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Nivedha Sivakumar

4 accepted papers

2026

DSO: Direct Steering Optimization for Bias Mitigation

CVPR 2026

Generative models are often deployed to make decisions on behalf of users, such as vision-language models (VLMs) identifying which person in a room is a doctor to help visually impaired individuals. Yet, VLM decisions are influenced by the perceived demographic attributes of people in the input, whi

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2025

Bias after Prompting: Persistent Discrimination in Large Language Models

EMNLP 2025

A dangerous assumption that can be made from prior work on the bias transfer hypothesis (BTH) is that biases do not transfer from pre-trained large language models (LLMs) to adapted models. We invalidate this assumption by studying the BTH in causal models under prompt adaptations, as prompting is a

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2025

Is Your Model Fairly Certain? Uncertainty-Aware Fairness Evaluation for LLMs

ICML 2025poster

The recent rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) highlights the critical need for benchmarking their fairness. Conventional fairness metrics, which focus on discrete accuracy-based evaluations (i.e., prediction correctness), fail to capture the implicit impact of model uncertainty (e.g., hi…

2018

Robust Fruit Counting: Combining Deep Learning, Tracking, and Structure from Motion

IROS 2018poster

We present a novel fruit counting pipeline that combines deep segmentation, frame to frame tracking, and 3D localization to accurately count visible fruits across a sequence of images. Our pipeline works on image streams from a monocular camera, both in natural light, as well as with controlled illu…

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