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Aditya Sarkar

Office: 4112-D15, Brendan Iribe Center, 8125 Paint Branch Dr, College Park, MD 20742

Work Email: asarkar6 [at] umd [dot] edu

Personal Email: asnov2k [at] gmail [dot] com


Hello! I am a second-year Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland, where I am engaged in research collaborations with Profs. Nuno Vasconcelos and David Jacobs. My research aims to build better computer vision algorithms, specifically for temporal understanding in LLMs, action and world modeling. I am grateful to be supported by University of Maryland Graduate Fellowship.

In my free time, I document my readings on my blog Mind Unknotted. Feel free to check it out here.

I am looking for research internships for summer '26. Please reach out if you're interested in my profile.

Publications

* denotes equal contribution

Masked Visual Fine-Tuning for Encoder-based Diffusion Models.

Aditya Sarkar, Shwai He, Jiacheng Cheng, Yi Li, Shlok Mishra, Ang Li, David Jacobs, Nuno Vasconcelos.

Preprint   arXiv   Project Page

An Attribute-Based Measure of Video Complexity.

Aditya Sarkar, Yi Li, Zihao Wang, Jiacheng Cheng, V.N. Sai, Aashu Singh, Shlok Mishra, David Jacobs, Nuno Vasconcelos.

Preprint   arXiv   Project Page

Leveraging Data to Say No: Memory Augmented Plug-and-Play Selective PredictionImage title

Aditya Sarkar, Yi Li, Jiacheng Cheng, Shlok Mishra, Nuno Vasconcelos.

ICLR 2026    arXiv   Project Page