Karan Sapra

Researcher, Applied Research, NVIDIA

Joined

February 2020

Names

Karan Sapra (Preferred)

Emails

****@nvidia.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Applied Research, NVIDIA (nvidia.com)

2016 – Present

PhD student

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clemson University (clemson.edu)

2011 – 2018

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Melissa C. Smith

2011 – 2018

Expertise

Computer Vision

2016 – 2024

SuperComuting

2011 – 2016

P2P Networks

2009 – 2013

Publications

TinyEye: Sharpening Visual Reasoning of Tiny Models with Offline Policy Optimization
Di Zhang, Junxian Li, Shihao Wang, Weida Wang, Guo Chen, Hao Zhang, Shizhe Diao, Mingjie Liu, Ximing Lu, Jaehun Jung, Jian Hu, Karan Sapra, Wanli Ouyang, Andrew Tao, Yejin Choi, Jan Kautz, Guilin Liu, Yi Dong, Zhiding Yu
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
AIDE: Agentically Improve Visual Language Model with Domain Experts
Ming-Chang Chiu, Fuxiao Liu, Karan Sapra, Andrew Tao, Yaser Yacoob, Xuezhe Ma, Zhiding Yu, Guilin Liu
- SSI-FM Poster
- Readers: Everyone
OMCAT: Omni Context Aware Transformer
Arushi Goel, Karan Sapra, Matthieu Le, Rafael Valle, Andrew Tao, Bryan Catanzaro
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Eagle: Exploring The Design Space for Multimodal LLMs with Mixture of Encoders
Min Shi, Fuxiao Liu, Shihao Wang, Shijia Liao, Subhashree Radhakrishnan, Yilin Zhao, De-An Huang, Hongxu Yin, Karan Sapra, Yaser Yacoob, Humphrey Shi, Bryan Catanzaro, Andrew Tao, Jan Kautz, Zhiding Yu, Guilin Liu
- ICLR 2025 Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Eagle: Exploring The Design Space for Multimodal LLMs with Mixture of Encoders
Min Shi, Fuxiao Liu, Shihao Wang, Shijia Liao, Subhashree Radhakrishnan, De-An Huang, Hongxu Yin, Karan Sapra, Yaser Yacoob, Humphrey Shi, Bryan Catanzaro, Andrew Tao, Jan Kautz, Zhiding Yu, Guilin Liu
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Partial Convolution for Padding, Inpainting, and Image Synthesis
Guilin Liu, Aysegul Dundar, Kevin J. Shih, Ting-Chun Wang, Fitsum A. Reda, Karan Sapra, Zhiding Yu, Xiaodong Yang, Andrew Tao, Bryan Catanzaro
- Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 22 Sept 2023
- IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Personalized Federated Learning with First Order Model Optimization
Michael Zhang, Karan Sapra, Sanja Fidler, Serena Yeung, Jose M. Alvarez
- 2021 (modified: 17 Sept 2022)
- ICLR 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Personalized Federated Learning with First Order Model Optimization
Michael Zhang, Karan Sapra, Sanja Fidler, Serena Yeung, Jose M. Alvarez
- Published: 12 Jan 2021, Last Modified: 12 Oct 2025
- ICLR 2021 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Panoptic-based Image Synthesis
Aysegul Dundar, Karan Sapra, Guilin Liu, Andrew Tao, Bryan Catanzaro
- CoRR 2020
- Readers: Everyone
Hierarchical Multi-Scale Attention for Semantic Segmentation
Andrew Tao, Karan Sapra, Bryan Catanzaro
- CoRR 2020
- Readers: Everyone

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