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6 papers

cs.LG2026

A Recommendation System Approach for Interference-Robust Sensor Subset Selection

Kaan Buyukkalayci, Kyle Pak, Merve Karakas +1

This paper develops a method for sensor-subset selection for tracking. Prior work showed that low-cost acoustic Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) measurements can be used t…

cs.IT2026

Top-P Sensor Selection for Target Localization

Kaan Buyukkalayci, Kyle Pak, Merve Karakas +2

We study set-valued decision rules in which performance is defined by the inclusion of the top- hypotheses, rather than only the single best or true hypothesis. This criterion i…

cs.AI2026

Multi-ResNets for Subspace Preconditioning in Constrained Optimization

Merve Karakas, Christopher J. Williams, Emmanuel O. Balogun +3

We propose MResOpt, a staged residual neural network architecture for constrained optimization problems. Our architecture fits within predict-complete-correct pipelines and decompo…

cs.IT2026

Best-Arm Identification with Noisy Actuation

Merve Karakas, Osama Hanna, Lin F. Yang +1

In this paper, we consider a multi-armed bandit (MAB) instance and study how to identify the best arm when arm commands are conveyed from a central learner to a distributed agent o…

cs.IT2025

Enhancing Binary Search via Overlapping Partitions

Kaan Buyukkalayci, Merve Karakas, Xinlin Li +1

This paper considers the task of performing binary search under noisy decisions, focusing on the application of target area localization. In the presence of noise, the classical pa…

cs.LG2025

Does Feedback Help in Bandits with Arm Erasures?

Merve Karakas, Osama Hanna, Lin F. Yang +1

We study a distributed multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem over arm erasure channels, motivated by the increasing adoption of MAB algorithms over communication-constrained networks. I…