Publications/Manuscripts

An Information Divergence Measure Between Neural Text and Human Text.
Krishna Pillutla, Swabha Swayamdipta, Rowan Zellers, John Thickstun, Sean Welleck, Yejin Choi, Zaid Harchaoui.
NeurIPS 2021 (Oral, Top 1% of all submissions).
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Divergence Frontiers for Generative Models: Sample Complexity, Quantization Level, and Frontier Integral.
Lang Liu, Krishna Pillutla, Sean Welleck, Sewoong Oh, Yejin Choi, Zaid Harchaoui.
NeurIPS 2021.
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LLC: Accurate, Multi-purpose Learnt Low-dimensional Binary Codes.
Aditya Kusupati, Matthew Wallingford, Vivek Ramanujan, Raghav Somani, Jae Sung Park, Krishna Pillutla, Prateek Jain, Sham Kakade, Ali Farhadi.
NeurIPS 2021.
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Federated Learning with Heterogeneous Devices: A Superquantile Optimization Approach.
Krishna Pillutla*, Yassine Laguel*, Jérôme Malick, Zaid Harchaoui.
Submitted.

Superquantiles at Work : Machine Learning Applications and Efficient (Sub)gradient Computation.
Yassine Laguel, Krishna Pillutla, Jérôme Malick, Zaid Harchaoui.
Set-Valued and Variational Analysis (to appear). 2021
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A Superquantile Approach to Federated Learning with Heterogeneous Devices.
Yassine Laguel*, Krishna Pillutla*, Jérôme Malick, Zaid Harchaoui.
CISS 2021.
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Robust Aggregation for Federated Learning.
Krishna Pillutla, Sham Kakade, Zaid Harchaoui.
Submitted.
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A Smoother Way to Train Structured Prediction Models.
Krishna Pillutla, Vincent Roulet, Sham Kakade, Zaid Harchaoui.
NeurIPS 2018.
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A Markov Chain Theory Approach to Characterizing the Minimax Optimality of Stochastic Gradient Descent (for Least Squares).
Prateek Jain, Sham M. Kakade, Rahul Kidambi, Praneeth Netrapalli, Venkata Krishna Pillutla, Aaron Sidford.
FSTTCS 2017.
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Data Driven Resource Allocation for Distributed Learning.
Travis Dick, Mu Li, Venkata Krishna Pillutla, Colin White, Maria-Florina Balcan, Alex Smola.
AISTATS 2017.
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On Skewed Multi-dimensional Distributions: the FusionRP Model, Algorithms, and Discoveries.
Venkata Krishna Pillutla, Zhanpeng Fang, Christos Faloutsos, Danai Koutra, Jie Tang.
SDM 2016.

Master’s Thesis: Data Driven Resource Allocation For Distributed Machine Learning.
Thesis Committee: Nina Balcan, Alex Smola, Christos Faloutsos
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