
MTS at @stellonlabs | Past Research at @MSFTResearch and @AmazonScience
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Our paper has been accepted for Oral presentation at #CVPR 🎉🎉
Kudos to the team: @karan_uppal3, @abhinav_java
See you in Denver!
On a side note, I am finishing my fellowship by June and looking for full-time research roles. DMs open.
New paper: Understanding Task Transfer in Vision–Language Models
How does finetuning a model on one task affect its performance on other tasks?
@karan_uppal3 and @abhinav_java are presenting this work at Unireps, NeurIPS!!
📍 Ballroom 20D
⏰ 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM
Come and say Hi!🧵
Belated update: I wrapped up my fellowship at Microsoft Research India last month and recently joined @stellon_labs as a Member of Technical Staff.
I'm excited to be working on a completely new set of challenges with @ron_joshi and @divamgupta.
Bhuvan Sachdeva retweeted
Excited to be heading to #CVPR2026 to give an oral presentation of our paper on task transfer!
If you're in Denver, do attend the presentation on Sunday. Looking forward to meeting fellow researchers!
Link: aka.ms/task-transfer-vlms
Special thanks: @SachdevaBhuvan @abhinav_java
Checkout the exciting work by Ishaan!
Spending billions to train the "best" base model? You might be optimizing the wrong thing! 🎯
We show that controlling sharpness during mid-training leads to over 35% less forgetting after fine-tuning / quantization... even when the base model itself gets worse.
🧵 Takeaways for pretraining:
- Use SAM (Sharpness-Aware-Minimization) in the final steps (~10%)
- Try much higher learning rates (yes, even ~10× larger)
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Bhuvan Sachdeva retweeted
vision🍌 is here vision-banana.github.io/
if you got into computer vision the way I did, starting with pixel-level labeling tasks like segmentation, edges, depth, or surface normals, you’ll probably feel the same seeing these results -- something big has quietly shifted, and it’s going to change how we approach these problems for good 🧵
Bhuvan Sachdeva retweeted
Excited to announce that I will be giving an oral presentation of BEAVER at the VerifAI workshop @ ICLR 2026!
Come chat if you are interested in formal guarantees for LLMs 🦫
Bhuvan Sachdeva retweeted
True multimodal AI needs to understand the world spatially 🎯
🚀 Excited to release #CVPR2026 TIPSv2 from @GoogleDeepMind, a foundational image-text encoder with spatial awareness, leading to strong overall results and massive gains on patch-text alignment. 🔥
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Bhuvan Sachdeva retweeted
Made a public RL-for-LLMs reading list because I was trying to prepare for my interviews
96 papers, 5 categories, 24 subtopics, mostly around the 2025-2026 wave, with notes on what’s worth reading carefully vs what you can skim.
Hopefully useful if you’re getting into RLHF/agentic RL/ reward modeling, or just cramming for interviews.
algoroxyolo.github.io/blog/2…
Note: Paper selection mainly adhere to me and @sun_hanchi's taste...
Make sure you follow me so I can have the incentive to update this and the agentic system design series
#RLHF #LLM #AIAgents
Pretty good read, it reminded me of "You and Your Research" by Richard Hamming (which also referred in the article itself).
Good post on how to think about honing your skills as an (academic) researcher by Carlini
nicholas.carlini.com/writing…
Full paper accepted to CVPR!!😀
New paper: Understanding Task Transfer in Vision–Language Models
How does finetuning a model on one task affect its performance on other tasks?
@karan_uppal3 and @abhinav_java are presenting this work at Unireps, NeurIPS!!
📍 Ballroom 20D
⏰ 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM
Come and say Hi!🧵
Checkout Nalin's first PhD project!!
AI generated references about to go insane!
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Available today to anyone with a ChatGPT personal account: prism.openai.com/
New paper: Understanding Task Transfer in Vision–Language Models
How does finetuning a model on one task affect its performance on other tasks?
@karan_uppal3 and @abhinav_java are presenting this work at Unireps, NeurIPS!!
📍 Ballroom 20D
⏰ 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM
Come and say Hi!🧵
(4/5) Why use PGF? PGF-guided selection enables alternative datasets that rival or surpass direct finetuning when supervision data is scarce.
(5/5) For more details, check out the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.18787. Happy to answer questions! Shoutout to my amazing co-authors and mentor Vineeth N B.




















