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6 papers

cs.LG2026

OSIL: Learning Offline Safe Imitation Policies with Safety Inferred from Non-preferred Trajectories

Returaj Burnwal, Nirav Pravinbhai Bhatt, Balaraman Ravindran

This work addresses the problem of offline safe imitation learning (IL), where the goal is to learn safe and reward-maximizing policies from demonstrations that do not have per-tim…

cs.IR2025

BiCA: Effective Biomedical Dense Retrieval with Citation-Aware Hard Negatives

Aarush Sinha, Pavan Kumar S, Roshan Balaji +1

Hard negatives are essential for training effective retrieval models. Hard-negative mining typically relies on ranking documents using cross-encoders or static embedding models bas…

cs.LG2025

SafeMIL: Learning Offline Safe Imitation Policy from Non-Preferred Trajectories

Returaj Burnwal, Nirav Pravinbhai Bhatt, Balaraman Ravindran

In this work, we study the problem of offline safe imitation learning (IL). In many real-world settings, online interactions can be risky, and accurately specifying the reward and…

cs.LG2025

Learning from Observation: A Survey of Recent Advances

Returaj Burnwal, Hriday Mehta, Nirav Pravinbhai Bhatt +1

Imitation Learning (IL) algorithms offer an efficient way to train an agent by mimicking an expert's behavior without requiring a reward function. IL algorithms often necessitate a…

cs.LG2025

Functional Groups are All you Need for Chemically Interpretable Molecular Property Prediction

Roshan Balaji, Joe Bobby, Nirav Pravinbhai Bhatt

Molecular property prediction using deep learning (DL) models has accelerated drug and materials discovery, but the resulting DL models often lack interpretability, hindering their…

cs.LG2025

NovoMolGen: Rethinking Molecular Language Model Pretraining

Kamran Chitsaz, Roshan Balaji, Quentin Fournier +2

Designing de-novo molecules with desired property profiles requires efficient exploration of the vast chemical space ranging from to possible synthesizable cand…