arXiv:2606. 14690v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study a \emph{max-risk} objective for active learning in a multi-group mean estimation $d$-armed bandits: a learner adaptively allocates a budget of $T$ samples across $d$ groups to minimize the worst-case uncertainty index $\max_{k\in[d]}\sigma_k^2/n_k$, where $\sigma_k$ is the standard deviation of the distribution of arm $d$, and $n_k$ is the number of times arm $d$ is sampled.
By Abdellah Aznag, Rachel Cummings, Adam N. Elmachtoub
arXiv:2608. 06825v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning from correct demonstrations is harder than supervised learning when many answers are correct: after predicting, the learner sees one valid answer but not whether its own answer was valid, nor any reward.
By Pahan Dewasurendra
arXiv:2601. 20844v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper studies the Minimal Embeddable Dimension (MED): the least dimension in which there exists a configuration of $m$ object vectors so that every subset of size at most $k$ is exactly retrieved by score comparison.
By Zihao Wang, Hang Yin, Lihui Liu, Hanghang Tong, Yangqiu Song, Ginny Wong, Simon See
arXiv:2608. 15472v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The problem of networked information aggregation, studied in Kearns et al.
By Ambar Pal
arXiv:2608. 04324v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper studies generalized low-rank matrix bandits with multiple prioritized objectives.
By Bo Xue, Ji Cheng, Haodong Jing, Hongzong Li, Shuang Qiu
arXiv:2606. 14640v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study Online Convex Optimization (OCO) over a convex set $K\subseteq \mathbb R^d$, where in each round $t$ the learner selects $x_t\in K$ and then observes a convex loss $f_t:K\to[0,1]$, with the goal of minimizing regret to the best fixed decision in hindsight.
By Simone Di Gregorio, Anupam Gupta, Stefano Leonardi, Matteo Russo