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Nitesh Chawla

7 accepted papers

2026

Adaptive Testing for LLM Evaluation: A Psychometric Alternative to Static Benchmarks

ICML 2026spotlight

Evaluating large language models (LLMs) typically requires thousands of benchmark items, making the process expensive, slow, and increasingly impractical at scale. Existing evaluation protocols rely on average accuracy over fixed item sets, treating all items as equally informative despite substanti…

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2026

Capability-Oriented Training Induced Alignment Risk

ICML 2026poster

While most AI alignment research focuses on preventing models from generating explicitly harmful content, a more subtle risk is emerging: capability-oriented training induced exploitation. We investigate whether language models, when trained with reinforcement learning (RL) in environments with impl…

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2023

Chasing All-Round Graph Representation Robustness: Model, Training, and Optimization

ICLR 2023poster

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art results on a variety of graph learning tasks, however, it has been demonstrated that they are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, raising serious security concerns. A lot of studies have been developed to train GNNs in a noisy environment an…

Cited by 21SourcePDFScholar
2023

Deep Ensembles for Graphs with Higher-order Dependencies

ICLR 2023poster

Graph neural networks (GNNs) continue to achieve state-of-the-art performance on many graph learning tasks, but rely on the assumption that a given graph is a sufficient approximation of the true neighborhood structure. In the presence of higher-order sequential dependencies, we show that the tenden…

2023

Learning MLPs on Graphs: A Unified View of Effectiveness, Robustness, and Efficiency

ICLR 2023top-25%

While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated their efficacy in dealing with non-Euclidean structural data, they are difficult to be deployed in real applications due to the scalability constraint imposed by the multi-hop data dependency. Existing methods attempt to address this scalability i…

2023

Linkless Link Prediction via Relational Distillation

ICML 2023poster

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown exceptional performance in the task of link prediction. Despite their effectiveness, the high latency brought by non-trivial neighborhood data dependency limits GNNs in practical deployments. Conversely, the known efficient MLPs are much less effective than GN…

Cited by 64SourcePDFScholar
2022

Compositional Training for End-to-End Deep AUC Maximization

ICLR 2022spotlight

Recently, deep AUC maximization (DAM) has achieved great success in different domains (e.g., medical image classification). However, the end-to-end training for deep AUC maximization still remains a challenging problem. Previous studies employ an ad-hoc two-stage approach that first trains the netw…