
Research Focus
- Deep Generative Models
- Tractable Probabilistic Inference
- Trustworthy AI
- Neurosymbolic AI
Recent Highlights
Sahil Sidheekh
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.
News
All news →Our paper "Tractable Representation Learning with Probabilistic Circuits" has been accepted to TMLR!
Excited to announce that "Tractable Sharpness-Aware Learning of Probabilistic Circuits" has been accepted to AAAI 2026!
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.
Our paper on Scalable Knowledge Graph Construction from Unstructured Text has been accepted to PAKDD 2025!
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.
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
AAAI '26Sahil 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
AISTATS '25Sahil 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
AAAI '25Sahil 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
IJCAI '24Sahil Sidheekh, Sriraam Natarajan
The 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2024
