Theme 01

Swarm Coordination & Fleet Learning

From cooperative planning to collective data collection.

Fleets of robots and vehicles generate more data than they can upload, label, or supervise. We develop game-theoretic, submodular, and multi-agent learning methods that decide how robots plan together, which data each robot collects and shares, and where human supervision goes, so the whole swarm improves as one.

  • UNCAP: Uncertainty-Guided Neurosymbolic Planning Using Natural Language Communication for Cooperative Autonomous Vehicles

    Neel P. Bhatt, Po-han Li, Kushagra Gupta, Rohan Siva, Daniel Milan, Alexander Todd Hogue, Sandeep P. Chinchali, David Fridovich-Keil, Zhangyang Wang, Ufuk Topcu

    AAMAS 2026 Best Paper Nominee

  • Distributed Upload and Active Labeling for Resource-Constrained Fleet Learning

    Oguzhan Akcin, Harsh Goel, Ruihan Zhao, Sandeep P. Chinchali

    CoRL 2025

  • Task-aware Distributed Source Coding under Dynamic Bandwidth

    Po-han Li, Sravan Kumar Ankireddy, Ruihan Zhao, Hossein Nourkhiz Mahjoub, Ehsan Moradi Pari, Ufuk Topcu, Sandeep P. Chinchali, Hyeji Kim

    NeurIPS 2023

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  • FairSynergy: Fair Resource Allocation for Fleet Intelligence

    Oguzhan Baser, Kaan Kale, Po-han Li, Sandeep Chinchali

    GLOBECOM 2025

  • Fleet Supervisor Allocation: A Submodular Maximization Approach

    Oguzhan Akcin, Ahmet Ege Tanriverdi, Kaan Kale, Sandeep P. Chinchali

    CoRL 2024

  • Accelerating Visual Sparse-Reward Learning with Latent Nearest-Demonstration-Guided Explorations

    Ruihan Zhao, Ufuk Topcu, Sandeep Chinchali, Mariano Phielipp

    CoRL 2024

  • PEERNet: An End-to-End Profiling Tool for Real-Time Networked Robotic Systems

    Aditya Narayanan, Pranav Kasibhatla, Minkyu Choi, Po-han Li, Ruihan Zhao, Sandeep Chinchali

    IROS 2024

  • Fleet Active Learning: A Submodular Maximization Approach

    Oguzhan Akcin, Orhan Unuvar, Onat Ure, Sandeep P. Chinchali

    CoRL 2023

  • Decentralized Data Collection for Robotic Fleet Learning: A Game-Theoretic Approach

    Oguzhan Akcin, Po-han Li, Shubhankar Agarwal, Sandeep P. Chinchali

    CoRL 2022

  • Decentralized Sharing and Valuation of Fleet Robotic Data

    Yuchong Geng, Dongyue Zhang, Po-han Li, Oguzhan Akcin, Ao Tang, Sandeep P Chinchali

    CoRL 2021

  • Data Sharing and Compression for Cooperative Networked Control

    Jiangnan Cheng, Marco Pavone, Sachin Katti, Sandeep Chinchali, Ao Tang

    NeurIPS 2021

  • Personalized Federated Learning of Driver Prediction Models for Autonomous Driving

    Manabu Nakanoya, Junha Im, Hang Qiu, Sachin Katti, Marco Pavone, Sandeep Chinchali

    arXiv 2021

  • Network offloading policies for cloud robotics: a learning-based approach

    Sandeep Chinchali, Apoorva Sharma, James Harrison, Amine Elhafsi, Daniel Kang, Evgenya Pergament, Eyal Cidon, Sachin Katti, Marco Pavone

    Autonomous Robots 2021

  • Combining reinforcement learning with model predictive control for on-ramp merging

    Joseph Lubars, Harsh Gupta, Sandeep Chinchali, Liyun Li, Adnan Raja, R Srikant, Xinzhou Wu

    ITSC 2021

Theme 02

Edge–Cloud Systems for Embodied AI

Communication-efficient perception and inference across networks.

