Publications de Melika Behjati

GABInsight: Exploring Gender-Activity Binding Bias in Vision-Language Models

Vision-language models (VLMs) are intensively used in many downstream tasks, including those requiring assessments of individuals appearing in the images. While VLMs perform well in simple single-person scenarios, in real-world applications, we often face ...

IOS Press BV2024

Vocal-visual combinations in wild chimpanzees

Melika Behjati

Living organisms throughout the animal kingdom habitually communicate with multi-modal signals that use multiple sensory channels. Such composite signals vary in their communicative function, as well as the extent to which they are recombined freely. Human ...

SPRINGER2024

Discovering meaningful units from text sequences

Melika Behjati

In recent years, the field of Natural Language Processing has seen significant revolution by the introduction of Transformers, a stack of multiple layers of attention and non-linearity, capable of performing almost any task and the backbone for large found ...

EPFL2024

Universal Adversarial Attacks on Text Classifiers

Pascal Frossard, Seyed Mohsen Moosavi Dezfooli, Melika Behjati

Despite the vast success neural networks have achieved in different application domains, they have been proven to be vulnerable to adversarial perturbations (small changes in the input), which lead them to produce the wrong output. In this paper, we propos ...

IEEE2019