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most citedA Contextual-Bandit Approach to Personalized News Article Recommendation

2.6k citations · 6.5k across the 69 of their papers we have counts for

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70 papers

cs.LG2026

Turn-PPO: Turn-Level Advantage Estimation with PPO for Improved Multi-Turn RL in Agentic LLMs

Junbo Li, Peng Zhou, Rui Meng +3

Reinforcement learning (RL) has re-emerged as a natural approach for training interactive LLM agents in real-world environments. However, directly applying the widely used Group Re…

cs.LG2022

Offline Policy Optimization in RL with Variance Regularizaton

Riashat Islam, Samarth Sinha, Homanga Bharadhwaj +6

Learning policies from fixed offline datasets is a key challenge to scale up reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms towards practical applications. This is often because off-policy…

cs.LG2022

A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Estimating Long-term Treatment Effects

Ziyang Tang, Yiheng Duan, Stephanie Zhang +1

Randomized experiments (a.k.a. A/B tests) are a powerful tool for estimating treatment effects, to inform decisions making in business, healthcare and other applications. In many p…

cs.LG2021★ 33 cited

Understanding Domain Randomization for Sim-to-real Transfer

Xiaoyu Chen, Jiachen Hu, Chi Jin +2

Reinforcement learning encounters many challenges when applied directly in the real world. Sim-to-real transfer is widely used to transfer the knowledge learned from simulation to…

cs.LG2021

A Map of Bandits for E-commerce

Yi Liu, Lihong Li

The rich body of Bandit literature not only offers a diverse toolbox of algorithms, but also makes it hard for a practitioner to find the right solution to solve the problem at han…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

On the Optimality of Batch Policy Optimization Algorithms

Chenjun Xiao, Yifan Wu, Tor Lattimore +5

Batch policy optimization considers leveraging existing data for policy construction before interacting with an environment. Although interest in this problem has grown significant…