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Bhawna Paliwal

CS PhD Student
Berkeley AI Research
bhawna_paliwal@berkeley.edu


About Me

Hi! I am Bhawna, a PhD student at UC Berkeley advised by Jitendra Malik. Previously, I was a Research Engineer at Microsoft Research working with Manik Varma. I completed my undergraduate studies majoring in Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Ropar.

Publications

  1. Do as I Do: Dexterous Manipulation Data from Everyday Human Videos
    Bhawna Paliwal*, Haritheja Etukuru*, William Liang*, Pieter Abbeel, Nur Muhammad "Mahi" Shafiullah, Jitendra Malik
    Preprint, 2026.
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  2. Accurate and Efficient Cross-encoders for Ranking
    Bhawna Paliwal*, Deepak Saini*, Mudit Dhawan, Siddarth Asokan, Nagarajan Natarajan, Surbhi Aggarwal, Pankaj Malhotra, Jian Jiao, Manik Varma
    ENLSP Workshop@NeurIPS, 2024
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  3. OAK: Enriching Document Representations using Auxiliary Knowledge for Extreme Classification
    Shikhar Mohan*, Deepak Saini*, Anshul Mittal, Sayak Ray Chowdhury, Bhawna Paliwal, Jian Jiao, Manish Gupta, Manik Varma
    ICML, 2024
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  4. Enhancing Tail Performance in Extreme Classifiers by Label Variance Reduction
    Anirudh Buvanesh*, Rahul Chand*, Jatin Prakash, Bhawna Paliwal, Mudit Dhawan, Neelabh Madan, Deepesh Hada, Vidit Jain, Sonu Mehta, Yashoteja Prabhu, Manish Gupta, Ramachandran Ramjee, Manik Varma
    ICLR, 2024
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  5. This Explains That: Congruent Image Report Generation for Explainable Medical Image Analysis with Cyclic Generative Adversarial Networks
    Abhineet Pandey*, Bhawna Paliwal*, Abhinav Dhall, Ramanathan Subramanian
    IMIMIC Workshop@MICCAI, 2021
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