2 papers
cs.LG2026
Trading off rewards and errors in multi-armed bandits
Akram Erraqabi, Alessandro Lazaric, Michal Valko +2
In multi-armed bandits, the most-explored arms are the most informative, while reward maximization typically pulls only the best arm. We study the tradeoff between identifying arm…
stat.ML2026
Pliable rejection sampling
Akram Erraqabi, Michal Valko, Alexandra Carpentier +1
Rejection sampling is a technique for sampling from difficult distributions. However, its use is limited due to a high rejection rate. Common adaptive rejection sampling methods ei…