Publications

Ph.D. Thesis

2023

1. PhD Thesis

   On the Optimality of Generative Adversarial Networks — A Variational Perspective

   S. Asokan

   In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, IISc , 2023

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Conference and Journal Publications

2025

1. WWW 25

   Graph Regularized Encoder Training for Extreme Classification

   A. Mittal , S. Mohan , D. Saini , and 10 more authors

   In Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference , 2025

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   @inproceedings{RAMEN24,
     author = {Mittal, A. and Mohan, S. and Saini, D. and Asokan, S. and Prabhu, S.~C. and Kumar, L. and Malhotra, P. and Jiao, J. and Singh, A. and Agarwal, S. and Chakrabarti, S. and Kar, P. and Varma, M.},
     title = {Graph Regularized Encoder Training for Extreme Classification},
     year = {2025},
     isbn = {9798400713316},
     publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3701716.3715230},
     doi = {10.1145/3701716.3715230},
     booktitle = {Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference},
     pages = {394–402},
     numpages = {9},
     location = {Sydney NSW, Australia},
     series = {WWW '25},
   }

2. ICML 25

   MOGIC: Metadata-infused Oracle Guidance for Improved Extreme Classification

   S. C. Prabhu , B. Singh , A. Mittal , and 11 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning , 2025

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   @inproceedings{MOGIC25,
     author = {Prabhu, S.~C. and Singh, B. and Mittal, A. and Asokan, S. and Mohan, S. and Saini, D. and Prabhu, Y. and Kumar, L. and Jiao, J. and Singh, A. and Tandon, N. and Gupta, M. and Agarwal, S. and Varma, M.},
     title = {{MOGIC:} Metadata-infused Oracle Guidance for Improved Extreme Classification},
     year = {2025},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine
     Learning},
     location = {Vancouver, Canada},
   }

2024

1. ICASSP 24

   Momentum-imbued Langevin Dynamics (MILD) for Faster Sampling

   N. Shetty ,  M. Bandla ,  N. Neema , and 2 more authors

   In ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , 2024

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   @inproceedings{MILD24,
     author = {N.~Shetty and M.~Bandla and N.~Neema and Asokan, S. and Seelamantula, C.~S.},
     booktitle = {ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
     title = {Momentum-imbued Langevin Dynamics (MILD) for Faster Sampling},
     pages = {6635-6639},
     year = {2024},
     doi = {10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10446376},
   }

2. ICASSP 24

   Variational Analysis of Adversarial Regularization for Solving Inverse Problems

   A. S. Bhandiwad ,  A. J. Kamath , S. Asokan , and 1 more author

   In ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , 2024

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   @inproceedings{ARELA24,
     author = {A.~S.~Bhandiwad and A.~J.~Kamath and Asokan, S. and Seelamantula, C.~S.},
     booktitle = {ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
     title = {Variational Analysis of Adversarial Regularization for Solving Inverse Problems},
     pages = {2525-2529},
     doi = {10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10446385},
     year = {2024},
   }

3. KDD 24

   Extreme Meta-Classification for Large-Scale Zero-Shot Retrieval

   S. Yadav , D. Saini , A. Buvanesh , and 6 more authors

   Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2024

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   @article{EMMETT24,
     author = {Yadav, S. and Saini, D. and Buvanesh, A. and Paliwal, B. and Dahiya, K. and Asokan, S. and Prabhu, Y. and Jiao, J. and Varma, M.},
     journal = {Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining},
     title = {Extreme Meta-Classification for Large-Scale Zero-Shot Retrieval},
     year = {2024},
   }

2023

1. ICASSP 23

   A game of snakes and GANs

   S. Asokan , F. S. Mohammed , and C. S. Seelamantula

   The Proceedings on the IEEE International Conference of Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023

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   @article{SnakeGAN23,
     author = {Asokan, S. and Mohammed, F. S. and Seelamantula, C. S.},
     journal = {The Proceedings on the IEEE International Conference of Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
     title = {A game of snakes and {GAN}s},
     year = {2023}
   }

2. CVPR 23

   Spider GANs: Leveraging friendly neighbors to accelerate GAN training

   S. Asokan , and C. S. Seelamantula

   The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023

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   @article{SpiderGAN23,
     author = {Asokan, S. and Seelamantula, C. S.},
     journal = {The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
     title = {Spider {GANs}: {L}everaging friendly neighbors to accelerate {GAN} training},
     year = {2023},
   }

3. JMLR

   Euler-Lagrange Analysis of Generative Adversarial Networks

   S. Asokan , and C. S. Seelamantula

   Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 2023

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   @article{ELeGANt23,
     author = {Asokan, S. and Seelamantula, C. S.},
     journal = {Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)},
     pages = {1--100},
     title = {Euler-Lagrange Analysis of Generative Adversarial Networks},
     year = {2023},
   }

2020

1. NeurIPS 20

   Teaching a GAN What Not to Learn

   S. Asokan , and C. S. Seelamantula

   In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) , 2020

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   @inproceedings{RumiGAN20,
     author = {Asokan, S. and Seelamantula, C.~S.},
     booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) },
     pages = {3964--3975},
     title = {Teaching a {GAN} What Not to Learn},
     url = {https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2020/file/29405e2a4c22866a205f557559c7fa4b-Paper.pdf},
     volume = {33},
     year = {2020},
   }

Workshop Publications and Prepints

2024

1. CVPRW 24

   FoLD: Efficient Fourier-series-based Score Estimation for Langevin Diffusion

   S. Asokan , A. Srikanth , N. Shetty , and 1 more author

   First Workshop on Efficient and On-Device Generation (EDGE) at CVPR 2024, 2024

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   @article{FOLD23,
     author = {Asokan, S. and Srikanth, A. and Shetty, N. and Seelamantula, C.~S.},
     journal = {First Workshop on Efficient and On-Device Generation (EDGE) at CVPR 2024},
     title = {{FoLD:} {E}fficient {F}ourier-series-based Score Estimation for {L}angevin Diffusion},
     year = {2024}
   }

