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How much Data do We Need? Sequential Data Collection for Stochastic Programming
Xin Li, Juergen Branke, Xuan Vinh Doan
Data-driven optimization often requires collecting data to estimate uncertain model parameters before solving the underlying decision problem. In practice, however, data acquisitio…
stat.ML2026
Annealed Entropic Allocation for Ranking and Selection
Xin Fei, Juergen Branke
We propose annealed entropic allocation, an adaptive sampling policy based on an annealed, weighted soft-min formulation of static budget allocation. We replace the maximin large-d…