Research

Listed are my research works. Click on the years to navigate around.

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Pug: Photorealistic and semantically controllable synthetic data for representation learning

Florian Bordes, Shashank Shekhar, Mark Ibrahim, Diane Bouchacourt, Pascal Vincent, Ari Morcos

Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Conference, 2023: Datasets and Benchmark Track

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A Cookbook Of Self-Supervised Learning

Randall Balestriero, Mark Ibrahim, Vlad Sobal, Ari Morcos, Shashank Shekhar, et al.

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Tutorial, 2023: Self-Supervised Learning in Vision: from Research Advances to Best Practices

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Objectives Matter: Understanding the Impact of Self-Supervised Objectives on Vision Transformer Representations

Shashank Shekhar, Florian Bordes, Pascal Vincent, Ari Morcos

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023: Workshop on Mathematical and Empirical Understanding of Foundation Models

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Beyond Neural Scaling Laws: Beating Power Law Scaling Via Data Pruning

Ben Sorscher, Robert Geirhos, Shashank Shekhar, Surya Ganguli, Ari Morcos

Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Conference, 2022

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Outstanding Paper Award
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Understanding contrastive versus reconstructive self-supervised learning of Vision Transformers

Shashank Shekhar, Florian Bordes, Pascal Vincent, Ari Morcos

Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Workshop, 2022: Self-Supervised Learning - Theory and Practice

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Inductive Biases for Higher-Order Visual Cognition (Master's Thesis)

Shashank Shekhar

University of Guelph Library Atrium, 2022

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CAIAC Outstanding Thesis Nominee
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Neural response time analysis: Explainable artificial intelligence using only a stopwatch

Eric Taylor, Shashank Shekhar, Graham Taylor

Wiley Applied AI Letters, 2021

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Neural Structure Mapping For Learning Abstract Visual Analogies

Shashank Shekhar, Graham W Taylor

Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Workshop, 2021: Shared Visual Representations in Humans and Machines

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Context-aware scene graph generation with seq2seq transformers

Yichao Lu, Himanshu Rai, Jason Chang, Boris Knyazev, Guangwei Yu, Shashank Shekhar, Graham W Taylor, Maksims Volkovs

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021

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Response Time Analysis for Explainability of Visual Processing in CNNs

Eric Taylor, Shashank Shekhar, Graham Taylor

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshop, 2020: Minds vs Machines

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Operator-in-the-Loop Deep Sequential Multi-Camera Feature Fusion for Person Re-identification

KL Navaneet, Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla, Shashank Shekhar, R Venkatesh Babu, Anirban Chakraborty

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2019

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From Strings to Things: Knowledge-Enabled VQA Model That Can Read and Reason

Ajeet Kumar Singh, Anand Mishra, Shashank Shekhar, Anirban Chakraborty

International Conference On Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019

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OCR-VQA: Visual Question Answering by Reading Text in Images

Anand Mishra, Shashank Shekhar, Ajeet Kumar Singh, Anirban Chakraborty

International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2019

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Road Damage Detection And Classification In Smartphone Captured Images Using Mask R-CNN

Janpreet Singh, Shashank Shekhar

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