Embodied agents share limited bandwidth, compute, and power with the cloud. We co-design learning with communication through task-aware compression, offloading, adaptive model selection, and resource allocation, together with representations that make robot perception efficient at the edge.

  • Exploiting Distribution Constraints for Scalable and Efficient Image Retrieval

    Mohammad Omama, Po-han Li, Sandeep Chinchali

    ICLR 2025

  • ML-EXray: Visibility into ML Deployment on the Edge

    Hang Qiu, Ioanna Vavelidou, Jian Li, Evgenya Pergament, Pete Warden, Sandeep Chinchali, Zain Asgar, Sachin Katti

    MLSys 2022

  • Co-Design of Communication and Machine Inference for Cloud Robotics

    Manabu Nakanoya, Sandeep Chinchali, Alexandros Anemogiannis, Akul Datta, Sachin Katti, Marco Pavone

    RSS 2021

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  • AttentionViG: Cross-Attention-Based Dynamic Neighbor Aggregation in Vision GNNs

    Hakan Emre Gedik, Andrew Martin, Mustafa Munir, Oguzhan Baser, Radu Marculescu, Sandeep P. Chinchali, Alan C. Bovik

    LoG 2026

  • CSA: Data-efficient Mapping of Unimodal Features to Multimodal Features

    Po-han Li, Sandeep Chinchali, Ufuk Topcu

    ICLR 2025

  • Online Foundation Model Selection in Robotics

    Po-han Li, Oyku Selin Toprak, Aditya Narayanan, Ufuk Topcu, Sandeep Chinchali

    arXiv 2024

  • Safe Networked Robotics With Probabilistic Verification

    Sai Shankar Narasimhan, Sharachchandra Bhat, Sandeep P. Chinchali

    RA-L 2024

  • Dynamic Selection of Perception Models for Robotic Control

    Bineet Ghosh, Masaad Khan, Adithya Ashok, Sandeep Chinchali, Parasara Sridhar Duggirala

    arXiv 2022

  • LaDFN: Learning actions for drift-free navigation in highly dynamic scenes

    Mohammad Omama, Sundar Sripada V. S., Sandeep Chinchali, K Madhava Krishna

    ACC 2022

  • Drift Reduced Navigation with Deep Explainable Features

    Mohammad Omama, Sundar Sripada V. S., Sandeep Chinchali, Arun Kumar Singh, K Madhava Krishna

    IROS 2022

  • Task-Aware Network Coding Over Butterfly Network

    Jiangnan Cheng, Sandeep Chinchali, Ao Tang

    ISIT 2023

  • Interpretable trade-offs between robot task accuracy and compute efficiency

    Bineet Ghosh, Sandeep Chinchali, Parasara Sridhar Duggirala

    IROS 2021

Theme 03

Neuro-Symbolic Video Understanding

Grounding foundation models in temporal logic.

Foundation models can describe a video but cannot guarantee they understood it. We ground long-form video understanding, text-to-video evaluation, and video summarization in temporal logic and formal verification.

  • NeuS-QA: Grounding Long-Form Video Understanding in Temporal Logic and Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning

    Sahil Shah, SP Sharan, Harsh Goel, Minkyu Choi, Mustafa Munir, Manvik Pasula, Radu Marculescu, Sandeep Chinchali

    AAAI 2026

  • Neuro-symbolic evaluation of text-to-video models using formal verification

    SP Sharan, Minkyu Choi, Sahil Shah, Harsh Goel, Mohammad Omama, Sandeep Chinchali

    CVPR 2025

  • Towards Neuro-Symbolic Video Understanding

    Minkyu Choi, Harsh Goel, Mohammad Omama, Yunhao Yang, Sahil Shah, Sandeep Chinchali

    ECCV 2024 Oral

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  • RT-NeuS: Towards Real-Time Neuro-Symbolic Video Understanding via Adaptive Temporal Verification

    Shawn Liang, Sahil Shah, Chengwei Zhou, SP Sharan, Harsh Goel, Arnab Sanyal, Sandeep Chinchali, Gourav Datta

    NeuS 2026

  • VIBE: Annotation-Free Video-to-Text Information Bottleneck Evaluation for TL;DR

