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Kaushik Subramanian

6 accepted papers

2026

A Champion-Level Vision-Based Reinforcement Learning Agent for Competitive Racing in Gran Turismo 7

ICRA 2026poster

Deep reinforcement learning has achieved super-human racing performance in high-fidelity simulators like Gran Turismo 7 (GT7). It typically utilizes global features that require instrumentation external to a car, such as precise localization of agents and opponents, limiting real-world applicability…

2026

Out-of-Distribution Generalization with a SPARC: Racing 100 Unseen Vehicles with a Single Policy

AAAI 2026technical

Generalization to unseen environments is a significant challenge in the field of robotics and control. In this work, we focus on contextual reinforcement learning, where agents act within environments with varying contexts, such as self-driving cars or quadrupedal robots that need to operate in diff

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

A Champion-Level Vision-Based Reinforcement Learning Agent for Competitive Racing in Gran Turismo 7

RA-L 2025

Deep reinforcement learning has achieved superhuman racing performance in high-fidelity simulators like Gran Turismo 7 (GT7). It typically utilizes global features that require instrumentation external to a car, such as precise localization of agents and opponents, limiting real-world applicability.

Cited by 6SourceScholar
2025

SimBa: Simplicity Bias for Scaling Up Parameters in Deep Reinforcement Learning

ICLR 2025spotlight

Recent advances in CV and NLP have been largely driven by scaling up the number of network parameters, despite traditional theories suggesting that larger networks are prone to overfitting. These large networks avoid overfitting by integrating components that induce a simplicity bias, guiding models…

2024

Discovering Creative Behaviors through DUPLEX: Diverse Universal Features for Policy Exploration

NeurIPS 2024poster

The ability to approach the same problem from different angles is a cornerstone of human intelligence that leads to robust solutions and effective adaptation to problem variations. In contrast, current RL methodologies tend to lead to policies that settle on a single solution to a given problem, mak…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2018

Navigating Occluded Intersections with Autonomous Vehicles Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

ICRA 2018poster

Providing an efficient strategy to navigate safely through unsignaled intersections is a difficult task that requires determining the intent of other drivers. We explore the effectiveness of Deep Reinforcement Learning to handle intersection problems. Using recent advances in Deep RL, we are able to…

Cited by 508SourceScholar