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20202026
most citedDoes Feedback Help in Bandits with Arm Erasures?

3 citations · 3 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.LG2026

A Recommendation System Approach for Interference-Robust Sensor Subset Selection

Kaan Buyukkalayci, Kyle Pak, Merve Karakas +1

This paper develops a method for sensor-subset selection for tracking. Prior work showed that low-cost acoustic Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) measurements can be used t…

cs.AI2026

Multi-ResNets for Subspace Preconditioning in Constrained Optimization

Merve Karakas, Christopher J. Williams, Emmanuel O. Balogun +3

We propose MResOpt, a staged residual neural network architecture for constrained optimization problems. Our architecture fits within predict-complete-correct pipelines and decompo…

cs.IT2026

Best-Arm Identification with Noisy Actuation

Merve Karakas, Osama Hanna, Lin F. Yang +1

In this paper, we consider a multi-armed bandit (MAB) instance and study how to identify the best arm when arm commands are conveyed from a central learner to a distributed agent o…

cs.IT2026

Top-P Sensor Selection for Target Localization

Kaan Buyukkalayci, Kyle Pak, Merve Karakas +2

We study set-valued decision rules in which performance is defined by the inclusion of the top- hypotheses, rather than only the single best or true hypothesis. This criterion i…

cs.IT2025

Enhancing Binary Search via Overlapping Partitions

Kaan Buyukkalayci, Merve Karakas, Xinlin Li +1

This paper considers the task of performing binary search under noisy decisions, focusing on the application of target area localization. In the presence of noise, the classical pa…

cs.LG2025★ 3 cited

Does Feedback Help in Bandits with Arm Erasures?

Merve Karakas, Osama Hanna, Lin F. Yang +1

We study a distributed multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem over arm erasure channels, motivated by the increasing adoption of MAB algorithms over communication-constrained networks. I…

stat.ML2024

Learning for Bandits under Action Erasures

Osama Hanna, Merve Karakas, Lin F. Yang +1

We consider a novel multi-arm bandit (MAB) setup, where a learner needs to communicate the actions to distributed agents over erasure channels, while the rewards for the actions ar…

cs.LG2023

Multi-Agent Bandit Learning through Heterogeneous Action Erasure Channels

Osama A. Hanna, Merve Karakas, Lin F. Yang +1

Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) systems are witnessing an upswing in applications within multi-agent distributed environments, leading to the advancement of collaborative MAB algorithms.…

eess.SP2020

Vehicular Visible Light Positioning for Collision Avoidance and Platooning: A Survey

Burak Soner, Merve Karakas, Utku Noyan +2

Relative vehicle positioning methods can contribute to safer and more efficient autonomous driving by enabling collision avoidance and platooning applications. For full automation,…