Ph.D. Thesis 2023 PhD Thesis On the Optimality of Generative Adversarial Networks — A Variational Perspective S. Asokan In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, IISc , 2023 HTML PDF Conference and Journal Publications 2024 ICASSP 24 Momentum-imbued Langevin Dynamics (MILD) for Faster Sampling N. Shetty , M. Bandla , N. Neema , and 2 more authors In ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , 2024 Bib HTML PDF @inproceedings{MILD24, author = {N.~Shetty and M.~Bandla and N.~Neema and Asokan, S. and Seelamantula, C.~S.}, booktitle = {ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)}, title = {Momentum-imbued Langevin Dynamics (MILD) for Faster Sampling}, pages = {6635-6639}, year = {2024}, doi = {10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10446376}, } ICASSP 24 Variational Analysis of Adversarial Regularization for Solving Inverse Problems A. S. Bhandiwad , A. J. Kamath , S. Asokan , and 1 more author In ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , 2024 Bib HTML PDF @inproceedings{ARELA24, author = {A.~S.~Bhandiwad and A.~J.~Kamath and Asokan, S. and Seelamantula, C.~S.}, booktitle = {ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)}, title = {Variational Analysis of Adversarial Regularization for Solving Inverse Problems}, pages = {2525-2529}, doi = {10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10446385}, year = {2024}, } KDD 24 Extreme Meta-Classification for Large-Scale Zero-Shot Retrieval S. Yadav , D. Saini , A. Buvanesh , and 6 more authors Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2024 Bib HTML PDF Supp Code Website @article{EMMETT24, author = {Yadav, S. and Saini, D. and Buvanesh, A. and Paliwal, B. and Dahiya, K. and Asokan, S. and Prabhu, Y. and Jiao, J. and Varma, M.}, journal = {Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining}, title = {Extreme Meta-Classification for Large-Scale Zero-Shot Retrieval}, year = {2024}, } 2023 ICASSP 23 A game of snakes and GANs S. Asokan , F. S. Mohammed , and C. S. Seelamantula The Proceedings on the IEEE International Conference of Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023 Bib HTML @article{SnakeGAN23, author = {Asokan, S. and Mohammed, F. S. and Seelamantula, C. S.}, journal = {The Proceedings on the IEEE International Conference of Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)}, title = {A game of snakes and {GAN}s}, year = {2023} } CVPR 23 Spider GANs: Leveraging friendly neighbors to accelerate GAN training S. Asokan , and C. S. Seelamantula The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023 arXiv Bib HTML PDF Website @article{SpiderGAN23, author = {Asokan, S. and Seelamantula, C. S.}, journal = {The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, title = {Spider {GANs}: {L}everaging friendly neighbors to accelerate {GAN} training}, year = {2023}, } JMLR Euler-Lagrange Analysis of Generative Adversarial Networks S. Asokan , and C. S. Seelamantula Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 2023 Bib HTML PDF @article{ELeGANt23, author = {Asokan, S. and Seelamantula, C. S.}, journal = {Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)}, pages = {1--100}, title = {Euler-Lagrange Analysis of Generative Adversarial Networks}, year = {2023}, } 2020 NeurIPS 20 Teaching a GAN What Not to Learn S. Asokan , and C. S. Seelamantula In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) , 2020 Bib HTML PDF @inproceedings{RumiGAN20, author = {Asokan, S. and Seelamantula, C.~S.}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) }, pages = {3964--3975}, title = {Teaching a {GAN} What Not to Learn}, url = {https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2020/file/29405e2a4c22866a205f557559c7fa4b-Paper.pdf}, volume = {33}, year = {2020}, } Workshop Publications and Prepints 2024 CVPRW 24 FoLD: Efficient Fourier-series-based Score Estimation for Langevin Diffusion S. Asokan , A. Srikanth , N. Shetty , and 1 more author First Workshop on Efficient and On-Device Generation (EDGE) at CVPR 2024, 2024 Bib PDF @article{FOLD23, author = {Asokan, S. and Srikanth, A. and Shetty, N. and Seelamantula, C.~S.