5 papers
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…
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…
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…
Distributed Swarm Intelligence
Karthik Reddy Kanjula, Sai Meghana Kolla
This paper presents the development of a distributed application that facilitates the understanding and application of swarm intelligence in solving optimization problems. The plat…
People counting system for retail analytics using edge AI
Karthik Reddy Kanjula, Vishnu Vardhan Reddy, Jnanesh K P +2
Developments in IoT applications are playing an important role in our day-to-day life, starting from business predictions to self driving cars. One of the area, most influenced by…