Sahil Sidheekh

Sahil Sidheekh

CS PhD Student | AI/ML Researcher

PhD Student

Department of Computer Science

📍 ECSS 3.214
Erik Jonsson School of Engineering
& Computer Science, UTD

About Me

Research Interests

Probabilistic Generative Models

Neuro-Symbolic AI

Tractable Inference

Trustworthy AI

Meta-learning

Recent News

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Nov19

Our paper "Tractable Representation Learning with Probabilistic Circuits" has been accepted to TMLR!

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Nov8

Excited to announce that "Tractable Sharpness-Aware Learning of Probabilistic Circuits" has been accepted to AAAI 2026!

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Aug1

Excited to share that I'll be joining Altir as an AI Intern in Fall 2025! I'll be working on building the MVP for a knowledge-driven enterprise AI solution.

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Dec10

Our paper on Scalable Knowledge Graph Construction from Unstructured Text has been accepted to PAKDD 2025!

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Dec1

Two papers accepted to AAAI 2025! Our work on "A Unified Framework for Human-Allied Learning of Probabilistic Circuits" and "Human-in-the-loop or AI-in-the-loop? Automate or Collaborate?" explore fundamental questions in human-AI collaboration.

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Featured Publications

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Tractable Sharpness-Aware Learning of Probabilistic Circuits

Tractable Sharpness-Aware Learning of Probabilistic Circuits

AAAI '26

H Suresh, Sahil Sidheekh, S Natarajan, NC Krishnan

The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026
OptimizationProbabilistic Circuits
Credibility-aware multi-modal fusion using probabilistic circuits

Credibility-aware multi-modal fusion using probabilistic circuits

AISTATS '25

Sahil Sidheekh, P Tenali, S Mathur, E Blasch, K Kersting, S Natarajan

The 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics�…, 2025
Multi-Modal FusionProbabilistic Circuits
A Unified Framework for Human-Allied Learning of Probabilistic Circuits

A Unified Framework for Human-Allied Learning of Probabilistic Circuits

AAAI '25

Athresh Karanam, Saurabh Mathur, Sahil Sidheekh, Sriraam Natarajan

The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Human-Allied LearningProbabilistic Circuits
Building Expressive and Tractable Probabilistic Generative Models: A Review

Building Expressive and Tractable Probabilistic Generative Models: A Review

IJCAI '24

Sahil Sidheekh, S Natarajan

The 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI�…, 2024
Probabilistic CircuitsGenerative Models
Probabilistic Flow Circuits: Towards Unified Deep Models for Tractable Probabilistic Inference

Probabilistic Flow Circuits: Towards Unified Deep Models for Tractable Probabilistic Inference

UAI '23

Sahil Sidheekh, K Kersting, S Natarajan

Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 1964-1973, 202311 citations
Probabilistic CircuitsNormalizing FlowsGenerative Models