65 papers
Weights or Skills? A Survey of Robot-Learning Techniques: from Action-Predicting Weights to Robots that Write their Own Skills
Gaytri Jena, Kapil Wanaskar, Vinija Jain +3
Robot learning is splitting into two bets: policies that bake competence into frozen weights (vision-language-action, or VLA, models), and agents that write and refine their own ex…
FactorJEPA: Factorizing Monolithic Futures into Layout-Agent-Interaction Channels for Crowded and Chaotic Global South Urban Worlds
Kapil Wanaskar, Gaytri Jena, Aman Chadha +3
World models have attracted significant attention for their ability to capture and predict the structure and dynamics of the physical world. In this emerging landscape, Joint Embed…
Pessimism's Paradox: Conservative Offline Training Amplifies Reward Hacking During Online Adaptation in Reasoning Models
Subramanyam Sahoo, Aman Chadha, Vinija Jain +1
Conservative offline training is widely advocated as a safe foundation for subsequent online adaptation: if a policy stays close to well-supported behaviour, the argument goes, it…
RECOM: A Validity Discrimination Tradeoff in Automatic Metrics for Open Ended Reddit Question Answering
Pushwitha Krishnappa, Amit Das, Vinija Jain +2
Automatic metrics are the default for evaluating LLM-generated text, yet a metric is quietly asked to do two jobs: tell genuine content alignment from surface coincidence (validity…
Neural FOXP2 -- Language Specific Neuron Steering for Targeted Language Improvement in LLMs
Anusa Saha, Tanmay Joshi, Vinija Jain +2
LLMs are multilingual by training, yet their lingua franca is often English, reflecting English language dominance in pretraining. Other languages remain in parametric memory but a…
Moral Sensitivity in LLMs: A Tiered Evaluation of Contextual Bias via Behavioral Profiling and Mechanistic Interpretability
Yash Aggarwal, Atmika Gorti, Vinija Jain +3
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in settings that require nuanced ethical reasoning, yet existing bias evaluations treat model outputs as simply "biased" or "…