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News and announcements from the ARIA Research Lab at NJIT, directed by Dr. Shivvrat Arya.

Sep 24, 2026 Our paper, “Neural Dual Bounds: Valid-by-Construction JGLP Warm-Starts for MAP and Constrained MAP ,” has been accepted for publication in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2026) as a Spotlight Presentation (top 1% of papers).
NeurIPS 2026 Spotlight (Top 1%)
Dec 02, 2025 Our paper, “Learning to Condition: A Neural Heuristic for Scalable MPE Inference ,” has been accepted for publication in The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025) as a Poster Presentation. [Code ]
Nov 10, 2025 Our paper, “RELINK: Edge Activation for Closed Network Influence Maximization via Deep Reinforcement Learning ,” has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2025) as an Oral Presentation.
CIKM 2025 Oral Presentation
Sep 01, 2025 Dr. Arya has joined NJIT as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Ying Wu College of Computing.