Research

This page archives work from my PhD and undergraduate studies. My research essentially internalized the bitter lesson and much of my work explores how intelligent behavior emerges from scaled systems - across large language models, communication systems, healthcare, video generation and more.

Bottom-up Domain-specific Superintelligence: A Reliable Knowledge Graph is What We Need
Bhishma Dedhia, Yuval Kansal, Niraj K Jha
Preprint
[website] [arXiv] [pdf]

Generating, Fast and Slow: Scalable Parallel Video Generation with Video Interface Networks
Bhishma Dedhia, David Bourgin, Krishna Kumar Singh, Yuheng Li, Yan Kang, Niraj K Jha, Yuchen Liu
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025
[website] [arXiv] [pdf]

Neural Slot Interpreters: Grounding Object Semantics in Emergent Slot Representations
Bhishma Dedhia, Niraj K Jha
Transactions of Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2025
[arXiv] [pdf] [code]

Zero-TPrune: Zero-Shot Token Pruning through Leveraging of the Attention Graph in Pre-Trained Transformers
Hongjie Wang, Bhishma Dedhia, Niraj K Jha
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
[website] [arXiv] [pdf]

Im-Promptu: In-Context Composition from Image Prompts
Bhishma Dedhia, Michael Chang, Jake C. Snell, Thomas L. Griffiths, Niraj K. Jha
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023
[website] [arXiv] [pdf] [code]

SCouT: Synthetic Counterfactuals via Spatiotemporal Transformers for Actionable Healthcare
Bhishma Dedhia^*, Roshini Balasubramanian^*, Niraj K Jha
ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare 2023
[arXiv] [pdf] [code]

FlexiBERT: Are Current Transformer Architectures too Homogeneous and Rigid?
Shikhar Tuli, Bhishma Dedhia, Shreshth Tuli, Niraj K Jha
Journal of AI Research 2023
[arXiv] [pdf] [code]

Whittle Index based Age-of-Information Aware Scheduling for Markovian Channels
B Sombabu, Bhishma Dedhia, Sharayu Moharir
Computer Networks and Communications 2023
[wiserpub] [pdf]

Saliency-driven rate-distortion optimization for 360-degree image coding
Jui-Chiu Chiang, Cheng-Yu Yang, Bhishma Dedhia, Yi-Fan Char
Multimedia Tools and Applications 2021
[springer]

Lower Bounds for Policy Iteration on Multi-action MDPs
Kumar Ashutosh^*, Sarthak Consul^*, Bhishma Dedhia^*, Parthasarathi Khirwadkar^*, Sahil Shah^*, Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan
Conference on Decision and Control 2020
[arXiv] [pdf] [code]

On Minimizing Channel-Aware Age of Information in a Multi-Sensor Setting
Bhishma Dedhia, Sharayu Moharir
IIT-Bombay Senior Thesis
[arXiv] [pdf]

You Snooze, You Lose: Minimizing Channel-Aware Age of Information
Bhishma Dedhia, Sharayu Moharir
International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt) 2020
[arXiv] [pdf]

Saliency Prediction for Omnidirectional Images Considering Optimization on Sphere Domain
Bhishma Dedhia, Jui-Chiu Chiang, Yi-Fan Char
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2019
[arXiv] [pdf]

Analysis of Lower Bounds for Simple Policy Iteration
Sarthak Consul^*,Bhishma Dedhia^*, Kumar Ashutosh ^*, Parthasarathi Khirwadkar^*
Technical Report 2019
[arXiv] [pdf] [code]

^* Equal contribution
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