Publications

A complete list of publications can be found on Google Scholar.

2026

  1. arXiv
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    Continual Learning without Continual Training
    Nikita Narayanan, Ritam Majumdar, and Sonali Parbhoo
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.10379, 2026
  2. KDD
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    Causal methods for LLM development and evaluation
    Dennis Frauen, Marie Brockschmidt, Konstantin Hess, and 10 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining V. 2, 2026
  3. ICML
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    Reward Shaping Control Variates for Off-Policy Evaluation Under Sparse Rewards
    Ritam Majumdar, Finale Doshi-Velez, and Sonali Parbhoo
    In Forty-third International Conference on Machine Learning, 2026
  4. Intensive Care Med
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    Reproducible clinical archetypes in acute respiratory failure: a multi-cohort trajectory analysis
    Dominic C Marshall, Ashleigh D Green, Matthieu Komorowski, and 3 more authors
    Intensive Care Medicine, 2026
  5. npj Digit Med
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    Off by a beat: the effects of temporal misalignment in reinforcement learning for sepsis treatment
    Shengpu Tang, Jiayu Yao, Jenna Wiens, and 1 more author
    NPJ Digital Medicine, 2026
  6. ICLR
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    The Alignment Auditor: A Bayesian Framework for Verifying and Refining LLM Objectives
    Matthieu Bou, Nyal Patel, Arjun Jagota, and 2 more authors
    In The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2026
  7. RLC Workshop
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    Off Policy Evaluation Under Temporal Mismatch
    Ritam Majumdar, Shengpu Tang, and Sonali Parbhoo
    In Finding the Frame Workshop at RLC 2026, 2026
  8. BMC Pulm Med
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    Time-varying associations between corticosteroid dose and hospital mortality in ARDS: a sliding-window analysis of MIMIC-IV
    Dominic C Marshall, Matthieu Komorowski, Matthieu Jamme, and 3 more authors
    BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2026
  9. MLHC
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    The Severity Trap: Benchmarking Sequential Representation Learning for Oxygenation Trajectory Phenotyping in Acute Hypoxaemic Respiratory Failure
    Dominic C Marshall, Nikita Narayanan, David B Antcliffe, and 1 more author
    In Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference, 2026
  10. Hum Reprod
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    L26/P-835 Causal AI reveals ethnic variation in the response to ovarian stimulation: a multidimensional analysis of 24,745 patients
    E Sheremetyeva, S Parbhoo, S Hanassab, and 12 more authors
    Human Reproduction, 2026
  11. Hum Reprod
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    L26/P-454 Marked ethnic disparities in IVF outcomes result in significantly reduced live birth rates in ethnic minority groups
    S Hanassab, E Sheremetyeva, A Ng, and 12 more authors
    Human Reproduction, 2026
  12. arXiv
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    Why LLMs Fail at Causal Discovery and How Interventional Agents Escape
    Amartya Roy and Sonali Parbhoo
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.27567, 2026
  13. arXiv
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    Causal Machine Learning Is Not a Panacea: A Roadmap for Observational Causal Inference in Health
    Donna Tjandra, Trenton Chang, Sonali Parbhoo, and 8 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.20782, 2026
  14. AJRCCM
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    Longitudinal, outcome-aware acute hypoxic respiratory failure phenotypes: discovery, external validation, and early prediction
    DC Marshall, A Green, B Patel, and 3 more authors
    In AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE, 2026
  15. AJRCCM
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    C55-09 Dynamic Phenotyping of Acute Kidney Injury in ICU Patients Using Joint Latent Class Modeling of Serum Creatinine Trajectories Across Europe and the United States
    M Jamme, DC Marshall, D Legouis, and 3 more authors
    American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2026
  16. AJRCCM
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    A17-06 Longitudinal, Outcome-Aware Acute Hypoxic Respiratory Failure Phenotypes: Discovery, External Validation, and Early Prediction
    DC Marshall, A Green, BV Patel, and 3 more authors
    American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2026
  17. ICM Exp
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    Improving retrospective ARDS case-finding using a simple 72-h physiologic persistence rule
    Dominic C Marshall, Brijesh V Patel, Anthony C Gordon, and 3 more authors
    Intensive Care Medicine Experimental, 2026
  18. AISTATS
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    Bayesian Inverse Transition Learning: Learning Dynamics from Near-Optimal Trajectories
    Leo Benac, Abhishek Sharma, Sonali Parbhoo, and 1 more author
    In The 29th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2026

