| 2025 | EMNLP | Investigating Pedagogical Teacher and Student LLM Agents: Genetic Adaptation Meets Retrieval-Augmented Generation Across Learning Styles. | Debdeep Sanyal, Agniva Maiti, Umakanta Maharana, Dhruv Kumar, Ankur Mali, C. Lee Giles, Murari Mandal |
| 2025 | NeSy | Bridging Neural and Symbolic Computation: A Learnability Study of RNNs on Counter and Dyck Languages. | Neisarg Dave, Daniel Kifer, C. Lee Giles, Ankur Mali |
| 2025 | NeSy | Rethinking Reasoning in LLMs: Neuro-Symbolic Local RetoMaton Beyond CoT and ICL. | Rushitha Santhoshi Mamidala, Anshuman Chhabra, Ankur Mali |
| 2025 | SmartComp | Chain-of-Thought for Cancer Pathology Interpretation and Summarization. | Ankur Mali, Adrian Kohut, John Michael Templeton |
| 2023 | AAAI | Backpropagation-Free Deep Learning with Recursive Local Representation Alignment. | Alexander G. Ororbia II, Ankur Mali, Daniel Kifer, C. Lee Giles |
| 2023 | ICRA | Active Predictive Coding: Brain-Inspired Reinforcement Learning for Sparse Reward Robotic Control Problems. | Alexander Ororbia, Ankur Mali |
| 2022 | AAAI | Backprop-Free Reinforcement Learning with Active Neural Generative Coding. | Alexander G. Ororbia II, Ankur Mali |
| 2022 | DCC | Neural JPEG: End-to-End Image Compression Leveraging a Standard JPEG Encoder-Decoder. | Ankur Mali, Alexander G. Ororbia II, Daniel Kifer, C. Lee Giles |
| 2021 | AAAI | Recognizing and Verifying Mathematical Equations using Multiplicative Differential Neural Units. | Ankur Mali, Alexander G. Ororbia II, Daniel Kifer, C. Lee Giles |
| 2021 | CVPR | OmniLayout: Room Layout Reconstruction From Indoor Spherical Panoramas. | Shivansh Rao, Vikas Kumar, Daniel Kifer, C. Lee Giles, Ankur Mali |
| 2021 | DCC | An Empirical Analysis of Recurrent Learning Algorithms in Neural Lossy Image Compression Systems. | Ankur Mali, Alexander G. Ororbia II, Dan Kifer, C. Lee Giles |
| 2020 | DCC | The Sibling Neural Estimator: Improving Iterative Image Decoding with Gradient Communication. | Ankur Mali, Alexander G. Ororbia II, C. Lee Giles |
| 2019 | AAAI | Biologically Motivated Algorithms for Propagating Local Target Representations. | Alexander G. Ororbia II, Ankur Mali |
| 2019 | ACL | Like a Baby: Visually Situated Neural Language Acquisition. | Alexander Ororbia, Ankur Mali, Mary Alexandria Kelly, David Reitter |
| 2019 | CVPR | A Neural Temporal Model for Human Motion Prediction. | Anand Gopalakrishnan, Ankur Mali, Dan Kifer, C. Lee Giles, Alexander G. Ororbia II |
| 2019 | DCC | Learned Neural Iterative Decoding for Lossy Image Compression Systems. | Alexander G. Ororbia II, Ankur Mali, Jian Wu, Scott O'Connell, William Dreese, David J. Miller, C. Lee Giles |