Bhagyesh Kumar
@invi-bhagyesh · AI safety
HiI am interested in prosaic alignment approaches, such as character training. Currently, I am a sophomore majoring in maths and CS, and I work at LAISR Lab, Cornell with Prof. Lionel Levine and Jonathn Chang on EigenBench,a framework for evaluating the values of LLMs.
NowI am working with Cadenza Labs on robustness of a belief in LLMs. Also, spending some time on a welfare-synthesis framework for aquaculture species with Myrias.
BeforeLast summer, I was an exchange student at USTC 🇨🇳, where I worked with Prof. Shiping Liu on Bakry-Émery curvature. Last spring, I was also a SPAR scholar, mentored by Prof. Lionel Levine and Jonathan Chang, where we worked on side effects of character training[ICML'26w]. I've also contributed to Redwood Research's Sabotage Bench.
MiscI have previously worked on adversarial attacks [AAAI'26], and Value Alignment [ICML'26]. Recently, I have been reading about formal verification for autoresearch. If you're bored, check a short explainer video I made about Higgs Boson in my high school.
You can find out what I read today at curius. Feel free to reach out and say hi at invi.bhagyesh@gmail.com
Selected research
Bakry–Emery Curvature Sharpness of Strongly Regular Graphs
FuSEP'26Future Scientist Exchange Program, University of Science and Technology of China(Poster)
Bhagyesh Kumar, Shiping Liu
Side Effects of Character Training: Quantifying Cross-Constitution Drift in LLMs
ICML'26ICML 2026 Pluralistic Alignment
Bhagyesh Kumar, Ananya Sutradhar, Saurav Panigrahi, Jonathn Chang, Lionel Levine
TopoReformer: Mitigating Adversarial Attacks Using Topological Purification in OCR Models
AAAI'26AAAI 2026 AI for Cyber Security(Oral)
Bhagyesh Kumar*, A S Aravinthakshan*, Akshat Satyanarayan*, Ishaan Gakhar, Ujjwal Verma
How I fail
- Nov 2025AAAI Undergraduate Consortium Proposal not accepted
- Oct 2025TopoReformer(v1) rejected from NeurIPS Workshop 2025
What I'm up to now
- Jun 2026One paper was accepted to the ICML Workshop 2026 for Pluralistic Alignment.
- May 2026I will be spending this summer at USTC
as a part of summer exchange program, working on Bakry-Émery curvature. - Apr 2026With my SPAR team, we released ValueArena, a leaderboard for value alignment.
- Feb 2026Researching emergent misalignment at Cornell
under SPAR
- Jan 2026Working on evaluation awareness at Algoverse
- Nov 2025Received $1000 scholarship to present TopoReformer at AAAI in Singapore
- Nov 2025TopoReformer(v2) accepted at AAAI Workshop 2026