Bhagyesh Kumar(@invi-bhagyesh)
I am currently a sophomore in Department of Mathematics at MIT Manipal, majoring in Mathematics and Computing. I am working as a student researcher with Mars Rover Manipal(MRM) AI Research Team.
Previously, I worked on adversarial attacks for ocr models, and currently focusing on reasoning and alignment for small language models(SLMs). I'm also interested in AI Safety and hope to build a solid understanding of it in the future, since I'm still new to the area.
Selected Work
Computer Vision
TopoReformer: Mitigating Adversarial Attacks Using Topological Purification in OCR Models
Accepted at AAAI Workshop, 2026
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LLMs
LM-quant
Benchmarking SLMs on quantization and RLHF effects to measure bias and fairness across standard evaluation datasets.
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LM-collusion
Simulation of LLM agent collusion under Cournot competition strategies.
View Code →How I fail
- Nov 2025, AAAI Undergraduate Consortium Proposal not accepted
- Oct 2025, Toporeformer(v1) rejected from NeurIPS Workshop 2025
Recent highlights
- Nov 2025, Received $1000 scholarship to present my work at AAAI
- Nov 2025, TopoReformer(v2) accepted at AAAI Workshop 2026