Publications

@inproceedings{huang2026agentic-guardrail,
  title     = {Building a Foundational Guardrail for General Agentic Systems via Synthetic Data},
  author    = {Yue Huang and Hang Hua and Yujun Zhou and Pengcheng Jing and Manish Nagireddy and Inkit Padhi and Greta Dolcetti and Zhangchen Xu and Subhajit Chaudhury and Ambrish Rawat and Liubov Nedoshivina and Yu Chen and Prasanna Sattigeri and Xiangliang Zhang},
  year      = {2026},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations},
  doi       = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=M47SWYubR5}
}

@inproceedings{nagireddy2025cascade-guardrails,
  title     = {When in Doubt, Cascade: Towards Building Efficient and Capable Guardrails},
  author    = {Manish Nagireddy and Inkit Padhi and Soumya Ghosh and Prasanna Sattigeri},
  year      = {2025},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society},
  doi       = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AIES/article/view/36676}
}

@inproceedings{padhi2025graniteguardian,
  title     = {Granite Guardian: Comprehensive LLM Safeguarding},
  author    = {Inkit Padhi and Manish Nagireddy and Giandomenico Cornacchia and Subhajit Chaudhury and Tejaswini Pedapati and Pierre Dognin and Keerthiram Murugesan and Erik Miehling and Martin Santillan Cooper and Kieran Fraser and Giulio Zizzo and Muhammad Zaid Hameed and Mark Purcell and Michael Desmond and Qian Pan and Inge Vejsbjerg and Elizabeth M. Daly and Michael Hind and Werner Geyer and Ambrish Rawat and Kush R. Varshney and Prasanna Sattigeri},
  year      = {2025},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Industry Track)},
  doi       = {10.18653/v1/2025.naacl-industry.49}
}

@inproceedings{lee2025programming-refusal,
  title     = {Programming Refusal with Conditional Activation Steering},
  author    = {Bruce W. Lee and Inkit Padhi and Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy and Erik Miehling and Pierre Dognin and Manish Nagireddy and Amit Dhurandhar},
  year      = {2025},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations},
  doi       = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=Oi47wc10sm}
}

@inproceedings{wei2024data-attribution,
  title     = {Final-Model-Only Data Attribution with a Unifying View of Gradient-Based Methods},
  author    = {Dennis Wei and Inkit Padhi and Soumya Ghosh and Amit Dhurandhar and Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy and Maria Chang},
  year      = {2024},
  booktitle = {arXiv preprint}
}

@inproceedings{padhi2024value-alignment,
  title     = {Value Alignment from Unstructured Text},
  author    = {Inkit Padhi and Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy and Prasanna Sattigeri and Manish Nagireddy and Pierre Dognin and Kush Varshney},
  year      = {2024},
  booktitle = {Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Industry Track)}
}

@inproceedings{nagireddy2024cascade-guardrails,
  title     = {When in Doubt, Cascade: Towards Building Efficient and Capable Guardrails},
  author    = {Manish Nagireddy and Inkit Padhi and Soumya Ghosh and Prasanna Sattigeri},
  year      = {2024},
  booktitle = {arXiv preprint}
}

@inproceedings{hou2024wikicontradict,
  title     = {WikiContradict: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs on Real-World Knowledge Conflicts from Wikipedia},
  author    = {Yufang Hou and Alessandra Pascale and Javier Carnerero-Cano and Tigran Tchrakian and Radu Marinescu and Elizabeth Daly and Inkit Padhi and Prasanna Sattigeri},
  year      = {2024},
  booktitle = {arXiv preprint}
}

@inproceedings{kadhe2024split-unlearn-merge,
  title     = {Split, Unlearn, Merge: Leveraging Data Attributes for More Effective Unlearning in LLMs},
  author    = {Swanand Ravindra Kadhe and Farhan Ahmed and Dennis Wei and Nathalie Baracaldo and Inkit Padhi},
  year      = {2024},
  booktitle = {arXiv preprint}
}

@inproceedings{dognin2024contextual-moral-values,
  title     = {Contextual Moral Value Alignment Through Context-Based Aggregation},
  author    = {Pierre Dognin and Jesus Rios and Ronny Luss and Inkit Padhi and Matthew D. Riemer and Miao Liu and Prasanna Sattigeri and Manish Nagireddy and Kush R. Varshney and Djallel Bouneffouf},
  year      = {2024},
  booktitle = {arXiv preprint}
}

