Akhila Yerukola
@akhilayerukola.bsky.social
PhD student at CMU LTI; Interested in pragmatics and cross-cultural understanding;
intern @ Allen Institute for AI |Prev: Senior Research Engineer @ Samsung Research America | Masters @ Stanford
https://akhila-yerukola.github.io/
intern @ Allen Institute for AI |Prev: Senior Research Engineer @ Samsung Research America | Masters @ Stanford
https://akhila-yerukola.github.io/
We assess how well T2I systems, LLMs, and VLMs understand cross-cultural gestures—revealing gaps in AI’s ability to navigate nonverbal communication safely. 💫
February 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We assess how well T2I systems, LLMs, and VLMs understand cross-cultural gestures—revealing gaps in AI’s ability to navigate nonverbal communication safely. 💫
🌍 Introducing MC-SIGNS — a testbed of 288 gesture-country pairs across 25 gestures & 85 countries, carefully annotated by cultural experts for:
1️⃣Offensiveness – how inappropriate a gesture is
2️⃣Confidence score
3️⃣Cultural meaning – associated gloss
4️⃣Contextual factors – when/where it may be risky
1️⃣Offensiveness – how inappropriate a gesture is
2️⃣Confidence score
3️⃣Cultural meaning – associated gloss
4️⃣Contextual factors – when/where it may be risky
February 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
🌍 Introducing MC-SIGNS — a testbed of 288 gesture-country pairs across 25 gestures & 85 countries, carefully annotated by cultural experts for:
1️⃣Offensiveness – how inappropriate a gesture is
2️⃣Confidence score
3️⃣Cultural meaning – associated gloss
4️⃣Contextual factors – when/where it may be risky
1️⃣Offensiveness – how inappropriate a gesture is
2️⃣Confidence score
3️⃣Cultural meaning – associated gloss
4️⃣Contextual factors – when/where it may be risky
Did you know? Gestures used to express universal concepts—like wishing for luck—vary DRAMATICALLY across cultures?
🤞means luck in US but deeply offensive in Vietnam 🚨
📣 We introduce MC-SIGNS, a test bed to evaluate how LLMs/VLMs/T2I handle such nonverbal behavior!
📜: arxiv.org/abs/2502.17710
🤞means luck in US but deeply offensive in Vietnam 🚨
📣 We introduce MC-SIGNS, a test bed to evaluate how LLMs/VLMs/T2I handle such nonverbal behavior!
📜: arxiv.org/abs/2502.17710
February 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Did you know? Gestures used to express universal concepts—like wishing for luck—vary DRAMATICALLY across cultures?
🤞means luck in US but deeply offensive in Vietnam 🚨
📣 We introduce MC-SIGNS, a test bed to evaluate how LLMs/VLMs/T2I handle such nonverbal behavior!
📜: arxiv.org/abs/2502.17710
🤞means luck in US but deeply offensive in Vietnam 🚨
📣 We introduce MC-SIGNS, a test bed to evaluate how LLMs/VLMs/T2I handle such nonverbal behavior!
📜: arxiv.org/abs/2502.17710