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Answering the Wrong Question: Reasoning Trace Inversion for Abstention in LLMs

Abinitha Gourabathina, Inkit Padhi, Manish Nagireddy, Subhajit Chaudhury, and Prasanna Sattigeri, 2026. arXiv:2604.02230.

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Robustness Beyond Known Groups with Low-rank Adaptation

Abinitha Gourabathina, Hyewon Jeong, Teya Bergamaschi, Marzyeh Ghassemi, and Collin Stultz, 2026. arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.06924.

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The MedPerturb Dataset: What Non-Content Perturbations Reveal About Human and Clinical LLM Decision Making

Abinitha Gourabathina, Yuexing Hao, Walter Gerych, Marzyeh Ghassemi, 2025. arXiv:2506.17163.

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The Medium is the Message: How Non-Clinical Information Shapes Clinical Decisions in LLMs

Abinitha Gourabathina, Walter Gerych, Eileen Pan, and Marzyeh Ghassemi. 2025. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT '25).

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PanDa Game: Optimized Privacy-Preserving Publishing of Individual-Level Pandemic Data Based on a Game Theoretic Model

Abinitha Gourabathina, Zhiyu Wan, J. Thomas Brown, Chao Yan, Bradley A. Malin, 2023. In IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 808-817.

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What seems to be the problem? Stigmatizing language in patient medical notes

Abinitha Gourabathina (Senior thesis, Princeton University). Princeton DataSpace. http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01cv43p110t

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Papers

• Answering the Wrong Question: Reasoning Trace Inversion for Abstention in LLMs
  Abinitha Gourabathina, Inkit Padhi, Manish Nagireddy, Subhajit Chaudhury, and Prasanna Sattigeri — ACL 2026
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• Robustness Beyond Known Groups with Low-rank Adaptation
  Abinitha Gourabathina, Hyewon Jeong, Teya Bergamaschi, Marzyeh Ghassemi, and Collin Stultz — Preprint, 2026
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• The MedPerturb Dataset: What Non-Content Perturbations Reveal About Human and Clinical LLM Decision Making
  Abinitha Gourabathina, Yuexing Hao, Walter Gerych, and Marzyeh Ghassemi — Preprint, 2025
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• The Medium is the Message: How Non-Clinical Information Shapes Clinical Decisions in LLMs
  Abinitha Gourabathina, Walter Gerych, Eileen Pan, and Marzyeh Ghassemi — FAccT 2025
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• PanDa Game: Optimized Privacy-Preserving Publishing of Individual-Level Pandemic Data Based on a Game Theoretic Model
  Abinitha Gourabathina, Zhiyu Wan, J. Thomas Brown, Chao Yan, and Bradley A. Malin — IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, 2023
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• PanDa Game: Optimized Privacy-Preserving Publishing of Individual-Level Pandemic Data Based on a Game Theoretic Model
  Abinitha Gourabathina, Zhiyu Wan, J. Thomas Brown, Chao Yan, and Bradley A. Malin — IEEE BIBM 2022
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• What seems to be the problem? Stigmatizing language in patient medical notes
  Abinitha Gourabathina — Princeton University Senior Thesis, 2023
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