Hi! I am a first year Ph.D. student at Mila and Université de Montréal, advised by Prof. Aaron Courville and Prof. Laurent Charlin.

Previously, I spent two wonderful years as a Research Fellow at Microsoft Research India (MSRI), advised by Dr. Manish Gupta and Dr. Manik Varma. Currently, I am interested in understanding the essential ingredients required to build reasoning models using reinforcement learning!

I graduated from BITS Pilani in 2021 with a Bachelor's in Computer Science and a Master's in Mathematics. For my Bachelor's thesis, I worked with Dr. Soumendu Sinha and Prof. Pratik Narang on utilizing computer vision for precision agriculture.

Research
What Can You Do When You Have Zero Rewards During RL?
Jatin Prakash*, Anirudh Buvanesh*
arXiv preprint pdf blog code
On the Necessity of World Knowledge for Mitigating Missing Labels in Extreme Classification
Jatin Prakash*, Anirudh Buvanesh*, Bishal Santra, Deepak Saini, Sachin Yadav, Jian Jiao, Yashoteja Prabhu, Amit Sharma, Manik Varma
KDD 2025 pdf code
Improved Retrieval of Novel Keywords for Sponsored Search
Sachin Yadav*, Deepak Saini*, Anirudh Buvanesh*, Bhawna Paliwal, Kunal Dahiya, Siddarth Asokan, Yashoteja Prabhu, Jian Jiao, Manik Varma
KDD 2024 pdf code
Enhancing Tail Performance in Extreme Classifiers by Label Variance Reduction
Anirudh Buvanesh*, Rahul Chand*, Jatin Prakash, Bhawna Paliwal, Mudit Dhawan, Neelabh Madan, Deepesh Hada, Vidit Jain, Sonu Mehta, Yashoteja Prabhu, Manish Gupta, Ramachandran Ramjee, Manik Varma
ICLR 2024 pdf code
[Re] AdaBelief Optimizer: Adapting Stepsizes by the Belief in Observed Gradients
Anirudh Buvanesh*, Madhur Panwar*
ReScience C / NeurIPS 2022 Spotlight pdf code
Modelling War Phenomena with an emphasis on Operation Research
Anirudh Buvanesh, Sumanta Pasari
IEEE ICCCNT 2021 pdf
Deep Learning for Precision Agriculture
Anirudh Buvanesh
Bachelor Thesis 2021 pdf
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