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20202026
most citedNear-Optimal Provable Uniform Convergence in Offline Policy Evaluation for Reinforcement Learning

23 citations · 87 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

cs.CL2026

Ling and Ring 2.6 Technical Report: Efficient and Instant Agentic Intelligence at Trillion-Parameter Scale

Ang Li, Ben Liu, Bin Han +215

Efficient and scalable agentic intelligence requires models that can deliver both low-latency responses and strong reasoning capabilities while remaining practical to train, serve,…

cs.LG2025

No-Regret Linear Bandits under Gap-Adjusted Misspecification

Chong Liu, Dan Qiao, Ming Yin +2

This work studies linear bandits under a new notion of gap-adjusted misspecification and is an extension of Liu et al. (2023). When the underlying reward function is not linear, ex…

cs.LG2025

On the Statistical Complexity for Offline and Low-Adaptive Reinforcement Learning with Structures

Ming Yin, Mengdi Wang, Yu-Xiang Wang

This article reviews the recent advances on the statistical foundation of reinforcement learning (RL) in the offline and low-adaptive settings. We will start by arguing why offline…

cs.NI2024★ 2 cited

NetworkGym: Reinforcement Learning Environments for Multi-Access Traffic Management in Network Simulation

Momin Haider, Ming Yin, Menglei Zhang +3

Mobile devices such as smartphones, laptops, and tablets can often connect to multiple access networks (e.g., Wi-Fi, LTE, and 5G) simultaneously. Recent advancements facilitate sea…

cs.LG2024

Learning the Target Network in Function Space

Kavosh Asadi, Yao Liu, Shoham Sabach +2

We focus on the task of learning the value function in the reinforcement learning (RL) setting. This task is often solved by updating a pair of online and target networks while ens…

cs.CL2024

Transfer Q Star: Principled Decoding for LLM Alignment

Souradip Chakraborty, Soumya Suvra Ghosal, Ming Yin +4

Aligning foundation models is essential for their safe and trustworthy deployment. However, traditional fine-tuning methods are computationally intensive and require updating billi…

cs.LG2024

Offline Multitask Representation Learning for Reinforcement Learning

Haque Ishfaq, Thanh Nguyen-Tang, Songtao Feng +4

We study offline multitask representation learning in reinforcement learning (RL), where a learner is provided with an offline dataset from different tasks that share a common repr…

cs.LG2023

Posterior Sampling with Delayed Feedback for Reinforcement Learning with Linear Function Approximation

Nikki Lijing Kuang, Ming Yin, Mengdi Wang +2

Recent studies in reinforcement learning (RL) have made significant progress by leveraging function approximation to alleviate the sample complexity hurdle for better performance.…

cs.CL2023★ 16 cited

MMMU: A Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark for Expert AGI

Xiang Yue, Yuansheng Ni, Kai Zhang +19

We introduce MMMU: a new benchmark designed to evaluate multimodal models on massive multi-discipline tasks demanding college-level subject knowledge and deliberate reasoning. MMMU…

cs.LG2023

Improving Sample Efficiency of Model-Free Algorithms for Zero-Sum Markov Games

Songtao Feng, Ming Yin, Yu-Xiang Wang +2

The problem of two-player zero-sum Markov games has recently attracted increasing interests in theoretical studies of multi-agent reinforcement learning (RL). In particular, for fi…

cs.LG2023

Offline Policy Evaluation for Reinforcement Learning with Adaptively Collected Data

Sunil Madhow, Dan Qiao, Ming Yin +1

Developing theoretical guarantees on the sample complexity of offline RL methods is an important step towards making data-hungry RL algorithms practically viable. Currently, most r…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Non-stationary Reinforcement Learning under General Function Approximation

Songtao Feng, Ming Yin, Ruiquan Huang +3

General function approximation is a powerful tool to handle large state and action spaces in a broad range of reinforcement learning (RL) scenarios. However, theoretical understand…

cs.CL2023★ 5 cited

TheoremQA: A Theorem-driven Question Answering dataset

Wenhu Chen, Ming Yin, Max Ku +6

The recent LLMs like GPT-4 and PaLM-2 have made tremendous progress in solving fundamental math problems like GSM8K by achieving over 90% accuracy. However, their capabilities to s…

cs.LG2023

Logarithmic Switching Cost in Reinforcement Learning beyond Linear MDPs

Dan Qiao, Ming Yin, Yu-Xiang Wang

In many real-life reinforcement learning (RL) problems, deploying new policies is costly. In those scenarios, algorithms must solve exploration (which requires adaptivity) while sw…

cs.LG2023

No-Regret Linear Bandits beyond Realizability

Chong Liu, Ming Yin, Yu-Xiang Wang

We study linear bandits when the underlying reward function is not linear. Existing work relies on a uniform misspecification parameter that measures the sup-norm error of the…

cs.LG2022

Offline Reinforcement Learning with Differentiable Function Approximation is Provably Efficient

Ming Yin, Mengdi Wang, Yu-Xiang Wang

Offline reinforcement learning, which aims at optimizing sequential decision-making strategies with historical data, has been extensively applied in real-life applications. State-O…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Offline Reinforcement Learning with Closed-Form Policy Improvement Operators

Jiachen Li, Edwin Zhang, Ming Yin +3

Behavior constrained policy optimization has been demonstrated to be a successful paradigm for tackling Offline Reinforcement Learning. By exploiting historical transitions, a poli…

cs.LG2022

On Instance-Dependent Bounds for Offline Reinforcement Learning with Linear Function Approximation

Thanh Nguyen-Tang, Ming Yin, Sunil Gupta +2

Sample-efficient offline reinforcement learning (RL) with linear function approximation has recently been studied extensively. Much of prior work has yielded the minimax-optimal bo…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Why Quantization Improves Generalization: NTK of Binary Weight Neural Networks

Kaiqi Zhang, Ming Yin, Yu-Xiang Wang

Quantized neural networks have drawn a lot of attention as they reduce the space and computational complexity during the inference. Moreover, there has been folklore that quantizat…

cs.LG2022

Offline Stochastic Shortest Path: Learning, Evaluation and Towards Optimality

Ming Yin, Wenjing Chen, Mengdi Wang +1

Goal-oriented Reinforcement Learning, where the agent needs to reach the goal state while simultaneously minimizing the cost, has received significant attention in real-world appli…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Near-optimal Offline Reinforcement Learning with Linear Representation: Leveraging Variance Information with Pessimism

Ming Yin, Yaqi Duan, Mengdi Wang +1

Offline reinforcement learning, which seeks to utilize offline/historical data to optimize sequential decision-making strategies, has gained surging prominence in recent studies. D…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning with loglog(T) Switching Cost

Dan Qiao, Ming Yin, Ming Min +1

We study the problem of reinforcement learning (RL) with low (policy) switching cost - a problem well-motivated by real-life RL applications in which deployments of new policies ar…

cs.LG2021★ 4 cited

Towards Instance-Optimal Offline Reinforcement Learning with Pessimism

Ming Yin, Yu-Xiang Wang

We study the offline reinforcement learning (offline RL) problem, where the goal is to learn a reward-maximizing policy in an unknown Markov Decision Process (MDP) using the data c…

cs.LG2021

Optimal Uniform OPE and Model-based Offline Reinforcement Learning in Time-Homogeneous, Reward-Free and Task-Agnostic Settings

Ming Yin, Yu-Xiang Wang

This work studies the statistical limits of uniform convergence for offline policy evaluation (OPE) problems with model-based methods (for episodic MDP) and provides a unified fram…