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Hi, I'm Farhan, a PhD student at Kahlert School of Computing, University of Utah (KSoC, UofU) and the AI Lead Researcher at Yaana Communications Lab (YCL). I obtained my Bachelor's degree from IUT-CSE. Currently, I am working with Prof. Kenneth Marino to build AI agents that help people.

News and Updates

Sep 26: TimeWarp is headed to NeurIPS'26!
Aug 26: FrugalPrompt is in LUHME at EMNLP'26!
Aug 26: KNOWS will appear in Findings of EMNLP'26!
May 26: Check out our new preprint, Dora Explorer, on making LLM agents explore better.
Apr 26: BanHate is in ACL'26!
Mar 26: Check out TimeWarp, a web agent benchmark on changing websites.
Feb 26: Our visual survey of computer use agents is now live on the ICLR'26 Blogposts.
Dec 25: Robustness to Transliteration won the best paper award at BLP at IJCNLP-AACL'25!
Nov 25: Three papers at WACV'26, on few-shot VLM adapters, corruption robustness, and cultural VQA!
Oct 25: FrugalPrompt is out!
Aug 25: Started my PhD at the University of Utah!
June 25: ChitroJera, a regionally relevant VQA dataset for Bangla, is headed to ECML-PKDD'25!
Mar 25: Attended WACV'25.
Jan 25: BanTH to appear in Findings of NAACL'25!
Oct 24: Visual Robustness Benchmark for VQA will appear at WACV'25. I'm grateful to my wonderful teammates and advisors at IUT-CSE.
Oct 24: FourierKAN outperforms MLP on Text Classification Head Fine-tuning will be presented at FITML at NeurIPS'24. Shoutout to my teammate Abdullah Al Imran.
Sep 24: Our work on Bangla back-transliteration, BanglaTLit, is in Findings of EMNLP'24. Great work from team Penta!
Jul 24: New preprint on my undergrad thesis, Visual Robustness Benchmark for VQA, is available on arXiv.
May 24: Finalists at Robi Datathon 3.0, Bangladesh's largest data analysis event with 3,500+ participants. Another competition with team Penta!
May 24: Participated in the EXIST-2024 shared task with my amazing team from Penta Global.
Jan 24: Our VQA Survey is out in Information Fusion.

Research Map

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Research Highlights

TimeWarp: Evaluating Web Agents by Revisiting the Past

Project Page Paper Code Dataset Models

tldr. (a) a benchmark for evaluating web agents on temporal variations of web UI, (b) a method for scalably collecting trajectories across temporal versions, and (c) a method for behavior cloining web agents using planning, memory and reasoning.

FrugalPrompt: Reducing Contextual Overhead in Large Language Models via Token Attribution

Project Page Paper Code

tldr. A token attribution-based prompt compression method that reduces contextual overhead in LLMs without significant performance degradation.

R-MMA: Enhancing Vision-Language Models with Recurrent Adapters for Few-Shot and Cross-Domain Generalization

Paper Supp Code Poster

tldr. A multi-modal adapter that uses attention and shares weight across layers to improve few-shot generalization.

Md Farhan Ishmam