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PromptGuard at BLP-2025 Task 1: A Few-Shot Classification Framework Using Majority Voting and Keyword Similarity for Bengali Hate Speech Detection
Rakib Hossan, Shubhashis Roy Dipta
The BLP-2025 Task 1A requires Bengali hate speech classification into six categories. Traditional supervised approaches need extensive labeled datasets that are expensive for low-r…
Read Between the Lines: A Benchmark for Uncovering Political Bias in Bangla News Articles
Nusrat Jahan Lia, Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Abdullah Khan Zehady +3
Detecting media bias is crucial, specifically in the South Asian region. Despite this, annotated datasets and computational studies for Bangla political bias research remain scarce…
BanglaTalk: Towards Real-Time Speech Assistance for Bengali Regional Dialects
Jakir Hasan, Shubhashis Roy Dipta
Real-time speech assistants are becoming increasingly popular for ensuring improved accessibility to information. Bengali, being a low-resource language with a high regional dialec…
If We May De-Presuppose: Robustly Verifying Claims through Presupposition-Free Question Decomposition
Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Francis Ferraro
Prior work has shown that presupposition in generated questions can introduce unverified assumptions, leading to inconsistencies in claim verification. Additionally, prompt sensiti…
Learning How to Use Tools, Not Just When: Pattern-Aware Tool-Integrated Reasoning
Ningning Xu, Yuxuan Jiang, Shubhashis Roy Dipta +1
Tool-integrated reasoning (TIR) has become a key approach for improving large reasoning models (LRMs) on complex problems. Prior work has mainly studied when to invoke tools, while…
VC-Inspector: Advancing Reference-free Evaluation of Video Captions with Factual Analysis
Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Tz-Ying Wu, Subarna Tripathi
We propose VC-Inspector, a lightweight, open-source large multimodal model (LMM) for reference-free evaluation of video captions, with a focus on factual accuracy. Unlike existing…
FedMentor: Domain-Aware Differential Privacy for Heterogeneous Federated LLMs in Mental Health
Nobin Sarwar, Shubhashis Roy Dipta
Privacy-preserving adaptation of Large Language Models (LLMs) in sensitive domains (e.g., mental health) requires balancing strict confidentiality with model utility and safety. We…
Q2E: Query-to-Event Decomposition for Zero-Shot Multilingual Text-to-Video Retrieval
Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Francis Ferraro
Recent approaches have shown impressive proficiency in extracting and leveraging parametric knowledge from Large-Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs). In this w…