}, journal = {First Workshop on Efficient and On-Device Generation (EDGE) at CVPR 2024}, title = {{FoLD:} {E}fficient {F}ourier-series-based Score Estimation for {L}angevin Diffusion}, year = {2024} } arXiv CROSS-JEM: Accurate and Efficient Cross-encoders for Short-text Ranking Tasks B. Paliwal , D. Saini , M. Dhawan , and 6 more authors arXiv preprints, arXiv:2409.09795, 2024 Bib HTML PDF @article{CrossJEM24, title = {{CROSS-JEM}: {A}ccurate and Efficient Cross-encoders for Short-text Ranking Tasks}, author = {Paliwal, B. and Saini, D. and Dhawan, M. and Asokan, S. and Natarajan, N. and Aggarwal, S. and Malhotra, P. and Jiao, J. and Varma, M.}, year = {2024}, eprint = {2409.09795}, journal = {arXiv preprints, arXiv:2409.09795}, publisher = {arXiv}, } NeurIPSW 24 CROSS-JEM: Accurate and Efficient Cross-encoders for Short-text Ranking Tasks B. Paliwal , D. Saini , M. Dhawan , and 6 more authors 2024 Bib HTML PDF @article{CrossJEM24NeurIPSW, title = {{CROSS-JEM}: {A}ccurate and Efficient Cross-encoders for Short-text Ranking Tasks}, author = {Paliwal, B. and Saini, D. and Dhawan, M. and Asokan, S. and Natarajan, N. and Aggarwal, S. and Malhotra, P. and Jiao, J. and Varma, M.}, year = {2024}, booktitle = {4th workshop on Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing (ENLSP) at NeurIPS 2023}, } arXiv Graph Regularized Encoder Training for Extreme Classification A. Mittal , S. Mohan , D. Saini , and 10 more authors 2024 Bib HTML PDF @misc{RAMEN24, title = {Graph Regularized Encoder Training for Extreme Classification}, author = {Mittal, A. and Mohan, S. and Saini, D. and Asokan, S. and Prabhu, S.~C. and Kumar, L. and Malhotra, P. and Jiao, J. and S., Amit and Agarwal, S. and Chakrabarti, S. and Kar, P. and Varma, M.}, year = {2024}, } 2023 arXiv GANs Settle Scores! S. Asokan , N. Shetty , A. Srikanth , and 1 more author arXiv preprints, arXiv:2306.01654, 2023 Bib HTML PDF @article{ScoreFloWGANs23, title = {{GANs} Settle Scores!}, author = {Asokan, S. and Shetty, N. and Srikanth, A. and Seelamantula, C. S.}, year = {2023}, eprint = {2306.01654}, journal = {arXiv preprints, arXiv:2306.01654}, publisher = {arXiv}, } arXiv Data Interpolants – That’s What Discriminators in Higher-order Gradient-regularized GANs Are S. Asokan , and C. S. Seelamantula arXiv preprints, arXiv:2306.00785, 2023 Bib HTML PDF @article{PolyGAN23, title = {Data Interpolants -- That's What Discriminators in Higher-order Gradient-regularized {GANs} Are}, author = {Asokan, S. and Seelamantula, C. S.}, year = {2023}, eprint = {2306.00785}, journal = {arXiv preprints, arXiv:2306.00785}, publisher = {arXiv}, } NeurIPSW 23 f-GANs Settle Scores! S. Asokan , N. Shetty , A. Srikanth , and 1 more author In NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Diffusion Models , 2023 HTML PDF NeurIPSW 23 ELeGANt: An Euler-Lagrange Analysis of Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks S. Asokan , and C. S. Seelamantula In The Symbiosis of Deep Learning and Differential Equations III , 2023 HTML PDF 2022 NeurIPSW 22 Bridging the Gap Between Coulomb GAN and Gradient-regularized WGAN S. Asokan , and C. S. Seelamantula In Proceedings on "The Symbiosis of Deep Learning and Differential Equations - II" at NeurIPS Workshops , 2022 Bib HTML PDF @inproceedings{RBFCoulombGAN22, title = {Bridging the Gap Between {C}oulomb {GAN} and Gradient-regularized {WGAN}}, author = {Asokan, S. and Seelamantula, C.~S.}, booktitle = {Proceedings on "The Symbiosis of Deep Learning and Differential Equations - II" at NeurIPS Workshops}, year = {2022}, } NeurIPSW 22 LSGANs with gradient regularizers are smooth high-dimensional interpolators S. Asokan , and C. S. Seelamantula In Proceedings on "INTERPOLATE: First Workshop on Interpolation and Beyond" at NeurIPS Workshops , 2022 Bib HTML PDF @inproceedings{PolyLSGAN22, title = {{LSGANs} with gradient regularizers are smooth high-dimensional interpolators}, author = {Asokan, S. and Seelamantula, C.~S.}, booktitle = {Proceedings on "INTERPOLATE: First Workshop on Interpolation and Beyond" at NeurIPS Workshops}, year = {2022}, } Bachelor's Thesis 2017 B.E. Thesis Smart Parking and Surveillance A. Jaiprakash , K. R. Motwani , N. Chhabria , and 1 more author In partial fulfillment for the award of degree of Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering, MSRIT , 2017 Bib PDF @inproceedings{SiddarthAsokanBEThesis, title = {Smart Parking and Surveillance}, author = {Jaiprakash, A. and Motwani, K. R. and Chhabria, N. and Asokan, S.}, booktitle = {partial fulfillment for the award of degree of Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering, MSRIT}, year = {2017}, }