Safal Thapaliya

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Hello there! I am Safal Thapaliya. I am a first year PhD student in Computer Science and Engineering at the School of Computing, University of Connecticut. At UConn, I work in the MINDS Lab supervised by Prof. Chuxu Zhang. I am currently working on Large Language Models (LLMs) and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs).

Before joining UConn, I worked at Nepal Applied Mathematics and Informatics Institute for research (NAAMII), supervised by Bishesh Khanal, Ph.D., where my primary research focus was on using vision-language models for medical image segmentation.

Publications

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Semantic Refinement with LLMs for Graph Representations

Safal Thapaliya*, Zehong Wang*, Jiazheng Li, Ziming Li, Yanfang Ye, Chuxu Zhang

(2025)

arXiv pre-print

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TuneVLSeg: Prompt Tuning Benchmark for Vision-Language Segmentation Models

Rabin Adhikari, Safal Thapaliya, Manish Dhakal, Bishesh Khanal

(2024)

Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2024)

Oral Presentation

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Vlsm-adapter: Finetuning vision-language segmentation efficiently with lightweight blocks

Manish Dhakal, Rabin Adhikari, Safal Thapaliya, Bishesh Khanal

(2024)

International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2024)

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Exploring Transfer Learning in Medical Image Segmentation using VLMs

Kanchan Poudel*, Manish Dhakal*, Prasiddha Bhandari*, Rabin Adhikari*, Safal Thapaliya*, Bishesh Khanal

(2024)

Medical Imaging in Deep Learning 2024

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