Publications by Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan

Natural language analysis of the structure of altered states of consciousness

Background and aims Altered states of consciousness (ASC) represent acute and marked deviations from normal waking consciousness. Investigations into ASC are significant to problems in medicine, science, and philosophy, including the structure of consciou ...

Akademiai Kiado Zrt.2025

Dynamic Persistence of Institutions: Modeling the historical endurance of Red Vienna's public housing utopia

Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan

How does a daring idea such as the utopia of affordable housing weather a century of change? The persistence of institutions-shared meanings that shape individual actions-is a central feature of organizational life. Recent scholarship stresses that institu ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2025

Divergences in color perception between deep neural networks and humans

Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly proposed as models of human vision, bolstered by their impressive performance on image classification and object recognition tasks. Yet, the extent to which DNNs capture fundamental aspects of human vision such ...

2023

WikiArtVectors: Style and Color Representations of Artworks for Cultural Analysis via Information Theoretic Measures

Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan

With the increase in massive digitized datasets of cultural artefacts, social and cultural scientists have an unprecedented opportunity for the discovery and expansion of cultural theory. The WikiArt dataset is one such example, with over 250,000 high qual ...

MDPI2022

Signal in Noise: Exploring Meaning Encoded in Random Character Sequences with Character-Aware Language Models

Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan

Natural language processing models learn word representations based on the distributional hypothesis, which asserts that word context (e.g., co-occurrence) correlates with meaning. We propose that n-grams composed of random character sequences, or garble, ...

ASSOC COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS-ACL2022