Recent News

Nov 2024

Selected for Participation in ACM Winter School on EdgeAI 2025 IISC, Bangalore.

Sep 2024

C3VLM: Compute-Efficient & Compressed Small VLMs for Commonsense VQA Proposal Selected For Poster Presentation at IndoML Graduate Forum 2025.

Aug 2024

NLKI-Lightweight-Natural-Language-Knowledge-Integration-Framework Paper Accepted at EMNLP Findings 2025 Suzhou, China.

July 2024

Delivered a talk and Hands on Text Analytics and Processing for the AICTE QIP PG Certificate course at IIT-Kharagpur.

Selected Publications

C3VLM: Compute-Efficient & Compressed Small VLMs for Commonsense VQA Proposal

Aritra Dutta

IndoML Graduate Forum 2025 Proposal

We propose two complementary directions to achieve compact, efficient, and dependable reasoning in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) under low-compute/low-latency constraints...

NLKI: A Lightweight Natural Language Knowledge Integration Framework for Improving Small VLMs in Commonsense VQA

Aritra Dutta, Swapnanil Mukherjee, Deepanway Ghosal, Somak Aditya

EMNLP 2025

A Noise Robust Knowledge Integration Framework for Efficient Small Vision Language Models.

Teaching Assistance Experience

Programming and Data Structure Lab (CS19003)

Machine Learning (CS60050)

Experience & Education

2024 - Present

MS in Computer Science

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur

Advised by Prof. Somak Aditya. & Prof. Pawan Goyal Focused on compression and reasoning in Small Vision Language Models.

2023-2024

Junior Research Fellow

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur

Researched multi-modal reasoning capabilities of Encoder only Architectures. Framed a new strategy for noise robustness in Visual Question Answering (VQA).

2020-2022

Asst. System Engineer

Infospace, Kolkata

Contributed to the backend and performance testing of Health & Motor Insurance Portal.

2016 - 2020

B.Tech in Computer Science

University of Engineering & Management, Kolkata

GPA: 9.14/10. Undergraduate thesis on Object Detection and Recognition.