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Amrutha Saseendran

9 accepted papers

2026

Stop the Flip-Flop: Context-Preserving Verification for Fast Revocable Diffusion Decoding

ICML 2026poster

Parallel diffusion decoding can accelerate diffusion language model inference by unmasking multiple tokens per step, but aggressive parallelism often harms quality. Revocable decoding mitigates this by rechecking earlier tokens, yet we observe that existing verification schemes frequently trigger fl…

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2025

Balancing Act: Diversity and Consistency in Large Language Model Ensembles

ICLR 2025poster

Ensembling strategies for Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in improving performance across various tasks by combining the strengths of individual models. However, identifying the most effective ensembling method remains an open challenge, as neither maximizing out…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

DeCoRe: Decoding by Contrasting Retrieval Heads to Mitigate Hallucinations

EMNLP 2025

Large Language Models (LLMs) often hallucinate, producing unfaithful or factually incorrect outputs by misrepresenting the provided context or incorrectly recalling internal knowledge. Recent studies have identified specific attention heads within the Transformer architecture, known as retrieval hea

2025

Diffusion Instruction Tuning

ICML 2025poster

We introduce *Lavender*, a simple supervised fine-tuning (SFT) method that boosts the performance of advanced vision-language models (VLMs) by leveraging state-of-the-art image generation models such as Stable Diffusion. Specifically, Lavender aligns the text-vision attention in the VLM transformer…

2025

Segment Anyword: Mask Prompt Inversion for Open-Set Grounded Segmentation

ICML 2025poster

Open-set image segmentation poses a significant challenge because existing methods often demand extensive training or fine-tuning and generally struggle to segment unified objects consistently across diverse text reference expressions. Motivated by this, we propose Segment Anyword, a novel training-…

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2024

An Image is Worth Multiple Words: Discovering Object Level Concepts using Multi-Concept Prompt Learning

ICML 2024poster

Textural Inversion, a prompt learning method, learns a singular text embedding for a new "word" to represent image style and appearance, allowing it to be integrated into natural language sentences to generate novel synthesised images. However, identifying multiple unknown object-level concepts with…

2022

Trading off Image Quality for Robustness is not Necessary with Regularized Deterministic Autoencoders

NeurIPS 2022accept

The susceptibility of Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) to adversarial attacks indicates the necessity to evaluate the robustness of the learned representations along with the generation performance. The vulnerability of VAEs has been attributed to the limitations associated with their variational for…

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2021

Multi-Class Multi-Instance Count Conditioned Adversarial Image Generation

ICCV 2021poster

Image generation has rapidly evolved in recent years. Modern architectures for adversarial training allow to generate even high resolution images with remarkable quality. At the same time, more and more effort is dedicated towards controlling the content of generated images. In this paper, we take o…

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2021

Shape your Space: A Gaussian Mixture Regularization Approach to Deterministic Autoencoders

NeurIPS 2021poster

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful probabilistic models to learn representations of complex data distributions. One important limitation of VAEs is the strong prior assumption that latent representations learned by the model follow a simple uni-modal Gaussian distribution. Further, the var…