Publications and preprints

Research

My research spans post-training and alignment for large language models, machine learning theory, and differential privacy.

Shiva Kasiviswanathan speaking at the Agentic AI Summit
Principal Applied Scientist Amazon, Bay Area, California

Preprints

  1. Preprint

    Sample Complexity of Multicalibration for Multilevel Properties

    With J. Lu, K. Balasubramanian, and A. Podkopaev

  2. Preprint
  3. Preprint
  4. Preprint

    Debiasing Reward Models via Identifiable Causal Representations

    With I. Ng, P. Bloebaum, S. Bhandari, and K. Zhang

  5. Preprint

    Optimal Transportation and Alignment Between Gaussian Measures

    With S. Dandapanthula, A. Podkopaev, A. Ramdas, and Z. Goldfeld

  6. Preprint
  7. Preprint
  8. Preprint

    What Causes Postoperative Aspiration?

    With S. Nagesh, K, Covarrubias, R. El-Kareh, and N. Mishra

  9. Preprint
  10. Preprint

Published papers

  1. EMNLP 2026
  2. EMNLP 2026

    Group Adaptive Clipping Policy Optimization

    With S. Jia, X. Wang, and R. Houthooft

  3. ICML 2026
  4. ICLR 2026
  5. ICLR 2026

    Learning to Answer from Correct Demonstrations

    With N. Joshi, G. Li, S. Bhandari, C. Ma, and N. Srebro

  6. AISTATS 2026

    From Guess2Graph: When and How Can Unreliable Experts Safely Boost Causal Discovery in Finite Samples?

    With S. Hiremath, D. Janzing, P. Faller, P. Blobaum, E. Kirschbaum, and K. Gan

  7. ICLR 2025

    QA-Calibration of Language Model Confidence Scores

    With P. Manggala, A. Mastakouri, E. Kirschbaum, and A. Ramdas

  8. TMLR 2024

    Modeling Causal Mechanisms with Diffusion Models for Interventional and Counterfactual Queries

    With P. Chao, P. Bloebaum, and S. Patel

    In Transactions on Machine Learning Research 2024

    Preliminary version in ICML Workshop: Could it have been different? Counterfactuals in Minds and Machines, 2023

  9. AISTATS 2024
  10. CLeaR 2024

    The PetShop Dataset — Finding Causes of Performance Issues across Microservices

    With M. Hardt, W. Orchard, P. Bloebaum, and E. Kirschbaum

  11. NeurIPS 2023
  12. ICML 2023

    Thompson Sampling with Diffusion Generative Prior

    With Y. Hsieh, B. Kveton, and P. Bloebaum

  13. ICML 2023

    Sequential Kernelized Independence Testing

    With A. Podkopaev, P. Bloebaum, and A. Ramdas

  14. NeurIPS 2022

    Uplifting Bandits

    With Y. Hsieh and B. Kveton

  15. ICML 2022

    On Measuring Causal Contributions via do-interventions

    With Y. Jung, J. Tian, D. Janzing, P. Bloebaum, and E. Bareinboim

  16. UAI 2022

    Balancing Utility and Scalability in Metric Differential Privacy

    With J. Imola, S. White, A. Aggarwal, and N. Teissier

  17. AISTATS 2022

    Reconstructing Test Labels from Noisy Loss Functions

    With A. Aggarwal, Z. Xu, O. Feyisetan, and N. Teissier

  18. NeurIPS 2021
  19. ICML 2021

    Label Inference Attacks from Log-loss Scores

    With A. Aggarwal, Z. Xu, O. Feyisetan, and N. Teissier

    Selected for long oral presentation

  20. ICML 2021
  21. UAI 2021
  22. TrustNLP 2021
  23. Paper
  24. ICML 2020

    Efficient Intervention Design for Causal Discovery with Latents

    With R. Addanki, A. McGregor, and C. Musco

  25. AISTATS 2020
  26. JPC 2020

    Subsampled Renyi Differential Privacy and Analytical Moments Accountant

    With Y. Wang and B. Balle

    AISTATS 2019 version selected for oral presentation

    Winner of Notable Paper Award at AISTATS 2019

    Full version, In Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, 2020

    Preliminary versions in PPML 2018 and TPDP 2018 - Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy

  27. COLT 2018
  28. ICML 2018
  29. IJCAI 2018

    Network Approximation using Tensor Sketching

    With N. Narodytska and H. Jin

    Preliminary version in NIPS 2016 Workshop on Deep Learning: Bridging Theory and Practice

    Full version of this paper can be found here

  30. AAAI 2018

    Verifying Properties of Binarized Deep Neural Networks

    With N. Narodytska, L. Ryzhyk, M. Sagiv, and T. Walsh

  31. CVPRW 2017

    Simple Black-Box Adversarial Attacks on Deep Neural Networks

    With N. Narodytska

    Preliminary version appeared at the NIPS 2016 Workshop on Adversarial Training

  32. PODS 2017

    Private Incremental Regression

    With K. Nissim and H. Jin

  33. ICML 2016
  34. VLDB 2016
  35. ICDE 2016

    Streaming Spectral Clustering

    With S. Yoo and H. Huang

  36. ICDE 2016

    Private Spatial Data Aggregation in the Local Setting

    With R. Chen, H. Li, A.K. Win, and H. Jin

    Invited to IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (special issue)

