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most citedScalable Distributional Robustness in a Class of Non Convex Optimization with Guarantees

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cs.GT2026

Social Choice Foundations for Simulation-Augmented Generation

Sonja Kraiczy, Smitha Milli, Ratip Emin Berker +6

Simulation-augmented generation (SAGE) is a recent technical proposal in which models simulate individuals' viewpoints at inference time in order to provide more representative ans…

cs.CL2026

Cold-Start Personalization via Training-Free Priors from Structured World Models

Avinandan Bose, Shuyue Stella Li, Faeze Brahman +6

Cold-start personalization requires inferring user preferences through interaction when no user-specific historical data is available. The core challenge is a routing problem: each…

cs.CL2025

PrefDisco: Benchmarking Proactive Personalized Reasoning

Shuyue Stella Li, Avinandan Bose, Faeze Brahman +4

Current large language model (LLM) development treats task-solving and preference-alignment as separate challenges, optimizing first for objective correctness, then for alignment t…

cs.LG2025

LoRe: Personalizing LLMs via Low-Rank Reward Modeling

Avinandan Bose, Zhihan Xiong, Yuejie Chi +3

Personalizing large language models (LLMs) to accommodate diverse user preferences is essential for enhancing alignment and user satisfaction. Traditional reinforcement learning fr…

cs.CR2025

DoomArena: A framework for Testing AI Agents Against Evolving Security Threats

Leo Boisvert, Mihir Bansal, Chandra Kiran Reddy Evuru +9

We present DoomArena, a security evaluation framework for AI agents. DoomArena is designed on three principles: 1) It is a plug-in framework and integrates easily into realistic ag…

cs.LG2025

Keeping up with dynamic attackers: Certifying robustness to adaptive online data poisoning

Avinandan Bose, Laurent Lessard, Maryam Fazel +1

The rise of foundation models fine-tuned on human feedback from potentially untrusted users has increased the risk of adversarial data poisoning, necessitating the study of robustn…

cs.LG2024

Hybrid Preference Optimization for Alignment: Provably Faster Convergence Rates by Combining Offline Preferences with Online Exploration

Avinandan Bose, Zhihan Xiong, Aadirupa Saha +2

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is currently the leading approach for aligning large language models with human preferences. Typically, these models rely on exten…

cs.LG2024

Offline Multi-task Transfer RL with Representational Penalization

Avinandan Bose, Simon Shaolei Du, Maryam Fazel

We study the problem of representation transfer in offline Reinforcement Learning (RL), where a learner has access to episodic data from a number of source tasks collected a priori…

cs.LG2023

Initializing Services in Interactive ML Systems for Diverse Users

Avinandan Bose, Mihaela Curmei, Daniel L. Jiang +4

This paper investigates ML systems serving a group of users, with multiple models/services, each aimed at specializing to a sub-group of users. We consider settings where upon depl…

math.OC2023

Tackling Stackelberg Network Interdiction against a Boundedly Rational Adversary

Tien Mai, Avinandan Bose, Arunesh Sinha +1

This work studies Stackelberg network interdiction games -- an important class of games in which a defender first allocates (randomized) defense resources to a set of critical node…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Scalable Distributional Robustness in a Class of Non Convex Optimization with Guarantees

Avinandan Bose, Arunesh Sinha, Tien Mai

Distributionally robust optimization (DRO) has shown lot of promise in providing robustness in learning as well as sample based optimization problems. We endeavor to provide DRO so…

cs.LG2022

Multiscale Generative Models: Improving Performance of a Generative Model Using Feedback from Other Dependent Generative Models

Changyu Chen, Avinandan Bose, Shih-Fen Cheng +1

Realistic fine-grained multi-agent simulation of real-world complex systems is crucial for many downstream tasks such as reinforcement learning. Recent work has used generative mod…

cs.LG2021

Conditional Expectation based Value Decomposition for Scalable On-Demand Ride Pooling

Avinandan Bose, Pradeep Varakantham

Owing to the benefits for customers (lower prices), drivers (higher revenues), aggregation companies (higher revenues) and the environment (fewer vehicles), on-demand ride pooling…

cs.CL2021

Changepoint Analysis of Topic Proportions in Temporal Text Data

Avinandan Bose, Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee

Changepoint analysis deals with unsupervised detection and/or estimation of time-points in time-series data, when the distribution generating the data changes. In this article, we…

cs.CV2021

NeurInt : Learning to Interpolate through Neural ODEs

Avinandan Bose, Aniket Das, Yatin Dandi +1

A wide range of applications require learning image generation models whose latent space effectively captures the high-level factors of variation present in the data distribution.…