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Affinity Event Mon, Dec 7, 2026 • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM AEDT C3.6

GlobalSouthAI

Tushar Shinde ⋅ Chaker Larabi
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Time zone: Conference local time zone
→ In-Place Indic Tokenizer Expansion and Continual Pretraining of Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B.
Pasunuti Prasanjith ⋅ Sutanshu Saksena Raj ⋅ Avinash Benki ⋅ Parijat Chatterjee ⋅ Nayanjit Sarkar ⋅ Daksh Maan
→ Romanization Flattens the Field: Script and Metric Sensitivity in Sinhala SLM Evaluation
Sehan Dissanayake ⋅ Shanil Diwakar ⋅ Dasun Illangasinghe ⋅ Eshin Menusha ⋅ Chehan Rupasinghe ⋅ Dilhara Dissanayake ⋅ Nevidu Jayatilleke ⋅ Yasas Manujaya Ekanayake ⋅ Nisansa de Silva
→ Beyond the Marker: Diagnosing and Mitigating Shortcut Learning in Tamil Simile Detection
Vimosh Vasanthakumar ⋅ Birunthaban Rajendram ⋅ Abishan Vasanthan
→ Distributional Latent Pooling for Learning from Variable-Length Clinical Time Series: A Study on EEG-based Dementia Detection
Harsh Bhasin ⋅ Tejwant Singh ⋅ Ankit Singh ⋅ Nishant Kumar ⋅ Devanshu Meel ⋅ Manish Sharma
→ CAV Styler++: Locating Interpretable Control in Photorealistic Style Transfer
Sunayana Samavedam ⋅ Saurabh Saini ⋅ P J Narayanan
→ Romanized Hindi Reveals a Model-Dependent Safety Asymmetry in Open-Weight Language Models
Bibek Nagpal ⋅ Shrisay Shandilya ⋅ Soham Kumar ⋅ Aditya Sharan
→ AH-UGC: Adaptive and Heterogeneous Universal Graph Coarsening
Mohit Kataria ⋅ Shreyash Bhilwade ⋅ Sandeep Kumar ⋅ Jayadeva Dr
→ Auditable Emergency Triage for Maternal and Newborn Care in India
Aman Dalmia ⋅ Shobhit Jagga ⋅ Niharika Priyadarshini ⋅ Anubhav Arora ⋅ Amrita K Prasen ⋅ Nikhil Nalin ⋅ Santhosh SJ ⋅ Sreeram N Ramasubramanian ⋅ Muhammed A K ⋅ Neelima Devadas
→ Feature Scaling Beats Architecture Choice in Offline Respiratory Screening for Low-Resource Clinics
Abubakar Chilala ⋅ Cleophas Kadima ⋅ Innocent E Anyaele ⋅ Victor T Olufemi
→ Beyond the Row: Sequence-Aware Diffusion for Rare-Event Financial Trajectories
Tushar Chaturvedi ⋅ Himanshu Choudhary ⋅ Manoj Thakur
→ PENSA: A Spatial Accelerator for BitNet b1.58 Inference on an HBM-equipped AMD Alveo FPGA
Karthikeyan K Balasubramanian ⋅ Ivan S. Maksymov ⋅ Philip Leong
→ Right but Unsure: Persistent Cultural Ambiguity in Tamil Metaphor Detection
Vimosh Vasanthakumar ⋅ Birunthaban Rajendram ⋅ Abishan Vasanthan
→ UrduGrad Schemas: A Benchmark for Urdu Commonsense Reasoning
Muhammad Ahmad ⋅ Grace Ataguba ⋅ Muhammad Usman ⋅ Rita Orji
→ Attention Architecture and Positional Retrieval in Small Language Models
Jithun Methusahan ⋅ R.M Amantha Bandara Rathnayake
→ BHAVA (Behavioral and Affective Vernaculars): A Multilingual Dataset of Everyday Expressions of Distress Across Indian Languages
Akshyat Shah ⋅ Anamta Khan ⋅ Niva Manchanda ⋅ Akshata Kishore Moharir ⋅ Ratna Kandala
→ Visualising Latent Rollouts in LeWorldModel
Ankita Kushwaha ⋅ KIRAN RAVISH ⋅ Preeti ⋅ Pawan Kumar
→ Does Statutory Structure Help? Retrieving Every Indispensable Provision for Sri Lankan Conveyancing Scenarios
Himath Dhanapala ⋅ Praveen De Silva ⋅ Lahiru Dilshan ⋅ Nisansa de Silva
→ BrailleLens: Real-Time Fingertip-Guided Braille Recognition for Sinhala
Himandhi Kuruppu ⋅ Kalana Lakshan ⋅ Hasini Lawanya ⋅ Ovindu Atukorala ⋅ Sandareka Wickramanayake
→ Concept Direction Reliability Across Languages with Different Tokenizer Fertility
Muhammad Abdullahi Said ⋅ Abass Oguntade ⋅ Elisha Komolafe ⋅ Babangida Sani ⋅ Fatima Muhammad Adam ⋅ Muhammad S Sani
→ PUC-CXR: A Multimodal Grounded Chest X-ray Dataset from Latin America
