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Manohar Kaul

9 accepted papers

2026

Graph-Theoretic Intrinsic Reward: Guiding RL with Effective Resistance

ICLR 2026poster

Exploration of dynamic environments with sparse rewards is a significant challenge in Reinforcement Learning, often leading to inefficient exploration and brittle policies. To address this, we introduce a novel graph-based intrinsic reward using Effective Resistance, a metric from spectral graph the…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Beyond Mere Token Analysis: A Hypergraph Metric Space Framework for Defending Against Socially Engineered LLM Attacks

ICLR 2025poster

Recent jailbreak attempts on Large Language Models (LLMs) have shifted from algorithm-focused to human-like social engineering attacks, with persuasion-based techniques emerging as a particularly effective subset. These attacks evolve rapidly, demonstrate high creativity, and boast superior attack s…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

EFFICIENT JAILBREAK ATTACK SEQUENCES ON LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS VIA MULTI-ARMED BANDIT-BASED CONTEXT SWITCHING

ICLR 2025poster

Content warning: This paper contains examples of harmful language and content. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have made them increasingly vulnerable to jailbreaking attempts, where malicious users manipulate models into generating harmful content. While existing approaches rely on e…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

SafeQuant: LLM Safety Analysis via Quantized Gradient Inspection

NAACL 2025long

Contemporary jailbreak attacks on Large Language Models (LLMs) employ sophisticated techniques with obfuscated content to bypass safety guardrails. Existing defenses either use computationally intensive LLM verification or require adversarial fine-tuning, leaving models vulnerable to advanced attack…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

HOLMES: Hyper-Relational Knowledge Graphs for Multi-hop Question Answering using LLMs

ACL 2024long

Given unstructured text, Large Language Models (LLMs) are adept at answering simple (single-hop) questions. However, as the complexity of the questions increase, the performance of LLMs degrade. We believe this is due to the overhead associated with understanding the complex question followed by fil…

Cited by 12SourcePDFScholar
2020

FEW-SHOT LEARNING ON GRAPHS VIA SUPER-CLASSES BASED ON GRAPH SPECTRAL MEASURES

ICLR 2020poster

We propose to study the problem of few-shot graph classification in graph neural networks (GNNs) to recognize unseen classes, given limited labeled graph examples. Despite several interesting GNN variants being proposed recently for node and graph classification tasks, when faced with scarce labeled…

Cited by 91SourcecodeScholar
2020

Simplicial Complex based Point Correspondence between Images warped onto Manifolds

ECCV 2020poster

Recent increase in the availability of warped images projected onto a manifold (e.g., omnidirectional spherical images), coupled with the success of higher-order assignment methods, has sparked an interest in the search for improved higher-order matching algorithms on warped images due to projection…

2018

Solving Partial Assignment Problems using Random Clique Complexes

ICML 2018oral

We present an alternate formulation of the partial assignment problem as matching random clique complexes, that are higher-order analogues of random graphs, designed to provide a set of invariants that better detect higher-order structure. The proposed method creates random clique adjacency matrices…