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9 papers

cs.CL2026

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…

cs.CV2026

CaST-Bench: Benchmarking Causal Chain-Grounded Spatio-Temporal Reasoning for Video Question Answering

Mingfang Zhang, Jingjing Pan, Ashutosh Kumar +7

Cause-and-effect reasoning in video is a significant challenge for Vision-Language Models (VLMs), as it requires going beyond surface-level perception to a deeper understanding of…

cs.CL2026

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…

cs.CV2026

InstAP: Instance-Aware Vision-Language Pre-Train for Spatial-Temporal Understanding

Ashutosh Kumar, Rajat Saini, Jingjing Pan +5

Current vision-language pre-training (VLP) paradigms excel at global scene understanding but struggle with instance-level reasoning due to global-only supervision. We introduce Ins…

cs.CY2026

Investigating Vaccine Buyer's Remorse: Post-Vaccination Decision Regret in COVID-19 Social Media Using Politically Diverse Human Annotation

Miles Stanley, Soumyajit Datta, Ashutosh Kumar +1

A significant gap exists in datasets regarding post-COVID-19 vaccination experiences, particularly ``vaccine buyer's remorse''. Understanding the prevalence and nature of vaccine r…

cs.LG2026

Generative or Discriminative? Revisiting Text Classification in the Era of Transformers

Siva Rajesh Kasa, Karan Gupta, Sumegh Roychowdhury +7

The comparison between discriminative and generative classifiers has intrigued researchers since Efron's seminal analysis of logistic regression versus discriminant analysis. While…