Papers

Eight papers on speech, language, and multilingual NLP.

Preferences of a Voice-First Nation: Large-Scale Pairwise Evaluation and Preference Analysis for TTS in Indian Languages

Srija Anand, Ashwin Sankar, Ishvinder Sethi, Aaditya Pareek, Kartik Rajput, Gaurav Yadav, Nikhil Narasimhan, Adish Pandya, Deepon Halder, Mohammed Safi Ur Rahman Khan, Praveen S V, Shobhit Banga, Mitesh M Khapra

INTERSPEECH 2026

arXiv1 citation

Top-b: Entropic Regulation of Relative Probability Bands in Autoregressive Language Processes

Deepon Halder, Raj Dabre

Preprint

arXiv0 citations

Multilingual TinyStories: A Synthetic Combinatorial Corpus of Indic Children's Stories for Training Small Language Models

Deepon Halder, Angira Mukherjee

Preprint

arXiv0 citations

Not All Time Is Gregorian: Evaluating LLMs on Cultural Calendar Systems

Deepon Halder, Adish Pandya, Raj Dabre

ICBINB @ ICLR 2026

Scripts Through Time: A Survey of the Evolving Role of Transliteration in NLP

Thanmay Jayakumar, Deepon Halder, Raj Dabre

ACL Findings 2026

arXiv Project page Code4 citations

RiddleBench: A New Generative Reasoning Benchmark for LLMs

Deepon Halder, Alan Saji, Thanmay Jayakumar, Raj Dabre, Ratish Puduppully, Anoop Kunchukuttan

EACL Findings 2026

arXiv Project page Hugging Face2 citations

CycleDistill: Bootstrapping Machine Translation using LLMs with Cyclical Distillation

Deepon Halder, Thanmay Jayakumar, Raj Dabre

MELT @ COLM 2025 · WAT @ IJCNLP-AACL 2025

arXiv Project page Code1 citation

A Comprehensive Survey of Data Poisoning Attacks

Deepon Halder, Anshika Gupta, Diya Ghosh, Hafizur Rehman

Survey Paper

arXiv