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20172025
most citedLearning Self-Imitating Diverse Policies

23 citations · 72 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.IR2025

RewardRank: Optimizing True Learning-to-Rank Utility

Gaurav Bhatt, Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil, Tanmay Gangwani +2

Traditional ranking systems optimize offline proxy objectives that rely on oversimplified assumptions about user behavior, often neglecting factors such as position bias and item d…

cs.CL2025

Knowledge Distillation with Training Wheels

Guanlin Liu, Anand Ramachandran, Tanmay Gangwani +2

Knowledge distillation is used, in generative language modeling, to train a smaller student model using the help of a larger teacher model, resulting in improved capabilities for t…

cs.LG2023

Multi-Objective Optimization via Wasserstein-Fisher-Rao Gradient Flow

Yinuo Ren, Tesi Xiao, Tanmay Gangwani +4

Multi-objective optimization (MOO) aims to optimize multiple, possibly conflicting objectives with widespread applications. We introduce a novel interacting particle method for MOO…

cs.LG2023

Selective Uncertainty Propagation in Offline RL

Sanath Kumar Krishnamurthy, Tanmay Gangwani, Sumeet Katariya +3

We consider the finite-horizon offline reinforcement learning (RL) setting, and are motivated by the challenge of learning the policy at any step h in dynamic programming (DP) algo…

cs.LG2022

Imitation Learning from Observations under Transition Model Disparity

Tanmay Gangwani, Yuan Zhou, Jian Peng

Learning to perform tasks by leveraging a dataset of expert observations, also known as imitation learning from observations (ILO), is an important paradigm for learning skills wit…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Hindsight Foresight Relabeling for Meta-Reinforcement Learning

Michael Wan, Jian Peng, Tanmay Gangwani

Meta-reinforcement learning (meta-RL) algorithms allow for agents to learn new behaviors from small amounts of experience, mitigating the sample inefficiency problem in RL. However…

cs.LG2020★ 3 cited

Harnessing Distribution Ratio Estimators for Learning Agents with Quality and Diversity

Tanmay Gangwani, Jian Peng, Yuan Zhou

Quality-Diversity (QD) is a concept from Neuroevolution with some intriguing applications to Reinforcement Learning. It facilitates learning a population of agents where each membe…

cs.LG2020★ 4 cited

Learning Guidance Rewards with Trajectory-space Smoothing

Tanmay Gangwani, Yuan Zhou, Jian Peng

Long-term temporal credit assignment is an important challenge in deep reinforcement learning (RL). It refers to the ability of the agent to attribute actions to consequences that…

stat.ML2020★ 5 cited

Mutual Information Based Knowledge Transfer Under State-Action Dimension Mismatch

Michael Wan, Tanmay Gangwani, Jian Peng

Deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have achieved great success on a wide variety of sequential decision-making tasks. However, many of these algorithms suffer from high sa…

stat.ML2020★ 10 cited

State-only Imitation with Transition Dynamics Mismatch

Tanmay Gangwani, Jian Peng

Imitation Learning (IL) is a popular paradigm for training agents to achieve complicated goals by leveraging expert behavior, rather than dealing with the hardships of designing a…

cs.LG2019★ 13 cited

Learning Belief Representations for Imitation Learning in POMDPs

Tanmay Gangwani, Joel Lehman, Qiang Liu +1

We consider the problem of imitation learning from expert demonstrations in partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs). Belief representations, which characterize the…

cs.PL2019

Partial Redundancy Elimination using Lazy Code Motion

Sandeep Dasgupta, Tanmay Gangwani

Partial Redundancy Elimination (PRE) is a compiler optimization that eliminates expressions that are redundant on some but not necessarily all paths through a program. In this proj…

cs.CR2018★ 1 cited

Distributed and Secure ML with Self-tallying Multi-party Aggregation

Yunhui Long, Tanmay Gangwani, Haris Mughees +1

Privacy preserving multi-party computation has many applications in areas such as medicine and online advertisements. In this work, we propose a framework for distributed, secure m…

stat.ML2018★ 23 cited

Learning Self-Imitating Diverse Policies

Tanmay Gangwani, Qiang Liu, Jian Peng

The success of popular algorithms for deep reinforcement learning, such as policy-gradients and Q-learning, relies heavily on the availability of an informative reward signal at ea…

stat.ML2017★ 11 cited

Policy Optimization by Genetic Distillation

Tanmay Gangwani, Jian Peng

Genetic algorithms have been widely used in many practical optimization problems. Inspired by natural selection, operators, including mutation, crossover and selection, provide eff…