Research Interests

My research interest primarily is in the area of Machine Learning, with focus on Kernel methods. The main theme in most of my works is formalizing novel learning settings as optimization problems that have theoretical guarantees and can be applied to diverse applications. The key tools that I leverage in the context of learning are Optimization and Statistics. I am currently pursuing projects on i) Optimal Transport ii) Fujitsu sponsored project on Causality iii) other collaborations with folks in Microsoft, IITB, IITM, IISc. Link to my lab: ML LAB.

Publications

Pre-prints

Conference Proceedings

  1. Piyushi Manupriya, Rachit Keerti Das, Sayantan Biswas, and J. Saketha Nath. CONSISTENT OPTIMAL TRANSPORT WITH EMPIRICAL CONDITIONAL MEASURES . Accepted at AISTATS-2024. pdf
  2. Piyushi Manupriya, SakethaNath Jagarlapudi, Tarun Ram Menta and Vineeth N. Balasubramanian. Improving Attribution Methods by Learning Submodular Functions. Accepted at AISTATS'22. |paper||poster||slides||Talk||Code|
  3. Soumya Chatterjee, Ayush Maheshwari, Ganesh Ramakrishnan and SakethaNath Jagaralpudi. Joint Learning of Hyperbolic Label Embeddings for Hierarchical Multi-label Classification. Accepted at EACL'21, pdf
  4. J. Saketha Nath and Pratik Jawanpuria. Statistical Optimal Transport posed as Learning Kernel Embedding. Accepted at NeurIPS'20. Long pdf, NeurIPS pdf, 3min Video,
  5. Prafull Prakash, Chaitanya Murti, J. Saketha Nath and Chiranjib Bhattacharyya. Optimizing DNN Architectures for High Speed Autonomous Navigation in GPS Denied Environments on Edge Devices. PRICAI (2) 2019.
  6. Ayush Maheshwari, Vishwajeet kumar, Ganesh Ramakrishnan and J. Saketha Nath. Entity Resolution and Location Disambiguation in Ancient Hindu Temples Domain using Web Data. Accepted (demo track paper) in NAACL-HLT, 2018..
  7. Arun Iyer, Saketha Nath J and Sunita Sarawagi. Privacy-preserving Class Ratio Estimation. ACM SIG KDD 2016 (pdf).
  8. Pratik J., Manik Varma and Saketha Nath J. On p-norm Path Following in Multiple Kernel Learning for Non-linear Feature Selection. ICML 2014 (pdf).
  9. Arun Iyer, Saketha Nath J and Sunita Sarawagi. Maximum Mean Discrepancy for Class Ratio Estimation: Convergence Bounds and Kernel Selection. Accepted in ICML 2014 (pdf).
  10. Ankit Ramteke, Akshat Malu, Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Saketha Nath. Detecting Turnarounds in Sentiment Analysis: Thwarting. ACL Short papers 2013.
  11. Pratik J., and J. Saketha Nath. A Convex Feature Learning Formulation for Latent Task Structure Discovery. ICML-2012, pdf.
  12. Pratik J., J. Saketha Nath and Ganesh R. Efficient Rule Ensemble Learning using Hierarchical Kernels. ICML-2011. pdf | techrep | code.
  13. Pratik J., and J. Saketha Nath. Multi-task Multiple Kernel Learning. SDM2011. Draft. Code.
  14. J. Saketha Nath, G. Dinesh, S. Raman, C. Bhattacharyya, A. Ben-Tal, K. R. Ramakrishnan. On the Algorithmics and Applications of a Mixed-norm based Kernel Learning Formulation. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Vancouver, 2009. (pdf)
  15. S. Bhadra, J. Saketha Nath, A. Ben-Tal and C. Bhattacharyya. Interval Data Classification under Partial Information: A Chance-Constraint Approach. In Proceedings of the PAKDD conference, Bangkok, 2009. [Best Paper - Runner Up]. pdf | slides
  16. R. Babaria, J. Saketha Nath, S. Krishnan, Sivaramakrishnan, C. Bhattacharyya and M. N. Murty. Focussed Crawling with Scalable Ordinal Regression Solvers. In Proceedings of the ICML conference, Oregon, 2007. pdf | slides | poster
  17. J. Saketha Nath and C. Bhattacharyya. Maximum Margin Classifiers with Specified False Positive and False Negative Error Rates. In Proceedings of SDM conference, Minneapolis, 2007. pdf
  18. J. Saketha Nath, C. Bhattacharyya and M. N. Murty. Clustering Based Large Margin Classification: A Scalable Approach using SOCP Formulation. In Proceedings of the SIGKDD conference, Philadelphia, 2006. pdf

Journals

  1. Piyushi Manupriya, J. Saketha Nath and Pratik Jawanpuria. MMD-Regularized Unbalanced Optimal Transport. Accepted in TMLR journal, Jan-2024. pdf
  2. Pratik Jawapuria, J. SakethaNath and Ganesh Ramakrishnan. Generalized Hierarchical Kernel Learning. Journal of Machine Learning Research, vol. 16, Pg. 617-652, Mar 2015 pdf.
  3. J. Saketha Nath, A. Ben-Tal and C. Bhattacharyya. Robust formulations for clustering-based large-scale classification. Journal of Optimization & Engg., vol. 14(2), Pg. 225-250, June 2013. pdf | code | page1|page2
  4. J. Aflalo, A. Ben-Tal, C. Bhattacharyya, J. Saketha Nath and S. Raman. Variable Sparsity Kernel Learning. Journal of Machine Learning Research, vol. 12, Pg. 565-592, 2011. (web-page, code, pdf)
  5. A. Ben-Tal, S. Bhadra, C. Bhattacharyya and J. Saketha Nath. Chance Constrained Uncertain Classification via Robust Optimization. Mathematical Programming Series B (special issue on Machine Learning), vol. 127(1), Pg. 145-173, 2010. (pdf)
  6. J. Saketha Nath and S. K. Shevade. An efficient clustering scheme using support vector methods. Pattern Recognition, vol. 39(8), Pg. 1473-1480, 2006. pdf | code

Thesis

Professional Activities

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