Kirthevasan Kandasamy (original) (raw)

[preprints] [publications] [theses] [invited talks]

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Preprints

Data Sharing for Mean Estimation Among Heterogeneous Strategic Agents
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[arxiv]

Online Learning Demands in Max-min Fairness
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[arxiv] [Simons talk: slides]

Publications

Learning to Price Homogeneous Data
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Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024 [arxiv]

Bandit Profit Maximization for Targeted Marketing
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ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC) 2024 [arxiv]

Nash Incentive-compatible Online Mechanism Learning via Weakly Differentially Private Online Learning
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International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2024 [pdf]

Mechanism Design for Collaborative Normal Mean Estimation
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Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2023 [arxiv] [Stanford slides]

Leveraging Reviews: Learning to Price with Buyer and Seller Uncertainty
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ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC) 2023 [arxiv] [EC talk: slides] [WSB talk: slides]
🏆 Exemplary Artificial Intelligence Track paper (link)

Cilantro: A Framework for Performance-Aware Resource Allocation for General Objectives via Online Feedback
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Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI) 2023 [pdf]

Active Cost-aware Labeling of Streaming Data
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International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2023 [pdf]

VCG Mechanism Design with Unknown Agent Values under Stochastic Bandit Feedback
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Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) 2022, to appear [pdf]

Online Learning of Competitive Equilibria in Exchange Economies
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International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2022 [arxiv]

Elastic Hyperparameter Tuning on the Cloud
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Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC) 2021 [pdf]

Resource Allocation in Multi-armed Bandit Exploration: Overcoming Sublinear Scaling with Adaptive Parallelism
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International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2021 [arxiv] [Google talk: slides,video]

RubberBand: Cloud-based Hyperparameter Tuning
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European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys) 2021 [pdf]

Autonomous Discovery of Battery Electrolytes with Robotic Experimentation and Machine Learning
, , , Han Wang, Sven Burke, , , ,
Cell Reports - Physical Science 2020 [pdf] [code,data]

Tuning Hyperparameters without Grad Students: Scalable and Robust Bayesian Optimisation with Dragonfly
, , , , , , ,
Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) 2020 [pdf] [code,data]

ChemBO: Bayesian Optimization of Small Organic Molecules with Synthesizable Recommendations
, , , , , ,
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2020 [arxiv] [code]

Offline Contextual Bayesian Optimization
, , , , , , ,
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2019 [pdf - coming soon]

Multi-fidelity Gaussian Process Bandit Optimisation
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Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) 2019 [pdf] [code] [École slides]
Abridged version at: Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2016 [pdf]

Myopic Posterior Sampling for Adaptive Goal Oriented Design of Experiments
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International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2019 [pdf] [code]

A Flexible Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization Approach using Random Scalarizations
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Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) 2019 [pdf] [code]

Noisy Blackbox Optimization with Multi-Fidelity Queries: A Tree Search Approach
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International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2019 [pdf]

Neural Architecture Search with Bayesian Optimisation and Optimal Transport
, , , ,
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2018 [pdf] [code,data] [spotlight video] [Uber slides]

Multi-Fidelity Black-Box Optimization with Hierarchical Partitions
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International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2018 [pdf]

Parallelised Bayesian Optimisation via Thompson Sampling
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International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2018 [pdf] [code] [AISTATS slides]

Multi-fidelity Bayesian Optimisation with Continuous Approximations
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International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2017 [pdf] [slides] [talk: video]

Batch Policy Gradient Methods for Improving Neural Conversation Models
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International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2017 [pdf]

Query Efficient Posterior Estimation in Scientific Experiments via Bayesian Active Learning
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Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) 2017 [aij] [arxiv] [code (from David Fleming)]
Abridged version at: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2015 [pdf]
🏆 IJCAI 2015 Distinguished Paper Award (Top 2 out of 1996 submissions, link)

The Multi-fidelity Multi-armed Bandit
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Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2016 [pdf]

Learning HMMs with Nonparametric Emissions via Spectral Decompositions of Continuous Matrices
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Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2016 [pdf] [code]

Additive Approximations in High Dimensional Nonparametric Regression via the SALSA
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International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2016 [pdf] [code] [talk: video]

High Dimensional Bayesian Optimization via Restricted Projection Pursuit Models
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International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2016 [pdf]

Nonparametric von Mises Estimators for Entropies, Divergences and Mutual Informations
, , , ,
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2015 [pdf]

High Dimensional Bayesian Optimisation and Bandits via Additive Models
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International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2015 [pdf] [code] [talk: video,slides]

On Estimating L22 Divergence
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International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2015 [pdf]

Nonparametric Estimation of Renyi-Divergence and Friends
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International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2014 [pdf]

Latent Beta Topographic Mapping

International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence 2012 [pdf]

Unpublished

PAC Best Arm Identification Under a Deadline
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[arxiv] [Google talk: slides,video]

ProBO: A Framework for Using Probabilistic Programming in Bayesian Optimization
, , ,
[arxiv]

Theses

Tuning Hyperparameters without Grad Students: Scaling Up Bandit Optimisation

School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, October 2018 [pdf]

Invited Talks

Data without Borders: Game-theoretic Challenges in Democratizing Data
Midwest Machine Learnining Symposium, Minneapolis, MN May 2024 [slides]
Longer version at Wisconsin Statistics Seminar, April 2024 [slides]

Mechanism Design for Collabrative Normal Mean Estimation
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA April 2024 [slides]

Frontiers in Machine Learning and Game Theory
University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, January 2024 [slides]

Leveraging Reviews: Learning to Price with Buyer and Seller Uncertainty
Wisconsin School of Business Seminar, Madison, WI February 2023 [slides]

Learning with (Bandit) Feedback from Strategic Stakeholders in Fair Division
Simons Institute, Berkeley, CA May 2022 [slides]

Resource Allocation in Multi-armed Bandits
Google Research, June 2021 [slides,video]

Bayesian Methods for Adaptive Experimentation
Symposium on Autonomous Experimentation, University of Maryland, College Park, MD August 2019 [slides]

Scaling up Bandits and Friends
UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA April 2019 [slides]

Neural Architecture Search with Bayesian Optimisation and Optimal Transport
Uber AI Labs, San Francisco, CA November 2018 [slides]

Design of Experiments via Probabilistic Modeling: Applications in Materials Science, Model Selection, and Astrophysics
Covestro, Pittsburgh, PA, August 2018

Active Bayesian Design of Experiments via Posterior Sampling
Machine Learning in Science & Engineering Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2018 [slides]

Bayesian Design of Experiments via Posterior Sampling
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, June 2018 [slides]

Scalable Bandit Methods for Hyper-parameter Tuning
Guest Lecture - Machine Learning for Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2017 [slides]

Bayesian Optimisation for Materials Science
Electrochemical Energy Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2017 [slides]

Parallelised Bayesian Optimisation via Thompson Sampling
Google Research, Mountain View, CA, September 2017 [slides]

Multi-fidelity Bayesian Optimisation
Facebook Inc., Menlo Park, CA, September 2017 [slides]

Stochastic Bandits
University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, August 2017 [slides]

Bandit Optimisation with Approximations
École Polytechnique, Paris, France, April 2017 [slides]

Multi-fidelity Bandit Optimisation
University College London, London, UK, July 2016 [slides]