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Daman Arora

6 accepted papers

2026

Maximum Likelihood Reinforcement Learning

ICML 2026oral

Maximum likelihood is fundamental to supervised learning but it cannot be directly applied in correctness-based problems with non-differentiable sampling. In these settings, reinforcement learning (RL) is typically used to maximize expected reward. We show that for binary correctness tasks, expected…

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2026

Shrinking the Variance: Shrinkage Baselines for Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards

ICML 2026poster

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for post-training large reasoning models (LRMs) using policy-gradient methods such as GRPO. To stabilize training, these methods typically center trajectory rewards by subtracting the empirical mean for each pro…

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2023

Have LLMs Advanced Enough? A Challenging Problem Solving Benchmark For Large Language Models

EMNLP 2023long main

The performance of large language models (LLMs) on existing reasoning benchmarks has significantly improved over the past years. In response, we present JEEBench, a considerably more challenging benchmark dataset for evaluating the problem solving abilities of LLMs. We curate 515 challenging pre-eng…

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2023

SymNet 3.0: Exploiting Long-Range Influences in Learning Generalized Neural Policies for Relational MDPs

UAI 2023poster

We focus on the learning of generalized neural policies for Relational Markov Decision Processes (RMDPs) expressed in RDDL. Recent work first converts the instances of a relational domain into an instance graph, and then trains a Graph Attention Network (GAT) of fixed depth with parameters shared ac…

2022

SymNet 2.0: Effectively handling Non-Fluents and Actions in Generalized Neural Policies for RDDL Relational MDPs

UAI 2022poster

Relational MDPs (RMDPs) compactly represent an infinite set of MDPs with an unbounded number of objects. Solving an RMDP requires a generalized policy that applies to all instances of a domain. Recently, Garg et al. proposed SymNet for this task– it constructs a graph neural network that shares para…