Satisficing Exploration for Deep Reinforcement Learning
Dilip Arumugam, Saurabh Kumar, Ramki Gummadi, Benjamin Van Roy.
RLC Finding the Frame Workshop, 2024.
Invited Oral Talk
I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Princeton University Computer Science Department, where I work with Tom Griffiths. My research is broadly focused on reinforcement learning and, in recent years, draws heavily upon tools from information theory.
I received my Ph.D. from the Stanford University Computer Science Department, along with a M.S. from the Statistics Department, where I was advised by Benjamin Van Roy. I was affiliated with both the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab and the Stanford Computation & Cognition Lab. Prior to that, I completed B.S. and M.S. degrees in the Brown University Computer Science Department, advised by Michael Littman while also working closely with Stefanie Tellex.
My research is primarily centered around understanding principled, practical approaches for achieving data efficiency in reinforcement learning. This often takes the form of research directed towards the specific generalization, exploration, and credit assignment challenges faced by reinforcement-learning agents. In recent years, I've grown fond of information theory as a suite of tools which facilitate rigorous analysis while also remaining amenable to the design of scalable agents. I’m also interested in how insights for engineering sample efficiency into computational decision-making agents fruitfully informs our understanding and reverse engineering of sample efficiency in biological decision-making agents..
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Dilip Arumugam, Saurabh Kumar, Ramki Gummadi, Benjamin Van Roy.
RLC Finding the Frame Workshop, 2024.
Invited Oral Talk
Dilip Arumugam*, Mark K. Ho*, Noah D. Goodman, Benjamin Van Roy.
Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science, 2024.
Ben Prystawski, Dilip Arumugam, Noah D. Goodman.
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), 2023.
Dilip Arumugam & Benjamin Van Roy.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022.
ICML Workshop on Decision Awareness in Reinforcement Learning, 2022.
Early version: Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning & Decision Making (RLDM), 2022.
Dilip Arumugam & Satinder Singh.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022.
Early version: NeurIPS Workshop on Ecological Theory of Reinforcement Learning, 2021.
Dilip Arumugam & Benjamin Van Roy.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021.
Dilip Arumugam & Benjamin Van Roy.
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2021.
Dilip Arumugam, Peter Henderson, Pierre-Luc Bacon.
NeurIPS Workshop on Biological and Artificial Reinforcement Learning, 2020.
David Abel, Nate Umbanhowar, Khimya Khetarpal, Dilip Arumugam, Doina Precup, Michael L. Littman.
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2020.
Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning & Decision Making (RLDM), 2019.
Early version: ICLR Workshop on Structures and Priors in Reinforcement Learning, 2019.
Pierre-Luc Bacon, Dilip Arumugam, Emma Brunskill.
Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning & Decision Making (RLDM), 2019.
David Abel, Dilip Arumugam, Kavosh Asadi, Yuu Jinnai, Michael L. Littman, Lawson L.S. Wong.
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference, 2019.
Dilip Arumugam, Jun Ki Lee, Sophie Saskin, Michael L. Littman.
Preprint, 2018.
Dilip Arumugam*, Siddharth Karamcheti*, Nakul Gopalan, Edward C. Williams, Mina Rhee, Lawson L.S. Wong, Stefanie Tellex Autonomous Robots (AuRo), 2018.
David Abel, Dilip Arumugam, Lucas Lehnert, Michael L. Littman.
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2018.
Early version: NIPS Workshop on Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning, 2017.
Nakul Gopalan*, Dilip Arumugam*, Lawson L.S. Wong, Stefanie Tellex.
Robotics: Science and Systems, 2018.
Dilip Arumugam, David Abel, Kavosh Asadi, Nakul Gopalan, Christopher Grimm, Jun Ki Lee, Lucas Lehnert, Michael L. Littman.
Preprint, 2017.
Dilip Arumugam*, Siddharth Karamcheti*, Nakul Gopalan, Lawson L.S. Wong, Stefanie Tellex.
Robotics: Science and Systems, 2017.
James MacGlashan, Monica Babes-Vroman, Marie desJardins, Michael L. Littman, Smaranda Muresan, Shawn Squire, Stefanie Tellex, Dilip Arumugam, Lei Yang.
Robotics: Science and Systems, 2015.
I've had the privilege of both learning from and researching with an amazing group of people: