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5 papers

cs.RO2026

Humanoid Everyday: A Comprehensive Robotic Dataset for Open-World Humanoid Manipulation

Zhenyu Zhao, Hongyi Jing, Xiawei Liu +7

From loco-motion to dextrous manipulation, humanoid robots have made remarkable strides in demonstrating complex full-body capabilities. However, the majority of current robot lear…

cs.CL2026

Rewarding Intellectual Humility Learning When Not To Answer In Large Language Models

Abha Jha, Akanksha Mahajan, Ashwath Vaithinathan Aravindan +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) often produce hallucinated or unverifiable content, undermining their reliability in factual domains. This work investigates Reinforcement Learning wit…

cs.CV2025

Do VLMs Have Bad Eyes? Diagnosing Compositional Failures via Mechanistic Interpretability

Ashwath Vaithinathan Aravindan, Abha Jha, Mihir Kulkarni

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown remarkable performance in integrating visual and textual information for tasks such as image captioning and visual question answering. Howe…

cs.CV2025

Sealing The Backdoor: Unlearning Adversarial Text Triggers In Diffusion Models Using Knowledge Distillation

Ashwath Vaithinathan Aravindan, Abha Jha, Matthew Salaway +2

Text-to-image diffusion models have revolutionized generative AI, but their vulnerability to backdoor attacks poses significant security risks. Adversaries can inject imperceptible…

cs.CR2025

Backdoor Defense in Diffusion Models via Spatial Attention Unlearning

Abha Jha, Ashwath Vaithinathan Aravindan, Matthew Salaway +2

Text-to-image diffusion models are increasingly vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where malicious modifications to the training data cause the model to generate unintended outputs wh…