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Ritesh Thawkar

5 accepted papers

2025

Beyond Simple Edits: Composed Video Retrieval with Dense Modifications

ICCV 2025poster

Composed video retrieval is a challenging task that strives to retrieve a target video based on a query video and a textual description detailing specific modifications. Standard retrieval frameworks typically struggle to handle the complexity of fine-grained compositional queries and variations in…

2025

DriveLMM-o1: A Step-by-Step Reasoning Dataset and Large Multimodal Model for Driving Scenario Understanding

IROS 2025

While large multimodal models (LMMs) have demonstrated strong performance across various Visual Question Answering (VQA) tasks, certain challenges require complex multi-step reasoning to reach accurate answers. One particularly challenging task is autonomous driving, which demands thorough cognitive

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2025

Fann or Flop: A Multigenre, Multiera Benchmark for Arabic Poetry Understanding in LLMs

EMNLP 2025

Arabic poetry stands as one of the most sophisticated and culturally embedded forms of expression in the Arabic language, known for its layered meanings, stylistic diversity, and deep historical continuity. Although large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance across languages a

2025

LlamaV-o1: Rethinking Step-by-step Visual Reasoning in LLMs

ACL 2025finding

Step-by-step reasoning is crucial for solving complex visual tasks, yet existing approaches lack a comprehensive framework for evaluating this capability and do not emphasize step-wise problem-solving. To this end, we propose a comprehensive framework for advancing multi-step visual reasoning in lar…

2025

Time Travel: A Comprehensive Benchmark to Evaluate LMMs on Historical and Cultural Artifacts

ACL 2025finding

Understanding historical and cultural artifacts demands human expertise and advanced computational techniques, yet the process remains complex and time-intensive. While large multimodal models offer promising support, their evaluation and improvement require a standardized benchmark. To address this…