L A Prashanth Home Page
Associate Professor
Email : prashla [at] cse [dot] iitm [dot] ac [dot] in   |   Phone : (+91)-44-2257-4377
Lab(s) : RL.
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Research Interests :

Reinforcement Learning, Stochastic Optimization, Multi-armed Bandits.

Publications : (Last Five, while at IITM)DBLP | View All

  • Policy Evaluation for Variance in Average Reward Reinforcement Learning. 
    Authors : Shubhada Agrawal, L A Prashanth, Siva Theja Maguluri
    Appeared in Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2024, Vienna, Austria, July 21-27, 2024 (ICML 2024) ,Vol , No., Jul 2024
  • Risk Estimation in a Markov Cost Process: Lower and Upper Bounds. 
    Authors : Gugan Thoppe, L A Prashanth, Sanjay P. Bhat
    Appeared in Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2024, Vienna, Austria, July 21-27, 2024 (ICML 2024) ,Vol , No., Jul 2024
  • A Cubic-regularized Policy Newton Algorithm for Reinforcement Learning. 
    Authors : Mizhaan Prajit Maniyar, L A Prashanth, Akash Mondal, Shalabh Bhatnagar
    Appeared in International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2-4 May 2024, Palau de Congressos, Valencia, Spain., Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, Vol 238, pp.4708-4716, May 2024
  • Truncated Cauchy random perturbations for smoothed functional-based stochastic optimization. 
    Authors : Akash Mondal, L A Prashanth, Shalabh Bhatnagar
    Appeared in Autom., Vol 162, No., pp.111528, Jan 2024
  • A policy gradient approach for optimization of smooth risk measures. 
    Authors : Nithia Vijayan, L A Prashanth
    Appeared in Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, UAI 2023, July 31 - 4 August 2023, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. (UAI 2023) ,Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, Vol 216, pp.2168-2178, Aug 2023

(Recent) Teaching : View All  |  Back to top

Jul 2023 - Nov 2023 : - Operating Systems (CS3500)
Jan 2023 - May 2023 : - Stochastic Optimization (CS6515)
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022 : - Programming and Data Structures (CS2700)
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022 : - Object Oriented Algorithms Implementation and Analysis Lab (CS2810)
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022 : - Topics in Reinforcement Learning (CS7011)

(Current) Advisees View All  |  Back to top

ProgramNameRoll No.Joining DateFunding
PhDNithia VCS17D003Jul 2017HTRA
PhDSoumen PachalCS22D009Jul 2022HTRA
MSAjay Kumar PandeyCS17S011Jul 2017HTRA
MSDipayan SenCS18S012Jul 2018HTRA