3 papers
cs.GT2026
Kernel Methods for Refined Prophet Inequalities
Patrick Loiseau, Mathieu Molina, Vianney Perchet +2
The single-selection prophet inequality is a canonical Bayesian online selection problem in which independent nonnegative values arrive sequentially and the decision-maker must irr…
cs.GT2026
Prophet Inequalities under Local Differential Privacy
Achraf Azize, Mathieu Molina, Hugo Richard +1
Many online decision platforms, from hiring marketplaces to auctions, face a tension between efficient decision-making and the protection of participants' privacy. Personal informa…
stat.ML2026
Tight Sample Complexity for Low-Degree and Sparse Boolean Polynomials
Jasper van Doornmalen, Mathieu Molina, Victor Verdugo +1
Motivated by the optimization of bounded binary black-box functions, we study the problem of learning polynomial surrogates over the Boolean hypercube. To ensure that optimizing th…