collaborators

10 papers

cs.HC2026

Towards Localizing Conversation Partners using Head Motion

Payal Mohapatra, Calvin Murdock, Ali Aroudi +4

Many individuals struggle to understand conversation partners in noisy settings, particularly amid background speakers or due to hearing impairments. Emerging wearables like smartg…

cs.LG2026

Attention Drift: What Autoregressive Speculative Decoding Models Learn

Doğaç Eldenk, Payal Mohapatra, Yigitcan Comlek +3

Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference by drafting future tokens with a small model, but drafter models degrade sharply under template perturbation and long-context inputs.…

cs.LG2026

Modality-Aware Zero-Shot Pruning and Sparse Attention for Efficient Multimodal Edge Inference

Yueyuan Sui, Payal Mohapatra, Doğaç Eldenk +5

Edge devices increasingly run multimodal sensing pipelines that must remain accurate despite fluctuating power budgets and unpredictable sensor dropout. Existing pruning methods fa…

cs.LG2026

TimeSliver : Symbolic-Linear Decomposition for Explainable Time Series Classification

Akash Pandey, Payal Mohapatra, Wei Chen +2

Identifying the extent to which every temporal segment influences a model's predictions is essential for explaining model decisions and increasing transparency. While post-hoc expl…

cs.RO2026

EmboAlign: Aligning Video Generation with Compositional Constraints for Zero-Shot Manipulation

Gehao Zhang, Zhenyang Ni, Payal Mohapatra +3

Video generative models (VGMs) pretrained on large-scale internet data can produce temporally coherent rollout videos that capture rich object dynamics, offering a compelling found…

cs.AI2026

STEP-LLM: Generating CAD STEP Models from Natural Language with Large Language Models

Xiangyu Shi, Junyang Ding, Xu Zhao +8

Computer-aided design (CAD) is vital to modern manufacturing, yet model creation remains labor-intensive and expertise-heavy. To enable non-experts to translate intuitive design in…