Research

Back to Basics: Drills Before Games for Web Agents
Under review, 2026
Minh Pham-Dinh, Md Farhan Ishmam, Hernan Yupanqui, Reaz Hassan Joarder, Kenneth Marino
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Teaching Agents in their Own Style: Blackbox Teacher Distillation for Web Agents
ArXiv'26
Md Farhan Ishmam, Kenneth Marino
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Don't Retrain, Remix: Adaptation of Web Agents using Mixture Hypernetworks
ArXiv'26
Md Farhan Ishmam, Minh Pham Dinh, Kenneth Marino
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TimeWarp: Evaluating Web Agents by Revisiting the Past
NeurIPS'26 Evaluations and Datasets
Md Farhan Ishmam, Kenneth Marino
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DORA Explorer: Improving the Exploration Ability of LLMs Without Training
ArXiv'26
Priya Gurjar, Md Farhan Ishmam, Kenneth Marino
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The Hard Part Comes After Search: Benchmarking Web Agents on Synthesizing, Organizing, and Displaying Knowledge
EMNLP'26 Findings
Alexander Gill, Md Farhan Ishmam, Xuyen Nguyen, Neha Bhat, Parker Henry DeYoung, Fateme Hashemi Chaleshtori, Nathan Stringham, Kenneth Marino, Ana Marasović
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Computer Use Survey - A Visual Survey of Computer Use Agents
ICLR'26 Blogposts
Kenneth Marino, Md Farhan Ishmam, and Ana Marasovic
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Can LLMs Tell Stories Out of Order? A Corpus and Benchmark for Nonlinear Narrative Generation
ArXiv'26
Syed Rifat Raiyan, Md. Tariquzzaman, Md Farhan Ishmam, Tenghao Huang
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R-MMA: Enhancing Vision-Language Models with Recurrent Adapters for Few-Shot and Cross-Domain Generalization
WACV'26
Md Fahim*, Md Farhan Ishmam*, Mir Sazzat Hossain, M Ashraful Amin, Amin Ahsan Ali, AKM Mahbubur Rahman
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FrugalPrompt: Reducing Contextual Overhead in Large Language Models via Token Attribution
ArXiv'26
Syed Rifat Raiyan, Md Farhan Ishmam, Abdullah Al Imran, Mohammad Ali Moni
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Enhancing Vision Language Corruption Robustness using Cross Distribution & Prompted Denoisers
WACV'26
Sameer Shafayet Latif*, Sadab Shiper*, K. M. Rahiduzzaman Kiran*, Md Farhan Ishmam*, Md Azam Hossain, Abu Raihan Mostofa Kamal, Md Hamjajul Ashmafee
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BanglaProtha: Evaluating Vision Language Models in Underrepresented Long-tail Cultural Contexts
WACV'26
Md Fahim*, Md Sakib Ul Rahman*, Akm Moshiur Rahman*, Md Farhan Ishmam*, Md Tasmim Rahman, Fariha Tanjim Shifat, Fabiha Haider, Md Farhad Alam Bhuiyan
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Visual Robustness Benchmark for Visual Question Answering (VQA)
WACV'25
Md Farhan Ishmam*, Ishmam Tashdeed*, Talukder Asir Saadat*, Md Hamjajul Ashmafee, Abu Raihan Mostofa Kamal, Md Azam Hossain
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ChitroJera: A Regionally Relevant Visual Question Answering Dataset for Bangla
ECML-PKDD'25
Deeparghya Dutta Barua*, Md Sakib Ul Rahman Sourove*, Md Farhan Ishmam*, Fabiha Haider, Fariha Tanjim Shifat, Md Fahim, Farhad Alam Bhuiyan
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From Image to Language: A Critical Analysis of Visual Question Answering (VQA) Approaches, Challenges, and Opportunities
Information Fusion Journal | 2024
Md Farhan Ishmam, Md Sakib Hossain Shovon, Muhammad Firoz Mridha, Nilanjan Dey
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Robustness of LLMs to Transliteration Perturbations in Bangla
🏆 Best Paper BLP@IJCNLP-AACL'25
Fabiha Haider, Md Farhan Ishmam, Fariha Tanjim Shifat, Md Tasmim Rahman, Md Fahim, Md Farhad Alam Bhuiyan
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BanglaTLit: A Benchmark Dataset for Back-Transliteration of Romanized Bangla
EMNLP'24 Findings
Md Fahim*, Fariha Tanjim Shifat*, Fabiha Haider*, Deeparghya Dutta Barua, Md Sakib Ul Rahman Sourove, Md Farhan Ishmam, Farhad Alam Bhuiyan
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BanTH: A Multi-label Hate Speech Detection Dataset for Transliterated Bangla
NAACL'25 Findings
Fabiha Haider*, Fariha Tanjim Shifat*, Md Farhan Ishmam*, Deeparghya Dutta Barua, Md Sakib Ul Rahman Sourove, Md Fahim, Farhad Alam Bhuiyan
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BnSentMix: A Diverse Bengali-English Code-Mixed Dataset for Sentiment Analysis
LoResLM@COLING'25
Sadia Alam, Md Farhan Ishmam, Navid Hasin Alvee, Md Shahnewaz Siddique, Md Azam Hossain, Abu Raihan Mostofa Kamal
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Prompting with Sign Parameters for Low-resource Sign Language Instruction Generation
CV4A11y@ICCV'25
Md. Tariquzzaman, Md Farhan Ishmam, Saiyma Sittul Muna, Md Kamrul Hasan, Hasan Mahmud
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FourierKAN outperforms MLP on Text Classification Head Fine-tuning
FITML@NeurIPS'24
Abdullah Al Imran*, Md Farhan Ishmam*
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Penta NLP at EXIST 2024 Task 1–3: Sexism Identification, Source Intention, Sexism Categorization In Tweets
EXIST@CLEF'24
Fariha Tanjim Shifat, Fabiha Haider, Md Sakib Ul Rahman Sourove, Deeparghya Dutta Barua, Md Farhan Ishmam, Md Fahim, Farhad Alam Bhuiyan
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Penta ML at EXIST 2024: Tagging Sexism in Online Multimodal Content With Attention-enhanced Modal Context
EXIST@CLEF'24
Deeparghya Dutta Barua, Md Sakib Ul Rah Rahman Sourove, Fabiha Haider, Fariha Tanjim Shifat, Md Farhan Ishmam, Md Fahim, Farhad Alam Bhuiyan
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