← Search

Varsha Kishore

8 accepted papers

2026

AstaBench: Rigorous Benchmarking of AI Agents with a Scientific Research Suite

ICLR 2026oral

AI agents hold the potential to revolutionize scientific productivity by automating literature reviews, replicating experiments, analyzing data, and even proposing new directions of inquiry; indeed, there are now many such agents, ranging from general-purpose "deep research" systems to specialized s…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

Improving Attributed Long-form Question Answering with Intent Awareness

ICLR 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used to generate comprehensive, knowledge-intensive reports. However, while these models are trained on diverse academic papers and reports, they are not exposed to the reasoning processes and intents that guide authors in crafting these documents.…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Reinforcement Learning with Evolving Rubrics for Deep Research

ICML 2026oral

Deep research agents perform multi-step research to produce long-form, well-attributed answers. However, most open deep research agents are trained on easily verifiable short-form QA tasks via reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards, which does not extend to realistic long-form tasks. We addr…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

IncDSI: Incrementally Updatable Document Retrieval

ICML 2023poster

Differentiable Search Index is a recently proposed paradigm for document retrieval, that encodes information about a corpus of documents within the parameters of a neural network and directly maps queries to corresponding documents. These models have achieved state-of-the-art performances for docume…

2023

Latent Diffusion for Language Generation

NeurIPS 2023poster

Diffusion models have achieved great success in modeling continuous data modalities such as images, audio, and video, but have seen limited use in discrete domains such as language. Recent attempts to adapt diffusion to language have presented diffusion as an alternative to existing pretrained langu…

2023

Learning Iterative Neural Optimizers for Image Steganography

ICLR 2023poster

Image steganography is the process of concealing secret information in images through imperceptible changes. Recent work has formulated this task as a classic constrained optimization problem. In this paper, we argue that image steganography is inherently performed on the (elusive) manifold of natu…

2022

Fixed Neural Network Steganography: Train the images, not the network

ICLR 2022poster

Recent attempts at image steganography make use of advances in deep learning to train an encoder-decoder network pair to hide and retrieve secret messages in images. These methods are able to hide large amounts of data, but they also incur high decoding error rates (around 20%). In this paper, we pr…