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most citedSpectrum Access In Cognitive Radio Using A Two Stage Reinforcement Learning Approach

106 citations · 112 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CL2025

Unequal Opportunities: Examining the Bias in Geographical Recommendations by Large Language Models

Shiran Dudy, Thulasi Tholeti, Resmi Ramachandranpillai +3

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have made them a popular information-seeking tool among end users. However, the statistical training methods for LLMs have raise…

eess.SP2024

Online waveform selection for cognitive radar

Thulasi Tholeti, Avinash Rangarajan, Sheetal Kalyani

Designing a cognitive radar system capable of adapting its parameters is challenging, particularly when tasked with tracking a ballistic missile throughout its entire flight. In th…

cs.LG2024

Randomness Helps Rigor: A Probabilistic Learning Rate Scheduler Bridging Theory and Deep Learning Practice

Dahlia Devapriya, Thulasi Tholeti, Janani Suresh +1

Learning rate schedulers have shown great success in speeding up the convergence of learning algorithms in practice. However, their convergence to a minimum has not been proven the…

cs.CR2022

Introducing the Huber mechanism for differentially private low-rank matrix completion

R Adithya Gowtham, Gokularam M, Thulasi Tholeti +1

Performing low-rank matrix completion with sensitive user data calls for privacy-preserving approaches. In this work, we propose a novel noise addition mechanism for preserving dif…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

The robust way to stack and bag: the local Lipschitz way

Thulasi Tholeti, Sheetal Kalyani

Recent research has established that the local Lipschitz constant of a neural network directly influences its adversarial robustness. We exploit this relationship to construct an e…

cs.LG2021

How to boost autoencoders?

Sai Krishna, Thulasi Tholeti, Sheetal Kalyani

Autoencoders are a category of neural networks with applications in numerous domains and hence, improvement of their performance is gaining substantial interest from the machine le…

cs.IT2021

Binarized ResNet: Enabling Robust Automatic Modulation Classification at the resource-constrained Edge

Deepsayan Sadhukhan, Nitin Priyadarshini Shankar, Nancy Nayak +2

Recently, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been used extensively for automatic modulation classification (AMC), and the results have been quite promising. However, DNNs have high m…

cs.LG2021

On the Differentially Private Nature of Perturbed Gradient Descent

Thulasi Tholeti, Sheetal Kalyani

We consider the problem of empirical risk minimization given a database, using the gradient descent algorithm. We note that the function to be optimized may be non-convex, consisti…

cs.LG2020★ 4 cited

Tune smarter not harder: A principled approach to tuning learning rates for shallow nets

Thulasi Tholeti, Sheetal Kalyani

Effective hyper-parameter tuning is essential to guarantee the performance that neural networks have come to be known for. In this work, a principled approach to choosing the learn…

cs.IT2020★ 1 cited

Green DetNet: Computation and Memory efficient DetNet using Smart Compression and Training

Nancy Nayak, Thulasi Tholeti, Muralikrishnan Srinivasan +1

This paper introduces an incremental training framework for compressing popular Deep Neural Network (DNN) based unfolded multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) detection algorithms…

math.OC2019

Concavifiability and convergence: necessary and sufficient conditions for gradient descent analysis

Thulasi Tholeti, Sheetal Kalyani

Convergence of the gradient descent algorithm has been attracting renewed interest due to its utility in deep learning applications. Even as multiple variants of gradient descent w…

cs.IT2018

A Centralized Multi-stage Non-parametric Learning Algorithm for Opportunistic Spectrum Access

Thulasi Tholeti, Vishnu Raj, Sheetal Kalyani

Owing to the ever-increasing demand in wireless spectrum, Cognitive Radio (CR) was introduced as a technique to attain high spectral efficiency. As the number of secondary users (S…

cs.IT2017★ 106 cited

Spectrum Access In Cognitive Radio Using A Two Stage Reinforcement Learning Approach

Vishnu Raj, Irene Dias, Thulasi Tholeti +1

With the advent of the 5th generation of wireless standards and an increasing demand for higher throughput, methods to improve the spectral efficiency of wireless systems have beco…