Oscar Loch ⋅ Denis Parra ⋅ Pablo Messina ⋅ Yuyan Ge ⋅ Rene Vidal
→ Evaluating and Enhancing Large Language Models for Amharic Maternal and Child Health Question Answering
Hana Mekonen Tamiru ⋅ Rahel Mekonen Tamiru ⋅ Biniyam A Fentaw ⋅ Selam E Bereket
→ CardioSSL: When Does Self-Supervision Help Heart Sound Screening? A Controlled Benchmark
Brandone Fonya ⋅ Mona Aman ⋅ Godbright N Uiso ⋅ Maurine Gatimu ⋅ Olatunji D Emmanuel ⋅ Carine Mukamakuza
→ HansardNER: Full-Coverage Benchmarking of Sinhala Parliamentary Named Entity Recognition
Himath Dhanapala ⋅ Haren Daishika ⋅ Himandhi Kuruppu ⋅ Ashini Kavindya ⋅ Sithija Seneviratne ⋅ Nisansa de Silva ⋅ Sandareka Wickramanayake
→ Decomposing a clinical EEG montage for low-channel cognitive triage: placement, age referencing and output design
Soinik Ghosh ⋅ Rameshwar Nath Chaurasia ⋅ Shiru Sharma ⋅ Neeraj Sharma
→ Multilingual Health and related Nutrition Question Answering for Low-Resource African Languages
Sally K Musanga ⋅ Bereket Weldemichael ⋅ Patricia Muriira ⋅ Marie Rose Mwiseneza ⋅ Lowami UWIMANA ⋅ George Okeyo
→ Lightweight Chain-Aware Modeling for Antibody Affinity and Mutational Effects
Harshit Singh ⋅ Rajeev Kumar Singh ⋅ Satya Pratik Srivastava ⋅ Rohan Gorantla
→ Conditioning Structure, Not Entropy Alone, Predicts Memorization Dynamics
Rodrigo Alvarez Lucendo ⋅ Madhur Panwar ⋅ Gail Weiss ⋅ Antoine Bosselut
→ SAID: Multi-Domain Sinhala Datasets for AI-Text Detection and Authorship-Boundary Detection
Kaveesha Kapiti Arachchi ⋅ Mohamed H Anas ⋅ Vihanga Muthumala ⋅ Hiruni Ayesha ⋅ Ifadha Imthiyas ⋅ Samadhi Talagala ⋅ Nisansa de Silva ⋅ Aloka Fernando ⋅ Aththanayake M Aththanayake
→ Fewer Questions and Safer Abstention in Low-Bandwidth Agricultural Advisory
Deepali Bhanushali ⋅ Aakansha Nagwani ⋅ FNU Harsh ⋅ Shikhar Verma
→ GraphNOSE: A Graph Transformer in Olfaction
Mrityunjay Sharma ⋅ Sarabeshwar Balaji ⋅ Valentina Parma ⋅ Ritesh Kumar
→ Indic-Task Gains and Regressions after Reinforcement Learning.
Sutanshu Saksena Raj ⋅ Daksh Maan ⋅ Avinash Benki ⋅ Parijat Chatterjee ⋅ Pasunuti Prasanjith
→ Lightweight Cross-Lingual Speaker Adaptation for Indic TTS
Tarun Kumar ⋅ Keshav Agarwal ⋅ Pawan Goyal ⋅ Laxmidhar Behera ⋅ Hema Murthy
→ Beyond Answering: Auditing Multilingual Public Service Triage
Neel Tushar Shah ⋅ Sajjad Nakhwa ⋅ Manglam Kartik
→ ASR for Kiswahili Early-Grade Read-Aloud Assessments in Tanzania
Oliver Garrod ⋅ Yichen Wu ⋅ Orla Humphries ⋅ Horia Cucu ⋅ Herman Kamper ⋅ Romana Alonso-Kropil ⋅ Maria J Portela
→ Whose Convention Is the Default? Interpretive Expectation as a Deployment Setting, Not a Model Property
Varad Vishwarupe ⋅ Vishal Pawar ⋅ Haazique Sayyed ⋅ Shwetanshu Shekhar ⋅ Meshari M Alwazae
→ Scaling Vision Transformers Without Training: Prune-and-Merge Token Compression∗
Vatsal Vatsal ⋅ Soumil Malhotra ⋅ Priyanshu Chahal ⋅ Sanjeev Kumar
→ Lab-to-Field Quantization Robustness
Ahmed Vuai ⋅ Omar Nassor ⋅ Patrick Ndowo ⋅ Adila M Najim ⋅ YUSSUF H MAKAME ⋅ Abdulkadir Bakar
→ Matrix-Free Covariance-Response Approach for Data Assimilation-Ready Weather Ensembles
HIMANSHU SINGH ⋅ Steven Greybush ⋅ Laura Dailey ⋅ Melissa Adrian ⋅ Romit Maulik
→ Tracing Bias Propagation Across Subgroups in Federated Learning
Tirathraj Ramburn ⋅ Afaf Taik ⋅ Farnoosh Ghadiri
→ From Linguistic Knowledge to Decodable Text: A Benchmark Ladder for Kiswahili Literacy
Moritz Boos ⋅ Maxime Lelièvre ⋅ Suzin You ⋅ Eric Dodge ⋅ Tobias Murray ⋅ Elena N Mwangi ⋅ Justin Vasselli ⋅ Oliver Garrod
→ ESPL: Efficient Block Sparse Plus Low-Rank Attention
Mahdi Heidari ⋅ Mohammadmahdi Rahimi ⋅ Jaekyun Moon