activity
20242026
collaborators

6 papers

cs.IR2026

: Semantic Residual Effective Contrastive Information for Evaluating Hard Negatives

Aarush Sinha, Rahul Seetharaman, Aman Bansal

Hard-negative source selection for dense retrieval is usually decided only after fine-tuning and downstream evaluation. We propose ECIsem, a validity-weighted diagnostic that ranks…

cs.IR2026

Scaling Laws for Cross-Encoder Reranking

Rahul Seetharaman, Aman Bansal, Hamed Zamani +1

Scaling laws are well studied for language models and first-stage retrieval, but not for reranking. We present the first systematic study of scaling laws for cross-encoder reranker…

cs.CL2025

Leveraging Large Language Models for Predictive Analysis of Human Misery

Bishanka Seal, Rahul Seetharaman, Aman Bansal +1

This study investigates the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for predicting human-perceived misery scores from natural language descriptions of real-world scenarios. The task is…

cs.IR2025

InsertRank: LLMs can reason over BM25 scores to Improve Listwise Reranking

Rahul Seetharaman, Kaustubh D. Dhole, Aman Bansal

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant strides across various information retrieval tasks, particularly as rerankers, owing to their strong generalization and k…

cs.CV2025

ViBe: A Text-to-Video Benchmark for Evaluating Hallucination in Large Multimodal Models

Vipula Rawte, Sarthak Jain, Aarush Sinha +9

Recent advances in Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have expanded their capabilities to video understanding, with Text-to-Video (T2V) models excelling in generating videos from textu…

cs.CV2024

YesBut: A High-Quality Annotated Multimodal Dataset for evaluating Satire Comprehension capability of Vision-Language Models

Abhilash Nandy, Yash Agarwal, Ashish Patwa +5

Understanding satire and humor is a challenging task for even current Vision-Language models. In this paper, we propose the challenging tasks of Satirical Image Detection (detectin…