2025

  1. ERJ
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    Context-Aware Concept Bottleneck Models: Integrating LLM Insights for Enhanced ARDS Identification
    Dominic Marshall, Anish Narain, Ritam Majumdar, and 3 more authors
    European Respiratory Journal 66 (suppl 69), 2025
  2. ERJ
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    Exploring time-varying corticosteroid effects in ARDS via augmented inverse probability weighting analysis
    Dominic Marshall, Matthieu Komorowski, David Antcliffe, and 1 more author
    European Respiratory Journal 66 (suppl 69), 2025
  3. arXiv
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    Learning from Failures: Understanding LLM Alignment through Failure-Aware Inverse RL
    Nyal Patel, Matthieu Bou, Arjun Jagota, and 2 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.06092, 2025
  4. MLHC
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    Improving ARDS Diagnosis Through Context-Aware Concept Bottleneck Models
    Anish Narain, Ritam Majumdar, Nikita Narayanan, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 2025
  5. Anaesthesia
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    Surgical precision? Cutting through the hype of AI-augmented peri-operative risk prediction
    M Murali, J Mann, and Sonali Parbhoo
    Anaesthesia, 2025
  6. AMIA
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    Where do doctors disagree? Characterizing Decision Points for Safe Reinforcement Learning in Choosing Vasopressor Treatment
    E Brown, S Raval, A Rojas, and 6 more authors
    In AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, 2025
  7. arXiv
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    Causal Bayesian Optimization with Unknown Graphs
    Jean Durand, Yashas Annadani, Stefan Bauer, and 1 more author
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.19554, 2025
  8. COLM
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    Insights from the Inverse: Reconstructing LLM Training Goals Through Inverse Reinforcement Learning
    J Joselowitz, R Majumdar, A Jagota, and 4 more authors
    In Conference on Language Modeling, 2025
  9. RLC
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    Concept-Based Off-Policy Evaluation
    Ritam Majumdar, J Teversham, and Sonali Parbhoo
    In Reinforcement Learning Conference, 2025
  10. IUI
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    User Studies in Human-Feature-Integration
    Yixin Li, Lucas Lefebvre, Sonali Parbhoo, and 2 more authors
    In Joint Proceedings of the ACM IUI Workshops, 2025
  11. ICLR Workshop
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    AlphaGo or beta-hCG: a reinforcement learning framework for assisted conception
    S Hanassab, E Sheremetyeva, Sonali Parbhoo, and 3 more authors
    In ICLR Workshop on AI for Children: Healthcare, Psychology, Education, 2025
  12. AISTATS
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    Do regularization methods for shortcut mitigation work as intended?
    Haoyang Hong, Ioanna Papanikolaou, and Sonali Parbhoo
    In The 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2025
  13. AISTATS
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    Decision-point guided safe policy improvement
    Abhishek Sharma, Leo Benac, Sonali Parbhoo, and 1 more author
    In The 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2025

