervised representation learning technique. Several research directions improve traditional contrastive approaches…

cs.CL2021

SAUCE: Truncated Sparse Document Signature Bit-Vectors for Fast Web-Scale Corpus Expansion

Muntasir Wahed, Daniel Gruhl, Alfredo Alba +5

Recent advances in text representation have shown that training on large amounts of text is crucial for natural language understanding. However, models trained without predefined n…

cs.CY2020★ 110 cited

The De-democratization of AI: Deep Learning and the Compute Divide in Artificial Intelligence Research

Nur Ahmed, Muntasir Wahed

Increasingly, modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) research has become more computationally intensive. However, a growing concern is that due to unequal access to computing power, o…