arXiv:2606. 06178v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) present a trade-off between performance and cost, where more powerful models incur greater expense.
By Jiahao Zeng, Ming Tang, Ningning Ding
arXiv:2608. 06559v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contextual bandits offer a natural framework for sample-efficient personalization, but practical deployment remains difficult under sparse, biased interaction data, unreliable uncertainty estimates, and severe cold starts.
By Devansh Gupta, Shiv Tavker, Dmitry Efimov, Suchitra Sathyanarayana, Gitanjali Bhutani, Boris N. Oreshkin
arXiv:2603. 09692v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has become the standard for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs), yet its efficacy is bottlenecked by the high cost of acquiring preference data, especially in low-resource and expert domains.
By Davit Melikidze, Marian Schneider, Jessica Lam, Martin Wertich, Ido Hakimi, Barna P\'asztor, Andreas Krause
arXiv:2607. 23765v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) achieve impressive performance across multiple domains, but using the most capable model for every query is prohibitive at scale.
By Yifei Li, Zihui Gao, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan
arXiv:2604. 17244v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents for sequential decision-making struggle to produce diverse outputs.
By Priya Gurjar, Md Farhan Ishmam, Kenneth Marino
arXiv:2604. 05859v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study Contextual Multi-Armed Bandits (CMABs) for non-episodic decision-making problems where the context includes both textual and numerical information (e.
By Uljad Berdica, Fernando Acero, Anton Ipsen, Parisa Zehtabi, Michael Cashmore, Manuela Veloso
arXiv:2509. 24696v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Personalizing large language models (LLMs) to individual user preferences is a critical step beyond generating generically helpful responses.
By Zikun Qu, Min Zhang, Mingze Kong, Xiang Li, Zhiwei Shang, Zhiyong Wang, Yikun Ban, Shuang Qiu, Yao Shu, Zhongxiang Dai
arXiv:2608. 03437v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While human evaluation is the gold standard in many NLP tasks, it suffers from prohibitive costs and poor scalability.
By Vil\'em Zouhar, Julia Kreutzer, Alon Lavie, Tom Kocmi, Matt Post, Ond\v{r}ej Bojar, Mrinmaya Sachan
arXiv:2511. 22130v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: To navigate ever-shifting real-world environments, agents must grapple with incomplete knowledge and adapt their strategies through experience.
By Gilbert Yang, Yaqin Chen, Thomson Yen, Hongseok Namkoong
arXiv:2606. 03866v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scaling recommender systems via large language models (LLMs) has become a prominent trend in the industry.
By Yuecheng Li, Zeyu Song, Jing Yao, Chi Lu, Peng Jiang, Kun Gai
arXiv:2606. 07910v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The challenge with active learning algorithms is the uncertainty of the statistical distribution of unlabeled data, making it difficult to choose the best hand-crafted strategy.
By Shao-An Yin, Jiacong Li, Tianpei Xie, Cecile Levasseur, Wojciech Kowalinski, Nicola Elia
arXiv:2608. 03382v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-armed bandit algorithms, especially Thompson sampling, are widely used in online recommendation.
By Eugene Lee, Oseong Choi, Byungsoo Kang, Taeyeong Jang