Publications

LLM-ACES: Closed-Loop Discovery of Dynamical Systems with LLM-Guided Adaptive Search

Nikhil Abhyankar, Sha Li, Sanchit Kabra, Naren Ramakrishnan, Yulia Gel, Chandan K. Reddy

NeurIPS 2026 Paper Code

LLM-AutoSciLab: Closed-Loop Scientific Discovery via Active Experimentation with LLMs

Sanchit Kabra*, Nikhil Abhyankar*, Saaketh Desai, Prasad Iyer, Chandan K Reddy

NeurIPS 2026 Paper Code

RUST-BENCH: Benchmarking LLM Reasoning on Unstructured Text within Structured Tables

Nikhil Abhyankar, Purvi Chaurasia, Sanchit Kabra, Ananya Srivastava, Vivek Gupta, Chandan K Reddy

Arxiv Paper Code

LLEMA: Evolutionary Search with LLMs for Multi-Objective Materials Discovery

Nikhil Abhyankar*, Sanchit Kabra*, Saaketh Desai, Chandan K. Reddy

ICLR 2026 Paper Code

LLM-FE: Automated Feature Engineering for Tabular Data with LLMs as Evolutionary Optimizers

Nikhil Abhyankar, Parshin Shojaee, Chandan K. Reddy

TMLR Paper Code

H-STAR: LLM-driven Hybrid SQL-Text Adaptive Reasoning on Tables

Nikhil Abhyankar, Vivek Gupta, Dan Roth, Chandan K. Reddy

NAACL 2025 Paper Code

Data Centric Defenses for Privacy Attacks

Nikhil Abhyankar

Virginia Tech Paper

Data-Centric Defense: Shaping Loss Landscape with Augmentations to Counter Model Inversion

Si Chen, Feiyang Kang, Nikhil Abhyankar, Ming Jin, Ruoxi Jia

TMLR, July 2023 Paper

Exposing DeepFakes Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Transfer Learning Approaches

S. Suratkar, F. Kazi, M. Sakhalkar, N. Abhyankar and M. Kshirsagar

IEEE INDICON 2020 Paper Code