Aniket Rege

Incoming SR @GoogleDeepMind
PhD-ing @WisconsinCS | MS at @uwcse/@RAIVNLab | Ex @AIatMeta @nvidiaai and @samsungresearch. He/Him

[Aniket Rege @wregss]

🎉 Super stoked to share that our work is accepted to the main conference of ACL 2026!!

See you in sunny San Diego 🌞

#ACL2026 #NLProc

Paper thread below 🧵

[Aniket Rege @wregss]

@thaoshibe @CogVLWorkshop @CVPR @yong_jae_lee @Yuheng120766 @sicheng_mo @elishechtman Congrats Thao!!

[Anirudh Sundara Rajan @AniSundar18]

🚨New Paper🚨
Learning to Plan and Orchestrate for Open-Ended Image Editing

Image editors handle concrete tasks, but struggle with abstract ones (e.g., adapt this ad for winter), which require coordinated edits.

We tackle this via planning and experiential tool learning.

🧵👇

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

we both up now

[Aniket Rege @wregss]

🚨 Very happy to have advised this #icml2026 work led by @MaheshRam23629 exploring RL for cooperative reasoning in LLMs

tl;dr post training LLMs to play the card game Hanabi 🎆 improves performance on unseen tasks like instruction following and temporal reasoning!

[Mahesh Ram @MaheshRam23629]

🔥Our paper “Sparks of Cooperative Reasoning: LLMs as Strategic Hanabi Agents” was accepted to ICML 2026!

We show that post-training LLMs with RL to play a cooperative game teach generalizable cooperative reasoning.

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[Aniket Rege @wregss]

@RUppaal @icmlconf A very important (and rare) contribution!!

[Aniket Rege @wregss]

😭😭

[rohit @krishnanrohit]

In hindsight Shl0ms really should've disclosed upfront that the painting was done by Claude

[Aniket Rege @wregss]

Hanging around @Stanford / Palo Alto for the rest of the day, any mutuals who are free for a coffee or chat pls DM! 🤓

[Aniket Rege @wregss]

@dyahadila_ Congrats Dr. Adila!!!

[Aniket Rege @wregss]

Hi #ml twitter!

I’m in San Francisco from 5/6-5/12, I’d love to catch up over a coffee and chat about research and things y’all are working on!!

(post @NeurIPSConf submission hangover 🤓)

[Aniket Rege @wregss]

@andrew_atanov Very cool work Andrei and team!! I've been thinking a lot about adaptive representations for video, excited to read in detail over the weekend :)

[Jaden Park @_jadenpark]

We all knew LLM agents struggle to explore, but we had to eyeball it 👀. We couldn't measure exploration errors. Until now. 🗺️🤖

We built a policy-agnostic metric to quantify exploration and exploitation errors in LLM agents.

Spoiler: Exploration error is what kills📉 agent performance in our setting 👇🧵(1/8)

[Aniket Rege @wregss]

@sgdescent @SCSatCMU @Dogged_Raj Good luck with the search!

[Le Thien Phuc Nguyen ✈️ CVPR 2026 @nguyenp2004]

Excited to see Qwen-3.5-Omni evaluated on AV-SpeakerBench 🚀

From ~54 → ~71.5: open models are catching up in audiovisual reasoning.

Gemini still leads, but the gap is shrinking.

Special thanks to my mentor, @yu_zhuoran32720 , and my advisor, @yong_jae_lee , from the Wisconsin AI Vision Lab, for making AV-SpeakerBench possible.

Two questions:
- "Is Qwen-3.5-Omni really open-source?"
- "Why no strong AV models yet from @OpenAI @AnthropicAI ?"

AV reasoning is the next frontier.
🔗 Benchmark Project Page: https://t.co/GXNwPCuDlN
🔗 Qwen blog: https://t.co/imClscpV7E

[Aniket Rege @wregss]

@GoogleDeepMind @_gaganm A HUGE shoutout to my network for your overwhelming response to my internship search post :')

I had SO many wonderful conversations and I'm so thankful for all your generosity and kindness!

https://t.co/T0hpE0HB43

[Aniket Rege @wregss]

Hi ML Twitter!

My Summer 2026 internship unfortunately fell through last minute 😵‍💫

If your team is looking for interns, I’d love to connect - RTs appreciated 🙏

My website: https://t.co/rNih6t6Emb

[Aniket Rege @wregss]

🚨 I'm super stoked to share that I'll be spending this summer as a student researcher at the GenAI team of @GoogleDeepMind with @_gaganm , working on long horizon tool use!!

[MAPS - CVPR 2026 Workshop @maps_cvpr]

📢 Reminder: The submission deadline for the Machine Translation for Vision (MTV) Challenge at MAPS @CVPR2026 has been extended to April 17th!

[Aniket Rege @wregss]

https://t.co/nQ7v8KCzdV

[Aniket Rege @wregss]

🚨New work with @Meta @RealityLabs

We introduce EGAgent, an agentic reasoning framework for very long video understanding powered by entity scene graphs

Why? With long multimodal data streams, agents must search and reason across multiple modalities!

🧵 (1/n)

[Aniket Rege @wregss]

🎉 Super stoked to share that our work is accepted to the main conference of ACL 2026!!

See you in sunny San Diego 🌞

#ACL2026 #NLProc

Paper thread below 🧵

[P Shravan Nayak @PShravannayak]

If you’re working on benchmarks for cultural authenticity or methodology for AI pluralism, we want to see your work at the MAPS Workshop @CVPR 2026.

We are also hosting the Machine Translation for Vision (MTV) challenge, don't miss out! 🏆

Check out the full CFP below. 👇

[Aniket Rege @wregss]

Hi computer vision fam!

Interested in generative models that suit a diverse plurality of human values and cultures?

Please submit to the @maps_cvpr workshop at #CVPR2026 led by the amazing @PShravannayak which I'm helping co-organize!

Looking forward to your exciting works!!

[MAPS - CVPR 2026 Workshop @maps_cvpr]

📢 Submissions are now OPEN for our @CVPR Workshop: Multimodal Alignment for a Pluralistic Society (MAPS)!

Help us build AI that reflects global diversity, culture, and human values. 🌍🌏🌎

📅 Mar 3 – Apr 10, 2026
📝 Short papers (4 pgs)
🔗 https://t.co/ersHIrd6SY

#CVPR2026