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Yash
dblp:407/8999
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2ranked-venue papers
1as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0009-6159-4387ORCID · reported
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2 · 1 first-author · 2 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.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Reinforcement learning · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › multi-armed bandit › pure exploration
best arm identification |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Near Optimal Best Arm Identification for Clustered Bandits · ICML 2025 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › multi-armed bandit › structured bandit
clustering of bandits |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Near Optimal Best Arm Identification for Clustered Bandits · ICML 2025 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › multi-armed bandit
multi-agent bandit |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Near Optimal Best Arm Identification for Clustered Bandits · ICML 2025 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
multi-armed bandit |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Near Optimal Best Arm Identification for Clustered Bandits · ICML 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
successive elimination · 0.9clustering · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Near Optimal Best Arm Identification for Clustered BanditsabstractThis work investigates the problem of best arm identification for multi-agent multi-armed bandits. We consider $N$ agents grouped into $M$ clusters, where each cluster solves a stochastic bandit problem. The mapping between agents and bandits is \textit{a priori} unknown. Each bandit is associated with $K$ arms, and the goal is to identify the best arm for each agent under a $\delta$-probably correct ($\delta$-PC) framework, while minimizing sample complexity and communication overhead. We propose two novel algorithms: \emph{Clustering then Best Arm Identification} (\texttt{Cl-BAI}) and \emph{Best Arm Identification then Clustering} (\texttt{BAI-Cl}). \texttt{Cl-BAI} employs a two-phase approach that first clusters agents based on the bandit problems they are learning, followed by identifying the best arm for each cluster. \texttt{BAI-Cl} reverses the sequence by identifying the best arms first and then clustering agents accordingly. Both algorithms exploit the successive elimination framework to ensure computational efficiency and high accuracy. Theoretical analysis establishes $\delta$-PC guarantees for both methods, derives bounds on their sample complexity, and provides a lower bound for the problem class. Moreover, when $M$ is small (a constant), we show that the sample complexity of (a variant of) \texttt{BAI-Cl} is (order-wise) minimax optimal. Experiments on synthetic and real-world (Movie Lens, Yelp) data demonstrates the superior performance of the proposed algorithms in terms of sample and communication efficiency, particularly in settings where $M \ll N$. Yash, Avishek Ghosh, Nikhil Karamchandani |
ICML | 1 |
| 2025 | Brain-lateralized reservoirs: Neuro-anatomically constrained echo state networks for chaotic and physiological signals
Shreyas Rajesh Dahale, Yash, Balasubramanian Raman |
Knowl. Based Syst. | 3 |