@misc{mandal2026stability,title={Local and Global Stability in Performative Reinforcement Learning},author={Mandal, Debmalya},howpublished={Working paper},year={2026},}
NeurIPS
Distributionally-Robust Policy Learning with Observational Data
Debmalya Mandal
Reinforcement learning · Fairness and causality · Robustness
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026
@inproceedings{mandal2026drpolicy,title={Distributionally-Robust Policy Learning with Observational Data},author={Mandal, Debmalya},booktitle={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},year={2026},}
@inproceedings{gan2026subprocess,title={Subprocess-Constrained Markov Decision Processes},author={Gan, Jiarui and Mandal, Debmalya},booktitle={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},year={2026},}
@inproceedings{hosseini2026nash,title={Inference-Time Nash Alignment},author={Hosseini, Hadi and Mandal, Debmalya and Zhang, Duohan},booktitle={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},year={2026},}
NeurIPS
Meta-Learning Preferences for Multilingual LLM Alignment
@inproceedings{lin2026multilingual,title={Meta-Learning Preferences for Multilingual {LLM} Alignment},author={Lin, Jiaying and Son, Seongho and Tran, Nam and Tran-Thanh, Long and Bogunovic, Ilija and Mandal, Debmalya},booktitle={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},year={2026},}
NeurIPS
GRAPHLCP: Structure-Aware Localized Conformal Prediction on Graphs
@inproceedings{bagershahi2026graphlcp,title={{GRAPHLCP}: Structure-Aware Localized Conformal Prediction on Graphs},author={Bagershahi, Peyman and Wang, Fangxin and Medya, Sourav and Mandal, Debmalya},booktitle={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},year={2026},}
ICML
Distributionally Robust Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback
@inproceedings{mandal2026drrlhf,title={Distributionally Robust Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback},author={Mandal, Debmalya and Sasnauskas, Paulius and Radanovic, Goran},booktitle={Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},year={2026},}
JAIR
Surprisingly Popular Voting Recovers Rankings, Surprisingly!
@article{hosseini2026spvoting,title={Surprisingly Popular Voting Recovers Rankings, Surprisingly!},author={Hosseini, Hadi and Mandal, Debmalya and Shah, Nisarg and Shi, Kevin},journal={Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)},year={2026},}
ICLR
BRIDGE: Bi-level Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Group Structure in Coalition Formation Games
@inproceedings{shi2026bridge,title={{BRIDGE}: Bi-level Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Group Structure in Coalition Formation Games},author={Shi, Shuqing and Tran, Nam and Liang, Hao and Mandal, Debmalya and Tran-Thanh, Long and Du, Yali},booktitle={The 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},year={2026},}
AISTATS
Corruption-robust Offline Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
@inproceedings{nika2026marlhf,title={Corruption-robust Offline Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback},author={Nika, Andi and Mandal, Debmalya and Kamalaruban, Parameswaran and Singla, Adish and Radanovic, Goran},booktitle={Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)},year={2026},}
AISTATS
Sparse Offline Reinforcement Learning with Corruption Robustness
@inproceedings{tran2026sparse,title={Sparse Offline Reinforcement Learning with Corruption Robustness},author={Tran, Nam and Nika, Andi and Radanovic, Goran and Tran-Thanh, Long and Mandal, Debmalya},booktitle={Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)},year={2026},}
KDD
SP-Rank: A Dataset for Ranked Preferences with Secondary Information
@inproceedings{hosseini2026sprank,title={{SP-Rank}: A Dataset for Ranked Preferences with Secondary Information},author={Hosseini, Hadi and Mandal, Debmalya and Puhan, Amrit},booktitle={Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Datasets and Benchmarks Track},year={2026},}
2025
NeurIPS
Strategyproof Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
@inproceedings{kleinebuening2025strategyproof,title={Strategyproof Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback},author={Kleine Buening, Thomas and Gan, Jiarui and Mandal, Debmalya and Kwiatkowska, Marta},booktitle={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},year={2025},}
NeurIPS
Stochastic Principal-Agent Problems: Efficient Computation and Learning
@inproceedings{gan2025principalagent,title={Stochastic Principal-Agent Problems: Efficient Computation and Learning},author={Gan, Jiarui and Majumdar, Rupak and Mandal, Debmalya and Radanovic, Goran},booktitle={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},year={2025},}
