Publications and Preprints

1. Understanding Stability of Outer Nesterov Momentum on Stochastic Pseudo-Gradients

   Nishant Sharma, Laura Gomezjurado Gonzalez, Ganesh Talluri, Sarath Chandar, Hiroki Naganuma

   Preprint2026arXivPaper

2. From Inner Randomness to Outer Stability

   Nishant Sharma, Ganesh Talluri, Hiroki Naganuma

   OPT-ML2026

3. Enhancing Trustworthiness of Fine-Tuned LLMs via Regularized Subset Selection

   Kumar Shubham^†, Nishant Sharma^†, Karn Tiwari, Prathosh A.P.

   ICLR2026PDFPaper OpenReviewForum CodeGitHub

4. Trust, But Attribute: Tracing Impact of Data on Trustworthiness in Supervised LLM Fine-Tuning

   Kumar Shubham^†, Nishant Sharma^†, Karn Tiwari, Prathosh A.P.

   NeurIPS-W2025PDFPaper OpenReviewForum

5. Decoding Histone Modification Signatures of Non-Coding RNAs via Foundation Models

   Nishant Sharma, Mohammad Atif Quamar, Pengtao Xie

   NeurIPS-W2025PDFPaper

6. Adaptive Blockwise Search: Inference-Time Alignment for Large Language Models

   Mohammad Atif Quamar^†, Mohammad Areeb^†, Nishant Sharma, Ananth Shreekumar, Jonathan Rosenthal, Muslum Ozgur Ozmen, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Z. Berkay Celik

   Preprint2025arXivPaper

† equal co-authorship