2024

  1. arXiv
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    Tree-based leakage inspection and control in concept bottleneck models
    Angelos Ragkousis and Sonali Parbhoo
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.06352, 2024
  2. Blood
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    CD8+ T-cell differentiation and dysfunction inform treatment response in acute myeloid leukemia
    F Mazziotta, L Biavati, J Rimando, and 4 more authors
    Blood, 2024
  3. arXiv
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    Towards Integrating Personal Knowledge into Test-Time Predictions
    Isaac Lage, Sonali Parbhoo, and Finale Doshi-Velez
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.08636, 2024
  4. arXiv
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    Guarantee Regions for Local Explanations
    Marton Havasi, Sonali Parbhoo, and Finale Doshi-Velez
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.12737, 2024
  5. JMLR
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    Rethinking discount regularization: New interpretations, unintended consequences, and solutions for regularization in reinforcement learning
    Sarah Rathnam, Sonali Parbhoo, Siddharth Swaroop, and 3 more authors
    Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2024
  6. TMLR
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    Task-Relevant Feature Selection with Prediction Focused Mixture Models
    Abhishek Sharma, Catherine Zeng, Sanjana Narayanan, and 3 more authors
    Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2024
  7. MLHC
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    Decision-Focused Model-based Reinforcement Learning for Reward Transfer
    Abhishek Sharma, Sonali Parbhoo, Omer Gottesman, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 2024

2023

  1. ICML Workshop
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    Bayesian Inverse Transition Learning for Offline Settings
    L Benac, Sonali Parbhoo, and Finale Doshi-Velez
    In ICML 2023 Workshop on Interactive Learning with Implicit Human Feedback, 2023
  2. ICML Workshop
    Leveraging factored action spaces for off-policy evaluation
    A Rebello, S Tang, J Wiens, and 1 more author
    In ICML Workshop on Structured Probabilistic Inference & Generative Modeling, 2023
  3. ICML
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    The unintended consequences of discount regularization: Improving regularization in certainty equivalence reinforcement learning
    S Rathnam, Sonali Parbhoo, W Pan, and 2 more authors
    In International Conference on Machine Learning, 2023
  4. ATS
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    Early Vs Late Initiation of Vasopressors in Sepsis: An Augmented Inverse Probability Weighting Approach
    DC Marshall, J Zhang, S Hao, and 3 more authors
    In American Thoracic Society 2023 International Conference, 2023
  5. TMLR
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    Risk sensitive dead-end identification in safety-critical offline reinforcement learning
    TW Killian, Sonali Parbhoo, and M Ghassemi
    Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2023
  6. CAMLIS
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    Adaptive experimental design for intrusion data collection
    K Highnam, Z Hanif, E Van Vogt, and 3 more authors
    In CAMLIS’23: Conference on Applied Machine Learning for Information Security, 2023

2022

  1. MLHC
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    Learning optimal summaries of clinical time-series with concept bottleneck models
    C Wu, Sonali Parbhoo, M Havasi, and 1 more author
    In Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference, 2022
  2. NeurIPS
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    Addressing leakage in concept bottleneck models
    Marton Havasi, Sonali Parbhoo, and Finale Doshi-Velez
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022
  3. arXiv
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    Policy optimization with sparse global contrastive explanations
    J Yao, Sonali Parbhoo, W Pan, and 1 more author
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.06269, 2022
  4. BMJ HCI
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    Operationalising fairness in medical algorithms
    Sonali Parbhoo, JW Gichoya, LA Celi, and 1 more author
    BMJ Health & Care Informatics, 2022
  5. AMIA
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    Learning predictive and interpretable timeseries summaries from ICU data
    N Johnson, Sonali Parbhoo, AS Ross, and 1 more author
    In AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, 2022
  6. arXiv
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    Generalizing off-policy evaluation from a causal perspective for sequential decision-making
    Sonali Parbhoo, S Joshi, and Finale Doshi-Velez
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.08262, 2022

