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James Anderson

7 accepted papers

2026

Physics-informed learning under mixing: How physical knowledge speeds up learning

ICLR 2026poster

A major challenge in physics-informed machine learning is to understand how the incorporation of prior domain knowledge affects learning rates when data are dependent. Focusing on empirical risk minimization with physics-informed regularization, we derive complexity-dependent bounds on the excess ri…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

TinySDP: Real Time Semidefinite Optimization for Certifiable and Agile Edge Robotics

RSS 2026poster

Semidefinite programming (SDP) provides a principled framework for convex relaxations of nonconvex geometric constraints in motion planning, yet existing solvers are too computationally expensive for real-time control, particularly on resource-constrained embedded systems. To address this gap, we in…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Regret Analysis of Multi-task Representation Learning for Linear-Quadratic Adaptive Control

AAAI 2025technical

Representation learning is a powerful tool that enables learning over large multitudes of agents or domains by enforcing that all agents operate on a shared set of learned features. However, many robotics or controls applications that would benefit from collaboration operate in settings with changin…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

Finite-Time Analysis of On-Policy Heterogeneous Federated Reinforcement Learning

ICLR 2024poster

Federated reinforcement learning (FRL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for reducing the sample complexity of reinforcement learning tasks by exploiting information from different agents. However, when each agent interacts with a potentially different environment, little to nothing is known theor…

Cited by 20SourcePDFScholar
2024

Momentum for the Win: Collaborative Federated Reinforcement Learning across Heterogeneous Environments

ICML 2024poster

We explore a Federated Reinforcement Learning (FRL) problem where $N$ agents collaboratively learn a common policy without sharing their trajectory data. To date, existing FRL work has primarily focused on agents operating in the same or ``similar" environments. In contrast, our problem setup allows…

Cited by 7SourcePDFScholar
2024

Sample-Efficient Linear Representation Learning from Non-IID Non-Isotropic Data

ICLR 2024spotlight

A powerful concept behind much of the recent progress in machine learning is the extraction of common features across data from heterogeneous sources or tasks. Intuitively, using all of one's data to learn a common representation function benefits both computational effort and statistical generaliza…

Cited by 8SourcePDFScholar
2023

Improved Communication Efficiency in Federated Natural Policy Gradient via ADMM-based Gradient Updates

NeurIPS 2023poster

Federated reinforcement learning (FedRL) enables agents to collaboratively train a global policy without sharing their individual data. However, high communication overhead remains a critical bottleneck, particularly for natural policy gradient (NPG) methods, which are second-order. To address this…

Cited by 33SourcePDFScholar