3 papers
math.ST2026
Wasserstein Concentration of Empirical Measures for Dependent Data via the Method of Moments
Arash A. Amini, Luciano Vinas
We establish a general concentration result for the 1-Wasserstein distance between the empirical measure of a sequence of random variables and its expectation. Unlike standard resu…
cs.LG2026
Laplacian Kernelized Bandit
Shuang Wu, Arash A. Amini
We study multi-user contextual bandits where users are related by a graph and their reward functions exhibit both non-linear behavior and graph homophily. We introduce a principled…
cs.SI2019
Approximate Identification of the Optimal Epidemic Source in Complex Networks
S. Jalil Kazemitabar, Arash A. Amini
We consider the problem of identifying the source of an epidemic, spreading through a network, from a complete observation of the infected nodes in a snapshot of the network. Previ…