3 papers
cs.CV2026
Gaslight, Gatekeep, V1-V3: Early Visual Cortex Alignment Shields Vision-Language Models from Sycophantic Manipulation
Arya Shah, Vaibhav Tripathi, Mayank Singh +1
Vision-language models are increasingly deployed in high-stakes settings, yet their susceptibility to sycophantic manipulation remains poorly understood, particularly in relation t…
cs.LG2025
In Search of Goodness: Large Scale Benchmarking of Goodness Functions for the Forward-Forward Algorithm
Arya Shah, Vaibhav Tripathi
The Forward-Forward (FF) algorithm offers a biologically plausible alternative to backpropagation, enabling neural networks to learn through local updates. However, FF's efficacy r…
cs.CV2025
Purrturbed but Stable: Human-Cat Invariant Representations Across CNNs, ViTs and Self-Supervised ViTs
Arya Shah, Vaibhav Tripathi
Cats and humans differ in ocular anatomy. Most notably, Felis Catus (domestic cats) have vertically elongated pupils linked to ambush predation; yet, how such specializations manif…