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.
Register now: https://events.csa.iisc.ac.in/rlworkshop2026/

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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🧠 We at CSA, IISc Bangalore, are excited to host the Computer Systems Workshop 2025!
🌟 Exploring frontiers of systems research across industry and academia!
Keynote Speakers:
🔹 Prof. Mark D. Hill (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
🔹 Mr. Manosiz Bhattacharyya (CTO, Nutanix Inc.)
💬 17 speakers from academia and industry
🧾 30 + poster presentations
📍 CSA Auditorium (Room 104), IISc Bangalore
🗓️ Oct 30–31 | ⏰ 09:00–17:30
📺 Join the livestream on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/-IISc
🔗 Event details: https://events.csa.iisc.ac.in/csworkshop2025/

🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Arkaprava Basu on winning the "Rashtriya Vigyan Yuva Puraskar - Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar" for the year 2025. 🏆
He is the sole recipient this year in the Engineering Sciences category.

Does DQN Learn?” (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.13617) by Aditya Gopalan () and Gugan Thoppe () has been accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. In practice, DQN often fails to identify good policies—this work provides a rigorous explanation for why.

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...

Joint work of Siddharth Barman and Paritosh Verma on “Fair Division Beyond Monotone Valuations” has been accepted at SODA 2026:

Fair Division Beyond Monotone Valuations This paper studies fair division of divisible and indivisible items among agents whose cardinal preferences are not necessarily monotone. We establish the existence of fair divisions and develop approximation algorithms to compute them. We address two complementary valuation classes, subadditive and...

Impactful research on “Empowering India’s Farmers with AI” by Prof. Narahari featured in the Listening to Learn Series by NCERT,

telecast on PMeVidya Channels 9, 10, 11, and 12 on September 26, 2025:

DESM: Empowering India's Farmers with Al : India's Farmers with AlEmail :- [email protected] to [email protected] Google Form :-...

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.

Eshwar S. R. ( )'s, single-author paper, “Teaching Precommitted Agents: Model-Free Policy Evaluation and Control in Quasi-Hyperbolic Discounted MDPs“, has been accepted to the 2025 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC).
Link:

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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...

The paper titled "Entrada to Secure Graph Convolutional Networks" by Bhavish Raj Gopal (IISc Bangalore), Koti Nishat Saipanmuluk (Aztec Labs), Varsha Bhat Kukkala (IIT Tirupati), Arpita Patra (IISc Bangalore) has been accepted at IEEE Transaction of Dependendable and Secure Computing (TDSC).