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On the Statistical Benefits of Curriculum Learning
Ziping Xu, Ambuj Tewari
Curriculum learning (CL) is a commonly used machine learning training strategy. However, we still lack a clear theoretical understanding of CL's benefits. In this paper, we study t…
Bandit Algorithms for Precision Medicine
Yangyi Lu, Ziping Xu, Ambuj Tewari
The Oxford English Dictionary defines precision medicine as "medical care designed to optimize efficiency or therapeutic benefit for particular groups of patients, especially by us…
Safe Exploration by Solving Early Terminated MDP
Hao Sun, Ziping Xu, Meng Fang +4
Safe exploration is crucial for the real-world application of reinforcement learning (RL). Previous works consider the safe exploration problem as Constrained Markov Decision Proce…
Representation Learning Beyond Linear Prediction Functions
Ziping Xu, Ambuj Tewari
Recent papers on the theory of representation learning has shown the importance of a quantity called diversity when generalizing from a set of source tasks to a target task. Most o…