  37. RANDOM 2015
  38. CIKM 2015
  39. AAAI 2015

    Online Dictionary Learning on Symmetric Positive Definite Manifolds with Vision Applications

    With S. Zhang, P. Yuen, and M. Harandi

    Associated code can be found here: here

  40. JPC 2014
  41. MLJ 2014

    Bounds on the Sample Complexity for Private Learning and Private Data Release

    With A. Beimel, H. Brenner, and K. Nissim

    In Machine Learning Journal, 2014

    Earlier version appeared in proceedings of TCC 2010

  42. SODA 2013

    The Power of Linear Reconstruction Attacks

    With M. Rudelson and A. Smith

  43. TCC 2013

    Analyzing Graphs with Node Differential Privacy

    With K. Nissim, S. Raskhodnikova, and A. Smith

    Full version of this paper can be found here

  44. ICASSP 2013

    Fast Online L1-Dictionary Learning Algorithms For Novel Document Detection

    Invited presentation

    Special session on Sparse Signal Techniques for Web Information Processing

  45. IBMJ 2013

    Novel Document Detection on Massive Data Streams using Distributed Dictionary Learning

    With G. Cong, P. Melville, and R. Lawrence

    In IBM Journal of Research and Development, 2013

  46. CPC 2014

    Approximately Counting Embeddings into Random Graphs

    With M. Furer

    In Combinatorics, Probability & Computing, 2014 (special issue on Analysis of Algorithms)

    Earlier version appeared in proceedings of RANDOM 2008

  47. TCS 2013

    An Exponential Time 2-Approximation Algorithm for Bandwidth

    With M. Furer and S. Gaspers

    In Theoretical Computer Science, 2013 (special issue on Exact & Parameterized Computation)

    Earlier version appeared in proceedings of IWPEC 2009

  48. NIPS 2012

    Online L1-Dictionary Learning with Application to Novel Document Detection

    With H. Wang, A. Banerjee, and P. Melville

    Full version of this paper can be found here

    Preliminary version appeared at the KDD SOMA Workshop 2012

  49. ICML 2012
  50. CIKM 2011

    Emerging Topic Detection Using Dictionary Learning

    With P. Melville, A. Banerjee, and V. Sindhwani

    Full version of this paper can be found here

  51. INFOCOM 2011

    Geography-Based Analysis of the Internet Infrastructure

    With S. Eidenbenz and G. Yan

    Full version of this paper can be found here

  52. SODA 2011

    The Rigidity Transition for Random Graphs

    With C. Moore and L. Theran

  53. MILCOM 2011
  54. SICOMP 2011

    What Can We Learn Privately?

    With H. K. Lee, K. Nissim, S. Raskhodnikova, and A. Smith

    In SIAM Journal on Computing, 2011 (special issue for selected papers from FOCS 2008)

    Earlier version appeared in proceedings of FOCS 2008

  55. STOC 2010

    The Price of Privately Releasing Contingency Tables and the Spectra of Random Matrices with Correlated Rows

    With M. Rudelson, A. Smith, and J. Ullman

    Full version of this paper can be found here

  56. CPAIOR 2010
  57. PADS 2010
  58. PMC 2011

    Bandwidth Provisioning in Infrastructure based Wireless Networks Employing Directional Antennas

    With B. Zhao, B. Urgaonkar, and S. Vasudevan

    In Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 2011 (special issue for selected papers from ICDCN 2010)

    Earlier version appeared in proceedings of ICDCN 2010

  59. HIPC 2009

    Designing Systems for Large-Scale, Discrete-Event Simulations: Experiences with the FastTrans Microsimulator

    With S. Thulasidasan, S. Eidenbenz, E. Galli, S. Mniszewski, and P. Romero

  60. KDD 2008
  61. THESIS 2008

    Approximation Algorithms for Graph Problems (please email me for a copy)

    Ph.D. Thesis, Penn State University, 2008

  62. SPAA 2007

    Packing to Angles and Sectors

    With P. Berman, J. Jeong, and B. Urgaonkar

  63. JCG 2012

    Spanners for Geometric Intersection Graphs with Applications

    With M. Furer

    In Journal of Computational Geometry, 2012

    Earlier version appeared in proceedings of WADS 2007

  64. WADS 2007
  65. SOFSEM 2007

    Exact Max 2-SAT: Easier and Faster

    With M. Furer

    Winner of best paper award

  66. WAOA 2006
  67. JCO 2006

    Combinatorics of TCP Reordering

    With A. Hansson and G. Istrate

    In Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 2006

  68. ANALCO 2005
  69. AAIM 2007

    Algorithms for Counting 2-SAT Solutions and Colorings with Applications

    With M. Furer

    Full version appeared as ECCC report TR05-033, 2005

  70. FSTTCS 2004