Maya Varma

PhD student, Stanford University

Joined

September 2021

Names

Maya Varma (Preferred)

Emails

****@stanford.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

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Career & Education History

PhD student

Stanford University (stanford.edu)

2020 – Present

Undergrad student

Stanford University (stanford.edu)

2016 – 2020

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Curt Langlotz

Present

PhD Advisor

Akshay Chaudhari

Present

Expertise

vision language models

Present

robustness

Present

spurious correlations

Present

Publications

Activation Matters: Adaptive and Activated Negative Labels for OOD Detection with Vision-Language Models
Yabin Zhang, Maya Varma, Yunhe Gao, Zhihong Chen, Jean-Benoit Delbrouck, Jiaming Liu, Chong Wang, Curtis Langlotz
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Symbal: Detecting Systematic Misalignments in Model-Generated Captions
Maya Varma, Jean-Benoit Delbrouck, Sophie Ostmeier, Akshay S Chaudhari, Curtis Langlotz
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Attention Head Entropy of LLMs Predicts Answer Correctness
Sophie Ostmeier, Brian Axelrod, Maya Varma, Asad Aali, Magdalini Paschali, Jason Alan Fries, Yabin Zhang, Sanmi Koyejo, Curtis Langlotz, Akshay S Chaudhari
- ICLR 2026 Conference Desk Rejected Submission
- Readers: Everyone
MedVAL: Toward Expert-Level Medical Text Validation with Language Models
Asad Aali, Vasiliki Bikia, Maya Varma, Nicole Chiou, Sophie Ostmeier, Arnav Singhvi, Magdalini Paschali, Ashwin Kumar, Andrew Johnston, Karimar Amador-Martinez, Eduardo Juan Perez Guerrero, Paola Naovi Cruz Rivera, Sergios Gatidis, Christian Bluethgen, Eduardo Pontes Reis, Eddy D. Zandee van Rilland, Poonam Laxmappa Hosamani, Kevin R Keet, Minjoung Go, Evelyn Ling et al. (7 additional authors not shown)
- GenAI4Health 2025 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
TRoVe: Discovering Error-Inducing Static Feature Biases in Temporal Vision-Language Models
Maya Varma, Jean-Benoit Delbrouck, Sophie Ostmeier, Akshay S Chaudhari, Curtis Langlotz
- ICML 2025 R2-FM Workshop Poster
- Readers: Everyone
SMMILE: An expert-driven benchmark for multimodal medical in-context learning
Melanie Rieff, Maya Varma, Ossian Rabow, Subathra Adithan, Julie Kim, Ken Chang, Hannah Lee, Nidhi Rohatgi, Christian Bluethgen, Mohamed S Muneer, Jean-Benoit Delbrouck, Michael Moor
- NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track poster
- Readers: Everyone
TRoVe: Discovering Error-Inducing Static Feature Biases in Temporal Vision-Language Models
Maya Varma, Jean-Benoit Delbrouck, Sophie Ostmeier, Akshay S Chaudhari, Curtis Langlotz
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
LieRE: Lie Rotational Positional Encodings
Sophie Ostmeier, Brian Axelrod, Maya Varma, Michael Moseley, Akshay S Chaudhari, Curtis Langlotz
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
MedVAE: Efficient Automated Interpretation of Medical Images with Large-Scale Generalizable Autoencoders
Maya Varma, Ashwin Kumar, Rogier Van der Sluijs, Sophie Ostmeier, Louis Blankemeier, Pierre Joseph Marcel Chambon, Christian Bluethgen, Jip Prince, Curtis Langlotz, Akshay S Chaudhari
- MIDL 2025 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Preference fine-tuning for factuality in chest X-ray interpretation models without human feedback
Dennis Hein, Zhihong Chen, Sophie Ostmeier, Justin Xu, Maya Varma, Eduardo Pontes Reis, Arne Edward Michalson MD, Christian Bluethgen, Hyun Joo Shin, Curtis Langlotz, Akshay S Chaudhari
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone

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