Publications

2025

  1. EMNLP
    Pruning the Paradox: How CLIP’s Most Informative Heads Enhance Performance While Amplifying Bias
    Avinash Madasu, Vasudev Lal, and Phillip Howard
    In EMNLP, 2025
    Oral presentation (Top 5% of papers, Senior Area Chair Recommendation)
    PDF Website
  2. CVPR
    Cultural Awareness in Vision-Language Models: A Cross-Country Exploration
    Avinash Madasu, Vasudev Lal, and Phillip Howard
    In CVPR (VLMs-4-All workshop), 2025
    PDF
  3. CVPR
    Learning from Reasoning Failures via Synthetic Data Generation
    Gabriela Ben Melech Stan, Estelle Aflalo, Avinash Madasu, and 2 more authors
    In CVPR (SynData4CV Workshop), 2025
    PDF
  4. arXiv
    Is Your Paper Being Reviewed by an LLM? A New Benchmark Dataset and Approach for Detecting AI Text in Peer Review
    Sungduk Yu, Man Luo, Avinash Madasu, and 2 more authors
    2025
    PDF

2024

  1. NeurIPS
    Is Your Paper Being Reviewed by an LLM? Investigating AI Text Detectability in Peer Review
    Sungduk Yu, Man Luo, Avinash Madasu, and 2 more authors
    In NeurIPS (Safe Generative AI Workshop), 2024
    PDF
  2. ECCV
    Affective Visual Dialog: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Emotional Reasoning based on Visually Grounded Conversations
    Kilichbek Haydarov, Xiaoqian Shen, Avinash Madasu, and 4 more authors
    In ECCV, 2024
    PDF Website
  3. arXiv
    Quantifying and Enabling the Interpretability of CLIP-like Models
    Avinash Madasu, Yossi Gandelsman, Vasudev Lal, and 1 more author
    2024
    PDF Website
  4. CVPR
    Socialcounterfactuals: Probing and Mitigating Intersectional Social Biases in Vision-Language Models with Counterfactual Examples
    Phillip Howard, Avinash Madasu, Tiep Le, and 3 more authors
    In CVPR, 2024
    PDF Website
  5. Journal
    A Unified Framework for Slot based Response Generation in a Multimodal Dialogue System
    Mauajama Firdaus, Avinash Madasu, and Asif Ekbal
    Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2024
    PDF
  6. CVPR
    ICSVR: Investigating Compositional and Syntactic understanding in Video Retrieval Models
    Avinash Madasu and Vasudev Lal
    In CVPR (MMFM workshop), 2024
    PDF

2023

  1. Journal
    MuMUR: Multilingual Multimodal Universal Retrieval
    Avinash Madasu, Estelle Aflalo, Gabriela Ben Melech Stan, and 4 more authors
    Information Retrieval Journal, 2023
    PDF
  2. NeurIPS
    Analyzing Zero-Shot Abilities of Vision-Language Models on Video Understanding Tasks
    Avinash Madasu, Anahita Bhiwandiwalla, and Vasudev Lal
    In NeurIPS (R0-FoMo workshop), 2023
    PDF
  3. CVPR
    Is Multimodal Vision Supervision Beneficial to Language?
    Avinash Madasu and Vasudev Lal
    In CVPR (NFVLR workshop), 2023
    PDF
  4. ECIR
    Improving Video Retrieval using Multilingual Knowledge Transfer
    Avinash Madasu, Estelle Aflalo, Gabriela Ben Melech Stan, and 3 more authors
    In ECIR, 2023
    Best Student Paper Award
    PDF

2022

  1. EMNLP
    What do Large Language Models Learn beyond Language?
    Avinash Madasu and Shashank Srivastava
    In EMNLP (findings), 2022
    PDF
  2. ACM Multimedia
    Learning to Retrieve Videos by Asking Questions
    Avinash Madasu, Junier Oliva, and Gedas Bertasius
    In ACM Multimedia, 2022
    PDF

2021

  1. ICPR
    Sequential Domain Adaptation through Elastic Weight Consolidation for Sentiment Analysis
    Avinash Madasu and Anvesh Rao Vijjini
    In ICPR, 2021
    PDF

2020

  1. NLDB
    A Position Aware Decay Weighted Network for Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis
    Avinash Madasu and Vijjini Anvesh Rao
    In NLDB, 2020
    PDF
  2. Journal
    Efficient Feature Selection Techniques for Sentiment Analysis
    Avinash Madasu and Sivasankar Elango
    Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2020
    PDF

2019

  1. EMNLP
    Sequential Learning of Convolutional Features for Effective Text Classification
    Avinash Madasu and Vijjini Anvesh Rao
    In EMNLP, 2019
    PDF
  2. NLDB
    Gated Convolutional Neural Networks for Domain Adaptation
    Avinash Madasu and Vijjini Anvesh Rao
    In NLDB, 2019
    PDF
  3. CICLing
    Effectiveness of Self Normalizing Neural Networks for Text Classification
    Avinash Madasu and Vijjini Anvesh Rao
    In CICLing, 2019
    PDF

2018

  1. IEMIS
    A Study of Feature Extraction Techniques for Sentiment Analysis
    Avinash Madasu and Sivasankar E
    In IEMIS, 2018
    PDF