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Kanika Madan

6 accepted papers

2025

Majority of the Bests: Improving Best-of-N via Bootstrapping

NeurIPS 2025poster

Sampling multiple outputs from a Large Language Model (LLM) and selecting the most frequent (Self-consistency) or highest-scoring (Best-of-N) candidate is a popular approach to achieve higher accuracy in tasks with discrete final answers. Best-of-N (BoN) selects the output with the highest reward, a…

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2025

Towards Improving Exploration through Sibling Augmented GFlowNets

ICLR 2025poster

Exploration is a key factor for the success of an active learning agent, especially when dealing with sparse extrinsic terminal rewards and long trajectories. We introduce Sibling Augmented Generative Flow Networks (SA-GFN), a novel framework designed to enhance exploration and training efficiency o…

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2023

Learning GFlowNets From Partial Episodes For Improved Convergence And Stability

ICML 2023oral

Generative flow networks (GFlowNets) are a family of algorithms for training a sequential sampler of discrete objects under an unnormalized target density and have been successfully used for various probabilistic modeling tasks. Existing training objectives for GFlowNets are either local to states o…

2023

Reusable Slotwise Mechanisms

NeurIPS 2023poster

Agents with the ability to comprehend and reason about the dynamics of objects would be expected to exhibit improved robustness and generalization in novel scenarios. However, achieving this capability necessitates not only an effective scene representation but also an understanding of the mechanism…

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2021

Fast And Slow Learning Of Recurrent Independent Mechanisms

ICLR 2021poster

Decomposing knowledge into interchangeable pieces promises a generalization advantage when there are changes in distribution. A learning agent interacting with its environment is likely to be faced with situations requiring novel combinations of existing pieces of knowledge. We hypothesize that such…

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