Publications

Dissertation

  1. Dissertation
    Effective, Efficient, and Explainable Learning in Data-Scarce and Noisy Domains
    Athresh Karanam
    University of Texas at Dallas, May 2026
    Ph.D. dissertation

Conference Papers

  1. DDDAS
    On the Transferability of Agricultural Weed Detection Under Cross-Field Distribution Shift
    Nikhilesh Prabhakar, Pranuthi Tenali, Wilfredo Abudeye Fernandez, and 5 more authors
    In International Conference on Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems, 2026
  2. IJCLR
    Neurosymbolic Imitation Learning with Human Guidance: A Privileged Information Approach
    Nikhilesh Prabhakar, Varun Balaji, Athresh Karanam, and 2 more authors
    2026
  3. AAAI
    A Unified Framework for Human-Allied Learning of Probabilistic Circuits
    Athresh Karanam, Saurabh Mathur, Sahil Sidheekh, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025
  4. PSB
    Exploiting Domain Knowledge as Causal Independencies in Modeling Gestational Diabetes
    Saurabh Mathur, Athresh Karanam, Predrag Radivojac, and 3 more authors
    In Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, 2023
  5. NeurIPS
    Orient: Submodular Mutual Information Measures for Data Subset Selection under Distribution Shift
    Athresh Karanam, Krishna Killamsetty, Harsha Kokel, and 1 more author
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022
  6. PGM
    Explaining Deep Tractable Probabilistic Models: The Sum-Product Network Case
    Athresh Karanam, Saurabh Mathur, Predrag Radivojac, and 2 more authors
    In International Conference on Probabilistic Graphical Models, 2022
  7. NeurIPS
    Interventional Sum-Product Networks: Causal Inference with Tractable Probabilistic Models
    Matej Zečević, Devendra Singh Dhami, Athresh Karanam, and 2 more authors
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2021
  8. AIME
    A Probabilistic Approach to Extract Qualitative Knowledge for Early Prediction of Gestational Diabetes
    Athresh Karanam, A. L. Hayes, Harsha Kokel, and 3 more authors
    In Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 2021

Workshop Papers

  1. UAI TPM
    Test-time Active Feature Selection through Tractable Acquisition Functions
    Athresh Karanam, and Sriraam Natarajan
    In Tractable Probabilistic Models Workshop at UAI, 2023
  2. UAI TPM
    Bayesian Learning of Probabilistic Circuits with Domain Constraints
    Athresh Karanam, Saurabh Mathur, Sahil Sidheekh, and 1 more author
    In Tractable Probabilistic Models Workshop at UAI, 2023

Tutorials

  1. CODS-COMAD
    Deep Tractable Probabilistic Models
    Saurabh Mathur, Sahil Sidheekh, Athresh Karanam, and 1 more author
    2024