@inproceedings{achintalwar2024detectors-safe-llms,
  title     = {Detectors for Safe and Reliable LLMs: Implementations, Uses, and Limitations},
  author    = {Swapnaja Achintalwar and Adriana Alvarado Garcia and Ateret Anaby-Tavor and Ioana Baldini and Sara E. Berger and Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee and Djallel Bouneffouf and Subhajit Chaudhury and Pin-Yu Chen and Lamogha Chiazor and Elizabeth M. Daly and Kirushikesh DB and Rogerio Abreu de Paula and Pierre Dognin and Eitan Farchi and Soumya Ghosh and Michael Hind and Raya Horesh and George Kour and Ja Young Lee and Nishtha Madaan and Sameep Mehta and Erik Miehling and Keerthiram Murugesan and Manish Nagireddy and Inkit Padhi and David Piorkowski and Ambrish Rawat and Orna Raz and Prasanna Sattigeri and Hendrik Strobelt and Sarathkrishna Swaminathan and Christoph Tillmann and Aashka Trivedi and Kush R. Varshney and Dennis Wei and Shalisha Witherspoon and Marcel Zalmanovici},
  year      = {2024},
  booktitle = {arXiv preprint}
}

@article{achintalwar2024alignment-studio,
  title     = {Alignment Studio: Aligning Large Language Models to Particular Contextual Regulations},
  author    = {Swapnaja Achintalwar and Ioana Baldini and Djallel Bouneffouf and Joan Byamugisha and Maria Chang and Pierre Dognin and Eitan Farchi and Ndivhuwo Makondo and Aleksandra Mojsilovic and Manish Nagireddy and Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy and Inkit Padhi and Orna Raz and Jesus Rios and Prasanna Sattigeri and Moninder Singh and Siphiwe Thwala and Rosario A. Uceda-Sosa and Kush R. Varshney},
  year      = {2024},
  journal = {IEEE Internet Computing},
  doi       = {10.1109/MIC.2024.3453671}
}

@inproceedings{padhi2024comvas,
  title     = {ComVas: Contextual Moral Values Alignment System},
  author    = {Inkit Padhi and Pierre Dognin and Jesus Rios and Ronny Luss and Swapnaja Achintalwar and Matthew Riemer and Miao Liu and Prasanna Sattigeri and Manish Nagireddy and Kush R. Varshney and Djallel Bouneffouf},
  year      = {2024},
  booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Demo Track)},
  doi       = {10.24963/ijcai.2024/1026}
}

@article{belgodere2024synthetic-data,
  title     = {Auditing and Generating Synthetic Data with Controllable Trust Trade-offs},
  author    = {Brian Belgodere and Pierre Dognin and Adam Ivankay and Igor Melnyk and Youssef Mroueh and Aleksandra Mojsilovic and Jiri Navratil and Apoorva Nitsure and Inkit Padhi and Mattia Rigotti and Jerret Ross and Yair Schiff and Radhika Vedpathak and Richard A. Young},
  year      = {2024},
  journal = {IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems},
  doi       = {10.1109/JETCAS.2024.3477976}
}

@inproceedings{kazemnejad2023positional-encoding,
  title     = {The Impact of Positional Encoding on Length Generalization in Transformers},
  author    = {Amirhossein Kazemnejad and Inkit Padhi and Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy and Payel Das and Siva Reddy},
  year      = {2023},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems}
}

@inproceedings{ghosh2023influence-fairness,
  title     = {Influence Based Approaches to Algorithmic Fairness: A Closer Look},
  author    = {Soumya Ghosh and Prasanna Sattigeri and Inkit Padhi and Manish Nagireddy and Jie Chen},
  year      = {2023},
  booktitle = {XAI in Action: Past, Present, and Future Applications}
}

@inproceedings{melnyk2023antibody-infilling,
  title     = {Reprogramming Pretrained Language Models for Antibody Sequence Infilling},
  author    = {Igor Melnyk and Vijil Chenthamarakshan and Pin-Yu Chen and Payel Das and Amit Dhurandhar and Inkit Padhi and Devleena Das},
  year      = {2023},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning}
}

@article{gero2023incentive-gap,
  title     = {The Incentive Gap in Data Work in the Era of Large Models},
  author    = {Katy Ilonka Gero and Payel Das and Pierre Dognin and Inkit Padhi and Prasanna Sattigeri and Kush R. Varshney},
  year      = {2023},
  journal = {Nature Machine Intelligence},
  doi       = {10.1038/s42256-023-00673-x}
}