AISTATS
Corruption Robust Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback
@inproceedings{mandal2025crrlhf,title={Corruption Robust Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback},author={Mandal, Debmalya and Nika, Andi and Kamalaruban, Parameswaran and Singla, Adish and Radanovic, Goran},booktitle={Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)},year={2025},}
AISTATS
Performative Reinforcement Learning with Linear Markov Decision Process
@inproceedings{mandal2025linearperformative,title={Performative Reinforcement Learning with Linear Markov Decision Process},author={Mandal, Debmalya and Radanovic, Goran},booktitle={Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)},year={2025},}
AISTATS
Policy Teaching via Data Poisoning in Learning from Human Preferences
@inproceedings{nika2025policyteaching,title={Policy Teaching via Data Poisoning in Learning from Human Preferences},author={Nika, Andi and N{\"o}ther, Jonathan and Mandal, Debmalya and Kamalaruban, Parameswaran and Singla, Adish and Radanovic, Goran},booktitle={Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)},year={2025},}
AISTATS
Independent Learning in Performative Markov Potential Games
@inproceedings{sahitaj2025potentialgames,title={Independent Learning in Performative Markov Potential Games},author={Sahitaj, Rilind and Sasnauskas, Paulius and Yalin, Yigit and Mandal, Debmalya and Radanovic, Goran},booktitle={Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)},year={2025},}
WWW
On Surprisingly Popular Voting for Concentric Rank-Order Models
@inproceedings{hosseini2025concentric,title={On Surprisingly Popular Voting for Concentric Rank-Order Models},author={Hosseini, Hadi and Mandal, Debmalya and Puhan, Amrit},booktitle={Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference (WWW)},year={2025},}
AAAI
On Corruption-Robustness in Performative Reinforcement Learning
@inproceedings{pollatos2025corruption,title={On Corruption-Robustness in Performative Reinforcement Learning},author={Pollatos, Vasilis and Mandal, Debmalya and Radanovic, Goran},booktitle={Proceedings of the 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},year={2025},}
2024
NeurIPS
The Effectiveness of Surprisingly Popular Voting with Partial Preferences
@inproceedings{hosseini2024partial,title={The Effectiveness of Surprisingly Popular Voting with Partial Preferences},author={Hosseini, Hadi and Mandal, Debmalya and Puhan, Amrit},booktitle={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},year={2024},}
@inproceedings{tran2024symmetric,title={Symmetric Linear Bandits with Hidden Symmetry},author={Tran, Nam and Ta, The-Anh and Mandal, Debmalya and Tran-Thanh, Long},booktitle={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},year={2024},}
NeurIPS
Learning the Expected Core of Strictly Convex Stochastic Cooperative Games
@inproceedings{tran2024core,title={Learning the Expected Core of Strictly Convex Stochastic Cooperative Games},author={Tran, Nam and Ta, The-Anh and Shi, Shuqing and Mandal, Debmalya and Tran-Thanh, Long and Du, Yali},booktitle={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},year={2024},}
ICML
Agent Specific Effects: A Causal Effect Propagation Analysis in Multi-Agent MDPs
@inproceedings{triantafyllou2024agentspecific,title={Agent Specific Effects: A Causal Effect Propagation Analysis in Multi-Agent {MDPs}},author={Triantafyllou, Stelios and Sukovic, Aleksa and Mandal, Debmalya and Radanovic, Goran},booktitle={Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},year={2024},}
ICML
Reward Model Learning vs. Direct Policy Optimization: A Comparative Analysis of Learning from Human Preferences
@inproceedings{nika2024rewardvsdpo,title={Reward Model Learning vs. Direct Policy Optimization: A Comparative Analysis of Learning from Human Preferences},author={Nika, Andi and Mandal, Debmalya and Kamalaruban, Parameswaran and Tzannetos, George and Radanovic, Goran and Singla, Adish},booktitle={Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},year={2024},}
UAI
Performative Reinforcement Learning in Gradually Shifting Environments
@inproceedings{rank2024gradual,title={Performative Reinforcement Learning in Gradually Shifting Environments},author={Rank, Ben and Triantafyllou, Stelios and Mandal, Debmalya and Radanovic, Goran},booktitle={Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)},year={2024},}
AISTATS
Corruption-Robust Offline Two-Player Zero-Sum Markov Games
