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most citedFrom External to Swap Regret 2.0: An Efficient Reduction and Oblivious Adversary for Large Action Spaces

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25 papers

cs.GT2026

Diffusion-Based Auctions for Multi-Winner Banner Ads

Lilian Sun, Henry Huang, Fucheng Warren Zhu +2

We propose a new framework for banner ad auctions, leveraging diffusion models to allow for multiple bidders to co-win a single banner ad opportunity, and in particular influence t…

cs.GT2026

Normal-Form Correlation in Markov Games

Ioannis Anagnostides, Constantinos Daskalakis, Gabriele Farina +3

There has been a surge of recent work on correlated equilibrium concepts in Markov games. However, existing results focus on concepts weaker than normal-form correlated equilibria…

cs.DS2026

Polynomial-time computation of -contraction fixed points for even

Constantinos Daskalakis, Gabriele Farina, Brian Hu Zhang

We give a -time algorithm that computes an -approximate fixed point of any -nonexpansive map , where $\mat…

cs.LG2026

Causal Inference for Sequential Settings under Interference and Latent Confounding

Phevos Paschalidis, Constantinos Daskalakis, Devavrat Shah

We study causal inference under outcome interference for sequential, observational settings. Specifically, we consider settings where the binary outcomes over N units are Markovian…

cs.RO2026

Ambient Diffusion Policy: Imitation Learning from Suboptimal Data in Robotics

Adam Wei, Nicholas Pfaff, Thomas Cohn +4

We propose Ambient Diffusion Policy, a simple and principled method for imitation learning from suboptimal data in robotics. High-quality, task-specific robot data is expensive and…

math.ST2026

High-accuracy log-concave sampling with stochastic queries

Fan Chen, Sinho Chewi, Constantinos Daskalakis +1

We show that high-accuracy guarantees for log-concave sampling -- that is, iteration and query complexities which scale as , where is the desired target…

cs.LG2026

High-accuracy sampling for diffusion models and log-concave distributions

Fan Chen, Sinho Chewi, Constantinos Daskalakis +1

We present algorithms for diffusion model sampling which obtain -error in steps, given access to -accurate score estimates in . Thi…

cs.LG2026

Ambient Dataloops: Generative Models for Dataset Refinement

Adrián Rodríguez-Muñoz, William Daspit, Adam Klivans +3

We propose Ambient Dataloops, an iterative framework for refining datasets that makes it easier for diffusion models to learn the underlying data distribution. Modern datasets cont…

cs.LG2025

Estimating Ising Models in Total Variation Distance

Constantinos Daskalakis, Vardis Kandiros, Rui Yao

We consider the problem of estimating Ising models over variables in Total Variation (TV) distance, given independent samples from the model. While the statistical complexi…

cs.LG2025

Learning Gaussian DAG Models without Condition Number Bounds

Constantinos Daskalakis, Vardis Kandiros, Rui Yao

We study the problem of learning the topology of a directed Gaussian Graphical Model under the equal-variance assumption, where the graph has nodes and maximum in-degree . P…

cs.LG2025

Learning Correlated Reward Models: Statistical Barriers and Opportunities

Yeshwanth Cherapanamjeri, Constantinos Daskalakis, Gabriele Farina +1

Random Utility Models (RUMs) are a classical framework for modeling user preferences and play a key role in reward modeling for Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). H…

cs.LG2025

DiffEM: Learning from Corrupted Data with Diffusion Models via Expectation Maximization

Danial Hosseintabar, Fan Chen, Giannis Daras +2

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative priors for high-dimensional inverse problems, yet learning them when only corrupted or noisy observations are available remains…

cs.GR2025

Ambient Diffusion Omni: Training Good Models with Bad Data

Giannis Daras, Adrian Rodriguez-Munoz, Adam Klivans +2

We show how to use low-quality, synthetic, and out-of-distribution images to improve the quality of a diffusion model. Typically, diffusion models are trained on curated datasets t…

cs.LG2025

Learning High-dimensional Gaussians from Censored Data

Arnab Bhattacharyya, Constantinos Daskalakis, Themis Gouleakis +1

We provide efficient algorithms for the problem of distribution learning from high-dimensional Gaussian data where in each sample, some of the variable values are missing. We suppo…

cs.GT2025

Fixed Point Computation: Beating Brute Force with Smoothed Analysis

Idan Attias, Yuval Dagan, Constantinos Daskalakis +2

We propose a new algorithm that finds an -approximate fixed point of a smooth function from the -dimensional unit ball to itself. We use the general framew…

cs.GT2024

Efficient Learning and Computation of Linear Correlated Equilibrium in General Convex Games

Constantinos Daskalakis, Gabriele Farina, Maxwell Fishelson +2

We propose efficient no-regret learning dynamics and ellipsoid-based methods for computing linear correlated equilibria$\unicode{x2014}$a relaxation of correlated equilibria and a…

cs.LG2024

How much is a noisy image worth? Data Scaling Laws for Ambient Diffusion

Giannis Daras, Yeshwanth Cherapanamjeri, Constantinos Daskalakis

The quality of generative models depends on the quality of the data they are trained on. Creating large-scale, high-quality datasets is often expensive and sometimes impossible, e.…

stat.ME2024

The Conflict Graph Design: Estimating Causal Effects under Arbitrary Neighborhood Interference

Vardis Kandiros, Charilaos Pipis, Constantinos Daskalakis +1

A fundamental problem in network experiments is selecting an appropriate experimental design in order to precisely estimate a given causal effect of interest. In this work, we prop…

cs.GT2024

Maximizing utility in multi-agent environments by anticipating the behavior of other learners

Angelos Assos, Yuval Dagan, Constantinos Daskalakis

Learning algorithms are often used to make decisions in sequential decision-making environments. In multi-agent settings, the decisions of each agent can affect the utilities/losse…

cs.GT2024★ 1 cited

A Lower Bound on Swap Regret in Extensive-Form Games

Constantinos Daskalakis, Gabriele Farina, Noah Golowich +2

Recent simultaneous works by Peng and Rubinstein [2024] and Dagan et al. [2024] have demonstrated the existence of a no-swap-regret learning algorithm that can reach average sw…

cs.LG2024

Near-Optimal Learning and Planning in Separated Latent MDPs

Fan Chen, Constantinos Daskalakis, Noah Golowich +1

We study computational and statistical aspects of learning Latent Markov Decision Processes (LMDPs). In this model, the learner interacts with an MDP drawn at the beginning of each…

cs.LG2024

Breaking the Barrier for Sequential Calibration

Yuval Dagan, Constantinos Daskalakis, Maxwell Fishelson +3

A set of probabilistic forecasts is calibrated if each prediction of the forecaster closely approximates the empirical distribution of outcomes on the subset of timesteps where tha…

cs.LG2024

Is Efficient PAC Learning Possible with an Oracle That Responds 'Yes' or 'No'?

Constantinos Daskalakis, Noah Golowich

The empirical risk minimization (ERM) principle has been highly impactful in machine learning, leading both to near-optimal theoretical guarantees for ERM-based learning algorithms…

cs.CV2024

Consistent Diffusion Meets Tweedie: Training Exact Ambient Diffusion Models with Noisy Data

Giannis Daras, Alexandros G. Dimakis, Constantinos Daskalakis

Ambient diffusion is a recently proposed framework for training diffusion models using corrupted data. Both Ambient Diffusion and alternative SURE-based approaches for learning dif…