@article{manica2023gt4sd,
  title     = {Accelerating Material Design with the Generative Toolkit for Scientific Discovery},
  author    = {Matteo Manica and Jannis Born and Joris Cadow and Dimitrios Christofidellis and Ashish Dave and Dean Clarke and Yves Gaetan Nana Teukam and Giorgio Giannone and Samuel C. Hoffman and Matthew Buchan and Vijil Chenthamarakshan and Timothy Donovan and Hsiang Han Hsu and Federico Zipoli and Oliver Schilter and Akihiro Kishimoto and Lisa Hamada and Inkit Padhi and Karl Wehden and Lauren McHugh and Alexy Khrabrov and Payel Das and Seiji Takeda and John R. Smith},
  year      = {2023},
  journal = {npj Computational Materials},
  doi       = {10.1038/s41524-023-01028-1}
}

@inproceedings{draws2023stance-detection,
  title     = {Explainable Cross-Topic Stance Detection for Search Results},
  author    = {Tim Draws and Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy and Ioana Baldini and Amit Dhurandhar and Inkit Padhi and Benjamin Timmermans and Nava Tintarev},
  year      = {2023},
  booktitle = {Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval},
  doi       = {10.1145/3576840.3578296}
}

@inproceedings{belgodere2023molformer-cloud,
  title     = {Cloud-Based Real-Time Molecular Screening Platform with MolFormer},
  author    = {Brian Belgodere and Vijil Chenthamarakshan and Payel Das and Pierre Dognin and Toby Kurien and Igor Melnyk and Youssef Mroueh and Inkit Padhi and Mattia Rigotti and Jarret Ross and Yair Schiff and Richard A. Young},
  year      = {2023},
  booktitle = {Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-031-26422-1_47}
}

@inproceedings{sattigeri2022fair-jackknife,
  title     = {Fair Infinitesimal Jackknife: Mitigating the Influence of Biased Training Data Points Without Refitting},
  author    = {Prasanna Sattigeri and Soumya Ghosh and Inkit Padhi and Pierre Dognin and Kush R. Varshney},
  year      = {2022},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems}
}

@article{ross2022molformer,
  title     = {Large-Scale Chemical Language Representations Capture Molecular Structure and Properties},
  author    = {Jerret Ross and Brian Belgodere and Vijil Chenthamarakshan and Inkit Padhi and Youssef Mroueh and Payel Das},
  year      = {2022},
  journal = {Nature Machine Intelligence},
  doi       = {10.1038/s42256-022-00580-7}
}

@article{dognin2022image-captioning,
  title     = {Image Captioning as an Assistive Technology: Lessons Learned from VizWiz 2020 Challenge},
  author    = {Pierre Dognin and Igor Melnyk and Youssef Mroueh and Inkit Padhi and Mattia Rigotti and Jarret Ross and Yair Schiff and Richard A. Young and Brian Belgodere},
  year      = {2022},
  journal = {Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research},
  doi       = {10.1613/jair.1.13113}
}

@inproceedings{dognin2021regen,
  title     = {ReGen: Reinforcement Learning for Text and Knowledge Base Generation using Pretrained Language Models},
  author    = {Pierre Dognin and Inkit Padhi and Igor Melnyk and Payel Das},
  year      = {2021},
  booktitle = {Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
  doi       = {10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.83}
}

@inproceedings{padhi2021tabular-transformers,
  title     = {Tabular Transformers for Modeling Multivariate Time Series},
  author    = {Inkit Padhi and Yair Schiff and Igor Melnyk and Mattia Rigotti and Youssef Mroueh and Pierre Dognin and Jerret Ross and Ravi Nair and Erik Altman},
  year      = {2021},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing},
  doi       = {10.1109/ICASSP39728.2021.9414142}
}

@article{das2021antimicrobial,
  title     = {Accelerated Antimicrobial Discovery via Deep Generative Models and Molecular Dynamics Simulations},
  author    = {Payel Das and Tom Sercu and Kahini Wadhawan and Inkit Padhi and Sebastian Gehrmann and Flaviu Cipcigan and Vijil Chenthamarakshan and Hendrik Strobelt and Cicero dos Santos and Pin-Yu Chen and Yi Yan Yang and Jeremy P. K. Tan and James Hedrick and Jason Crain and Aleksandra Mojsilovic},
  year      = {2021},
  journal = {Nature Biomedical Engineering},
  doi       = {10.1038/s41551-021-00689-x}
}

@inproceedings{madaan2021counterfactuals,
  title     = {Generate Your Counterfactuals: Towards Controlled Counterfactual Generation for Text},
  author    = {Nishtha Madaan and Inkit Padhi and Naveen Panwar and Diptikalyan Saha},
  year      = {2021},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  doi       = {10.1609/aaai.v35i15.17594}
}

@inproceedings{dognin2020dualtkb,
  title     = {DualTKB: A Dual Learning Bridge between Text and Knowledge Base},
  author    = {Pierre Dognin and Igor Melnyk and Inkit Padhi and Cicero Nogueira dos Santos and Payel Das},
  year      = {2020},
  booktitle = {Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
  doi       = {10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.694}
}

