Publications

Publications by Debmalya Mandal, grouped by year and filterable by topic.

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2026

  1. Preprint
    Local and Global Stability in Performative Reinforcement Learning
    Debmalya Mandal
    Reinforcement learning
    2026
  2. 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
  3. NeurIPS
    Subprocess-Constrained Markov Decision Processes
    Jiarui Gan and Debmalya Mandal
    Reinforcement learning
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026
  4. NeurIPS
    Inference-Time Nash Alignment
    Hadi Hosseini, Debmalya Mandal, and Duohan Zhang
    Human feedback · Social choice
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026
  5. NeurIPS
    Meta-Learning Preferences for Multilingual LLM Alignment
    Human feedback
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026
  6. NeurIPS
    GRAPHLCP: Structure-Aware Localized Conformal Prediction on Graphs
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026
  7. ICML
    Distributionally Robust Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback
    Debmalya Mandal, Paulius Sasnauskas, and Goran Radanovic
    Human feedback · Reinforcement learning · Robustness
    In Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026
  8. JAIR
    Surprisingly Popular Voting Recovers Rankings, Surprisingly!
    Hadi Hosseini, Debmalya Mandal, Nisarg Shah, and Kevin Shi
    Social choice
    Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR). Supersedes the IJCAI 2021 version (PDF) , 2026
  9. ICLR
    BRIDGE: Bi-level Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Group Structure in Coalition Formation Games
    Reinforcement learning · Game theory
    In The 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026
  10. AISTATS
    Corruption-robust Offline Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
    Human feedback · Reinforcement learning · Robustness
    In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2026
  11. AISTATS
    Sparse Offline Reinforcement Learning with Corruption Robustness
    Reinforcement learning · Robustness
    In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2026
  12. KDD
    SP-Rank: A Dataset for Ranked Preferences with Secondary Information
    Hadi Hosseini, Debmalya Mandal, and Amrit Puhan
    Social choice
    In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Datasets and Benchmarks Track, 2026

2025

  1. NeurIPS
    Strategyproof Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
    Human feedback · Game theory
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025
  2. NeurIPS
    Stochastic Principal-Agent Problems: Efficient Computation and Learning
    Jiarui Gan, Rupak Majumdar, Debmalya Mandal, and Goran Radanovic
    Game theory · Reinforcement learning
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). Extended abstract at AAMAS 2024 , 2025
  3. AISTATS
    Corruption Robust Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback
    Human feedback · Reinforcement learning · Robustness
    In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2025
  4. AISTATS
    Performative Reinforcement Learning with Linear Markov Decision Process
    Debmalya Mandal and Goran Radanovic
    Reinforcement learning
    In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2025
  5. AISTATS
    Policy Teaching via Data Poisoning in Learning from Human Preferences
    Andi Nika, Jonathan Nöther, Debmalya Mandal, Parameswaran Kamalaruban, Adish Singla, and Goran Radanovic
    Human feedback · Robustness
    In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2025
  6. AISTATS
    Independent Learning in Performative Markov Potential Games
    Rilind Sahitaj, Paulius Sasnauskas, Yigit Yalin, Debmalya Mandal, and Goran Radanovic
    Reinforcement learning · Game theory
    In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2025
  7. WWW
    On Surprisingly Popular Voting for Concentric Rank-Order Models
    Hadi Hosseini, Debmalya Mandal, and Amrit Puhan
    Social choice
    In Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference (WWW), 2025
  8. AAAI
    On Corruption-Robustness in Performative Reinforcement Learning
    Vasilis Pollatos, Debmalya Mandal, and Goran Radanovic
    Reinforcement learning · Robustness
    In Proceedings of the 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025

2024

  1. NeurIPS
    The Effectiveness of Surprisingly Popular Voting with Partial Preferences
    Hadi Hosseini, Debmalya Mandal, and Amrit Puhan
    Social choice
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024
  2. NeurIPS
    Symmetric Linear Bandits with Hidden Symmetry
    Nam Tran, The-Anh Ta, Debmalya Mandal, and Long Tran-Thanh
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024
  3. NeurIPS
    Learning the Expected Core of Strictly Convex Stochastic Cooperative Games
    Game theory
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024
  4. ICML
    Agent Specific Effects: A Causal Effect Propagation Analysis in Multi-Agent MDPs
    Stelios Triantafyllou, Aleksa Sukovic, Debmalya Mandal, and Goran Radanovic
    Fairness and causality · Reinforcement learning
    In Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024
  5. ICML
    Reward Model Learning vs. Direct Policy Optimization: A Comparative Analysis of Learning from Human Preferences
    Human feedback
    In Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024
  6. UAI
    Performative Reinforcement Learning in Gradually Shifting Environments
    Ben Rank, Stelios Triantafyllou, Debmalya Mandal, and Goran Radanovic
    Reinforcement learning
    In Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2024
  7. AISTATS
    Corruption-Robust Offline Two-Player Zero-Sum Markov Games
    Andi Nika, Debmalya Mandal, Adish Singla, and Goran Radanovic
    Reinforcement learning · Game theory · Robustness
    In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2024

