Arnav Dhiman

Research

Publications, accepted papers, and ongoing work across machine learning, computational biology, quantum computing, and mathematics.

Under ReviewOptimization

Saddle Escape Efficiency: Introducing a Novel Metric and Revealing Its Criterion-Dependence in Non-Convex Landscapes

Accepted at ICCAI 2026 (Okinawa); under review at IEEE INDISCON (results July 2026)

  • · Team India - ICYS 2026: Bronze in Oral Research Presentation, 2nd Place in Poster Presentation (40+ countries)
  • · INSEF Nationals Gold Award (Top 3 of 11 national finalists)
  • · INSEF Regionals Gold Award (Top 15 of 77 regional finalists)
  • · International Greenwich Olympiad Finalist
  • · Crest Gold Award
AcceptedComputational Biology

InterpretableSELFFormer: Interpretable Spatial Transcriptomics Reconstruction

Accepted at IEEE CIBCB 2026 (short paper); submitted to IEEE ICNGIS 2026

Under ReviewComputational Biology

Why Do Single-Cell Foundation Models Lose to the Mean? A Diagnostic Study of Perturbation Prediction Failure Modes

Submitted to IEEE ICNGIS 2026; submitted to IEEE CIBCB 2026 (short paper)

PublishedArtificial Intelligence

Do Foundation Models Outperform Lightweight CNNs in Breast Cancer Histopathology Classification?

Published in IJFMR, Volume 8, Issue 3 (May-June 2026). DOI: 10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i03.81631

Under ReviewArtificial Intelligence

Multimodal Deep Learning for Breast Cancer Subtype Classification Using Histopathology and Biomarker Data

Under review at Springer

Under ReviewQuantum Computing

Entanglement Entropy Scaling and MPS Simulability of Quantum Algorithms

Written at BeyondQuantum 2026 under mentorship of David Chudozilov; presented at Beyond Quantum Research Fair; submitting to NHSJS

PublishedMathematics

Analysing the Riemann Hypothesis: Zeta Function Analysis and Quantum-Inspired Random Matrix Theory

Published - One Young India

In ProgressMachine Learning Theory

Metabolic Neural Networks: Coupled Growth, Pruning, and Protection from a Single Local Activation Signal

To be presented at Young Asians Fellowship, Singapore

In ProgressMathematics

The Significance of 32/27 as a Root of Chromatic Polynomials (Expository)

To be published on the Euler Circle website (Simon Rubinstein-Salzedo)