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10 papers

stat.ML2026

Q-Learning with Fine-Grained Gap-Dependent Regret

Haochen Zhang, Zhong Zheng, Lingzhou Xue

We study fine-grained gap-dependent regret bounds for model-free reinforcement learning in episodic tabular Markov Decision Processes. Existing model-free algorithms achieve minima…

stat.ML2026

Regret-Optimal Q-Learning with Low Cost for Single-Agent and Federated Reinforcement Learning

Haochen Zhang, Zhong Zheng, Lingzhou Xue

Motivated by real-world settings where data collection and policy deployment -- whether for a single agent or across multiple agents -- are costly, we study the problem of on-polic…

stat.ML2026

Gap-Dependent Bounds for Nearly Minimax Optimal Reinforcement Learning with Linear Function Approximation

Haochen Zhang, Zhong Zheng, Lingzhou Xue

We study gap-dependent performance guarantees for nearly minimax-optimal algorithms in reinforcement learning with linear function approximation. While prior works have established…

math.OC2026

Adaptive Algorithms for Robust Phase Retrieval

Zhong Zheng, Necdet Serhat Aybat, Shiqian Ma +1

This paper considers the robust phase retrieval, which can be cast as a nonsmooth and nonconvex composite optimization problem. We propose two first-order algorithms with adaptive…

eess.SY2026

Video Generation Models in Robotics -- Applications, Research Challenges, Future Directions

Zhiting Mei, Tenny Yin, Ola Shorinwa +9

Video generation models have emerged as high-fidelity models of the physical world, capable of synthesizing high-quality videos capturing fine-grained interactions between agents a…

stat.ME2025

Collapsing Categories for Regression with Mixed Predictors

Chaegeun Song, Zhong Zheng, Bing Li +1

Categorical predictors are omnipresent in everyday regression practice: in fact, most regression data involve some categorical predictors, and this tendency is increasing in modern…