Research lines
Research topics of Pranay Mahendrakar
The 13 research lines behind 70 open-access papers by Pranay Mahendrakar: interpretability, reasoning & memory, alignment & rlhf, evaluation & detection, multilingual & indic nlp, multi-agent systems, safety & verification, vision & video, systems & hardware, accessibility & low-resource, mathematical foundations, cognition & consciousness and security & defence.
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Interpretability
Opening the model up — circuits, features, and what "explaining a behaviour" actually means.
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Reasoning & Memory
How models hold context, carry state, and compose steps beyond next-token prediction.
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Alignment & RLHF
What training on human preference does to a model over time, and what it quietly costs.
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Evaluation & Detection
Measuring what models do rather than what benchmarks say they do.
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Multilingual & Indic NLP
Failure modes that only appear once you leave English.
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Multi-Agent Systems
What emerges when models talk to each other instead of to us.
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Safety & Verification
Guarantees, specifications, and the gap between a proof and a deployed system.
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Vision & Video
Perception systems, and what they can and cannot infer from what they see.
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Systems & Hardware
Inference where the compute budget is real — on-device, at the edge, off the datacentre.
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Accessibility & Low-Resource
Research agendas for the users and languages that datasets leave out.
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Mathematical Foundations
Category theory, sheaves, and formal structure applied to systems that were built empirically.
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Cognition & Consciousness
The uncomfortable questions at the edge of the field.
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Security & Defence
Applied systems built for threat detection and situational awareness.