3 papers
cs.CL2026
One Instruction Does Not Fit All: How Well Do Embeddings Align Personas and Instructions in Low-Resource Indian Languages?
Arya Shah, Himanshu beniwal, Mayank Singh
Aligning multilingual assistants with culturally grounded user preferences is essential for serving India's linguistically diverse population of over one billion speakers across mu…
cs.LG2025
In Search of Goodness: Large Scale Benchmarking of Goodness Functions for the Forward-Forward Algorithm
Arya Shah, Vaibhav Tripathi
The Forward-Forward (FF) algorithm offers a biologically plausible alternative to backpropagation, enabling neural networks to learn through local updates. However, FF's efficacy r…
cs.CV2025
Purrturbed but Stable: Human-Cat Invariant Representations Across CNNs, ViTs and Self-Supervised ViTs
Arya Shah, Vaibhav Tripathi
Cats and humans differ in ocular anatomy. Most notably, Felis Catus (domestic cats) have vertically elongated pupils linked to ambush predation; yet, how such specializations manif…