3 papers
cs.LG2026
MDPs with a State Sensing Cost
Vansh Kapoor, Jayakrishnan Nair
In many practical sequential decision-making problems, tracking the state of the environment incurs a sensing/communication/computation cost. In these settings, the agent's interac…
cs.LG2026
Influence of Recommender Systems on Users: A Dynamical Systems Analysis
Prabhat Lankireddy, Jayakrishnan Nair, D Manjunath
We analyze the unintended effects that recommender systems have on the preferences of users that they are learning. We consider a contextual multi-armed bandit recommendation algor…
cs.GT2024
Blotto on the Ballot: A Ballot Stuffing Blotto Game
Harsh Shah, Jayakrishnan Nair, D Manjunath +1
We consider the following Colonel Blotto game between parties and deploys a non negative number of troops across battlefields, while chooses $K <…