Vanya Bannihatti Kumar

I am a Machine Learning Engineer on the Adobe GenStudio team in San Jose, where I work on generative AI systems for marketing content. My current work includes models and agents for creative generation, personalization, factuality, and brand adherence.

Previously, I was a research intern in Adobe Research's Video AI Lab and an NLP Research Engineer at ByteDance AI Lab in Singapore. I received an M.S. in Intelligent Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University, where I worked with Shinji Watanabe and Graham Neubig, and a B.Tech. from IIT Madras.

Research

I am interested in generative models, open-ended learning, and evaluation. Much of my recent work studies how models can create, judge, and improve work when quality is subjective, contextual, or difficult to verify. I also work on robustness in multimodal models and multilingual speech systems.

Publications

Self-Correction for OOD Generalization

Vanya Bannihatti Kumar, Abhinav Rao, Aditi Raghunathan

ICLR Workshop on Scaling Self-Improving Foundation Models without Human Supervision, 2025

Investigates self-correction as a route to improve the robustness of multimodal language models under distribution shift.

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Service

I have reviewed for NeurIPS, ICLR, and workshops at NeurIPS, ICLR, EMNLP, and ACL.