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Dhruv Sarkar
dblp:398/4288
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Privacy and data protection · 100% | |
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Algorithmic game theory and mechanism design · 100% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Recommender systems · 50% Machine learning and data management · 50% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Privacy and data protection › differential privacy › private online learning
differentially private bandits |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | DP-NCB: Privacy Preserving Fair Bandits · AAAI 2026 |
Privacy and data protection
differential privacy |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | DP-NCB: Privacy Preserving Fair Bandits · AAAI 2026 |
Algorithmic game theory and mechanism design
multi-armed bandit |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | DP-NCB: Privacy Preserving Fair Bandits · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning and data management › reinforcement learning
bandit algorithms |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | DP-NCB: Privacy Preserving Fair Bandits · AAAI 2026 |
Recommender systems
sequential decision making |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | DP-NCB: Privacy Preserving Fair Bandits · AAAI 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
regret analysis · 3.0nash confidence bound · 3.0differential privacy · 3.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | DP-NCB: Privacy Preserving Fair BanditsabstractMulti-armed bandit algorithms are fundamental tools for sequential decision-making under uncertainty, with widespread applications across domains such as clinical trials and personalized decision-making. As bandit algorithms are increasingly deployed in these socially sensitive settings, it becomes critical to protect user data privacy and ensure fair treatment across decision rounds. While prior work has independently addressed privacy and fairness in bandit settings, the question of whether both objectives can be achieved simultaneously has remained largely open. Existing privacy-preserving bandit algorithms typically optimize average regret, a utilitarian measure, whereas fairness-aware approaches focus on minimizing Nash regret, which penalizes inequitable reward distributions, but often disregard privacy concerns. To bridge this gap, we introduce Differentially Private Nash Confidence Bound (DP-NCB)—a novel and unified algorithmic framework that simultaneously ensures ϵ-differential privacy and achieves order-optimal Nash regret, matching known lower bounds up to logarithmic factors. The framework is sufficiently general to operate under both global and local differential privacy models, and is anytime, requiring no prior knowledge of the time horizon. We support our theoretical guarantees with simulations on synthetic bandit instances, showing that DP-NCB incurs substantially lower Nash regret than state-of-the-art baselines. Our results offer a principled foundation for designing bandit algorithms that are both privacy-preserving and fair, making them suitable for high-stakes, socially impactful applications. Dhruv Sarkar, Nishant Pandey, Sayak Ray Chowdhury |
AAAI | 1 |