@inproceedings{nika2024zerosum,title={Corruption-Robust Offline Two-Player Zero-Sum {Markov} Games},author={Nika, Andi and Mandal, Debmalya and Singla, Adish and Radanovic, Goran},booktitle={Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)},year={2024},}
@inproceedings{mandal2023performative,title={Performative Reinforcement Learning},author={Mandal, Debmalya and Triantafyllou, Stelios and Radanovic, Goran},booktitle={Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},year={2023},}
AAMAS
Implicit Poisoning Attacks in Two-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Adversarial Policies for Training-Time Attacks
@inproceedings{mohammadi2023implicit,title={Implicit Poisoning Attacks in Two-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Adversarial Policies for Training-Time Attacks},author={Mohammadi, Mohammad and N{\"o}ther, Jonathan and Mandal, Debmalya and Singla, Adish and Radanovic, Goran},booktitle={Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)},year={2023},}
AAMAS
Representation-Based Individual Fairness in k-Clustering
@inproceedings{kar2023clustering,title={Representation-Based Individual Fairness in k-Clustering},author={Kar, Debjyoti and Kosan, Mert and Mandal, Debmalya and Medya, Sourav and Silva, Arlei and Dey, Palash and Sanyal, Swagato},booktitle={Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)},year={2023},}
AAAI
Online Reinforcement Learning with Uncertain Episode Lengths
@inproceedings{mandal2023episodelengths,title={Online Reinforcement Learning with Uncertain Episode Lengths},author={Mandal, Debmalya and Radanovic, Goran and Gan, Jiarui and Singla, Adish and Majumdar, Rupak},booktitle={Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},year={2023},}
AAAI
Markov Decision Processes with Time-Varying Geometric Discounting
@inproceedings{gan2023discounting,title={{Markov} Decision Processes with Time-Varying Geometric Discounting},author={Gan, Jiarui and Hennes, Annika and Majumdar, Rupak and Mandal, Debmalya and Radanovic, Goran},booktitle={Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},year={2023},}
@inproceedings{deng2022tensor,title={Learning Tensor Representations for Meta-Learning},author={Deng, Samuel and Guo, Yilin and Hsu, Daniel and Mandal, Debmalya},booktitle={Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)},year={2022},}
@inproceedings{bishop2022blockedmatching,title={Sequential Blocked Matching},author={Bishop, Nick and Chan, Hau and Mandal, Debmalya and Tran-Thanh, Long},booktitle={Proceedings of the 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},year={2022},}
2021
SIGKDD Expl.
Meta-Learning with Graph Neural Networks: Methods and Applications
@article{mandal2021gnnmeta,title={Meta-Learning with Graph Neural Networks: Methods and Applications},author={Mandal, Debmalya and Medya, Sourav and Uzzi, Brian and Aggarwal, Charu},journal={ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter},year={2021},}
@inproceedings{mandal2020fairness,title={Ensuring Fairness Beyond the Training Data},author={Mandal, Debmalya and Deng, Samuel and Jana, Suman and Wing, Jeannette M. and Hsu, Daniel},booktitle={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},year={2020},}
@inproceedings{bishop2020blockingbandits,title={Adversarial Blocking Bandits},author={Bishop, Nick and Chan, Hau and Mandal, Debmalya and Tran-Thanh, Long},booktitle={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},year={2020},}
ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation (TEAC). Supersedes the EC 2017 version (PDF), which was invited to the special issue of selected papers from EC 2017 , 2020
@article{agarwal2020peerprediction,title={Peer Prediction with Heterogeneous Users},author={Agarwal, Arpit and Mandal, Debmalya and Parkes, David C. and Shah, Nisarg},journal={ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation (TEAC)},year={2020},}
EC
Optimal Communication-Distortion Tradeoff in Voting
@inproceedings{mandal2020distortion,title={Optimal Communication-Distortion Tradeoff in Voting},author={Mandal, Debmalya and Shah, Nisarg and Woodruff, David P.},booktitle={Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC)},year={2020},}
AAAI
The Effectiveness of Peer Prediction in Long-Term Forecasting
@inproceedings{mandal2020forecasting,title={The Effectiveness of Peer Prediction in Long-Term Forecasting},author={Mandal, Debmalya and Radanovic, Goran and Parkes, David C.},booktitle={Proceedings of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},year={2020},}
2019
NeurIPS
Efficient and Thrifty Voting by Any Means Necessary
Oral presentation (one of 36 out of 1428 accepted papers).
