Sahil Sidheekh
Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science · University of Texas at Dallas
Education
Advisor: Dr. Sriraam Natarajan · StARLing Lab
GPA: 4.00 / 4.00
Work Experience
(b) Developed an interpretable data analytics platform encompassing SOTA deep learning methods.
Publications
Book Chapters
Tractable and expressive generative modeling with probabilistic flow circuits
Sahil Sidheekh and Sriraam Natarajan
Neurosymbolic AI: Foundations and Applications, pages 183–222. Wiley Online Library, 2026.
Conference Papers
Tractable Sharpness-Aware Learning of Probabilistic Circuits
Sahil Sidheekh, Hrithik Suresh, Vishnu Shreeram, Sriraam Natarajan, Narayanan C. Krishnan
The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2026
Human-in-the-loop or AI-in-the-loop? Automate or Collaborate?
Sriraam Natarajan, Sahil Sidheekh, Saurabh Mathur, Wolfgang Stammer, Kristian Kersting
The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025
Credibility-Aware Multi-Modal Fusion Using Probabilistic Circuits
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
Sahil Sidheekh, Athresh Karanam, Saurabh Mathur, Sriraam Natarajan
The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025
Scalable Knowledge Graph Construction from Unstructured Text: A Case Study on Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining
Debashis Gupta, Aditi Golder, Sahil Sidheekh, Sakib Imtiaz, Sarra Alaqahtani, Fan Yang, Greg Larsen, Miles Silman, Luis Fernendez, Robert Plemmons, Sriraam Natarajan, V. Paul Pauca
The 29th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), 2025
Human-Allied Relational Reinforcement Learning
FG Darvishvand, H Shindo, Sahil Sidheekh, Kristian Kersting, Sriraam Natarajan
The Twelfth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems (ACS), 2025
Building Expressive and Tractable Probabilistic Generative Models: A Review
Sahil Sidheekh, Sriraam Natarajan
The 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2024
On the Robustness and Reliability of Late Multi-Modal Fusion using Probabilistic Circuits
Sahil Sidheekh, Pranuthi Tenali, Saurabh Mathur, Erik Blasch, Sriraam Natarajan
The 27th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), 2024
Probabilistic Flow Circuits: Towards Unified Deep Models for Tractable Probabilistic Inference
Sahil Sidheekh, Kristian Kersting, Sriraam Natarajan
The 39th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2023
VQ-Flows: Vector Quantized Local Normalizing Flows
Sahil Sidheekh, Chris B. Dock, Tushar Jain, Radu Balan, Maneesh K. Singh
The 38th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2022
On Characterizing GAN Convergence Through Proximal Duality Gap
Sahil Sidheekh, Aroof Aimen, Narayanan C. Krishnan
Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), PMLR 139, 9660–9670, 2021
On Duality Gap as a Measure for Monitoring GAN Training
Sahil Sidheekh, Aroof Aimen, Vineet Madan, Narayanan C. Krishnan
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2021
Journal Papers
Tractable Representation Learning with Probabilistic Circuits
Steven Braun, Sahil Sidheekh, Antonio Vergari, Marius Mundt, Sriraam Natarajan, Kristian Kersting
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2025
Adaptation: Blessing or Curse for Higher Way Meta-Learning
Aroof Aimen, Sahil Sidheekh, Bharat Ladrecha, Hansin Ahuja, Narayanan C. Krishnan
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 5(4), 1844–1856, 2023
Leveraging Task Variability in Meta-Learning
Aroof Aimen, Bharat Ladrecha, Sahil Sidheekh, Narayanan C. Krishnan
SN Computer Science, 4(5), 539. Springer, 2023
Duncan A. O'Brien, Smita Deb, Sahil Sidheekh, Narayanan C. Krishnan, Partha Sharathi Dutta
Ecography, e06674, 2023
Smita Deb, Sahil Sidheekh, Christopher F. Clements, Narayanan C. Krishnan, Partha Sharathi Dutta
Royal Society Open Science, 9(2), 211475, 2022
Workshop Papers
Autoencoding Probabilistic Circuits
Steven Braun, Sahil Sidheekh, Sriraam Natarajan, Antonio Vergari, Marius Mundt, Kristian Kersting
The Eighth Workshop on Tractable Probabilistic Modeling (TPM), 2025
Credibility-Aware Reliable Multi-Modal Fusion Using Probabilistic Circuits
Sahil Sidheekh, Pranuthi Tenali, Saurabh Mathur, Erik Blasch, Kristian Kersting, Sriraam Natarajan
The 2nd Workshop on Deployable AI (DAI), co-located at AAAI, 2024
Bayesian Learning of Probabilistic Circuits with Domain Constraints
Sahil Sidheekh, Athresh Karanam, Saurabh Mathur, Sriraam Natarajan
The 6th Workshop on Tractable Probabilistic Modeling (TPM), co-located at UAI, 2023
Stress Testing of Meta-Learning Approaches for Few-Shot Learning
Aroof Aimen, Sahil Sidheekh, Vineet Madan, Narayanan C. Krishnan
AAAI Workshop on Meta-Learning and MetaDL Challenge (MetaDL), PMLR 140, 38–44, 2021
Task Attended Meta-Learning for Few-Shot Learning
Aroof Aimen, Sahil Sidheekh, Narayanan C. Krishnan
The 5th Workshop on Meta-Learning at NeurIPS, 2021
Preprints
Geometry-Aware Probabilistic Circuits via Voronoi Tessellations
Sahil Sidheekh, Sriraam Natarajan
Preprint, Under Review, 2026
Context-Specific Credibility-Aware Multimodal Fusion with Conditional Probabilistic Circuits
Pranuthi Tenali, Sahil Sidheekh, Saurabh Mathur, Erik Blasch, Kristian Kersting, Sriraam Natarajan
Preprint, Under Review, 2026
Attentive Contractive Flow with Lipschitz-Constrained Self-Attention
Avideep Mukherjee, Badri N. Patro, Sahil Sidheekh, Maneesh Singh, Vinay P. Namboodiri
Preprint, Under Review, 2021
Tutorials & Workshops Organized
Invited Talks
Service
Honors & Achievements
Teaching Assistantships
Technical Skills
Programming Languages
Python · C/C++ · Java · JavaScript · SQL
Frameworks & Libraries
PyTorch · TensorFlow · JAX · Pyro · Node.js · Git · Docker · Kubernetes · Linux · LaTeX
Research Focus
Probabilistic Circuits · Deep Generative Models · Normalizing Flows · LLMs · Variational Inference · GANs · Reliable AI · Multimodal Fusion · Meta-Learning