2023

  1. ICML
    Performative Reinforcement Learning
    Debmalya Mandal, Stelios Triantafyllou, and Goran Radanovic
    Reinforcement learning
    In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023
  2. AAMAS
    Implicit Poisoning Attacks in Two-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Adversarial Policies for Training-Time Attacks
    Mohammad Mohammadi, Jonathan Nöther, Debmalya Mandal, Adish Singla, and Goran Radanovic
    Reinforcement learning · Robustness
    In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2023
  3. AAMAS
    Representation-Based Individual Fairness in k-Clustering
    Debjyoti Kar, Mert Kosan, Debmalya Mandal, Sourav Medya, Arlei Silva, Palash Dey, and Swagato Sanyal
    Fairness and causality
    In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). Extended abstract , 2023
  4. AAAI
    Online Reinforcement Learning with Uncertain Episode Lengths
    Reinforcement learning
    In Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023
  5. AAAI
    Markov Decision Processes with Time-Varying Geometric Discounting
    Jiarui Gan, Annika Hennes, Rupak Majumdar, Debmalya Mandal, and Goran Radanovic
    Reinforcement learning
    In Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023

2022

  1. Preprint
    Socially Fair Reinforcement Learning
    Debmalya Mandal and Jiarui Gan
    Fairness and causality · Reinforcement learning
    2022
  2. AISTATS
    Learning Tensor Representations for Meta-Learning
    Samuel Deng, Yilin Guo, Daniel Hsu, and Debmalya Mandal
    In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2022
  3. AAAI
    Sequential Blocked Matching
    Nick Bishop, Hau Chan, Debmalya Mandal, and Long Tran-Thanh
    Game theory
    In Proceedings of the 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2022

2021

  1. SIGKDD Expl.
    Meta-Learning with Graph Neural Networks: Methods and Applications
    Debmalya Mandal, Sourav Medya, Brian Uzzi, and Charu Aggarwal
    ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter, 2021

2020

  1. NeurIPS
    Ensuring Fairness Beyond the Training Data
    Debmalya Mandal, Samuel Deng, Suman Jana, Jeannette M. Wing, and Daniel Hsu
    Fairness and causality · Robustness
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2020
  2. NeurIPS
    Adversarial Blocking Bandits
    Nick Bishop, Hau Chan, Debmalya Mandal, and Long Tran-Thanh
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2020
  3. TEAC
    Peer Prediction with Heterogeneous Users
    Arpit Agarwal, Debmalya Mandal, David C. Parkes, and Nisarg Shah
    Social choice · Game theory
    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
  4. EC
    Optimal Communication-Distortion Tradeoff in Voting
    Debmalya Mandal, Nisarg Shah, and David P. Woodruff
    Social choice
    In Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC), 2020
  5. AAAI
    The Effectiveness of Peer Prediction in Long-Term Forecasting
    Debmalya Mandal, Goran Radanovic, and David C. Parkes
    Social choice
    In Proceedings of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020

2019

  1. NeurIPS
    Efficient and Thrifty Voting by Any Means Necessary
    Social choice
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2019

2018

  1. Workshop
    Weighted Tensor Completion for Time-Series Causal Inference
    Debmalya Mandal and David C. Parkes
    Fairness and causality
    In NeurIPS Workshop on Causal Learning (CausalML), 2018

2017

  1. Workshop
    Calibrated Fairness in Bandits
    Fairness and causality
    In Fourth Workshop on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning (FAT/ML), 2017

2016

  1. 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
  2. IJCAI
    Correlated Voting
    Debmalya Mandal and David C. Parkes
    Social choice
    In Proceedings of the 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2016

2015

  1. AAAI
    A Stackelberg Game Approach for Incentivizing Participation in Online Educational Forums with Heterogeneous Student Population
    Rohith D. Vallam, Priyanka Bhatt, Debmalya Mandal, and Yadati Narahari
    Game theory
    In Proceedings of the 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2015
  2. 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
  3. AAMAS
    A Truthful Budget Feasible Multi-Armed Bandit Mechanism for Crowdsourcing Time Critical Tasks
    Arpita Biswas, Shweta Jain, Debmalya Mandal, and Yadati Narahari
    Game theory
    In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2015
  4. AAMAS
    Profit Maximizing Prior-free Multi-unit Procurement Auctions with Capacitated Sellers
    Arupratan Ray, Debmalya Mandal, and Yadati Narahari
    Game theory
    In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). Extended abstract , 2015

2014

  1. AAMAS
    A Novel Ex-Post Truthful Mechanism for Multi-Slot Sponsored Search Auctions
    Debmalya Mandal and Yadati Narahari
    Game theory
    In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). Extended abstract , 2014