4 papers
Learning to Clarify Underspecified Intents Under Limited Interaction
Pranav M R, Manuel Cherep, Pattie Maes +1
AI assistants receive requests that leave out information needed for a good outcome, for example about users' preferences or goals. They must then either speculate or ask for more…
A Graph Matching Based Approach for the Multi-Depot Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem
Jayant Chandwani, Pranav M R, Anand Jat +3
The Multi-Depot Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (MDCVRP) asks for minimum-cost delivery tours from several capacitated depots to a set of customers. Like most vehicle-routing v…
BLOSSOM: Block-wise Federated Learning Over Shared and Sparse Observed Modalities
Pranav M R, Jayant Chandwani, Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem +1
Multimodal federated learning (FL) is essential for real-world applications such as autonomous systems and healthcare, where data is distributed across heterogeneous clients with v…
Visual Persuasion: What Influences Decisions of Vision-Language Models?
Manuel Cherep, Pranav M R, Pattie Maes +1
The web is littered with images, once created for human consumption and now increasingly interpreted by agents using vision-language models (VLMs). These agents make visual decisio…