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Suraj Kothawade

7 accepted papers

2026

Designing Instance-Level Sampling Schedules via REINFORCE with James-Stein Shrinkage

CVPR 2026

Most post-training methods for text-to-image samplers focus on the model weights: either fine-tuning the backbone for alignment or distilling it for few-step efficiency. We take a different route: rescheduling the sampling timeline of a frozen sampler. Instead of a fixed, global schedule, we learn i

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2024

Subject-driven Text-to-Image Generation via Preference-based Reinforcement Learning

NeurIPS 2024poster

Text-to-image generative models have recently attracted considerable interest, enabling the synthesis of high-quality images from textual prompts. However, these models often lack the capability to generate specific subjects from given reference images or to synthesize novel renditions under varying…

2023

DITTO: Data-efficient and Fair Targeted Subset Selection for ASR Accent Adaptation

ACL 2023long

State-of-the-art Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are known to exhibit disparate performance on varying speech accents. To improve performance on a specific target accent, a commonly adopted solution is to finetune the ASR model using accent-specific labeled speech. However, acquiring larg…

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2022

PLATINUM: Semi-Supervised Model Agnostic Meta-Learning using Submodular Mutual Information

ICML 2022spotlight

Few-shot classification (FSC) requires training models using a few (typically one to five) data points per class. Meta-learning has proven to be able to learn a parametrized model for FSC by training on various other classification tasks. In this work, we propose PLATINUM (semi-suPervised modeL Agno…

2022

PRISM: A Rich Class of Parameterized Submodular Information Measures for Guided Data Subset Selection

AAAI 2022technical

With ever-increasing dataset sizes, subset selection techniques are becoming increasingly important for a plethora of tasks. It is often necessary to guide the subset selection to achieve certain desiderata, which includes focusing or targeting certain data points, while avoiding others. Examples of…

2022

TALISMAN: Targeted Active Learning for Object Detection with Rare Classes and Slices Using Submodular Mutual Information

ECCV 2022poster

"Deep neural networks based object detectors have shown great success in a variety of domains like autonomous vehicles, biomedical imaging, etc. It is known that their success depends on a large amount of data from the domain of interest. While deep models often perform well in terms of overall accu…

2021

Robotic Lime Picking by Considering Leaves as Permeable Obstacles

IROS 2021poster

The problem of robotic lime picking is challenging; lime plants have dense foliage which makes it difficult for a robotic arm to grasp a lime without coming in contact with leaves. Existing approaches either do not consider leaves, or treat them as obstacles and completely avoid them, often resultin…

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