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most citedScientific machine learning in ecological systems: A study on the predator-prey dynamics

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cs.LG2026

What pass@k Cannot Measure: Evaluating Diversity and Capability Retention after Post-Training

Subham Rath, Raj Dandekar, Rajat Dandekar +1

pass@, the fraction of problems a model solves within sampled attempts, is the field's default protocol for deciding whether reinforcement-learning (RL) post-training on ver…

cs.ET2026

PRISM-UDE: Physics-Regularized Iterative Symbolic Modeling of 3nm FinFETs via Universal Differential Equation

Pranavanath Balamurali, Prathamesh Dinesh Joshi, Raj Abhijit Dandekar +2

Compact transistor models are the mathematical backbone of circuit simulation. However, at advanced nodes such as 3nm, transport physics becomes too complex for traditional hand-de…

cs.AI2026

BiasMix-Finance: Post-Generation KYC Guardrails for LLM Portfolio Advice

Gaurav Kukreja, Parul Kukreja, Mohammed Abraar +3

Large language models (LLMs) can generate plausible-sounding ETF portfolios while silently violating basic KYC-style constraints on risk, fees, and diversification. This is especia…

cs.LG2026

SciML in the Wild: A Diagnostic Study of When Structural Priors Help and When They Hurt

Vrishank Sai Anand, Prathamesh Dinesh Joshi, Raj Abhijit Dandekar +2

Scientific Machine Learning (SciML) methods such as Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (NODEs), Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs), and Universal Differential Equations (…

cs.HC2026

Beyond Passive Viewing: A Pilot Study of a Hybrid Learning Platform Augmenting Video Lectures with Conversational AI

Mohammed Abraar, Raj Abhijit Dandekar, Rajat Dandekar +1

The exponential growth of AI education has brought millions of learners to online platforms, yet this massive scale has simultaneously exposed critical pedagogical shortcomings. Tr…

cs.AI2025

Three methods, one problem: Classical and AI approaches to no-three-in-line

Pranav Ramanathan, Thomas Prellberg, Matthew Lewis +4

The No-Three-In-Line problem asks for the maximum number of points that can be placed on an n by n grid with no three collinear, representing a famous problem in combinatorial geom…

cs.LG2025

Forecasting N-Body Dynamics: A Comparative Study of Neural Ordinary Differential Equations and Universal Differential Equations

Suriya R S, Prathamesh Dinesh Joshi, Rajat Dandekar +2

The n body problem, fundamental to astrophysics, simulates the motion of n bodies acting under the effect of their own mutual gravitational interactions. Traditional machine learni…

cs.LG2025

Adaptive tumor growth forecasting via neural & universal ODEs

Kavya Subramanian, Prathamesh Dinesh Joshi, Raj Abhijit Dandekar +2

Forecasting tumor growth is critical for optimizing treatment. Classical growth models such as the Gompertz and Bertalanffy equations capture general tumor dynamics but may fail to…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Physics-Informed Neural ODEs with Scale-Aware Residuals for Learning Stiff Biophysical Dynamics

Kamalpreet Singh Kainth, Prathamesh Dinesh Joshi, Raj Abhijit Dandekar +2

Neural differential equations offer a powerful framework for modeling continuous-time dynamics, but forecasting stiff biophysical systems remains unreliable. Standard Neural ODEs a…

cs.SI2025★ 1 cited

Simulating Misinformation Propagation in Social Networks using Large Language Models

Raj Gaurav Maurya, Vaibhav Shukla, Raj Abhijit Dandekar +2

Misinformation on social media thrives on surprise, emotion, and identity-driven reasoning, often amplified through human cognitive biases. To investigate these mechanisms, we mode…

q-bio.NC2025

EARS-UDE: Evaluating Auditory Response in Sensory Overload with Universal Differential Equations

