Prakul Sunil Hiremath | Epistemic Uncertainty & Latent-State Systems

About

Hiremath, P.S. · VTU Belagavi · CSE · 2023–present

Investigating the boundary between machine learning and physical reality. Work spans high-energy astrophysics, RLHF alignment, environmental AI, and signal anomaly detection.

Secured ₹18L+ in research grants from the Ministry of MSME and Government of Karnataka. Published in ICON 2024, AstroSat 2026, and journals by Elsevier and Kaleidoscope. Three papers under review at ICML 2026. Three at KDD 2026.

Founder, Aliens on Earth (AoE). 4× SSB interviewed. State-level debater. Sponsored delegate, Linux Foundation Open Source Summit 2025.

CGPA 7.91 / 10.0 · Kannada · English · Hindi · Marathi

3

ICML 2026
Submissions

₹18L

Research
Grants

8+

Confs &
Posters

5

Patents
Filed

12+

Papers
Written

7.91

CGPA
/10.0

4

SSB
Interviews

4

Languages
Spoken

∞

Research
Curiosity

Research Architecture

Information, Uncertainty
& Failure

A formal research program centered on representation, propagation, and failure diagnostics in intelligent systems.

North Star

IT

Information Theory

IG

Information Geometry

EU

Epistemic Uncertainty

LS

Latent States

Representation

SC

Simplex Collapse

MG

Measure Gap

ICC

Identifiability

AMB

AMBIVERT

Propagation

AA

AAWM

WU

WAM-EUP

PF

PFHT

GR

GIRL

Failure

CAL

Calibration

CD

Constraint Drift

HED

HED Score

MEM

Memoscope

Testbeds

ROB

Robotics

VDB

Vector DBs

LLM

LLMs

FIN

Finance

Publications

Research
Output

Selected peer-reviewed publications, active manuscripts, and foundational research directions.

20+ Research Manuscripts

7 PyPI Packages

15+ Software Releases

3+ Research Grants

01

Selected Publication

Shared Feature-Based Multitask Model for Faux-Hate Classification in Code-Mixed Text

ICON 2024 · AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai · NLP Association of India

Published

02

Selected Publication

A Comprehensive Survey on Financial Health and Credit Card Management Practices in India

Kaleidoscope Journal · ISSN 3107-4677 · DOI: 10.62801/jkjmr2.12

Published

03

Selected Publication

AI-Driven, Uncertainty-Aware Anomaly Detection in Multi-wavelength AstroSat Observations

AstroSat 2026 · Hyatt Centric Bengaluru · ISRO/URSC Proceedings p.146

Published

04

Representation

When the Simplex Collapses: The Geometry of Scalar Belief Compression

PGM 2026 Conference Submission · Core Theorem on Representation Loss

Under Review

05

Representation

The Measure Gap: Information-Theoretic Limits of Deterministic Belief Encoders in POMDPs

NeurIPS 2026 Conference Submission · Measure-Valued State Space Characterization

Under Review

06

Representation

AMBIVERT: Uncertainty-Aware Nearest-Neighbor Search via Epistemic Covariance in Vector Indices

VLDB 2026 Workshop VecDB Submission · Geometric Vector Infrastructure

Under Review

07

Representation

The Interventional Channel Constraint: A Geometric Diagnostic for Practical Identifiability in Regime-Switching Systems

CAISc 2026 Conference Submission · Sufficient Conditions for Subspace Isolation

Under Review

08

Propagation

GIRL: Generative Imagination Reinforcement Learning via Information-Theoretic Hallucination Control

ICML 2026 / RLC 2026 Workshop WMW · Latent World-Model Drift Containment

Under Review

09

Propagation

World Action Models with Epistemic Uncertainty Propagation: Learning Uncertainty Budgets for Safe Long-Horizon Robot Imagination

RSS 2026 Workshop RWM Submission · Stochastic Policy Optimization Bounds

Under Review

10

Propagation

Predictive Failure Hitting-Times for World Model-Based Robot Planning

RSS 2026 Workshop RWM Submission · Measure-Theoretic Safe Envelope Analysis

Under Review

11

Failure & Diagnostics

More Reasoning Can Hurt Calibration

ACL ARR 2026 May Submission · Quantifying Token Budget Calibration Drift

Under Review

12

Failure & Diagnostics

Constraint Drift in Multi-Turn LLM Sessions: A Longitudinal Evaluation Framework

ACL ARR 2026 May Submission · Measuring Structural Half-Life Decays

Under Review

13

Failure & Diagnostics

When Offline Metrics Lie: The Dynamics of Silent Failure in Deployed Recommendation Systems

