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most citedConcentration Inequalities for Multinoulli Random Variables

5 citations · 13 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.LG2022

Byzantine-Robust Federated Linear Bandits

Ali Jadbabaie, Haochuan Li, Jian Qian +1

In this paper, we study a linear bandit optimization problem in a federated setting where a large collection of distributed agents collaboratively learn a common linear bandit mode…

cs.LG2021

Robust learning under clean-label attack

Avrim Blum, Steve Hanneke, Jian Qian +1

We study the problem of robust learning under clean-label data-poisoning attacks, where the attacker injects (an arbitrary set of) correctly-labeled examples to the training set to…

cs.LG2020

Stochastic Bandits with Vector Losses: Minimizing -Norm of Relative Losses

Xuedong Shang, Han Shao, Jian Qian

Multi-armed bandits are widely applied in scenarios like recommender systems, for which the goal is to maximize the click rate. However, more factors should be considered, e.g., us…

cs.LG20204 cited

Towards Minimax Optimal Reinforcement Learning in Factored Markov Decision Processes

Yi Tian, Jian Qian, Suvrit Sra

We study minimax optimal reinforcement learning in episodic factored Markov decision processes (FMDPs), which are MDPs with conditionally independent transition components. Assumin…

cs.LG20205 cited

Concentration Inequalities for Multinoulli Random Variables

Jian Qian, Ronan Fruit, Matteo Pirotta +1

We investigate concentration inequalities for Dirichlet and Multinomial random variables.

cs.LG2019

Importance Resampling for Off-policy Prediction

Matthew Schlegel, Wesley Chung, Daniel Graves +2

Importance sampling (IS) is a common reweighting strategy for off-policy prediction in reinforcement learning. While it is consistent and unbiased, it can result in high variance u…