arXiv:2504. 10796v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Distributionally robust optimization (DRO) is widely used for decision-making under uncertainty, but its adversarial focus on worst-case loss can lead to overly conservative policies.
By Lukas-Benedikt Fiechtner, Jose Blanchet
arXiv:2605. 00155v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) is a central post-training tool for aligning large language models, but its training reward is only a learned proxy for true human utility.
By Yikai Wang, Shang Liu, Jose Blanchet
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:2412. 20556v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study distributionally robust optimization (DRO) for robust inference when the worst-case distribution is continuous, leading to significant computational challenges due to the infinite-dimensional nature of the optimization problem.
By Linglingzhi Zhu, Yunqin Zhu, Yao Xie
arXiv:2502. 17602v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study a class of stochastic nonsmooth optimization problems in which an outer variable minimizes the expectation of a pointwise maximum.
By Wei Liu, Muhammad Khan, Gabriel Mancino-Ball, Yangyang Xu
arXiv:2506. 07040v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study model-free methods for distributionally robust infinite-horizon average-reward Markov decision processes (MDPs).
By Yang Xu, Swetha Ganesh, Vaneet Aggarwal
arXiv:2604. 18546v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose a distributionally robust approach to risk-sensitive estimation of an unknown signal x from an observed signal y.
By Feras Al Taha, Eilyan Bitar
arXiv:2312. 15427v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Stochastic optimization is a widely used approach for optimization under uncertainty, where uncertain input parameters are modeled by random variables.
By Arpit Agarwal, Rohan Ghuge, Viswanath Nagarajan, Zhengjia Zhuo
arXiv:2608. 17574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How cautious should an agent be while it is still learning its environment?
By Deep Kumar Ganguly, Jan Kretinsky
arXiv:2606. 03831v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper investigates non-stationary online learning using the metric of interval regret, which requires an online algorithm to perform well over every time interval.
By Yan-Feng Xie, Shuche Wang, Peng Zhao, Zhi-Hua Zhou
arXiv:2606. 27767v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Optimizing functionals over the space of probability measures is now ubiquitous in machine learning.
By Cl\'ement Bonet, Pierre-Cyril Aubin-Frankowski, Youssef Mroueh
arXiv:2606. 00320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present an online, distribution-free framework for controlling the Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR), extending conformal tail risk control to non-stationary and adversarial environments.
By Catherine Chen, Jingyan Shen, Zhun Deng, Lihua Lei