9 papers
SynDORBench: Evaluating LVLM Perceptual Robustness Under Physically Constrained Visibility Conditions
Jeremy Stephen Gabriel Yee, Zhengkui Wang, Zhiyuan Zhang +5
Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance on multimodal reasoning benchmarks, yet their perceptual reliability under physically constrained imag…
How Do VLMs Fail? Vision-Operation Misalignment in Compositional VQA
Navya Gupta, Bingjie Xu, Avinash Anand +2
Compositional visual question answering requires Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to execute multiple reasoning operations like object selection, spatial relation resolution, and attr…
TextNCA: Neural Cellular Automata for Language Modeling via Hierarchical Local Attention
Avni Mittal, Avinash Anand, Ashutosh Kumar +7
Can a strictly local, iterated, weight-shared computation primitive support language modelling, and which of those three properties actually drives the model's behaviour? We define…
FORGE: Fused On-Register Gradient Elimination for Memory-Efficient LLM Training
Dikshant Kukreja, Kritarth Prasad, Avinash Anand +6
Reverse-mode differentiation computes every weight gradient, writes it to memory, and only then lets the optimizer read it back. This two-phase schedule sets the memory ceiling of…
PACE: Persona Adaptation through Conversational Elicitation in Human-Robot Interaction
Peizhen Li, Longbing Cao, Megani Rajendran +3
Equipping humanoid robots with coherent and adaptable personas is crucial for fostering natural, engaging, and trustworthy human-robot interaction (HRI). However, existing approach…
RSPC: A Benchmark for Modeling Stress and Psychiatric Conditions in Digitally Mediated Relationships using Psychiatrist Annotations
Parmitha Vangapandu, Sai Ganesh Mokkapati, Sathwik Narkedimilli +4
In NLP, mental health conditions are often modeled as isolated phenomena, without interpersonal context. We use Reddit posts about long-distance relationships to capture both menta…
The Periodic Table of LLM Reasoning: A Structured Survey of Reasoning Paradigms, Methods, and Failure Modes
Avinash Anand, Mahisha Ramesh, Avni Mittal +8
Reasoning has become central to how Large Language Models (LLMs) are evaluated and interpreted, spanning Chain-of-Thought (CoT), mathematical problem-solving, multi-hop question an…
IRIS: Interleaved Reinforcement with Incremental Staged Curriculum for Cross-Lingual Mathematical Reasoning
Navya Gupta, Rishitej Reddy Vyalla, Avinash Anand +8
Curriculum learning helps language models tackle complex reasoning by gradually increasing task difficulty. However, it often fails to generate consistent step-by-step reasoning, e…
DAST: A Dual-Stream Voice Anonymization Attacker with Staged Training
Ridwan Arefeen, Xiaoxiao Miao, Rong Tong +3
Voice anonymization masks vocal traits while preserving linguistic content, which may still leak speaker-specific patterns. To assess and strengthen privacy evaluation, we propose…