3 papers
cs.CV2025
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…
cs.CV2025
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…
cs.CL2024
Bangla Grammatical Error Detection Leveraging Transformer-based Token Classification
Shayekh Bin Islam, Ridwanul Hasan Tanvir, Sihat Afnan
Bangla is the seventh most spoken language by a total number of speakers in the world, and yet the development of an automated grammar checker in this language is an understudied p…