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20192025
most citedReinforcement Learning with Sparse Rewards using Guidance from Offline Demonstration

27 citations · 34 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.LG2025

Hierarchical Multi-Agent Framework for Carbon-Efficient Liquid-Cooled Data Center Clusters

Soumyendu Sarkar, Avisek Naug, Antonio Guillen +7

Reducing the environmental impact of cloud computing requires efficient workload distribution across geographically dispersed Data Center Clusters (DCCs) and simultaneously optimiz…

cs.LG2024

SustainDC: Benchmarking for Sustainable Data Center Control

Avisek Naug, Antonio Guillen, Ricardo Luna +8

Machine learning has driven an exponential increase in computational demand, leading to massive data centers that consume significant amounts of energy and contribute to climate ch…

eess.SY2024★ 1 cited

Structured Reinforcement Learning for Media Streaming at the Wireless Edge

Archana Bura, Sarat Chandra Bobbili, Shreyas Rameshkumar +3

Media streaming is the dominant application over wireless edge (access) networks. The increasing softwarization of such networks has led to efforts at intelligent control, wherein…

cs.CL2023

N-Critics: Self-Refinement of Large Language Models with Ensemble of Critics

Sajad Mousavi, Ricardo Luna Gutiérrez, Desik Rengarajan +5

We propose a self-correction mechanism for Large Language Models (LLMs) to mitigate issues such as toxicity and fact hallucination. This method involves refining model outputs thro…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Federated Ensemble-Directed Offline Reinforcement Learning

Desik Rengarajan, Nitin Ragothaman, Dileep Kalathil +1

We consider the problem of federated offline reinforcement learning (RL), a scenario under which distributed learning agents must collaboratively learn a high-quality control polic…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

Enhanced Meta Reinforcement Learning using Demonstrations in Sparse Reward Environments

Desik Rengarajan, Sapana Chaudhary, Jaewon Kim +2

Meta reinforcement learning (Meta-RL) is an approach wherein the experience gained from solving a variety of tasks is distilled into a meta-policy. The meta-policy, when adapted ov…

cs.LG2022★ 27 cited

Reinforcement Learning with Sparse Rewards using Guidance from Offline Demonstration

Desik Rengarajan, Gargi Vaidya, Akshay Sarvesh +2

A major challenge in real-world reinforcement learning (RL) is the sparsity of reward feedback. Often, what is available is an intuitive but sparse reward function that only indica…

math.OC2020★ 1 cited

Reinforcement Learning for Mean Field Games with Strategic Complementarities

Kiyeob Lee, Desik Rengarajan, Dileep Kalathil +1

Mean Field Games (MFG) are the class of games with a very large number of agents and the standard equilibrium concept is a Mean Field Equilibrium (MFE). Algorithms for learning MFE…

cs.NI2020★ 1 cited

Learning to Cache and Caching to Learn: Regret Analysis of Caching Algorithms

Archana Bura, Desik Rengarajan, Dileep Kalathil +2

Crucial performance metrics of a caching algorithm include its ability to quickly and accurately learn a popularity distribution of requests. However, a majority of work on analyti…

cs.LG2019

QFlow: A Learning Approach to High QoE Video Streaming at the Wireless Edge

Rajarshi Bhattacharyya, Archana Bura, Desik Rengarajan +6

The predominant use of wireless access networks is for media streaming applications, which are only gaining popularity as ever more devices become available for this purpose. Howev…