RESEARCH

Published Work

Causal inference, counterfactual reasoning, and the question of why.

Papers
Visual representation of ATLAS: Learning to Recommend Across Unseen Domains
arXiv 2026 · 2026 NLP & Recommendation

ATLAS: Learning to Recommend Across Unseen Domains

Pervez Shaik, Prosenjit Biswas, Abhinav Thorat, Ravi Kolla, Niranjan Pedanekar


What if a recommender trained only on movies and music could walk into a catalogue it has never seen, groceries or video games, and still know what to suggest?


Visual representation of GENESIS: Towards Explainable Causal Discovery
arXiv 2026 · 2026 Causal Inference

GENESIS: Towards Explainable Causal Discovery

Abhinav Thorat, Ravi Kolla, Vishak K Bhat, Harsh Vardhan Singh Chauhan, Niranjan Pedanekar


If an algorithm hands you a map of cause and effect, should it not also be able to justify every single arrow it drew?


Visual representation of RecRec: Recursive Refinement for Sequential Recommendation
arXiv 2026 · 2026 NLP & Recommendation

RecRec: Recursive Refinement for Sequential Recommendation

Pervez Shaik, Prosenjit Biswas, Abhinav Thorat, Ravi Kolla, Niranjan Pedanekar


What if a recommender never judged you in a single glance, but kept revisiting its impression of you, refining it pass after pass, anchored to what you actually did?


Visual representation of KANITE: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for ITE Estimation
ECML PKDD 2025 · 2025 Causal Inference

KANITE: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for ITE Estimation

Abhinav Thorat, Ravi Kolla, Niranjan Pedanekar


Can a new kind of neural network teach us to predict exactly how any one person would respond to a treatment before it is ever given?


Visual representation of I See, Therefore I Do: Estimating Causal Effects for Image Treatments
arXiv 2024 · 2024 Causal Inference

I See, Therefore I Do: Estimating Causal Effects for Image Treatments

Abhinav Thorat, Ravi Kolla, Niranjan Pedanekar


What if a photograph itself is the treatment and we could measure exactly how much it changed your decision?


Visual representation of From What to Why: Thought-Space Recommendation with Small Language Models
arXiv 2024 · 2024 NLP & Recommendation

From What to Why: Thought-Space Recommendation with Small Language Models

Prosenjit Biswas, Pervez Shaik, Abhinav Thorat, Ravi Kolla, Niranjan Pedanekar


What if a recommendation system could understand not what you clicked but why you wanted it in the first place?


Visual representation of PlotTwist: A Creative Plot Generation Framework with Small Language Models
arXiv 2026 · 2026 NLP & Creative AI

PlotTwist: A Creative Plot Generation Framework with Small Language Models

Abhinav Thorat, Ravi Kolla, Jyotin Goel, Niranjan Pedanekar


What if a compact model could write plots that move you, not by knowing more, but by first learning the difference between a story that grips and one that falls flat?


Visual representation of Estimation of Individual Causal Effects in Network Setup for Multiple Treatments
AAAI 2024 - GCLR Workshop · 2023 Causal Inference

Estimation of Individual Causal Effects in Network Setup for Multiple Treatments

Abhinav Thorat, Ravi Kolla, Niranjan Pedanekar, Naoyuki Onoe


Does understanding the network effect between humans help us analyse cause and effect across multiple real-world scenarios?