@inproceedings{padhi2020implicit-text-generation,
  title     = {Learning Implicit Text Generation via Feature Matching},
  author    = {Inkit Padhi and Pierre Dognin and Ke Bai and Cicero Nogueira dos Santos and Vijil Chenthamarakshan and Youssef Mroueh and Payel Das},
  year      = {2020},
  booktitle = {Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
  doi       = {10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.354}
}

@inproceedings{chenthamarakshan2020cogmol,
  title     = {CogMol: Target-Specific and Selective Drug Design for COVID-19 Using Deep Generative Models},
  author    = {Vijil Chenthamarakshan and Payel Das and Samuel Hoffman and Hendrik Strobelt and Inkit Padhi and Kar Wai Lim and Benjamin Hoover and Matteo Manica and Jannis Born and Teodoro Laino and Aleksandra Mojsilovic},
  year      = {2020},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems}
}

@inproceedings{dognin2020noisy-captioning,
  title     = {Alleviating Noisy Data in Image Captioning with Cooperative Distillation},
  author    = {Pierre Dognin and Igor Melnyk and Youssef Mroueh and Inkit Padhi and Mattia Rigotti and Jarret Ross and Yair Schiff},
  year      = {2020},
  booktitle = {arXiv preprint}
}

@inproceedings{santos2019perceptual-features,
  title     = {Learning Implicit Generative Models by Matching Perceptual Features},
  author    = {Cicero Nogueira dos Santos and Youssef Mroueh and Inkit Padhi and Pierre Dognin},
  year      = {2019},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision}
}

@inproceedings{mroueh2019sobolev,
  title     = {Sobolev Independence Criterion},
  author    = {Youssef Mroueh and Tom Sercu and Mattia Rigotti and Inkit Padhi and Cicero Nogueira dos Santos},
  year      = {2019},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems}
}

@inproceedings{sercu2019ivels,
  title     = {Interactive Visual Exploration of Latent Space (IVELS) for Peptide Auto-Encoder Model Selection},
  author    = {Tom Sercu and Sebastian Gehrmann and Hendrik Strobelt and Payel Das and Inkit Padhi and Cicero Dos Santos and Kahini Wadhawan and Vijil Chenthamarakshan},
  year      = {2019},
  booktitle = {ICLR Workshop}
}

@inproceedings{santos2019generative-feature-matching,
  title     = {Generative Feature Matching Networks},
  author    = {Cicero Nogueira dos Santos and Inkit Padhi and Pierre Dognin and Youssef Mroueh},
  year      = {2019},
  booktitle = {ICLR Workshop}
}

@inproceedings{santos2018fighting-offensive,
  title     = {Fighting Offensive Language on Social Media with Unsupervised Text Style Transfer},
  author    = {Cicero Nogueira dos Santos and Igor Melnyk and Inkit Padhi},
  year      = {2018},
  booktitle = {Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
  doi       = {10.18653/v1/P18-2031}
}

@inproceedings{zhao2018biomimicry,
  title     = {Data Driven Techniques for Organizing Scientific Articles Relevant to Biomimicry},
  author    = {Yuanshuo Zhao and Ioana Baldini and Prasanna Sattigeri and Inkit Padhi and Yoong Keok Lee and Ethan Smith},
  year      = {2018},
  booktitle = {AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society},
  doi       = {10.1145/3278721.3278755}
}

@inproceedings{das2018pepcvae,
  title     = {PepCVAE: Semi-Supervised Targeted Design of Antimicrobial Peptide Sequences},
  author    = {Payel Das and Kahini Wadhawan and Oscar Chang and Tom Sercu and Cicero Dos Santos and Matthew Riemer and Vijil Chenthamarakshan and Inkit Padhi and Aleksandra Mojsilovic},
  year      = {2018},
  booktitle = {arXiv preprint}
}

@inproceedings{melnyk2017text-attribute-transfer,
  title     = {Improved Neural Text Attribute Transfer with Non-parallel Data},
  author    = {Igor Melnyk and Cicero Nogueira dos Santos and Kahini Wadhawan and Inkit Padhi and Abhishek Kumar},
  year      = {2017},
  booktitle = {arXiv preprint}
}

@inproceedings{shi2016string-neural-mt,
  title     = {Does String-Based Neural MT Learn Source Syntax?},
  author    = {Xing Shi and Inkit Padhi and Kevin Knight},
  year      = {2016},
  booktitle = {Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
  doi       = {10.18653/v1/D16-1159}
}