Heshan Devaka Fernando

PhD student, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Joined

May 2022

Names

Heshan Devaka Fernando (Preferred)

Emails

****@rpi.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (rpi.edu)

2021 – Present

Lecturer

University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (uom.lk)

2019 – 2020

Undergrad student

University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (uom.lk)

2014 – 2018

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

2021 – Present

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

Mitigating Forgetting in LLM Supervised Fine-Tuning and Preference Learning
Heshan Devaka Fernando, Han Shen, Parikshit Ram, Yi Zhou, Horst Samulowitz, Nathalie Baracaldo, Tianyi Chen
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
SF-DQN: Provable Knowledge Transfer using Successor Feature for Deep Reinforcement Learning
Shuai Zhang, Heshan Devaka Fernando, Miao Liu, Keerthiram Murugesan, Songtao Lu, Pin-Yu Chen, Tianyi Chen, Meng Wang
- ICML 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Provable Knowledge Transfer using Successor Feature for Deep Reinforcement Learning
Shuai Zhang, Heshan Devaka Fernando, Miao Liu, Keerthiram Murugesan, Songtao Lu, Pin-Yu Chen, Tianyi Chen, Meng Wang
- Submitted to ICLR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Three-Way Trade-Off in Multi-Objective Learning: Optimization, Generalization and Conflict-Avoidance
Lisha Chen, Heshan Devaka Fernando, Yiming Ying, Tianyi Chen
- 05 Aug 2023
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Three-Way Trade-Off in Multi-Objective Learning: Optimization, Generalization and Conflict-Avoidance
Lisha Chen, Heshan Devaka Fernando, Yiming Ying, Tianyi Chen
- NeurIPS 2023 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Mitigating Gradient Bias in Multi-objective Learning: A Provably Convergent Approach
Heshan Devaka Fernando, Han Shen, Miao Liu, Subhajit Chaudhury, Keerthiram Murugesan, Tianyi Chen
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 14 Jan 2026
- ICLR 2023 notable top 5%
- Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors