2 papers
stat.ML2026
RIE-Greedy: Regularization-Induced Exploration for Contextual Bandits
Tong Li, Thiago de Queiroz Casanova, Eric M. Schwartz +3
Real-world contextual bandit problems with complex reward models are often tackled with iteratively trained models, such as boosting trees. However, it is difficult to directly app…
stat.AP2026
A Statistically Reliable Optimization Framework for Bandit Experiments in Scientific Discovery
Tong Li, Travis Mandel, Goldie Phillips +4
Scientific experimentation is largely driven by statistical hypothesis testing to determine significant differences in interventions. Traditionally, experimenters allocate samples…