8 papers
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…