arXiv:2607. 28408v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This thesis studies policy learning in interactive systems where an agent observes a context, selects an action from a very large set, and receives partial feedback.
By Imad Aouali
arXiv:2606. 19117v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Offline policy learning has received growing attention in causal inference.
By Yiyan Huang, Cheuk Hang Leung, Qi Wu, Zhiheng Zhang
arXiv:2606. 00680v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning (RL) aims to optimize policies from pre-collected datasets.
By Hongqiang Lin, Pengfei Wang, Nenggan Zheng
arXiv:2509. 03456v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Off-policy evaluation (OPE) and off-policy learning (OPL) are foundational for decision-making in offline contextual bandits.
By Imad Aouali, Otmane Sakhi
arXiv:2606. 31184v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adaptive experiments for average treatment effects (ATE) require randomized allocations balancing valid inference with statistical efficiency.
By Jiachun Li, David Simchi-Levi
arXiv:2209. 15448v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As AI becomes more prevalent throughout society, effective methods of integrating humans and AI systems that leverage their respective strengths and mitigate risk have become an important priority.
By Jiayi Wang, Zhengling Qi, Chengchun Shi
arXiv:2607. 01741v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a sequential decision-making framework in which an agent learns optimal policies through interaction with an environment by maximizing cumulative rewards.
By Stefano Masini, Cecilia Viscardi, Michela Baccini
arXiv:2607. 01880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Value functions are an essential component in actor-critic based deep reinforcement learning (RL).
By Jen-Yen Chang, Takayuki Osa, Tatsuya Harada
arXiv:2605. 23146v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Classical reinforcement learning assumes the agent interacts with a fixed environment whose behavior does not depend on the agent's policy.
By Manish Aryal, Faiyaz Azam, Agnivo Banerjee, Syed Mahir Ahamed, Sai Sidhanth Manoharan Jayanthi, Allegra Laro, Cl\'ement Legentilhomme, Andrew Lin, Florian Lorkowski, Marina P\'erez del Valle, Radman Rakhshandehroo, Patric Rommel, Emanuel Ruzak, Nathan Theng, Paul Yushin Rapoport
Value functions are an essential component in actor-critic based deep reinforcement learning (RL). Conventionally, these functions are trained as a regression task by minimising the mean squared error (MSE) relative to bootstrapped target values.
arXiv:2607. 08335v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Policy-based approaches to Bayesian experimental design (BED) allow the learning of deep policy networks that adaptively make intelligent design decisions based on previously collected data.
By Angus Phillips, Gavin Kerrigan, Tom Rainforth
arXiv:2602. 17086v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Dynamic decision-making under model uncertainty is central to many economic environments, yet existing bandit and reinforcement learning algorithms rely on the assumption of correct model specification.
By Xinyu Dai, Daniel Chen, Yian Qian