    Shenghui Chen, Po-han Li, Sandeep Chinchali, Ufuk Topcu

    NeurIPS 2025

  • A Challenge to Build Neuro-Symbolic Video Agents

    Sahil Shah, Harsh Goel, Sai Shankar Narasimhan, Minkyu Choi, SP Sharan, Oguzhan Akcin, Sandeep Chinchali

    NeuS 2025

  • Joint Learning of Reward Machines and Policies in Environments with Partially Known Semantics

    Christos Verginis, Cevahir Koprulu, Sandeep Chinchali, Ufuk Topcu

    Artificial Intelligence 2024

Theme 04

Trustworthy & Verifiable ML

Formal and cryptographic guarantees for deployed models.

Deployed models face adversaries, privacy leakage, deepfakes, and untrusted compute providers. We build verifiable LLM inference, privacy-aware representations, deepfake defenses, and robust controllers under adversarial conditions.

  • TensorCommitments: A Lightweight Verifiable Inference for Language Models

    Oguzhan Baser, Elahe Sadeghi, Eric Wang, Nico Vergauwen, Sam Kazemian, Hong Kang, Sandeep P. Chinchali, Sriram Vishwanath

    NeurIPS 2026

  • Task-aware privacy preservation for multi-dimensional data

    Jiangnan Cheng, Ao Tang, Sandeep Chinchali

    ICML 2022

  • Synthesizing Adversarial Visual Scenarios for Model-Based Robotic Control

    Shubhankar Agarwal, Sandeep P. Chinchali

    CoRL 2022

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  • PhonemeFake: Redefining Deepfake Realism with Language-Driven Segmental Manipulation and Adaptive Bilevel Detection

    Oguzhan Baser, Ahmet Ege Tanriverdi, Sriram Vishwanath, Sandeep Chinchali

    Interspeech 2025

  • WavShape: Information-Theoretic Speech Representation Learning for Fair and Privacy-Aware Audio Processing

    Oguzhan Baser, Ahmet Ege Tanriverdi, Kaan Kale, Sandeep Chinchali, Sriram Vishwanath

    Interspeech 2025

  • ControlPay: An Adaptive Payment Controller for Blockchain Economies

    Oguzhan Akcin, Robert P. Streit, Benjamin Oommen, Sriram Vishwanath, Sandeep Chinchali

    IEEE Blockchain 2024

  • SecureSpectra: Safeguarding Digital Identity from Deep Fake Threats via Intelligent Signatures

    Oguzhan Baser, Kaan Kale, Sandeep Chinchali

    Interspeech 2024

  • Poisoning Attacks Against Data-Driven Predictive Control

    Yue Yu, Ruihan Zhao, Sandeep Chinchali, Ufuk Topcu

    ACC 2023

  • Adversarial Examples for Model-Based Control: A Sensitivity Analysis

    Po-han Li, Ufuk Topcu, Sandeep P Chinchali

    Allerton 2022

Theme 05

Time-Series Generation & Forecasting

Conditional, constrained generation of temporal data.

Physical systems are described by time series. We build conditional and constrained time-series generators and forecasts that are robust, private, and evaluated by the decisions they support.

  • Constrained Posterior Sampling: Time Series Generation with Hard Constraints

    Sai Shankar Narasimhan, Shubhankar Agarwal, Litu Rout, Sanjay Shakkottai, Sandeep P. Chinchali

    NeurIPS 2025

  • Time Weaver: A Conditional Time Series Generation Model

    Sai Shankar Narasimhan, Shubhankar Agarwal, Oguzhan Akcin, Sujay Sanghavi, Sandeep P. Chinchali

    ICML 2024 Spotlight

  • Robust Forecasting for Robotic Control: A Game-Theoretic Approach

    Shubhankar Agarwal, David Fridovich-Keil, Sandeep P. Chinchali

    ICRA 2023

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  • SynDiff-AD: Improving Semantic Segmentation and End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Synthetic Data from Latent Diffusion Models

    Harsh Goel, Sai Shankar Narasimhan, Oguzhan Akcin, Sandeep Chinchali

    arXiv 2024

  • Context Matters: Leveraging Contextual Features for Time Series Forecasting

    Sameep Chattopadhyay, Pulkit Paliwal, Sai Shankar Narasimhan, Shubhankar Agarwal, Sandeep P. Chinchali

    arXiv 2024

  • Differentially Private Timeseries Forecasts for Networked Control

    Po-han Li, Sandeep P. Chinchali, Ufuk Topcu

    ACC 2023

Archive

Before Swarm Lab

Sandeep's work before the lab began in 2021, grouped by the theme it fed into.

