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20192026
most citedUnderstanding Domain Randomization for Sim-to-real Transfer

33 citations · 54 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

stat.ML2026

Interaction Is Not Necessary for Order-Optimal 1-Bit Mean Estimation

Jiachen Hu, Han Zhong

This paper is concerned with one-bit mean estimation, where each independent sample is represented by a single binary message. We consider distributions on with mean i…

cs.LG2025

The Sample Complexity of Online Strategic Decision Making with Information Asymmetry and Knowledge Transportability

Jiachen Hu, Rui Ai, Han Zhong +4

Information asymmetry is a pervasive feature of multi-agent systems, especially evident in economics and social sciences. In these settings, agents tailor their actions based on pr…

math.MG2025

New Sphere Packings from the Antipode Construction

Ruitao Chen, Jiachen Hu, Binghui Li +2

In this note, we construct non-lattice sphere packings in dimensions , , , , , , and , demonstrating record densities that surpass all previously docume…

cs.LG2024

On Limitation of Transformer for Learning HMMs

Jiachen Hu, Qinghua Liu, Chi Jin

Despite the remarkable success of Transformer-based architectures in various sequential modeling tasks, such as natural language processing, computer vision, and robotics, their ab…

quant-ph2024

Quantum Non-Identical Mean Estimation: Efficient Algorithms and Fundamental Limits

Jiachen Hu, Tongyang Li, Xinzhao Wang +3

We systematically investigate quantum algorithms and lower bounds for mean estimation given query access to non-identically distributed samples. On the one hand, we give quantum me…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

ZeroSwap: Data-driven Optimal Market Making in DeFi

Viraj Nadkarni, Jiachen Hu, Ranvir Rana +3

Automated Market Makers (AMMs) are major centers of matching liquidity supply and demand in Decentralized Finance. Their functioning relies primarily on the presence of liquidity p…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Provably Efficient Exploration in Quantum Reinforcement Learning with Logarithmic Worst-Case Regret

Han Zhong, Jiachen Hu, Yecheng Xue +2

While quantum reinforcement learning (RL) has attracted a surge of attention recently, its theoretical understanding is limited. In particular, it remains elusive how to design pro…

cs.LG2022

Provable Sim-to-real Transfer in Continuous Domain with Partial Observations

Jiachen Hu, Han Zhong, Chi Jin +1

Sim-to-real transfer trains RL agents in the simulated environments and then deploys them in the real world. Sim-to-real transfer has been widely used in practice because it is oft…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Near-Optimal Reward-Free Exploration for Linear Mixture MDPs with Plug-in Solver

Xiaoyu Chen, Jiachen Hu, Lin F. Yang +1

Although model-based reinforcement learning (RL) approaches are considered more sample efficient, existing algorithms are usually relying on sophisticated planning algorithm to cou…

cs.LG2021★ 33 cited

Understanding Domain Randomization for Sim-to-real Transfer

Xiaoyu Chen, Jiachen Hu, Chi Jin +2

Reinforcement learning encounters many challenges when applied directly in the real world. Sim-to-real transfer is widely used to transfer the knowledge learned from simulation to…

cs.LG2021★ 6 cited

Near-optimal Representation Learning for Linear Bandits and Linear RL

Jiachen Hu, Xiaoyu Chen, Chi Jin +2

This paper studies representation learning for multi-task linear bandits and multi-task episodic RL with linear value function approximation. We first consider the setting where we…

cs.LG2020★ 2 cited

Efficient Reinforcement Learning in Factored MDPs with Application to Constrained RL

Xiaoyu Chen, Jiachen Hu, Lihong Li +1

Reinforcement learning (RL) in episodic, factored Markov decision processes (FMDPs) is studied. We propose an algorithm called FMDP-BF, which leverages the factorization structure…

cs.LG2019★ 8 cited

Distributed Bandit Learning: Near-Optimal Regret with Efficient Communication

Yuanhao Wang, Jiachen Hu, Xiaoyu Chen +1

We study the problem of regret minimization for distributed bandits learning, in which agents work collaboratively to minimize their total regret under the coordination of a ce…