Aditya Sarkar

PhD Student at University of Maryland; IIT Mandi '23.

Hello! I broadly work on improving the alignment between vision and language in vision-language models, with a particular focus on temporal reasoning and world modeling. I am currently a second-year Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland, where I collaborate with Profs. Nuno Vasconcelos and David Jacobs. I am grateful to be supported by the University of Maryland Graduate Fellowship.

Prior to joining UMD, I graduated as the top student at IIT Mandi SCEE department. Throughout my academic journey, I have had the privilege of being mentored by Sreelakshmi Manjunath and Serghei Mangul.

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Aditya Sarkar
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June 2026 · AI model

Forecasting a model's predictions.

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July 2026 · Models

Introducing MA-PaPSP alignment scores.

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July 2026 · Life update

I passed the qualification exam at Maryland.

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August 2024 · Life update

I'm starting my PhD at University of Maryland with the department fellowship.

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Ongoing 2026

Selected Language Modeling Distillation

Aditya Sarkar, Co-Author One

Ongoing 2026

Selected Language Modeling Distillation

Aditya Sarkar, Co-Author One

Preprint 2026

Selected Language Modeling Distillation

Aditya Sarkar, Co-Author One

Conference 2025

Temporal Understanding in Multimodal Large Language Models

Aditya Sarkar, Vasconcelos, N.


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