Prashanth L. A.

According to our database, Prashanth L. A. authored at least 61 papers between 2008 and 2023.

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2023

Nonasymptotic Bounds for Stochastic Optimization With Biased Noisy Gradient Oracles.

Nirav Bhavsar, Prashanth L. A.

IEEE Trans. Autom. Control., March, 2023

Optimization of utility-based shortfall risk: A non-asymptotic viewpoint.

Sumedh Gupte, Prashanth L. A., Sanjay P. Bhat

CoRR, 2023

VaR\ and CVaR Estimation in a Markov Cost Process: Lower and Upper Bounds.

Sanjay Bhat, Prashanth L. A., Gugan Thoppe

CoRR, 2023

A Cubic-regularized Policy Newton Algorithm for Reinforcement Learning.

Mizhaan Prajit Maniyar, Akash Mondal, Prashanth L. A., Shalabh Bhatnagar

CoRR, 2023

A policy gradient approach for optimization of smooth risk measures.

Nithia Vijayan, Prashanth L. A.

Proceedings of the Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2023

Generalized Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation with Reduced Estimator Bias.

Shalabh Bhatnagar, Prashanth L. A.

Proceedings of the 57th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, 2023

Finite time analysis of temporal difference learning with linear function approximation: Tail averaging and regularisation.

Gandharv Patil, Prashanth L. A., Dheeraj Nagaraj, Doina Precup

Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2023

2022

A Wasserstein Distance Approach for Concentration of Empirical Risk Estimates.

Prashanth L. A., Sanjay P. Bhat

J. Mach. Learn. Res., 2022

Risk-Sensitive Reinforcement Learning via Policy Gradient Search.

Prashanth L. A., Michael C. Fu

Found. Trends Mach. Learn., 2022

A Gradient Smoothed Functional Algorithm with Truncated Cauchy Random Perturbations for Stochastic Optimization.

Akash Mondal, Prashanth L. A., Shalabh Bhatnagar

CoRR, 2022

Adaptive Estimation of Random Vectors with Bandit Feedback.

Dipayan Sen, Prashanth L. A., Aditya Gopalan

CoRR, 2022

Approximate gradient ascent methods for distortion risk measures.

Nithia Vijayan, Prashanth L. A.

CoRR, 2022

A Survey of Risk-Aware Multi-Armed Bandits.

Vincent Y. F. Tan, Prashanth L. A., Krishna P. Jagannathan

Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022

2021

Smoothed functional-based gradient algorithms for off-policy reinforcement learning: A non-asymptotic viewpoint.

Nithia Vijayan, Prashanth L. A.

Syst. Control. Lett., 2021

Concentration bounds for temporal difference learning with linear function approximation: the case of batch data and uniform sampling.

Prashanth L. A., Nathaniel Korda, Rémi Munos

Mach. Learn., 2021

Online Estimation and Optimization of Utility-Based Shortfall Risk.

Arvind S. Menon, Prashanth L. A., Krishna P. Jagannathan

CoRR, 2021

Likelihood ratio-based policy gradient methods for distorted risk measures: A non-asymptotic analysis.

Nithia Vijayan, Prashanth L. A.

CoRR, 2021

Smoothed functional-based gradient algorithms for off-policy reinforcement learning.

Nithia Vijayan, Prashanth L. A.

CoRR, 2021

Estimation of Spectral Risk Measures.

Ajay Kumar Pandey, Prashanth L. A., Sanjay P. Bhat

Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021

2020

Random Directions Stochastic Approximation With Deterministic Perturbations.

Prashanth L. A., Shalabh Bhatnagar, Nirav Bhavsar, Michael C. Fu, Steven I. Marcus

IEEE Trans. Autom. Control., 2020

Non-Asymptotic Bounds for Zeroth-Order Stochastic Optimization.

Nirav Bhavsar, Prashanth L. A.

CoRR, 2020

Concentration bounds for CVaR estimation: The cases of light-tailed and heavy-tailed distributions.

Prashanth L. A., Krishna P. Jagannathan, Ravi Kumar Kolla

Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning, 2020

2019

Concentration bounds for empirical conditional value-at-risk: The unbounded case.

Ravi Kumar Kolla, Prashanth L. A., Sanjay P. Bhat, Krishna P. Jagannathan

Oper. Res. Lett., 2019

Improved Concentration Bounds for Conditional Value-at-Risk and Cumulative Prospect Theory using Wasserstein distance.

Sanjay P. Bhat, Prashanth L. A.

CoRR, 2019

Risk-aware Multi-armed Bandits Using Conditional Value-at-Risk.

Ravi Kumar Kolla, Prashanth L. A., Krishna P. Jagannathan

CoRR, 2019

Concentration of risk measures: A Wasserstein distance approach.

Sanjay P. Bhat, Prashanth L. A.

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2019, 2019

Correlated bandits or: How to minimize mean-squared error online.

Vinay Praneeth Boda, Prashanth L. A.

Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning, 2019

2018

Stochastic Optimization in a Cumulative Prospect Theory Framework.

Cheng Jie, Prashanth L. A., Michael C. Fu, Steven I. Marcus, Csaba Szepesvári

IEEE Trans. Autom. Control., 2018

Risk-Sensitive Reinforcement Learning: A Constrained Optimization Viewpoint.

Prashanth L. A., Michael C. Fu

CoRR, 2018

2017

Adaptive System Optimization Using Random Directions Stochastic Approximation.

Prashanth L. A., Shalabh Bhatnagar, Michael C. Fu, Steven I. Marcus

IEEE Trans. Autom. Control., 2017

Weighted Bandits or: How Bandits Learn Distorted Values That Are Not Expected.

