Paria Rashidinejad
WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Researches reinforcement learning and reliable reasoning in AI systems.
Paria Rashidinejad's lab at USC works on reinforcement learning, trustworthy & safe ML and reasoning & agents. 6 papers since 2023, 5 at top venues, mostly ICLR and ICML. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 2/ year
- at T1 venues
- 83%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 3 papers2026 · T1 3 · collecting
- 1 papers2025 · T1 1
- 0 papers2024 · T1 0
- 2 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Reinforcement learning3 papers
- Trustworthy & safe ML0 papers
- Reasoning & agents0 papers
- researches reinforcement0 papers
- reliable0 papers
Paper list
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20263 papers
- ICML (T1)CrispEdit: Low-Curvature Projections for Scalable Non-Destructive LLM Editing
- ICML (T1)Reuse Your FLOPs: Scaling RL on Hard Problems by Conditioning on Very Off-Policy Prefixes
- ICLR (T1)SPG: Sandwiched Policy Gradient for Masked Diffusion Language Models
20251 paper
- ICLR (T1)Sail into the Headwind: Alignment via Robust Rewards and Dynamic Labels against Reward Hacking
20232 papers
- NeurIPS (T1)Importance Weighted Actor-Critic for Optimal Conservative Offline Reinforcement Learning
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)Optimal Conservative Offline RL with General Function Approximation via Augmented Lagrangian
Where alumni went
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Apply to USCFall 2027
Computer Science PhD (Viterbi)
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