2 papers
cs.LG2025
Contrasting Cost-Agnostic and Cost-Sensitive Losses under Limited Model Capacity via -consistency
Jessica Finocchiaro, Sanket Shah, Milind Tambe +1
There is a prevalent debate in machine learning about whether practitioners should train models to optimize a task-agnostic objective (e.g., cross entropy) or incorporate the downs…
cs.MA2025
Finite-Horizon Single-Pull Restless Bandits: An Efficient Index Policy For Scarce Resource Allocation
Guojun Xiong, Haichuan Wang, Yuqi Pan +4
Restless multi-armed bandits (RMABs) have been highly successful in optimizing sequential resource allocation across many domains. However, in many practical settings with highly s…