Miheer Salunke, Prathamesh Dinesh Joshi, Raj Abhijit Dandekar +2

Auditory sensory overload affects 50-70% of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), yet existing approaches, such as mechanistic models (Hodgkin Huxley type, Wilson Cowan,…

cs.LG2025

Muon: Training and Trade-offs with Latent Attention and MoE

Sushant Mehta, Raj Dandekar, Rajat Dandekar +1

We present a comprehensive theoretical and empirical study of the Muon optimizer for training transformers only with a small to medium decoder (30M - 200M parameters), with an emph…

cs.LG2025

A study of Universal ODE approaches to predicting soil organic carbon

Satyanarayana Raju G. V., Prathamesh Dinesh Joshi, Raj Abhijit Dandekar +2

Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) is a foundation of soil health and global climate resilience, yet its prediction remains difficult because of intricate physical, chemical, and biological…

cs.LG2025

BULL-ODE: Bullwhip Learning with Neural ODEs and Universal Differential Equations under Stochastic Demand

Nachiket N. Naik, Prathamesh Dinesh Joshi, Raj Abhijit Dandekar +2

We study learning of continuous-time inventory dynamics under stochastic demand and quantify when structure helps or hurts forecasting of the bullwhip effect. BULL-ODE compares a f…

cs.CL2025

Decoders Laugh as Loud as Encoders

Eli Borodach, Raj Dandekar, Rajat Dandekar +1

From the dawn of the computer, Allen Turing dreamed of a robot that could communicate using language as a human being. The recent advances in the field of Large Language Models (LL…

cs.CV2025

Vision-Language Models display a strong gender bias

Aiswarya Konavoor, Raj Abhijit Dandekar, Rajat Dandekar +1

Vision-language models (VLM) align images and text in a shared representation space that is useful for retrieval and zero-shot transfer. Yet, this alignment can encode and amplify…

cs.AI2025

Unifying Mixture of Experts and Multi-Head Latent Attention for Efficient Language Models

Sushant Mehta, Raj Dandekar, Rajat Dandekar +1

We present MoE-MLA-RoPE, a novel architecture combination that combines Mixture of Experts (MoE) with Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA) and Rotary Position Embeddings (RoPE) for ef…

cs.AI2025

Model-Grounded Symbolic Artificial Intelligence Systems Learning and Reasoning with Model-Grounded Symbolic Artificial Intelligence Systems

Aniruddha Chattopadhyay, Raj Dandekar, Kaushik Roy

Neurosymbolic artificial intelligence (AI) systems combine neural network and classical symbolic AI mechanisms to exploit the complementary strengths of large scale, generalizable…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Understanding Malware Propagation Dynamics through Scientific Machine Learning

Karthik Pappu, Prathamesh Dinesh Joshi, Raj Abhijit Dandekar +2

Accurately modeling malware propagation is essential for designing effective cybersecurity defenses, particularly against adaptive threats that evolve in real time. While tradition…

cs.LG2025

Physical Informed Neural Networks for modeling ocean pollutant

Karishma Battina, Prathamesh Dinesh Joshi, Raj Abhijit Dandekar +2

Traditional numerical methods often struggle with the complexity and scale of modeling pollutant transport across vast and dynamic oceanic domains. This paper introduces a Physics-…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Latent Multi-Head Attention for Small Language Models

Sushant Mehta, Raj Dandekar, Rajat Dandekar +1

We present the first comprehensive study of latent multi-head attention (MLA) for small language models, revealing interesting efficiency-quality trade-offs. Training 30M-parameter…

cs.CL2025

Regional Tiny Stories: Using Small Models to Compare Language Learning and Tokenizer Performance

Nirvan Patil, Malhar Abhay Inamdar, Agnivo Gosai +7

Small Language Models (SLMs) offer efficient alternatives to LLMs for specific domains. The 2023 TinyStories study developed an English dataset that allows SLMs with 1 to 10 millio…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

NanoVLMs: How small can we go and still make coherent Vision Language Models?

Mukund Agarwalla, Himanshu Kumar, Raj Dandekar +2

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as GPT-4V and Llama 3.2 vision, have garnered significant research attention for their ability to leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) in multi…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

CBEval: A framework for evaluating and interpreting cognitive biases in LLMs

Ammar Shaikh, Raj Abhijit Dandekar, Sreedath Panat +1

Rapid advancements in Large Language models (LLMs) has significantly enhanced their reasoning capabilities. Despite improved performance on benchmarks, LLMs exhibit notable gaps in…