SIGKDD 2026 Research Track Submission · Dynamic Tracking Degradation

Under Review

14

Failure & Diagnostics

When Confidence Metrics Fail: Sensitivity Uncertainty Alignment as a Diagnostic for High-Risk Model Errors

NeurIPS 2026 Evaluations and Datasets Track · Structural Reliability Baselines

Under Review

Selected Publications & Research Pipeline · Drag to explore

Intellectual Property

Filed
Patents

Indian Patent Office — Official Gazette Status: Published · Total: 5 Applications

Application No.	Year	Title
202541014688	2025	Integrating Neuromorphic Computing and Reinforcement Learning in Hybrid AI for Autonomous Systems
202541014687	2025	Innovative CO₂ Emission Filters for Vehicles: Net-Zero Carbon Solutions with Advanced Adsorption and Smart Monitoring
202541014690	2025	Dynamic Adjustable Sleeve D&M for Enhanced Universal CO₂ Emission Filters
202541014689	2025	Hyper-Adaptive Manufacturing Using Multi-Agent AI for Autonomous Production Optimization
202541032942	2025	EMEFF: An Explainable Multimodal Economic Forecasting Framework for Real-Time, Transparent, and Adaptive Predictions

All applications filed and published · Indian Patent Office Applicant: Prakul Sunil Hiremath

Poster Sessions

Research
Posters

AAC 2025 · Mumbai

Real-Time Monitoring of Bioaerosol Emissions in Algae-Based Hydrogen Reactors Using Low-Cost Sensors and AI

Dec 2025 · Presented

QIB 2025 · Bengaluru

Monogamy-Driven Adaptive Quantum Secure Communication Framework

Jul–Aug 2025 · Presented

CODE-AI 2025 · MAHE Dubai

Photonic AI: Ultra-Fast, Zero-Power Optical Neural Networks for Real-Time Computer Vision

Apr 2025 · Presented

IIT Bombay · TechConnect '24

Hybrid AI for Real-Time Autonomous Systems: The Intersection of Neuromorphic Computing and Reinforcement Learning

Dec 2024 · Presented

Quantum Resources Conf. 2025

Quantum Resource Optimization: Revolutionizing Data Processing in High-Energy Physics through Entanglement and Quantum Feedback

2025 · Accepted

Quantum Resources Conf. 2025

Optimizing Quantum Algorithms: Bridging Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing for Enhanced Decision-Making

2025 · Accepted

Research Systems

Selected
Research Infrastructure

Representative systems spanning uncertainty representation, propagation, and failure diagnostics.

01 AMBIVERT Representation

Uncertainty-aware nearest-neighbor retrieval framework that augments vector indices with epistemic covariance structures rather than treating embeddings as deterministic points.

Vector Retrieval VLDB Uncertainty Information Geometry

02 Action-Conditioned Ambiguity World Models Propagation

World-model architecture for representing and propagating epistemic ambiguity across imagined futures in long-horizon robotic planning.

World Models RSS Robotics Sequential Systems

03 Latent State Integrity Suite Failure

Open-source ecosystem for monitoring, diagnosing, and auditing hidden-state degradation in sequential AI systems.

HED Memoscope Temporal Leaks ParallelWatch Flashback

04 Identifiability Diagnostic Framework Latent States

Geometric pre-training diagnostic for detecting latent-state non-identifiability in switching state-space models before model deployment.

State-Space Models Bayesian Inference Geometry Sequential Systems

Funding

Notable
Grants

Project	Amount	Funding Body
MSME Idea Hackathon 5.0 — Green Hydrogen Production from Seawater integrating Nanocatalysts, Selective Membranes, and Concentrated Solar Power	₹15L	Ministry of MSME, Govt. of India
NAIN 2.0 — New Age Innovation Network · BIOLOOP (Carbon Capture) & URJAWAVE (Clean Energy) · Host: IIIT Dharwad	₹3L	Govt. of Karnataka
KAHER VC Research Grant — Deep Learning for Multi-Modal AI-Assisted Diagnosis integrating Histopathology WSIs and Clinical Oral Images	₹30K	KAHER University
Total Secured	₹18.3L