Sahil Sidheekh

Research Focus

  • Deep Generative Models
  • Tractable Probabilistic Inference
  • Trustworthy AI
  • Neurosymbolic AI

Recent Highlights

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Sahil Sidheekh

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I am an AI researcher working at the intersection of deep generative models, tractable probabilistic inference, and neuro-symbolic AI, with the goal of building systems that are not only accurate, but reliable, interpretable, and trustworthy by design. A central focus of my recent work has been developing tractable generative models — particularly probabilistic circuits — that support exact inference at scale while retaining expressive power, and their applications in diverse domains.

I am especially interested in problems where structure and semantics play a critical role, such as learning distributions on manifolds, incorporating logical constraints into learned representations and composing probabilistic and symbolic components to achieve robust, controllable, and human-aligned generalization.

Beyond the technical foundations, I aim to advance trustworthy human-allied AI systems that know what it doesn't know, can reason under uncertainty while remaining transparent, auditable, and aligned with human values, so that we have models that go beyond predictions to explain, justify, and communicate their decisions in ways that humans can meaningfully understand and trust.

Nov 2025

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

Nov 2025

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

Aug 2025

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.

Dec 2024

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

Dec 2024

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.

Nov 2024

Our work on Human-Allied Relational Reinforcement Learning has been accepted to ACS 2025 (Advances in Cognitive Systems)! We introduce human-allied approaches to relational reinforcement learning that leverage human expertise.

Selected Publications

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Tractable Sharpness-Aware Learning of Probabilistic Circuits

Tractable Sharpness-Aware Learning of Probabilistic Circuits

AAAI '26

Sahil Sidheekh, Hrithik Suresh, Vishnu Shreeram, Sriraam Natarajan, Narayanan C. Krishnan

The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026

Credibility-Aware Multi-Modal Fusion Using Probabilistic Circuits

Credibility-Aware Multi-Modal Fusion Using Probabilistic Circuits

AISTATS '25

Sahil Sidheekh, Pranuthi Tenali, Saurabh Mathur, Erik Blasch, Kristian Kersting, Sriraam Natarajan

The 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2025

A Unified Framework for Human-Allied Learning of Probabilistic Circuits

A Unified Framework for Human-Allied Learning of Probabilistic Circuits

AAAI '25

Sahil Sidheekh, Athresh Karanam, Saurabh Mathur, Sriraam Natarajan

The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025

Building Expressive and Tractable Probabilistic Generative Models: A Review

Building Expressive and Tractable Probabilistic Generative Models: A Review

IJCAI '24

Sahil Sidheekh, Sriraam Natarajan

The 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2024

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, Kristian Kersting, Sriraam Natarajan

The 39th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2023· 11 citations