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“Is depression related to cannabis?”: A knowledge-infused model for entity and relation extraction with limited Supervision
Published in AAAI 2021 Spring Symposium on Combining Machine Learning and Knowledge Engineering (AAAI-MAKE), 2021
A knowledge-infused relation extraction model combining ontology guidance, GPT-3 embeddings, and contrastive learning under limited supervision.
Recommended citation: Kaushik Roy, Usha Lokala, Vedant Khandelwal, and Amit Sheth. (2021). "Is depression related to cannabis?: A knowledge-infused model for entity and relation extraction with limited Supervision." Proceedings of the AAAI 2021 Spring Symposium on Combining Machine Learning and Knowledge Engineering (AAAI-MAKE 2021).
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Explainable Pathfinding for Inscrutable Planners with Inductive Logic Programming
Published in ICAPS 2022 Workshop on Explainable AI Planning, 2022
An ILP-driven explainable pathfinding framework that summarizes solutions across all problem instances using an explainable pathfinding graph.
Recommended citation: Forest Agostinelli, Rojina Panta, Vedant Khandelwal, Biplav Srivastava, Bharath Chandra Muppasani, Kausik Lakkaraju, and Dezhi Wu. (2022). "Explainable Pathfinding for Inscrutable Planners with Inductive Logic Programming." ICAPS 2022 Workshop on Explainable AI Planning.
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ALLURE: A Multi-Modal Guided Environment for Helping Children Learn to Solve a Rubik’s Cube with Automatic Solving and Interactive Explanations
Published in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022
ALLURE combines automatic Rubik’s Cube solving with interactive, human-understandable explanations for child-centered learning.
Recommended citation: Kausik Lakkaraju, Thahimum Hassan, Vedant Khandelwal, Prathamjeet Singh, Cassidy Bradley, Ronak Shah, Forest Agostinelli, Biplav Srivastava, and Dezhi Wu. (2022). "ALLURE: A Multi-Modal Guided Environment for Helping Children Learn to Solve a Rubik's Cube with Automatic Solving and Interactive Explanations." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 36, no. 11, pp. 13185-13187.
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Demo Alleviate: Demonstrating Artificial Intelligence Enabled Virtual Assistance for Telehealth: The Mental Health Case
Published in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-23 Demo Track), 2023
Alleviate is a safety-constrained telehealth mental-health assistant that combines personalized patient knowledge graphs with explainable feedback loops.
Recommended citation: Kaushik Roy, Vedant Khandelwal, Raxit Goswami, Nathan Dolbir, Jinendra Malekar, and Amit Sheth. (2023). "Demo Alleviate: Demonstrating Artificial Intelligence Enabled Virtual Assistance for Telehealth: The Mental Health Case." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 37(13): 16289-16290.
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GEAR-Up: Generative AI and External Knowledge-based Retrieval Upgrading Scholarly Article Searches for Systematic Reviews
Published in Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024
A modular pipeline that combines generative AI and external knowledge retrieval to improve systematic review query construction.
Recommended citation: Kaushik Roy, Vedant Khandelwal, Harshul Surana, Valerie Vera, Amit Sheth, and Heather Heckman. (2024). "GEAR-Up: Generative AI and External Knowledge-based Retrieval Upgrading Scholarly Article Searches for Systematic Reviews." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
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Specifying goals to deep neural networks with answer set programming
Published in International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2024
Goal-conditioned planning with ASP specifications allows a trained DNN heuristic to solve diverse target goals without retraining.
Recommended citation: Forest Agostinelli, Rojina Panta, and Vedant Khandelwal. (2024). "Specifying goals to deep neural networks with answer set programming." Proceedings of the ICAPS, vol. 34, pp. 2-10.
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A Domain-Agnostic Neurosymbolic Approach for Big Social Data Analysis: Evaluating Mental Health Sentiment on Social Media during COVID-19
Published in IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2024
A domain-agnostic neurosymbolic pipeline for large-scale COVID-era mental health sentiment analysis across depression, addiction, and anxiety.
Recommended citation: Vedant Khandelwal, Manas Gaur, Ugur Kursuncu, Valerie Shalin, and Amit Sheth. (2024). "A Domain-Agnostic Neurosymbolic Approach for Big Social Data Analysis: Evaluating Mental Health Sentiment on Social Media during COVID-19." Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data.
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A Neurosymbolic Fast and Slow Architecture for Graph Coloring
Published in Twelfth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems (ACS), 2025
SOFAI-v2 combines fast LLM proposals with metacognitive verification and symbolic fallback for reliable graph coloring.
Recommended citation: Vedant Khandelwal, Vishal Pallagani, Biplav Srivastava, and Francesca Rossi. (2025). "A Neurosymbolic Fast and Slow Architecture for Graph Coloring." Twelfth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems (ACS).
