Rynaa Grover — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

GeoChain: Multimodal Chain-of-Thought for Geographic Reasoning

Sahiti Yerramilli, Nilay Pande, Rynaa Grover, Jayant Sravan Tamarapalli

EMNLP 2025

This paper introduces GeoChain, a large-scale benchmark for evaluating step-by-step geographic reasoning in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Leveraging 1.46 million Mapillary street-level images, GeoChain pairs each image with a 21-step chain-of-thought (CoT) question sequence (over 30 mill

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2024

A Community-Centric Perspective for Characterizing and Detecting Anti-Asian Violence-Provoking Speech

Gaurav Verma, Rynaa Grover, Jiawei Zhou, Binny Mathew, Jordan Kraemer, Munmun Choudhury +1

ACL 2024long

Violence-provoking speech – speech that implicitly or explicitly promotes violence against the members of the targeted community, contributed to a massive surge in anti-Asian crimes during the COVID-19 pandemic. While previous works have characterized and built tools for detecting other forms of har…

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