2021

  1. DAGM GCPR
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    Learning conditional invariance through cycle consistency
    M Samarin, V Nesterov, M Wieser, and 3 more authors
    In Pattern Recognition: 43rd DAGM German Conference, DAGM GCPR 2021, 2021
  2. JAIR
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    Optimizing for interpretability in deep neural networks with tree regularization
    Mike Wu, Sonali Parbhoo, MC Hughes, and 2 more authors
    Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2021
  3. TMLR
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    Learning-to-defer for sequential medical decision-making under uncertainty
    S Joshi, Sonali Parbhoo, and Finale Doshi-Velez
    Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2021
  4. AMIA
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    Preferential mixture-of-experts: Interpretable models that rely on human expertise as much as possible
    MF Pradier, J Zazo, Sonali Parbhoo, and 3 more authors
    In AMIA Summits on Translational Science Proceedings, 2021
  5. arXiv
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    Ncore: Neural counterfactual representation learning for combinations of treatments
    Sonali Parbhoo, Stefan Bauer, and Patrick Schwab
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.11175, 2021
  6. Nat Commun
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    Real-time prediction of COVID-19 related mortality using electronic health records
    P Schwab, A Mehrjou, Sonali Parbhoo, and 5 more authors
    Nature Communications, 2021

2020

  1. NeurIPS Workshop
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    Shaping Control Variates for Off-Policy Evaluation
    Sonali Parbhoo, Omer Gottesman, and Finale Doshi-Velez
    In Offline Reinforcement Learning Workshop at Neural Information Processing Systems, 2020
  2. AAAI
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    Regional Tree Regularization for Interpretability in Deep Neural Networks
    Mike Wu, Sonali Parbhoo, Michael Hughes, and 5 more authors
    In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020
  3. JAIDS
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    Host genomics of the HIV-1 reservoir size and its decay rate during suppressive antiretroviral treatment
    CW Thorball, A Borghesi, N Bachmann, and 3 more authors
    JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 2020
  4. ICML
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    Interpretable off-policy evaluation in reinforcement learning by highlighting influential transitions
    Omer Gottesman, J Futoma, Y Liu, and 4 more authors
    In International Conference on Machine Learning, 2020
  5. MLHC
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    Transfer Learning from Well-Curated to Less-Resourced Populations with HIV
    Sonali Parbhoo, Mario Wieser, Volker Roth, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 2020
  6. Entropy
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    Information bottleneck for estimating treatment effects with systematically missing covariates
    Sonali Parbhoo, Mario Wieser, Aleksander Wieczorek, and 1 more author
    Entropy, 2020
  7. NeurIPS
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    Inverse Learning of Symmetries
    Mario Wieser, Sonali Parbhoo, Aleksander Wieczorek, and 1 more author
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2020

2019

  1. PhD Thesis
    Causal Inference and Interpretable Machine Learning for Personalised Medicine
    Sonali Parbhoo
    University of Basel, 2019
  2. Nat Commun
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    Determinants of HIV-1 reservoir size and long-term dynamics during suppressive ART
    N Bachmann, C Von Siebenthal, V Vongrad, and 3 more authors
    Nature Communications, 2019
  3. CVPR
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    Greedy structure learning of hierarchical compositional models
    A Kortylewski, A Wieczorek, M Wieser, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2019

2018

  1. arXiv
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    Informed mcmc with bayesian neural networks for facial image analysis
    Adam Kortylewski, Mario Wieser, Andreas Morel-Forster, and 4 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.07969, 2018
  2. PLOS ONE
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    Improving counterfactual reasoning with kernelised dynamic mixing models
    Sonali Parbhoo, Omer Gottesman, AS Ross, and 4 more authors
    PloS One, 2018

2017

  1. AAAI
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    Beyond sparsity: Tree regularization of deep models for interpretability
    Mike Wu, MC Hughes, Sonali Parbhoo, and 3 more authors
    In 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2017
  2. AMIA
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    Combining kernel and model based learning for HIV therapy selection
    Sonali Parbhoo, J Bogojeska, M Zazzi, and 2 more authors
    In AMIA Summits on Translational Science Proceedings, 2017

2016

  1. AISTATS
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    Bayesian markov blanket estimation
    D Kaufmann, Sonali Parbhoo, A Wieczorek, and 3 more authors
    In Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2016

2014

  1. MSc Thesis
    A reinforcement learning design for HIV clinical trials
    Sonali Parbhoo
    University of the Witwatersrand, 2014