Watermarking Discrete Diffusion Language Models

Avi Bagchi, Akhil Bhimaraju, Moulik Choraria, Daniel Alabi, and Lav R. Varshney

Watermarking Discrete Diffusion Language Models

ICLR 2026 Workshop on Principled Design for Trustworthy AI - Interpretability, Robustness, and Safety across Modalities (Poster)

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Factor Dimensionality and the Bias–Variance Tradeoff in Diffusion Portfolio Models

Avi Bagchi, Om Shastri, Michael Tesfaye

ICLR 2026 Workshop on Time Series in the Age of Large Models (Poster)

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Doppler Invariant CNN for Signal Classification

Avi Bagchi, Dwight Hutchenson

Doppler Invariant CNN for Signal Classification

Presentation to Division 6 at MIT Lincoln Labs.

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In Progress

Trustworthy Diffusion Models

Avi Bagchi

Senior Thesis under Professors Weijie Su and Surbhi Goel

Smaller Projects

Polynomial Flow Matching

Polynomial Flow Matching Diagram

ESE 5460 Final Project under Professor Pratik Chaudhari

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On the PAC Learnability of Distortion-Free Language Model Watermarks

Avi Bagchi, Michael Tesfaye

CIS 6250 Final Project under Professor Michael Kearns

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Elliptic Curve Cryptography

Avi Bagchi

Elliptic Curve Cryptography

Presentation to Penn Department of Mathematics (Directed Reading Program)

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Auditing the Use of Language Models to Guide Hiring Decisions

Johann D. Gaebler, Sharad Goel, Aziz Huq, and Prasanna Tambe

I was acknowledged for my research assistance at The Wharton School (Operations, Information, and Decisions Department) under Professor Prasanna Tambe in this work.

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MOSQUITO EDGE: An Edge-Intelligent Real-Time Mosquito Threat Prediction Using an IoT-Enabled Hardware System

Shyam Polineni, Om Shastri, Avi Bagchi, Govind Gnanakumar, Sujay Rasamsetti, Prabha Sundaravadivel

Equal contribution

MOSQUITO EDGE System

Sensors, Vol. 22, Issue 2. DOI: 10.3390/s22020695

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Archival & Policy Research

The South Sea Bubble

Avi Bagchi

The South Sea Bubble by William Hogarth

The Concord Review V32, No. 2

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Water Insecurity in Forgotten Nations

Avi Bagchi

Uzbekistan Water Insecurity

Photo taken in Mongolia (Penn Global Seminar 2025) where I continued water insecurity research.

The Global Youth Institute World Food Prize Conference

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