activity
20242026
collaborators

5 papers

cs.CL2026

Flying Pigs, FaR and Beyond: Evaluating LLM Reasoning in Counterfactual Worlds

Anish R Joishy, Ishwar B Balappanawar, Vamshi Krishna Bonagiri +3

A fundamental challenge in reasoning is navigating hypothetical, counterfactual worlds where logic may conflict with ingrained knowledge. We investigate this frontier for Large Lan…

cs.CV2025

LABELING COPILOT: A Deep Research Agent for Automated Data Curation in Computer Vision

Debargha Ganguly, Sumit Kumar, Ishwar Balappanawar +6

Curating high-quality, domain-specific datasets is a major bottleneck for deploying robust vision systems, requiring complex trade-offs between data quality, diversity, and cost wh…

cs.LG2025

Who's the Evil Twin? Differential Auditing for Undesired Behavior

Ishwar Balappanawar, Venkata Hasith Vattikuti, Greta Kintzley +2

Detecting hidden behaviors in neural networks poses a significant challenge due to minimal prior knowledge and potential adversarial obfuscation. We explore this problem by framing…

cs.CR2024

A Practical Exercise in Adapting SIFT Using FHE Primitives

Ishwar B Balappanawar, Bhargav Srinivas Kommireddy

An exercise in implementing Scale Invariant Feature Transform using CKKS Fully Homomorphic encryption quickly reveals some glaring limitations in the current FHE paradigm. These li…

cs.CV2024

Towards Infusing Auxiliary Knowledge for Distracted Driver Detection

Ishwar B Balappanawar, Ashmit Chamoli, Ruwan Wickramarachchi +3

Distracted driving is a leading cause of road accidents globally. Identification of distracted driving involves reliably detecting and classifying various forms of driver distracti…