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AnirudAggarwal

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Computer Vision Researcher @ Stealth Startup

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Anirud Aggarwal

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I research efficient methods for vision generation and understanding.

While I'm currently developing AI-native video infrastructure, my past work has included efficient image generation and lightweight upsampling methods.

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ICLR 2026| first-author

Evolutionary Caching to Accelerate Your Off-the-Shelf Diffusion Model

Anirud Aggarwal, Abhinav Shrivastava, Matthew Gwilliam

We introduce ECAD, an evolutionary algorithm to automatically discover efficient caching schedules for accelerating diffusion-based image generation models. ECAD achieves faster than state-of-the-art speed and higher quality among training-free methods and generalizes across models and resolutions.

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Hover to ExploreHover over any blue ECAD point to view generated images
CVPR 2026

UPLiFT: Efficient Pixel-Dense Feature Upsampling with Local Attenders

Matthew Walmer, Saksham Suri, Anirud Aggarwal, Abhinav Shrivastava

We introduce UPLiFT, a lightweight, iterative feature upsampler that converts coarse ViT and VAE features into pixel-dense representations using a fully local attention operator. It achieves state-of-the-art performance on segmentation and depth tasks while scaling linearly in visual tokens, and extends naturally to generative tasks for efficient image upscaling.

conf: 0.96
UPLiFT 4x super-resolution resultBilinear upscale (blurry)
4x super-resolution in latent space
512×512 → 2048×2048
Bilinear
Latency: 1.29s (NVIDIA A100)
UPLiFT
Latency: 1.40s (NVIDIA A100)
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