Searcharxiv⌕ Search

arXiv subjects

Shubh Khanna

Publications and source records attributed to Shubh Khanna.

3 recordsLinked to original sources

NeuralSet: A High-Performing Python Package for Neuro-AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly central to understanding how the brain processes information. However, the integration of neuroscience and modern AI is bottlenecked by a fragmented software ecosystem. Current tools are siloed by recording modality and optimized for small-scale, in-memory workflows, limiting the use of massive, naturalistic datasets. Here, we introduce NeuralSet, a Python framework that efficiently unifies the processing of diverse neural recordings (including fMRI, M/EEG, and spikes) and complex experimental stimuli (such as text, audio, and video). By decoupling experimental metadata from lazy, memory-efficient data extraction, NeuralSet harmonizes standard neuroscientific preprocessing pipelines with pretrained deep learning embeddings. This approach provides a single PyTorch-ready interface that scales seamlessly from local prototyping to high-performance cluster execution. By eliminating manual data wrangling and ensuring full computational provenance, NeuralSet establishes a scalable, unified infrastructure for the next generation of neuro-AI research.

q-bio.NC↗

IKEA Manuals at Work: 4D Grounding of Assembly Instructions on Internet Videos

Shape assembly is a ubiquitous task in daily life, integral for constructing complex 3D structures like IKEA furniture. While significant progress has been made in developing autonomous agents for shape assembly, existing datasets have not yet tackled the 4D grounding of assembly instructions in videos, essential for a holistic understanding of assembly in 3D space over time. We introduce IKEA Video Manuals, a dataset that features 3D models of furniture parts, instructional manuals, assembly videos from the Internet, and most importantly, annotations of dense spatio-temporal alignments between these data modalities. To demonstrate the utility of IKEA Video Manuals, we present five applications essential for shape assembly: assembly plan generation, part-conditioned segmentation, part-conditioned pose estimation, video object segmentation, and furniture assembly based on instructional video manuals. For each application, we provide evaluation metrics and baseline methods. Through experiments on our annotated data, we highlight many challenges in grounding assembly instructions in videos to improve shape assembly, including handling occlusions, varying viewpoints, and extended assembly sequences.

cs.CV↗

RAPTOR: Recursive Abstractive Processing for Tree-Organized Retrieval

Retrieval-augmented language models can better adapt to changes in world state and incorporate long-tail knowledge. However, most existing methods retrieve only short contiguous chunks from a retrieval corpus, limiting holistic understanding of the overall document context. We introduce the novel approach of recursively embedding, clustering, and summarizing chunks of text, constructing a tree with differing levels of summarization from the bottom up. At inference time, our RAPTOR model retrieves from this tree, integrating information across lengthy documents at different levels of abstraction. Controlled experiments show that retrieval with recursive summaries offers significant improvements over traditional retrieval-augmented LMs on several tasks. On question-answering tasks that involve complex, multi-step reasoning, we show state-of-the-art results; for example, by coupling RAPTOR retrieval with the use of GPT-4, we can improve the best performance on the QuALITY benchmark by 20% in absolute accuracy.

cs.CL↗