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AI-Augmented Search for Systematic Reviews: A Comparative Analysis
Published in Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), 2025
A comparative analysis of AI-augmented search methods for systematic reviews published in ASIS&T proceedings.
Recommended citation: Valerie Vera*, Vedant Khandelwal*, Kaushik Roy, Ritvik Garimella, Harshul Surana, and Amit Sheth. (2025). "AI-Augmented Search for Systematic Reviews: A Comparative Analysis." Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 62, no. 1: 705-717. (* Equal contribution)
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NeuroSymbolic Knowledge-Grounded Planning and Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence Systems
Published in IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2025
A neurosymbolic framework for knowledge-grounded, constraint-aware planning and reasoning in high-stakes AI decision support.
Recommended citation: Amit Sheth, Vedant Khandelwal, Kaushik Roy, Vishal Pallagani, and Megha Chakraborty. (2025). "NeuroSymbolic Knowledge-Grounded Planning and Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence Systems." IEEE Intelligent Systems, pp. 27-34.
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Towards Learning Foundation Models for Heuristic Functions to Solve Pathfinding Problems
Published in GenPlan Workshop, AAAI 2025, 2025
A reinforcement learning foundation model for pathfinding heuristics that generalizes across diverse PDDL domains.
Recommended citation: Vedant Khandelwal, Amit Sheth, and Forest Agostinelli. (2025). "Towards Learning Foundation Models for Heuristic Functions to Solve Pathfinding Problems." GenPlan Workshop, AAAI 2025.
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PDDLFuse: A Tool for Generating Diverse Planning Domains
Published in GenPlan Workshop, AAAI 2025, 2025
Generating solvable and structurally diverse planning domains with probabilistic PDDL fusion.
Recommended citation: Vedant Khandelwal, Amit Sheth, and Forest Agostinelli. (2025). "PDDLFuse: A Tool for Generating Diverse Planning Domains." GenPlan Workshop, AAAI 2025.
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NeuroLit Navigator: A Neurosymbolic Approach to Scholarly Article Searches for Systematic Reviews
Published in arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.00278, 2025
A neurosymbolic retrieval pipeline for faster, reproducible first-iteration search in systematic reviews.
Recommended citation: Vedant Khandelwal, Kaushik Roy, Valerie Lookingbill, Ritvik Garimella, Harshul Surana, Heather Heckman, and Amit Sheth. (2025). "NeuroLit Navigator: A Neurosymbolic Approach to Scholarly Article Searches for Systematic Reviews." arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.00278.
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Inductive Logic Programming for Heuristic Search
Published in Accepted at both IJCLR 2025 (5th International Joint Conference on Learning & Reasoning) and the ICAPS 2025 Workshop on Planning and Reinforcement Learning (PRL), 2025
Learning explainable cost-to-go heuristics directly as logic programs for efficient A* search.
Recommended citation: Rojina Panta*, Vedant Khandelwal*, Celeste Veronese, Amit Sheth, Daniele Meli, and Forest Agostinelli. (2025). "Inductive Logic Programming for Heuristic Search." Accepted at both IJCLR 2025 (5th International Joint Conference on Learning & Reasoning) and the ICAPS 2025 Workshop on Planning and Reinforcement Learning (PRL). (* Equal contribution)
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Language Models Coupled with Metacognition Can Outperform Reasoning Models
Published in arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.17959 (under review at ICML 2026), 2025
Demonstrating that language models enhanced with metacognitive capabilities can outperform traditional reasoning models.
Recommended citation: Vedant Khandelwal, Francesca Rossi, Keerthiram Murugesan, Erik Miehling, Murray Campbell, Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy, and Lior Horesh. (2025). "Language Models Coupled with Metacognition Can Outperform Reasoning Models." arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.17959 (under review at ICML 2026).
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Toward Neurosymbolic Reinforcement Learning via Editable Specifications
Published in AAAI-MAKE 2026, 2026
A neurosymbolic RL framework where editable specifications drive immediate, auditable behavior changes without retraining.
Recommended citation: Vedant Khandelwal, Hong Yung Yip, and Amit Sheth (2026). "Toward Neurosymbolic Reinforcement Learning via Editable Specifications." AAAI-MAKE 2026.
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Top-K Gated Macro-Actions for Neural Heuristic Search
Published in Under review at SOCS 2026, 2026
Top-K gating bounds macro branching in neural heuristic search while preserving completeness and reducing node expansions.
Recommended citation: Vedant Khandelwal et al. (2026). "Top-K Gated Macro-Actions for Neural Heuristic Search." Under review at SOCS 2026.
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Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015
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