Hi, I'm Yash

My doctoral research develops IKnowFlow, a framework for making the flow of knowledge interpretable and auditable in AI systems through interpretable retrieval, explainable evidence selection, and grounded source attribution.

Yash Saxena

About Me

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). My research focuses on making AI systems trustworthy for sensitive domains. I formalize IKnowFlow or Interpretable Knowledge Flow, as a framework for making knowledge flow auditable across stages: why a document was retrieved, why it was selected as evidence, and whether a generated claim can be traced back to that evidence. My work spans interpretable dense retrieval with IMRNNs, rationale-driven evidence selection with METEORA, attribution benchmarking with REASONS, and provenance-aware verification using structured scholarly knowledge graphs.

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AIhub interview on IKnowFlow

I discuss tracing evidence from source documents to AI-generated claims, preserving its context, and connecting retrieval, evidence selection, attribution, and provenance.

IJCAI-ECAI Doctoral Consortium acceptance

IKnowFlow was accepted to the IJCAI-ECAI 2026 Doctoral Consortium in Bremen, Germany, with travel grant support.

Visiting Research Intern at TIB Hannover

Joined Prof. Sören Auer at TIB to work on provenance and attribution methods for the Open Research Knowledge Graph.

METEORA accepted at ICML 2026

METEORA reframes re-ranking as rationale-driven evidence selection for safer and more interpretable RAG in sensitive domains.

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