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ac-alpha/README.md

Hey, I'm Ashutosh! 👋

CS PhD student at USC's Institute for Creative Technologies, working with Prof. Mohammad Soleymani at the Intelligent Human Perception Lab. Bronze Medallist from IIT Roorkee (2021).

🔬 What I work on

I build and improve multimodal LLMs (audio/video/omni) — specifically using post-training techniques like preference optimization to give models better social and emotion understanding. I also work on video generation for social behaviors.

📄 Recent publications

Paper Venue
MoD-DPO — Mitigating cross-modal hallucinations in Omni LLMs CVPR 2026 🏔️ Denver
AVERE — Audiovisual emotion reasoning with preference optimization ICLR 2026 🇧🇷 Rio
Face-LLaVA — Facial expression understanding via instruction tuning WACV 2026 🌵 Tucson
DiTaiListener — Controllable listener video generation ICCV 2025 🌺 Hawai'i

🛠️ Areas of interest

Multimodal LLMs Post-training & RLHF Emotion Understanding Social AI Video Generation Audio/Visual Reasoning

🔗 Find me

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Currently looking for Research/Applied Scientist internships on multimodal LLMs and video generation — feel free to reach out!

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  1. ihp-lab/Face-LLaVA ihp-lab/Face-LLaVA Public

    [WACV 2026] Face-LLaVA: Facial Expression and Attribute Understanding through Instruction Tuning

    Python 14 2

  2. ihp-lab/LibreFace ihp-lab/LibreFace Public

    [WACV 2024] LibreFace: An Open-Source Toolkit for Deep Facial Expression Analysis

    Python 219 30

  3. ihp-lab/AVERE ihp-lab/AVERE Public

    [ICLR 2026] Official Codebase for AVERE: Improving Audiovisual Emotion Reasoning with Preference Optimization

    Python 2 1