Amrit Singh Bedi
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I am an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department (joint appointment with the ECE department) at the University of Central Florida, USA. Before joining UCF, I was an Assistant Research Professor/Scientist at the University of Maryland (UMD), College Park, MD, USA, working closely with Prof. Dinesh Manocha, Prof. Pratap Tokekar, and Prof. Furong Huang. Prior to my time at UMD, I was fortunate enough to work with Dr. Alec Koppel and Dr. Brian Sadler at the US Army Research Laboratory, where I gained valuable experience and insights into the real-world applications of my research. I earned my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kanpur under the supervision of Prof. Ketan Rajawat, where I focused on distributed and online learning with stochastic gradient methods for my Ph.D. thesis.
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Research Interests
My research work is dedicated to advancing the forefront of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), focusing on critical areas that shape the future of technology and society. As we navigate the complexities of AI, my research endeavors to harness its potential responsibly and innovatively. My core areas of interest are:
AI Alignment and Ethical Integration
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
Safety/Trustworthiness in Generative AI
Optimization Techniques for the AI Era
Data Efficiency in Machine Learning
Email: amritbedi@ucf.edu
[News]
Five papers accepted to ICML 2024 in Vienna, Austria!
New! I have joined as an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department at the University of Central Florida, USA, in Jan 2024. I am looking for highly motivated PhD students and postdocs to work in the general area of optimization and machine learning. For more details, please check the advertisement here [Hiring! PhD and Postdoc Positions]
Paper accepted to ICLR 2024, "PARL: A Unified Framework for Policy Alignment in Reinforcement Learning ".
Paper accepted to Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), "On the Sample Complexity and Metastability of Heavy-tailed Policy Search in Continuous Control".
Paper accepted to Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), "A Survey on the Possibilities & Impossibilities of AI-generated Text Detection".
Paper accepted to Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), "Achieving Zero Constraint Violation for Constrained Reinforcement Learning via Primal-Dual Approach"
Paper accepted to IEEE Transactions of Artificial Intelligence (TAI) "Regret and Belief Complexity Trade-off in Gaussian Process Bandits via Information Thresholding".
Paper accepted (oral) in CORL 2023: Intent-Aware Planning in Heterogeneous Traffic via Distributed Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. This work also won the Best Paper/Presentation award at the Advances in Multi-Agent Learning workshop at IROS 2023.
I will serve as an Area Chair for NeurIPS 2023.
News article covering our latest research on AI-generated text detection.
Paper accepted to IEEE CASE 2023 (conference on Automation Science, and Engineering) with title ``Bi-Level Nonstationary Kernels for Online Gaussian Process Regression"
Two papers accepted in ICML 2023:
New Preprint (Check this link for quick summary):
Amrit Singh Bedi*, Souradip Chakraborty*, Sicheng Zhu, Bang An, Dinesh Manocha, and Furong Huang. "On the Possibilities of AI-Generated Text Detection" arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.04736 (2023).
Received Amazon Research Award 2022 for my proposal "Ensuring fairness via federated learning beyond consensus" at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Paper accepted in ICLR 2023: SWIFT: Rapid Decentralized Federated Learning via Wait-Free Model Communication
Three papers accepted in IEEE ICRA 2023 with titles:
Decentralized Multi-agent Exploration with Limited Inter-agent Communications
Dealing with Sparse Rewards in Continuous Control Robotics via Heavy-Tailed Policy Optimization
[Funding] Grant Awarded by Army Research Laboratory on "Efficient Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Next-generation Team of Combat Vehicles" (Principal Investigator)
[Funding] Grant Awarded by Army Research Laboratory on "Developing Novel Risk Sensitive Maneuver Tradeoffs for a Team of Ground Vehicles" (Co-Principal Investigator)
Paper accepted in IEEE TSP with title "Projection-Free Algorithm for Stochastic Bi-level Optimization"
Two papers (oral) accepted in AAAI 2023 with the titles:
Paper accepted in CORL 2022 with title "HTRON: Efficient Outdoor Navigation with Sparse Rewards via Heavy Tailed Adaptive Reinforce Algorithm"
Paper accepted in Asilomar 2022 with title "Fast Distributed Beamforming without Receiver Feedback"
Paper accepted in IEEE CDC 2022 with title "Convergence Rates of Average-Reward Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning via Randomized Linear Programming "
Two papers accepted in IROS 2022 with titles:
Two papers accepted in ICML 2022 (Spotlight Talks (short)) with titles:
[Funding] Northrop Grumman Seed Grant Award (Principal Investigator)