Sachin Vashistha

PMRF 2023 Fellow @ Tr²AIL group
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

I am a Ph.D. candidate at IIT Kharagpur, working under the supervision of Prof. Somak Aditya. I am primarily interested in improving the factuality and interpretability of LLMs through neuro-symbolic approaches.

Publications

• PRAGWORLD: A Benchmark Evaluating LLMs' Local World Model under Minimal Linguistic Alterations and Conversational Dynamics AAAI 2026 Main Technical Track (Oral) Sachin Vashistha, Aryan Bibhuti, Atharva Naik, Martin Tutek, Somak Aditya paper / code
• Factuality Evaluation using Reasoning and World Modeling AAAI 2026 Doctoral Consortium Sachin Vashistha
• SMAB: MAB based word Sensitivity Estimation Framework and its Applications in Adversarial Text Generation NAACL 2025 Main Sachin Vashistha*, Saurabh Kumar Pandey*, Debrup Das, Somak Aditya, Monojit Choudhury paper / code
• Tricking llms into disobedience: Formalizing, analyzing, and detecting jailbreaks COLING 2024 Main Abhinav Rao, Sachin Vashistha, Atharva Naik, Somak Aditya, Monojit Choudhury paper / code
• Automated detection of anti-national textual response to terroristic events on online media Cybernetics and Systems 2022 Megha Chaudhary, Sachin Vashistha, Divya Bansal paper
• Multimodal and Continuous Smartphone User Authentication: Applications in Forensics and e-Governance Fourteenth Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics 2018 (Poster) Sachin Vashistha, Himanshu Gangwar, Gaurav Gupta