Razvan-Andrei Lascu

Publications

R.-A. Lascu, D. Šiška, Ł. Szpruch. PPO in the Fisher-Rao geometry. NeurIPS (2026).

R.-A. Lascu, M. B. Majka, Ł. Szpruch. Mirror Descent-Ascent for mean-field min-max problems. NeurIPS (2026).

R.-A. Lascu, M. B. Majka, D. Šiška, Ł. Szpruch. Linear convergence of proximal descent schemes on the Wasserstein space. To appear in Ann. Appl. Probab. (2026).

R.-A. Lascu, M. B. Majka. Non-convex entropic mean-field optimization via Best Response flow. NeurIPS (2025).

R.-A. Lascu, M. B. Majka, Ł. Szpruch. Entropic mean-field min-max problems via Best Response flow. Appl. Math. Optim. 91, 48 (2025).

R.-A. Lascu, M. B. Majka, Ł. Szpruch. A Fisher-Rao gradient flow for entropic mean-field min-max games. Transactions on Machine Learning Research (2024).

12/2026: The 40th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Sydney, Australia (Poster presentation).
11/2026: AIVP Open Workshop, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
10/2026: The 29th IBIS Workshop (IBIS2026), Omiya, Saitama, Japan (Poster presentation).
03/2026: Workshop on Functional Inference and Machine Intelligence (FIMI), Tokyo, Japan.
12/2025: The 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Mexico City, Mexico (Poster presentation).
11/2025: AIVP Open Workshop, University of Tokyo, Japan (Contributed talk).
11/2025: Bridging Stochastic Control And Reinforcement Learning: Theories and Applications, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK (Invited talk).
07/2024: International Conference on Scientific Computation and Differential Equations, Singapore (Contributed talk).
03/2024: Workshop on Optimal Transport: from Theory to Applications, Berlin (Poster presentation).
09/2023: Probability Seminar, Heriot-Watt University (Invited talk).
07/2023: 43rd Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Lisbon (Contributed talk).
07/2023: 2023 LMS Invited Lecture series given by Prof. Filippo Santambrogio, Durham, UK (Poster presentation).

10/2022–12/2024 - Teaching Assistant for F17CA Analysis I, F18XD Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists 4, F70CF Continuous-Time Finance, F78QT Quantitative Methods 1 at Heriot-Watt University.