researcher

Benjamin Van Roy

Stanford University

76 papers hereh-index 5617.1k citations204 works total

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author position

first author1
middle author16
last author58

Across the 75 of 76 papers where every author was matched, so the position is known.

fields

cs.LG44
stat.ML18
cs.IT4
cs.AI2
cs.CL2
cs.IR2

affiliations

Stanford University

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Benjamin Van Roy — 4 papers
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activity

20062023

most citedDeep Exploration via Bootstrapped DQN

451 citations · 1.7k across the 73 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.LG2013

Efficient Reinforcement Learning in Deterministic Systems with Value Function Generalization

Zheng Wen, Benjamin Van Roy

We consider the problem of reinforcement learning over episodes of a finite-horizon deterministic system and as a solution propose optimistic constraint propagation (OCP), an algor…

cs.LG2013★ 12 cited

Learning to Optimize Via Posterior Sampling

Daniel Russo, Benjamin Van Roy

This paper considers the use of a simple posterior sampling algorithm to balance between exploration and exploitation when learning to optimize actions such as in multi-armed bandi…