3 papers
cs.CL2026
Mask-Aware Policy Gradients for Diffusion Language Models
Haran Raajesh, Kulin Shah, Adam Klivans +1
Reinforcement learning has proven effective for improving reasoning in large language models, but extending it to Masked Diffusion Language Models (MDLMs) remains challenging due t…
cs.CV2025
Lost in Translation, Found in Context: Sign Language Translation with Contextual Cues
Youngjoon Jang, Haran Raajesh, Liliane Momeni +2
Our objective is to translate continuous sign language into spoken language text. Inspired by the way human interpreters rely on context for accurate translation, we incorporate ad…
cs.CV2024
MICap: A Unified Model for Identity-aware Movie Descriptions
Haran Raajesh, Naveen Reddy Desanur, Zeeshan Khan +1
Characters are an important aspect of any storyline and identifying and including them in descriptions is necessary for story understanding. While previous work has largely ignored…