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Animesh Srivastava

Publications 2

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Move Fast and Mend Things: Keeping Up with Evolving AI Harms Using Social Media Commentary

Jacqueline Rowe, Animesh Srivastava, Sai Teja Peddinti et al. · 2026

The rapid deployment of AI systems has created socio-technical, psychological, and operational harms that can elude ex-ante threat modelling and ex-post incident tracking. We introduce an LLM-assisted thematic analysis pipeline to dynamically detect, categorise, and track emerging AI harms from large-scale social media …

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Lost in the bf16 Cast: Exporting Ternary Language Models Can Revert Most Low-Learning-Rate Code Changes

Avichal Sahai, Nishant Raj, Animesh Srivastava · 2026

Ternary language models such as BitNet b1.58, Falcon-E and BitCPM are fine-tuned with higher-precision latent weights and deployed as ternary codes produced by an export step that, in the labs' documented pipelines, first casts the latents to bf16. We audit those pipelines across three labs. In released checkpoints, fp …

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