Bryon Tjanaka

Joined

May 2021

Names

Bryon Tjanaka (Preferred)

Emails

****@usc.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student

University of Southern California (usc.edu)

2020 – 2025

Intern

InstaDeep (instadeep.com)

2023 – 2023

Undergrad student

University of California, Irvine (uci.edu)

2017 – 2020

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Stefanos Nikolaidis

2020 – Present

Coworker

Roy Fox

2019 – 2020

Expertise

reinforcement learning

evolutionary algorithms

Present

quality diversity optimization

quality diversity algorithms

Present

Publications

Red-Teaming Vision-Language-Action Models via Quality Diversity Prompt Generation for Robust Robot Policies
Siddharth Srikanth, Freddie Liang, Sophie Hsu, Varun Bhatt, Shihan Zhao, Henry Chen, Bryon Tjanaka, Minjune Hwang, Akanksha Saran, Daniel Seita, Aaquib Tabrez, Stefanos Nikolaidis
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Discount Model Search for Quality Diversity Optimization in High-Dimensional Measure Spaces
Bryon Tjanaka, Henry Chen, Matthew Christopher Fontaine, Stefanos Nikolaidis
- ICLR 2026 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Proximal Policy Gradient Arborescence for Quality Diversity Reinforcement Learning
Sumeet Batra, Bryon Tjanaka, Matthew Christopher Fontaine, Aleksei Petrenko, Stefanos Nikolaidis, Gaurav S. Sukhatme
- ICLR 2024 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Surrogate Assisted Generation of Human-Robot Interaction Scenarios
Varun Bhatt, Heramb Nemlekar, Matthew Christopher Fontaine, Bryon Tjanaka, Hejia Zhang, Ya-Chuan Hsu, Stefanos Nikolaidis
- Published: 30 Aug 2023, Last Modified: 15 Jan 2026
- CoRL 2023 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
pyribs: A Bare-Bones Python Library for Quality Diversity Optimization
Bryon Tjanaka, Matthew C. Fontaine, David H. Lee, Yulun Zhang, Nivedit Reddy Balam, Nathaniel Dennler, Sujay S. Garlanka, Nikitas Dimitri Klapsis, Stefanos Nikolaidis
- Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 12 May 2023
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Surrogate Assisted Generation of Human-Robot Interaction Scenarios
Varun Bhatt, Heramb Nemlekar, Matthew C. Fontaine, Bryon Tjanaka, Hejia Zhang, Ya-Chuan Hsu, Stefanos Nikolaidis
- Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 12 May 2023
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Scaling Covariance Matrix Adaptation MAP-Annealing to High-Dimensional Controllers
Bryon Tjanaka, Matthew Christopher Fontaine, Aniruddha Kalkar, Stefanos Nikolaidis
- 08 Oct 2022 (modified: 05 May 2023)
- Deep RL Workshop 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Deep Surrogate Assisted Generation of Environments
Varun Bhatt, Bryon Tjanaka, Matthew Christopher Fontaine, Stefanos Nikolaidis
- Published: 31 Oct 2022, Last Modified: 08 Feb 2026
- NeurIPS 2022 Accept
- Readers: Everyone
Differentiable Quality Diversity for Reinforcement Learning by Approximating Gradients
Bryon Tjanaka, Matthew Christopher Fontaine, Julian Togelius, Stefanos Nikolaidis
- Published: 23 Apr 2022, Last Modified: 05 May 2023
- ALOE@ICLR2022 Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Deep Surrogate Assisted Generation of Environments
Varun Bhatt, Bryon Tjanaka, Matthew C. Fontaine, Stefanos Nikolaidis
- 2022 (modified: 03 Oct 2022)
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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