3 papers
stat.ME2026
Near-Optimal Nitrogen Recommendations for Precision Agriculture via Sequential Screening and Hierarchical Refinement
Sakshi Arya, Abdul-Nasah Soale, Hossein Moradi Rekabdarkolaee
Nitrogen fertilizer management plays a central role in balancing agricultural productivity and environmental sustainability, yet identifying optimal application strategies remains…
stat.ML2026
Kernel Single-Index Bandits: Estimation, Inference, and Learning
Sakshi Arya, Satarupa Bhattacharjee, Bharath K. Sriperumbudur
We study contextual bandits with finitely many actions in which the reward of each arm follows a single-index model with an arm-specific index parameter and an unknown nonparametri…
stat.ML2025
Batched Nonparametric Bandits via k-Nearest Neighbor UCB
Sakshi Arya
We study sequential decision-making in batched nonparametric contextual bandits, where actions are selected over a finite horizon divided into a small number of batches. Motivated…