Swarm Coordination & Fleet Learning3 papers
  • Sampling training data for continual learning between robots and the cloud

    Sandeep Chinchali, Evgenya Pergament, Manabu Nakanoya, Eyal Cidon, Edward Zhang, Dinesh Bharadia, Marco Pavone, Sachin Katti

    ISER 2020

  • Multi-agent reinforcement learning for networked system control

    Tianshu Chu, Sandeep Chinchali, Sachin Katti

    ICLR 2020

  • Collaborative Perception and Learning Between Robots and the Cloud

    Sandeep P Chinchali

    Stanford PhD thesis 2020

Edge–Cloud Systems for Embodied AI6 papers
  • System and method for widescale adaptive bitrate selection

    Tianshu Chu, Rakesh Misra, Sandeep Chinchali, Alexandros Anemogiannis, Rahul Tandra, Kanthi Nagaraj

    US Patent 2020

  • Neural networks meet physical networks: Distributed inference between edge devices and the cloud

    Sandeep P Chinchali, Eyal Cidon, Evgenya Pergament, Tianshu Chu, Sachin Katti

    HotNets 2018

  • Cellular network traffic scheduling with deep reinforcement learning

    Sandeep Chinchali, Pan Hu, Tianshu Chu, Manu Sharma, Manu Bansal, Rakesh Misra, Marco Pavone, Sachin Katti

    AAAI 2018

  • NUMFabric: Fast and flexible bandwidth allocation in datacenters

    Kanthi Nagaraj, Dinesh Bharadia, Hongzi Mao, Sandeep Chinchali, Mohammad Alizadeh, Sachin Katti

    SIGCOMM 2016

  • Scheduling packets over multiple interfaces while respecting user preferences

    Kok-Kiong Yap, Te-Yuan Huang, Yiannis Yiakoumis, Sandeep Chinchali, Nick McKeown, Sachin Katti

    CoNEXT 2013

  • Deep Learning for Wireless Interference Segmentation and Prediction

    Sandeep Chinchali, Sameep Tandon

Neuro-Symbolic Video Understanding3 papers
  • Multi-objective optimal control for proactive decision making with temporal logic models

    Sandeep P Chinchali, Scott C Livingston, Mo Chen, Marco Pavone

    IJRR 2019

  • Simultaneous model identification and task satisfaction in the presence of temporal logic constraints

    Sandeep P Chinchali, Scott C Livingston, Marco Pavone, Joel W Burdick

    ICRA 2016

  • Towards formal synthesis of reactive controllers for dexterous robotic manipulation

    Sandeep Chinchali, Scott C Livingston, Ufuk Topcu, Joel W Burdick, Richard M Murray

    ICRA 2012

Archive

Earlier & other work

Papers that sit outside the five themes.

  • Class-Aware Adversarial Transformers for Medical Image Segmentation

    Chenyu You, Ruihan Zhao, Fenglin Liu, Siyuan Dong, Sandeep Chinchali, Ufuk Topcu, Lawrence Staib, James Duncan

    NeurIPS 2022

  • Erosion of conserved binding sites in personal genomes points to medical histories

    Harendra Guturu, Sandeep Chinchali, Shoa L Clarke, Gill Bejerano

    PLOS Comput. Biol. 2016

  • Axel rover paddle wheel design, efficiency, and sinkage on deformable terrain

    Pablo Abad-Manterola, Joel W Burdick, Issa AD Nesnas, Sandeep Chinchali, Christine Fuller, Xuecheng Zhou

    ICRA 2010