2. arXiv

   CROSS-JEM: Accurate and Efficient Cross-encoders for Short-text Ranking Tasks

   B. Paliwal , D. Saini , M. Dhawan , and 6 more authors

   arXiv preprints, arXiv:2409.09795, 2024

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   @article{CrossJEM24,
     title = {{CROSS-JEM}: {A}ccurate and Efficient Cross-encoders for Short-text Ranking Tasks},
     author = {Paliwal, B. and Saini, D. and Dhawan, M. and Asokan, S. and Natarajan, N. and Aggarwal, S. and Malhotra, P. and Jiao, J. and Varma, M.},
     year = {2024},
     eprint = {2409.09795},
     journal = {arXiv preprints, arXiv:2409.09795},
     publisher = {arXiv},
   }

3. NeurIPSW 24

   CROSS-JEM: Accurate and Efficient Cross-encoders for Short-text Ranking Tasks

   B. Paliwal , D. Saini , M. Dhawan , and 6 more authors

   2024

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   @article{CrossJEM24NeurIPSW,
     title = {{CROSS-JEM}: {A}ccurate and Efficient Cross-encoders for Short-text Ranking Tasks},
     author = {Paliwal, B. and Saini, D. and Dhawan, M. and Asokan, S. and Natarajan, N. and Aggarwal, S. and Malhotra, P. and Jiao, J. and Varma, M.},
     year = {2024},
     booktitle = {4th workshop on Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing (ENLSP) at NeurIPS 2023},
   }

4. arXiv

   Graph Regularized Encoder Training for Extreme Classification

   A. Mittal , S. Mohan , D. Saini , and 10 more authors

   2024

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   @misc{RAMEN24arxiv,
     title = {Graph Regularized Encoder Training for Extreme Classification},
     author = {Mittal, A. and Mohan, S. and Saini, D. and Asokan, S. and Prabhu, S.~C. and Kumar, L. and Malhotra, P. and Jiao, J. and Singh, A. and Agarwal, S. and Chakrabarti, S. and Kar, P. and Varma, M.},
     year = {2024},
   }

2023

1. arXiv

   GANs Settle Scores!

   S. Asokan , N. Shetty , A. Srikanth , and 1 more author

   arXiv preprints, arXiv:2306.01654, 2023

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   @article{ScoreFloWGANs23,
     title = {{GANs} Settle Scores!},
     author = {Asokan, S. and Shetty, N. and Srikanth, A. and Seelamantula, C. S.},
     year = {2023},
     eprint = {2306.01654},
     journal = {arXiv preprints, arXiv:2306.01654},
     publisher = {arXiv},
   }

2. arXiv

   Data Interpolants – That’s What Discriminators in Higher-order Gradient-regularized GANs Are

   S. Asokan , and C. S. Seelamantula

   arXiv preprints, arXiv:2306.00785, 2023

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   @article{PolyGAN23,
     title = {Data Interpolants -- That's What Discriminators in Higher-order Gradient-regularized {GANs} Are},
     author = {Asokan, S. and Seelamantula, C. S.},
     year = {2023},
     eprint = {2306.00785},
     journal = {arXiv preprints, arXiv:2306.00785},
     publisher = {arXiv},
   }

3. NeurIPSW 23

   f-GANs Settle Scores!

   S. Asokan , N. Shetty , A. Srikanth , and 1 more author

   In NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Diffusion Models , 2023

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4. NeurIPSW 23

   ELeGANt: An Euler-Lagrange Analysis of Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks

   S. Asokan , and C. S. Seelamantula

   In The Symbiosis of Deep Learning and Differential Equations III , 2023

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2022

1. NeurIPSW 22

   Bridging the Gap Between Coulomb GAN and Gradient-regularized WGAN

   S. Asokan , and C. S. Seelamantula

   In Proceedings on "The Symbiosis of Deep Learning and Differential Equations - II" at NeurIPS Workshops , 2022

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   @inproceedings{RBFCoulombGAN22,
     title = {Bridging the Gap Between {C}oulomb {GAN} and Gradient-regularized {WGAN}},
     author = {Asokan, S. and Seelamantula, C.~S.},
     booktitle = {Proceedings on "The Symbiosis of Deep Learning and Differential Equations - II" at NeurIPS Workshops},
     year = {2022},
   }

2. NeurIPSW 22

   LSGANs with gradient regularizers are smooth high-dimensional interpolators

   S. Asokan , and C. S. Seelamantula

   In Proceedings on "INTERPOLATE: First Workshop on Interpolation and Beyond" at NeurIPS Workshops , 2022

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   @inproceedings{PolyLSGAN22,
     title = {{LSGANs} with gradient regularizers are smooth high-dimensional interpolators},
     author = {Asokan, S. and Seelamantula, C.~S.},
     booktitle = {Proceedings on "INTERPOLATE: First Workshop on Interpolation and Beyond" at NeurIPS Workshops},
     year = {2022},
   }

Bachelor's Thesis

2017

1. B.E. Thesis

   Smart Parking and Surveillance

   A. Jaiprakash , K. R. Motwani , N. Chhabria , and 1 more author

   In partial fulfillment for the award of degree of Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering, MSRIT , 2017

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   @inproceedings{SiddarthAsokanBEThesis,
     title = {Smart Parking and Surveillance},
     author = {Jaiprakash, A. and Motwani, K. R. and Chhabria, N. and Asokan, S.},
     booktitle = {partial fulfillment for the award of degree of Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering, MSRIT},
     year = {2017},
   }