I am a final-year Master’s student in the Department of Artificial Intelligence, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, where I have the privilege of being supervised by Dr. Konda Reddy Mopuri. I was as a Research Scientist intern at Sony AI, Tokyo in Deep Generative Modeling team, working with Naoki Murata and Yuhta Takida.

My research interests are in Deep Generative Models and Computer Vision, with a current focus on Machine Unlearning in Diffusion Models. I am fascinated by how these model learn, interpret and synthesize multimodal inputs such as images, videos and text, and how we can guide them towards safer, more explainable, and trustworthy behavior.

Outside research, I love playing squash, badminton and football, and I am a passionate supporter of FC Barcelona💙❤️.

🔥 News

  • 2026.06: Our work titled Locality-Aware Continual Unlearning for Diffusion Models paper accepted to ECCV 2026, Sweden.
  • 2026.04: Awarded Research Excellence Award from IIT Hyderabad.
  • 2025.12: CVPR work selected for Vision India, ICVGIP 2025.
  • 2025.07: I’ll start a Research Scientist Internship at Sony AI, Tokyo.
  • 2025.02: Our work titled Illusion Of Unlearning paper accepted to CVPR 2025, Nashville.
  • 2024.06: Awarded Reliance Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship (Top 100 students nationwide)

📝 Pre-print

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[P1] TILDE: TILt-based Distributional Erasure for Concept Unlearning (under-review)

Naveen George, Naoki Murata, Yuhta Takida, Konda Reddy Mopuri, Yuki Mitsufuji

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📝 Publications

ECCV 2026
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[C2] Locality-Aware Continual Unlearning for Diffusion Models

Naveen George, Naoki Murata, Yuhta Takida, Konda Reddy Mopuri, Yuki Mitsufuji

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CVPR 2025
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[C1] The Illusion of Unlearning: The Unstable Nature of Machine Unlearning in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

Naveen George, Karthik Nandan Dasaraju, Rutheesh Reddy Chittepu, Konda Reddy Mopuri

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🎖 Honors and Awards

  • Research Excellence Award, IIT Hyderabad
  • CVPR work selected for Vision India, ICVGIP 2025
  • CVPR 2025 Travel Grant Award
  • Reliance Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship

đź’» Research Experience

Sony AI

SONY AI

Research Scientist Intern at SONY AI, MFM/Deep Generative Modeling Team (July. 2025 – May. 2026)

Advisor: Naoki Murata and Yuhta Takida

IIT Hyd

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

Master's (RA) student at IITH (Aug. 2023 – Present)

Advisor: Dr. Konda Reddy Mopuri

đź“‹ Academic Service

  • Conference Reviewer: ICML’25 (MUGen), ICVGIP’25
  • Journal Reviewer: TIP

👨🏻‍🏫 Teaching Experience

  • Winter’25, Deep Learning.
  • Summer’23,25, Foundations of Machine Learning.
  • Winter’24,’25, AIET Course, IIT Hyderabad.