Rishab Balasubramanian

I am a second year PhD student at Virginia Tech, advised by Tu Vu. My research interests lie at the intersection of deep learning, language modeling, efficiency and alignment. Previously, I worked with Huazheng Wang on adversarial attacks on bandit algorithms and the impact of ordering in recommendation systems. Long long ago, I completed my Bachelor's (B.Tech) from the National Institute of Technology Tiruchirapalli (NIT-Trichy), India, where I was a part of RMI, the robotics club.

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Recent News

[05/20/2025] One paper submitted to EMNLP

[09/12/2024] One paper accepted to TMLR.

[25/08/2024] Started PhD at Virginia Tech.

[01/05/2024] One paper accepted to ICML 2024.

[09/26/2023] One paper accepted to Neurips 2024.



Research Work

Efficient Model Development through Fine-tuning Transfer
Pin-Jie Lin, Rishab Balasubramanian, Fengyuan Liu, Nikhil Kandpal, Tu Vu
Submitted to EMNLP 2024.
paper


Adversarial Attacks on Combinatorial Multi-Armed Bandits
Rishab Balasubramanian, Jiawei Li, Prasad Tadepalli, Huazheng Wang, Qingyun Wu, Haoyu Zhao
Accepted to ICML 2024
paper


Adversarial Attacks on Online Learning to Rank with Stochastic Click Models
Zichen Wang, Rishab Balasubramanian, Hui Yuan, Chenyu Song, Mengdi Wang, Huazheng Wang
Accepted to TMLR
paper


Risk Averse Submodular Optimization for the Multi-Objective Travelling Salesman Problem
Rishab Balasubramanian, Lifeng Zhou, Pratap Tokekar, P.B.Sujit
Accepted to IROS 2021
video / code

A Cooperative Framework for Autonomous Landings of Quadrotors using Vision on a Moving UGV
Rishab Balasubramanian, P.B. Sujit
Accepted to AIAA SciTech 2021
code / slides / video

Other Projects

3D reconstruction from endoscopic images
Rishab Balasubramanian, EndovisionAi




Contrastive Learning for OOD in Object detection
Rishab Balasubramanian, Rupashree Dey, Kunal Rathore
PrePrint - arXiv
code


Autonomous Mapping And Safe Footfall Planning For Hexapods
Rishab Balasubramanian, Sun Ge, Guillaume Sartoretti
code

Working on autonomous control of a legged robot to map a room using RTABMap Framework


Formation Control And Collision Avoidance For Multi-Agent Systems
Rishab Balasubramanian, Lalita Soundari, Prof. M Umapathy
Thesis

Multi agent collision Avoidance using the Optimal Reciprocal Collision Avoidance (ORCA) Algorithm and comparison with other algorithms


Real-Time American Sign Language To Text Conversion Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Rishab Balasubramanian, Ramasubba Reddy

abstract / code


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