We are thrilled to announce the inaugural Agyeya Research Workshop, hosted in partnership with the @iiscbangalore! Our mission is to break down barriers for early-career researchers and cultivate India’s next generation of AI leaders. As part of the workshop, we are also launching the Agyeya AI Scholar program. This initiative aims to select and train a dedicated cohort of candidates through hands-on research and mentorship in AI Alignment, Interpretability, and Safety. 🗓️ Apply by June 30th and stay tuned for our upcoming mentor announcements! Find more details and submit your application here: lnkd.in/efGa44KT @ponguru Sriparna Saha, @rvbabuiisc, @NikitaKharya, @precogatiiith @val_iisc

Do Vision Language Models (VLMs) really need deep visual processing? 🤖 Our paper accepted as Oral Presentation @CVPR TRUE-V Workshop suggests the current paradigm of multimodal LLM architectures might be wildly inefficient. Here is why we might be over-processing image tokens 🧵 (1/4) Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.09425 Code: github.com/sambitghsh/VLM-To… Congrats to @sambitghsh for leading this work! Great collaboration with @rvbabuiisc and @val_iisc!