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Chanakya Ekbote

8 accepted papers

2026

OmniSapiens: A Foundation Model for Social Behavior Processing via Heterogeneity-Aware Relative Policy Optimization

ICML 2026poster

To develop socially intelligent AI, existing approaches typically model behavioral dimensions (e.g., affective, cognitive, or social attributes) in isolation. Although useful, this task-specific modeling increases training costs and limits generalization across behavioral settings. Recent reasoning …

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2026

PuzzleWorld: A Benchmark for Multimodal, Open-Ended Reasoning in Puzzlehunts

ICLR 2026poster

Puzzlehunts are a genre of complex, multi-step puzzles lacking well-defined problem definitions. In contrast to conventional reasoning benchmarks consisting of tasks with clear instructions and constrained environments, puzzlehunts requires discovering the underlying problem structure from multimoda…

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2025

QoQ-Med: Building Multimodal Clinical Foundation Models with Domain-Aware GRPO Training

NeurIPS 2025oral

Clinical decision‑making routinely demands reasoning over heterogeneous data, yet existing multimodal language models (MLLMs) remain largely vision‑centric and fail to generalize across clinical specialties. To bridge this gap, we introduce QoQ-Med-7B/32B, the first open generalist clinical foundati…

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2025

TAMP: Token-Adaptive Layerwise Pruning in Multimodal Large Language Models

ACL 2025finding

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable versatility in understanding diverse multimodal data and tasks. However, these capabilities come with an increased model scale. While post-training pruning reduces model size in unimodal models, its application to MLLMs often yields limi…

2025

Understanding the Emergence of Multimodal Representation Alignment

ICML 2025poster

Multimodal representation learning is fundamentally about transforming incomparable modalities into comparable representations. While prior research has primarily focused on *explicitly* aligning these representations through targeted learning objectives and model architectures, a recent line of wor…

2025

What One Cannot, Two Can: Two-Layer Transformers Provably Represent Induction Heads on Any-Order Markov Chains

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

In-context learning (ICL) is a hallmark capability of transformers, through which trained models learn to adapt to new tasks by leveraging information from the input context. Prior work has shown that ICL emerges in transformers due to the presence of special circuits called induction heads. Given…

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2024

Local to Global: Learning Dynamics and Effect of Initialization for Transformers

NeurIPS 2024poster

In recent years, transformer-based models have revolutionized deep learning, particularly in sequence modeling. To better understand this phenomenon, there is a growing interest in using Markov input processes to study transformers. However, our current understanding in this regard remains limited w…

2023

FiGURe: Simple and Efficient Unsupervised Node Representations with Filter Augmentations

NeurIPS 2023poster

Unsupervised node representations learnt using contrastive learning-based methods have shown good performance on downstream tasks. However, these methods rely on augmentations that mimic low-pass filters, limiting their performance on tasks requiring different eigen-spectrum parts. This paper presen…