Aditya Gopalan, Prashanth L. A., Michael C. Fu, Steven I. Marcus

Proceedings of the Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2017

2016

A constrained optimization perspective on actor-critic algorithms and application to network routing.

Prashanth L. A., H. L. Prasad, Shalabh Bhatnagar, Prakash Chandra

Syst. Control. Lett., 2016

Variance-constrained actor-critic algorithms for discounted and average reward MDPs.

Prashanth L. A., Mohammad Ghavamzadeh

Mach. Learn., 2016

Cumulative Prospect Theory Meets Reinforcement Learning: Prediction and Control.

Prashanth L. A., Cheng Jie, Michael C. Fu, Steven I. Marcus, Csaba Szepesvári

Proceedings of the 33nd International Conference on Machine Learning, 2016

Improved Hessian estimation for adaptive random directions stochastic approximation.

Sai Koti Reddy Danda, Prashanth L. A., Shalabh Bhatnagar

Proceedings of the 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2016

(Bandit) Convex Optimization with Biased Noisy Gradient Oracles.

Xiaowei Hu, Prashanth L. A., András György, Csaba Szepesvári

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2016

2015

Simultaneous perturbation methods for adaptive labor staffing in service systems.

Prashanth L. A., H. L. Prasad, Nirmit Desai, Shalabh Bhatnagar, Gargi Dasgupta

Simul., 2015

Simultaneous Perturbation Newton Algorithms for Simulation Optimization.

Shalabh Bhatnagar, Prashanth L. A.

J. Optim. Theory Appl., 2015

Cumulative Prospect Theory Meets Reinforcement Learning: Estimation and Control.

Prashanth L. A., Cheng Jie, Michael C. Fu, Steven I. Marcus

CoRR, 2015

Adaptive system optimization using (simultaneous) random directions stochastic approximation.

Prashanth L. A., Shalabh Bhatnagar

CoRR, 2015

On TD(0) with function approximation: Concentration bounds and a centered variant with exponential convergence.

Nathaniel Korda, Prashanth L. A.

Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Machine Learning, 2015

Two-Timescale Algorithms for Learning Nash Equilibria in General-Sum Stochastic Games.

H. L. Prasad, Prashanth L. A., Shalabh Bhatnagar

Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2015

Fast Gradient Descent for Drifting Least Squares Regression, with Application to Bandits.

Nathaniel Korda, Prashanth L. A., Rémi Munos

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015

2014

Two timescale convergent Q-learning for sleep-scheduling in wireless sensor networks.

Prashanth L. A., Abhranil Chatterjee, Shalabh Bhatnagar

Wirel. Networks, 2014

Algorithms for Nash Equilibria in General-Sum Stochastic Games.

H. L. Prasad, Prashanth L. A., Shalabh Bhatnagar

CoRR, 2014

Actor-Critic Algorithms for Risk-Sensitive Reinforcement Learning.

Prashanth L. A., Mohammad Ghavamzadeh

CoRR, 2014

Fast LSTD Using Stochastic Approximation: Finite Time Analysis and Application to Traffic Control.

Prashanth L. A., Nathaniel Korda, Rémi Munos

Proceedings of the Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, 2014

Adaptive sleep-wake control using reinforcement learning in sensor networks.

Prashanth L. A., Abhranil Chatterjee, Shalabh Bhatnagar

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks, 2014

Simultaneous perturbation algorithms for batch off-policy search.

Raphael Fonteneau, Prashanth L. A.

Proceedings of the 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2014

Policy Gradients for CVaR-Constrained MDPs.

Prashanth L. A.

Proceedings of the Algorithmic Learning Theory - 25th International Conference, 2014

2013

Analysis of stochastic approximation for efficient least squares regression and LSTD.

Prashanth L. A., Nathaniel Korda, Rémi Munos

CoRR, 2013

Online gradient descent for least squares regression: Non-asymptotic bounds and application to bandits.

Nathaniel Korda, Prashanth L. A., Rémi Munos

CoRR, 2013

Reinforcement Learning for Sleep-Wake Scheduling in Sensor Networks.

Prashanth Lakshmanrao Ananthapadmanabharao, Abhranil Chatterjee, Shalabh Bhatnagar

CoRR, 2013

Actor-Critic Algorithms for Risk-Sensitive MDPs.

Prashanth L. A., Mohammad Ghavamzadeh

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 26: 27th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2013. Proceedings of a meeting held December 5-8, 2013

Mechanisms for hostile agents with capacity constraints.

Prashanth Lakshmanrao Ananthapadmanabharao, Horabailu Laxminarayana Prasad, Nirmit Desai, Shalabh Bhatnagar

Proceedings of the International conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2013

2012

Threshold Tuning Using Stochastic Optimization for Graded Signal Control.

Prashanth L. A., Shalabh Bhatnagar

IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., 2012

2011

Reinforcement Learning With Function Approximation for Traffic Signal Control.

Prashanth L. A., Shalabh Bhatnagar

IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst., 2011

Reinforcement learning with average cost for adaptive control of traffic lights at intersections.

Prashanth L. A., Shalabh Bhatnagar

Proceedings of the 14th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2011

Stochastic Optimization for Adaptive Labor Staffing in Service Systems.

Prashanth L. A., H. L. Prasad, Nirmit Desai, Shalabh Bhatnagar, Gargi Banerjee Dasgupta

Proceedings of the Service-Oriented Computing - 9th International Conference, 2011

2008

OFDM-MAC algorithms and their impact on TCP performance in next generation mobile networks.

Prashanth L. A., K. Gopinath

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on COMmunication System softWAre and MiddlewaRE (COMSWARE 2008), 2008

MAC Design for Heterogeneous Application Support in OFDM Based Wireless Systems.

Prashanth L. A., Sajal Kumar Das, K. Gopinath

Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2008