@inproceedings{mandal2019thrifty,title={Efficient and Thrifty Voting by Any Means Necessary},author={Mandal, Debmalya and Procaccia, Ariel D. and Shah, Nisarg and Woodruff, David P.},booktitle={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},year={2019},}
2018
Workshop
Weighted Tensor Completion for Time-Series Causal Inference
@inproceedings{mandal2018tensorcausal,title={Weighted Tensor Completion for Time-Series Causal Inference},author={Mandal, Debmalya and Parkes, David C.},booktitle={NeurIPS Workshop on Causal Learning (CausalML)},year={2018},}
@inproceedings{liu2017calibrated,title={Calibrated Fairness in Bandits},author={Liu, Yang and Radanovic, Goran and Dimitrakakis, Christos and Mandal, Debmalya and Parkes, David C.},booktitle={Fourth Workshop on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning (FAT/ML)},year={2017},}
2016
Workshop
Peer Prediction with Heterogeneous Tasks
Debmalya Mandal, Matthew Leifer, David C. Parkes, Galen Pickard, and Victor Shnayder
Social choice
In NIPS Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Machine Learning (CrowdML), 2016
@inproceedings{mandal2016heterogeneoustasks,title={Peer Prediction with Heterogeneous Tasks},author={Mandal, Debmalya and Leifer, Matthew and Parkes, David C. and Pickard, Galen and Shnayder, Victor},booktitle={NIPS Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Machine Learning (CrowdML)},year={2016},}
@inproceedings{mandal2016correlated,title={Correlated Voting},author={Mandal, Debmalya and Parkes, David C.},booktitle={Proceedings of the 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)},year={2016},}
2015
AAAI
A Stackelberg Game Approach for Incentivizing Participation in Online Educational Forums with Heterogeneous Student Population
@inproceedings{vallam2015stackelberg,title={A {Stackelberg} Game Approach for Incentivizing Participation in Online Educational Forums with Heterogeneous Student Population},author={Vallam, Rohith D. and Bhatt, Priyanka and Mandal, Debmalya and Narahari, Yadati},booktitle={Proceedings of the 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},year={2015},}
AAAI
Novel Mechanisms for Online Crowdsourcing with Unreliable, Strategic Agents
Praphul Chandra, Yadati Narahari, Debmalya Mandal, and Prasenjit Dey
Game theory
In Proceedings of the 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2015
@inproceedings{chandra2015crowdsourcing,title={Novel Mechanisms for Online Crowdsourcing with Unreliable, Strategic Agents},author={Chandra, Praphul and Narahari, Yadati and Mandal, Debmalya and Dey, Prasenjit},booktitle={Proceedings of the 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},year={2015},}
AAMAS
A Truthful Budget Feasible Multi-Armed Bandit Mechanism for Crowdsourcing Time Critical Tasks
@inproceedings{biswas2015budgetfeasible,title={A Truthful Budget Feasible Multi-Armed Bandit Mechanism for Crowdsourcing Time Critical Tasks},author={Biswas, Arpita and Jain, Shweta and Mandal, Debmalya and Narahari, Yadati},booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)},year={2015},}
AAMAS
Profit Maximizing Prior-free Multi-unit Procurement Auctions with Capacitated Sellers
@inproceedings{ray2015procurement,title={Profit Maximizing Prior-free Multi-unit Procurement Auctions with Capacitated Sellers},author={Ray, Arupratan and Mandal, Debmalya and Narahari, Yadati},booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)},year={2015},}
2014
AAMAS
A Novel Ex-Post Truthful Mechanism for Multi-Slot Sponsored Search Auctions
@inproceedings{mandal2014sponsoredsearch,title={A Novel Ex-Post Truthful Mechanism for Multi-Slot Sponsored Search Auctions},author={Mandal, Debmalya and Narahari, Yadati},booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)},year={2014},}