activity
20212026
most citedThe Tail Wagging the Dog: Dataset Construction Biases of Social Bias Benchmarks

1 citations · 1 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

7 papers

cs.LG2026

Gaming Consensus: Coordinated Manipulation in Crowdsourced Fact-Checking

Nikil Roashan Selvam, Jay Baxter, Sophie Hilgard +4

Crowdsourced fact-checking systems have been adopted by major social media companies such as X, Meta, TikTok and Google with the aim of combating misleading information at scale wi…

cs.CL2025

Mechanistic evaluation of Transformers and state space models

Aryaman Arora, Neil Rathi, Nikil Roashan Selvam +3

State space models (SSMs) for language modelling promise an efficient and performant alternative to quadratic-attention Transformers, yet show variable performance on recalling bas…

cs.LG2024

Self-Refining Diffusion Samplers: Enabling Parallelization via Parareal Iterations

Nikil Roashan Selvam, Amil Merchant, Stefano Ermon

In diffusion models, samples are generated through an iterative refinement process, requiring hundreds of sequential model evaluations. Several recent methods have introduced appro…

cs.LG2023

Mixtures of All Trees

Nikil Roashan Selvam, Honghua Zhang, Guy Van den Broeck

Tree-shaped graphical models are widely used for their tractability. However, they unfortunately lack expressive power as they require committing to a particular sparse dependency…

cs.LG2022

Certifying Fairness of Probabilistic Circuits

Nikil Roashan Selvam, Guy Van den Broeck, YooJung Choi

With the increased use of machine learning systems for decision making, questions about the fairness properties of such systems start to take center stage. Most existing work on al…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

The Tail Wagging the Dog: Dataset Construction Biases of Social Bias Benchmarks

Nikil Roashan Selvam, Sunipa Dev, Daniel Khashabi +2

How reliably can we trust the scores obtained from social bias benchmarks as faithful indicators of problematic social biases in a given language model? In this work, we study this…

cs.LG2021

Local Linearity and Double Descent in Catastrophic Overfitting

Varun Sivashankar, Nikil Selvam

Catastrophic overfitting is a phenomenon observed during Adversarial Training (AT) with the Fast Gradient Sign Method (FGSM) where the test robustness steeply declines over just on…