Amitava Das
Professor, BITS Goa | Former Research Associate Professor, AIISC, USA
Dense Parameters
Success on Complex Tasks
Action Token Generation
Zero-Shot Capabilities
Scenario: Dynamic Manipulation
Scenario: Locomotion Terrain
Scenario: Spatial Mapping
Model decomposes high-level instructions into executable joint-space vectors with continuous feedback loops.
Integration of IMU data into the transformer context window allows for immediate postural correction.
Natural language instruction to complex action mapping via internal semantic reasoning chain.
Performance remains logarithmic even as spatial complexity increases, demonstrating the robustness of LA-CoT reasoning.
PragyaVLA achieves a 2.4x latency reduction compared to existing vision-action architectures by offloading non-critical reasoning to background threads.
Professor, BITS Goa | Former Research Associate Professor, AIISC, USA
GenAI Leadership @ AWS | Stanford AI | Ex-Amazon Alexa, Nvidia, Qualcomm | EB-1 "Einstein Visa" Recipient | EMNLP 2023 Outstanding Paper Award
Applied Research Scientist Lead at Facebook AI Research | 6k+ citations | Ex-Citadel | CMU | IIT Kanpur | Startup Advisor & Mentor | Angel Investor | EB1A green card recipient
AI @ Meta | Ex-Amazon, Oracle, PANW | Stanford AI | EMNLP Outstanding Paper Award Recipient