Publications

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Optimal Dataset Design for Nurture-then-Nature Teaching

Shubham Kumar Bharti, Deep Patel, Xiaojin Zhu, Preprint 2025

CHARTOM: A Visual Theory-of-Mind Benchmark for LLMs on Misleading Charts

Shubham Bharti, Shiyun Cheng, Jihyun Rho, Jianrui Zhang, Mu Cai, Yong Jae Lee, Martina Rau, Xiaojin Zhu, Preprint 2025

In-Context Learning with Hypothesis-Class Guidance

Ziqian Lin, Shubham Bharti, Kangwook Lee, Preprint 2025

On the Complexity of Teaching a Family of Linear Behavior Cloning Agents

Shubham Kumar Bharti, Stephen Wright, Adish Singla, Xiaojin Zhu, NeurIPS 2024

Provable Defense against Backdoor policies in RL

Shubham Bharti, Xuezhou Zhang, Adish Singla, Xiaojin Zhu, NeurIPS 2022

The Game of Hidden Rules: A New Kind of Benchmark Challenge for ML

Eric Pulick, Shubham Bharti, Yiding Chen, Yonatan Mintz, Paul Kantor, Vicki M. Bier, Preprint 2022

Fair Bandits with Cumulative Parity in Rewards

Shubham Kumar Bharti, Kangwook Lee, Xiaojin Zhu, Preprint 2021

The Sample Complexity of Teaching-by-Reinforcement on Q-Learning

Xuezhou Zhang, Shubham Kumar Bharti, Yuzhe Ma, Adish Singla and Xiaojin Zhu, AAAI 2021

Multitask Neural Networks meets Multitask Gaussian Processes

Karthikeyan K, Shubham Kumar Bharti, Piyush Rai, Arxiv 2019