Vashist Avadhanula

Joined

February 2019

Names

Vashist Avadhanula (Preferred)

Emails

****@gsb.columbia.edu (Confirmed)

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****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Research Scientist

Facebook (fb.com)

2018 – 2020

PhD student

Columbia University (columbia.edu)

2013 – 2018

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

2013 – 2018

Expertise

Multi-armed Bandits

Present

Online Learning

Present

Publications

MNL-Bandit: A Dynamic Learning Approach to Assortment Selection
Shipra Agrawal, Vashist Avadhanula, Vineet Goyal, Assaf Zeevi
- 2019 (modified: 08 Nov 2022)
- Oper. Res. 2019
- Readers: Everyone
Thompson Sampling for Contextual Bandit Problems with Auxiliary Safety Constraints
Samuel Daulton, Shaun Singh, Vashist Avadhanula, Drew Dimmery, Eytan Bakshy
- 2019 (modified: 30 Apr 2025)
- CoRR 2019
- Readers: Everyone
Thompson Sampling for the MNL-Bandit
Shipra Agrawal, Vashist Avadhanula, Vineet Goyal, Assaf Zeevi
- 2017 (modified: 08 Nov 2022)
- CoRR 2017
- Readers: Everyone
MNL-Bandit: A Dynamic Learning Approach to Assortment Selection
Shipra Agrawal, Vashist Avadhanula, Vineet Goyal, Assaf Zeevi
- 2017 (modified: 08 Nov 2022)
- CoRR 2017
- Readers: Everyone
Thompson Sampling for the MNL-Bandit
Shipra Agrawal, Vashist Avadhanula, Vineet Goyal, Assaf Zeevi
- 2017 (modified: 08 Nov 2022)
- COLT 2017
- Readers: Everyone
On the tightness of an LP relaxation for rational optimization and its applications.
Vashist Avadhanula, Jalaj Bhandari, Vineet Goyal, Assaf Zeevi
- 2016 (modified: 03 Jun 2020)
- Oper. Res. Lett.2016
- Readers: Everyone
A Near-Optimal Exploration-Exploitation Approach for Assortment Selection
Shipra Agrawal, Vashist Avadhanula, Vineet Goyal, Assaf Zeevi
- 2016 (modified: 08 Nov 2022)
- EC 2016
- Readers: Everyone
A few good predictions: selective node labeling in a social network
Gaurish Chaudhari, Vashist Avadhanula, Sunita Sarawagi
- 2014 (modified: 15 Apr 2023)
- WSDM 2014
- Readers: Everyone

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