Gokul Puthumanaillam

PhD student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Joined

September 2024

Names

Gokul Puthumanaillam (Preferred)

Emails

****@illinois.edu (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

PhD student

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (illinois.edu)

2022 – 2027

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Melkior Ornik

2022 – Present

Expertise

Sequential decision-making

2022 – Present

Planning under uncertainty

2022 – Present

Robotics

2022 – Present

Robot reasoning

2022 – Present

Trajectory diffusion models

2022 – Present

Reinforcement Learning

2022 – Present

Publications

Inference-Time Control for SVG Generation via Information-Projection Guided Constrained Decoding
Gokul Puthumanaillam, Sayan Nag, Joseph K J, Srikrishna Karanam
- ICLR 2026 Conference Desk Rejected Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Belief-Conditioned One-Step Diffusion: Real-Time Trajectory Planning with Just-Enough Sensing
Gokul Puthumanaillam, Aditya Penumarti, Manav Vora, Paulo Padrao, Jose Fuentes, Leonardo Bobadilla, Jane Shin, Melkior Ornik
- CoRL 2025 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
TRACE: A Self-Improving Framework for Robot Behavior Forecasting with Vision-Language Models
Gokul Puthumanaillam, Paulo Padrao, Jose Fuentes, Pranay Thangeda, William E. Schafer, Jae Hyuk Song, Karan Jagdale, Leonardo Bobadilla, Melkior Ornik
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Motion Planning and Control with Unknown Nonlinear Dynamics through Predicted Reachability
Zhiquan Zhang, Gokul Puthumanaillam, Manav Vora, Melkior Ornik
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
The Lazy Student's Dream: ChatGPT Passing an Engineering Course on Its Own
Gokul Puthumanaillam, Melkior Ornik
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
ComTraQ-MPC: Meta-Trained DQN-MPC Integration for Trajectory Tracking with Limited Active Localization Updates
Gokul Puthumanaillam, Manav Vora, Melkior Ornik
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
A Moral Imperative: The Need for Continual Superalignment of Large Language Models
Gokul Puthumanaillam, Manav Vora, Pranay Thangeda, Melkior Ornik
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Enhancing Robot Navigation Policies with Task-Specific Uncertainty Management
Gokul Puthumanaillam, Paulo Padrao, Jose Fuentes, Leonardo Bobadilla, Melkior Ornik
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
TAB-Fields: A Maximum Entropy Framework for Mission-Aware Adversarial Planning
Gokul Puthumanaillam, Jae Hyuk Song, Nurzhan Yesmagambet, Shinkyu Park, Melkior Ornik
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Weathering Ongoing Uncertainty: Learning and Planning in a Time-Varying Partially Observable Environment
Gokul Puthumanaillam, Xiangyu Liu, Negar Mehr, Melkior Ornik
- ICRA 2024
- Readers: Everyone

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Gokul Puthumanaillam

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