Rahul Sharma

Publications

  1. NeurIPS, 2026
    Poster
    Beyond Query Linearity: The Case for Nonlinear Queries

    Jiwon Jeong, Dun Li Chan, Andrew Ceniccola, Rahul Sharma, Simon Sang, Parva Mehta, Pietro Di Nicco, Karim Saraipour, Marko Karbevski

    SLM Agents Workshop, NeurIPS 2026

    Argues that linear query transformations limit the expressivity of attention, and makes the case for nonlinear query mappings in small language models. Shows that nonlinear queries can recover capabilities that purely linear attention heads cannot represent.

  2. KDD, 2026
    Oral
    Readable ≠ Steerable: Why Probe-Derived Context-Trust Directions Fail as Reliable RAG Control Surfaces

    Rahul Sharma

    Second Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy LLMs (SeT-LLM), 32nd ACM SIGKDD · Jeju

    Studies whether linear probes of context-trust in RAG models yield usable control directions. Finds that directions which are readable by probes often fail to steer model behavior reliably, cautioning against using probe-derived directions as control surfaces.

  3. Eur. J. Ophthalmol., 2026
    Utility of an LLM-powered experts-in-the-loop chatbot for pre- and post-operative care of cataract surgery patients

    Bhuvan Sachdeva, Pragnya Ramjee, Rahul Sharma, Mithun Thulasidas, Sowmya Raveendra Murthy, Geeta Fulari, Kaushik Murali, Mohit Jain

    European Journal of Ophthalmology

    Evaluates an LLM-powered WhatsApp chatbot with doctors in the loop for cataract surgery patients. Reports on its utility for pre- and post-operative care based on a deployment across multiple hospitals.

  4. NeurIPS, 2025
    Poster
    Editing with AI: How Doctors Refine LLM-Generated Answers to Patient Queries

    Rahul Sharma, Pragnya Ramjee, Kaushik Murali, Mohit Jain

    GenAI for Health Workshop, NeurIPS 2025 · San Diego

    Analyzes how doctors edit LLM-generated answers to patient questions in an expert-in-the-loop health chatbot. Characterizes edit patterns and draws design implications for human-AI collaboration in healthcare.

  5. CVIP, 2021
    Poster
    Performance Evaluation of Deep Learning Models for Ship Detection

    Rahul Sharma, Harshit Sharma, Tamanna Meena, Padmavati Khandnor, Palak Bansal, Paras Sharma

    6th IAPR Conference on CVIP · IIT Ropar

    Benchmarks deep learning object detectors for ship detection in satellite imagery. Compares accuracy and speed trade-offs across model architectures.