“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done”
Alan Turing, 1950
“Simplicity is the final achievement”
Frederic Chopin
“To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable”
Beethoven
“Coauthorship is a closer relationship than friendship”
Fan Chung
“The search is more important than the destination”
A.R. Rahman
“You are never too far behind to win and never too far ahead to lose”
seen at Arlen Specter Squash Center
“I have no doubt I'll be forgotten, and that's good. … I had the privilege of playing for you all, now let's move on”
George Winston

2026

2025

Learning the RoPEs: Better 2D and 3D Position Encodings with STRING

Connor Schenck, Isaac Reid, Mithun George Jacob, Alex Bewley, Joshua Ainslie, David Rendleman, Deepali Jain, Mohit Sharma, Avinava Dubey, Ayzaan Wahid, Sumeet Singh, René Wagner, Tianli Ding, Chuyuan Fu, Arunkumar Byravan, Jake Varley, Alexey Gritsenko, Matthias Minderer, Dmitry Kalashnikov, Jonathan Tompson, Vikas Sindhwani, Krzysztof Choromanski

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025

Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis

David B. D'Ambrosio, Saminda Abeyruwan, Laura Graesser, Atil Iscen, Heni Ben Amor, Alex Bewley, Barney J. Reed, Krista Reymann, Leila Takayama, Yuval Tassa, Krzysztof Choromanski, Erwin Coumans, Deepali Jain, Navdeep Jaitly, Natasha Jaques, Satoshi Kataoka, Yuheng Kuang, Nevena Lazic, Reza Mahjourian, Sherry Moore, Kenneth Oslund, Anish Shankar, Vikas Sindhwani, Vincent Vanhoucke, Grace Vesom, Peng Xu, Pannag R. Sanketi

2024 ICRA Best Paper Award on Robot Learning, Finalist!Project Website

2024

How To Prompt Your Robot: A PromptBook for Manipulation Skills with Code as Policies

with M.G. Arenas et. al.

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024

2023

Robotic Table Tennis: A Case Study into a High Speed Learning System

with D'Ambrosio et. al

Robotics Science and Systems (RSS), 2023

2022

Hybrid Random Features

Krzysztof Choromanski, Haoxian Chen, Han Lin, Yuanzhe Ma, Arijit Sehanobish, Deepali Jain, Michael S Ryoo, Jake Varley, Andy Zeng, Valerii Likhosherstov, Dmitry Kalashnikov, Vikas Sindhwani, Adrian Weller

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2022 (to appear)

2021

2020

Rearranging the Visual World: Transporter Networks

Andy Zeng, Pete Florence, Jonathan Tompson, Stefan Welker, Jonathan Chien, Maria Attarian, Travis Armstrong, Ivan Krasin, Dan Duong, Vikas Sindhwani, Johnny Lee

Conference on Robot Learning (CORL), 2020

Best Paper Presentation Award Finalist!

An Ode to an ODE

Krzysztof Choromanski, Jared Quincy Davis, Valerii Likhosherstov, Xingyou Song, Jean-Jacques Slotine, Jacob Varley, Honglak Lee, Adrian Weller, Vikas Sindhwani

Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2020

2019

2018

The Geometry of Random Features

Krzysztof Choromanski, Mark Rowland, Tamas Sarlos, Vikas Sindhwani, Richard Turner, Adrian Weller

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS'18)

2017

2016

2015

libSkylark: A Framework for High-Performance Matrix Sketching for Statistical Computing

G. Kollias, Y. Ineichen, H. Avron, V. Sindhwani, K. Clarkson, C. Bekas, A. Curion

Supercomputing (SC), 2015 (Poster)

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

Recommender Systems

P. Melville, V. Sindhwani

Encyclopedia of Machine Learning, Springer, 2010

Social Media Analytics

R. Lawrence, P. Melville, C. Perlich, V. Sindhwani, E. Meliksetian, P. Hsueh, Y. Liu

Operations Research - Management Science Today (ORMS-Today), February 2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

Kernel Machines for Semi-supervised Learning

V. Sindhwani

Masters Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago, 2004

Earlier

Information Theoretic Performance Evaluation and Feature Selection in Machine Learning

V. Sindhwani

Bachelors Thesis, Engineering Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 2001