Computer Science and Automation, IISc

The Walmart Centre of Tech Excellence at CSA proudly presents the 2026 edition of the Reinforcement Learning Workshop. This workshop aims to expose students and researchers in India to state-of-the-art Reinforcement Learning (RL) research.
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Accepted to : “Parameter-free Optimal Rates for Nonlinear Semi-Norm Contractions with Applications to Q-Learning,” by Ankur Naskar, Gugan Thoppe (), and Vijay Gupta. This work shows how to handle the non-monotonicity of semi-norms in .

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Paper titled “Compatibility of Fairness and Nash Welfare under Subadditive Valuations’’ by Siddharth Barman and Mashbat Suzuki has been accepted for publication at SODA 2026:

Compatibility of Fairness and Nash Welfare under Subadditive Valuations We establish a compatibility between fairness and efficiency, captured via Nash Social Welfare (NSW), under the broad class of subadditive valuations. We prove that, for subadditive valuations, there always exists a partial allocation that is envy-free up to the removal of any good (EFx) and has NSW...

The CSA Department is soliciting applications for SPARKS programme for October 2025. The last date for applying is 30th September 2025.Interested candidates should apply for this program by clicking here https://forms.gle/zRj4ZkC85Zj62FKB9.

Joint work of Siddharth Barman, Vishwa Prakash HV, Aditi Sethia, and Mashbat Suzuki on “Fair and Efficient Allocation of Indivisible Mixed Manna” has been accepted at WINE 2025:

Fair and Efficient Allocation of Indivisible Mixed Manna We study fair division of indivisible mixed manna (items whose values may be positive, negative, or zero) among agents with additive valuations. Here, we establish that fairness -- in terms of a relaxation of envy-freeness -- and Pareto efficiency can always be achieved together. Specifically, our f...