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20122026
most citedFinite Sample Analysis of Two-Timescale Stochastic Approximation with Applications to Reinforcement Learning

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cs.LG2026

Finite-Time Analysis of Discounted Exponential-Utility Reinforcement Learning

Ankur Naskar, Vivek T A, Aditya Kumar +2

Discounted exponential utility provides a principled criterion for risk-sensitive sequential decision-making, but its nonlinear structure complicates reinforcement learning. A rece…

cs.LG2026

Adversary-Robust Learning from Fully Asynchronous Directional Derivative Estimates

Anik Kumar Paul, Nibedita Roy, Nagesh Talagani +3

We propose FAR-SIGN (Fully Asynchronous Robust optimization via SIGNed directional projections) for adversary-resilient learning in parameter-server--worker systems. FAR-SIGN achie…

cs.LG2026

Reinforcement Learning for Exponential Utility: Algorithms and Convergence in Discounted MDPs

Gugan Thoppe, L. A. Prashanth, Ankur Naskar +1

Reinforcement learning (RL) for exponential-utility optimization in discounted Markov decision processes (MDPs) lacks principled value-based algorithms. We address this gap in the…

cs.DC2026

End-to-End and Phase-Level Performance Optimization for Hyperledger Fabric

Pavan Sollu, Aniruddha Mukherjee, Divya Pulivarthi +6

Hyperledger Fabric (HLF) is a modular, permissioned blockchain widely adopted in enterprise settings. Enhancing its throughput and latency remains challenging, as optimization deci…

stat.ML2026

Tight Convergence Rates for Online Distributed Linear Estimation with Adversarial Measurements

Nibedita Roy, Vishal Halder, Gugan Thoppe +4

We study mean estimation of a random vector in a distributed parameter-server-worker setup. Worker observes samples of , where is the th row of a…

cs.AI2025

Reliable Policy Iteration: Performance Robustness Across Architecture and Environment Perturbations

S. R. Eshwar, Aniruddha Mukherjee, Kintan Saha +4

In a recent work, we proposed Reliable Policy Iteration (RPI), that restores policy iteration's monotonicity-of-value-estimates property to the function approximation setting. Here…